Learning Flex
For an upcoming software development project a friend and I are learning Adobe Flex. We’ll be combining it with AIR to build a cross-platform desktop application.
Currently we’re on Day 2 of Adobe’s “Flex in a Week” training program…which is actually pretty useful. With both of us coming from web backgrounds it’s not too big of a leap. While it does involve new languages, their syntax is close enough that most “learning” of the language is just learning all the classes and their contents.
So far Flex seems pretty intuitive and I’m pretty grateful for that—Flash and its derivatives have always kind of scared me. I suppose it helps that Flex is designed more from a developer’s point of view than actual Flash is—it’s not “tricking” an animation engine into working as an application.
