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January 25, 2006
Flex 2, tell a friend
Flex 2, tell a friend: I'm asking your help with something, because there will soon be a short window in which we can have a big impact. I want lots of new people to actually try Flex 2 when in goes in public beta, very soon. The Flex 2 alpha, described in Mike's article above, has been extremely well received -- by those people already working with Macromedia/Adobe technologies. But people who work in Perl or Python, Java or .NET, XHTML or XUL, they need to learn about this too. Flex 2 is really a big advance, of long-term significance for the web, and those who do any work in this area deserve to know the truth. When the Flex 2 Public Beta arrives, I'd appreciate it if you could download it, or even just watch the Breeze presentations, and then recommend it for investigation to people whom you think it might help. No hardsell, no evangelism -- other people know their own situations better than we do, so we've got to respect different decisions. But if you can check into Flex 2 Public Beta yourself when it launches, and then spread the word to friends who might benefit from it, then that would really help the whole platform... just say what you see, how it benefits you, and how you think it might benefit your friend who may never have used Flash-y things before. I want to see this XML separation of authoring and deployment succeed -- I think such a success would be a good advance for everyone. So when Flex 2 hits Public Beta, please tell a friend from outside the MXNA circle -- thanks!
Posted by John Dowdell at January 25, 2006 01:25 PM
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Hey John, here's an idea: Maybe I can offer a discount to my Hot Shots: Head Start Flex 2 course next month to anyone who's downloaded the beta! If the beta is released "very soon", I'll cover it in my course :)
Posted by: aral at January 25, 2006 01:43 PM
Muh huwa but when should I tell these people to check the site.....Im sure they wont want to be visiting everyday just to check for the new beta ;o) hehehe
Posted by: Campbell at January 25, 2006 02:22 PM
Is FES (Flex Enterpise Services) Beta coming with the new Beta?
I've given up trying to explain "Flash" is not just for animations at work, hoping FES might make the Java ppl at least have a small look :)
Posted by: nz'er learning flex at January 25, 2006 02:23 PM
Does Flex Builder work on Mac yet?
Posted by: rob at January 25, 2006 02:56 PM
I'm not sure yet of beta release dates, sorry... I know it's coming up soon, but am not sure which day will have all the approvals in place and the big web push.
Mike Chambers wrote an article last month on how he does Flex work on a Macintosh:
http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mesh/archives/2005/12/compiling_actio.cfm
Posted by: John Dowdell at January 25, 2006 03:56 PM
So then, no. :(
Posted by: rob at January 25, 2006 05:34 PM
What I saw at the Web 2.0 conference *did* look very neat, and I understand why you want to spread it far and wide. But I suspect that *nothing* is going to be of 'long-term significance to the web' unless it's free or near-free. Macromediadobe shoots itself in the foot with high licensing fees.
Posted by: Greg at January 26, 2006 07:09 AM
Glad you liked it, Greg... all we have to do now is find developers who don't give their time away, and we can save them money.... ;-)
Posted by: John Dowdell at January 26, 2006 07:30 AM
"But I suspect that *nothing* is going to be of 'long-term significance to the web' unless it's free or near-free."
I bet Greg is happy about the recent news...
Posted by: David at January 31, 2006 07:27 PM