> Ted, why was it a total mistake that you waited to jump on the bandwagon?
Because after learning Flex: 1. My salary has tripled. 2. Clients are bigger and Projects are better. 3. PowerSDK was purchased by Cynergy Systems 1 month ago. 4. Working with some of the best developers in the world. PowerBuilder core devs and MS Biztalk core devs are working at Cynergy Systems! Seriously, learn Flex and do not look back. Give in to the Dark Side! The market is growing and there is a massive need for Flex devs. Flash developers can run circles around Java and CF developers in Flex because you know the low level aspects of the player and the V2 Component APIs. It is the opportunity of a lifetime right now as the market for Flex project development on the growth path. I personally think we are just starting the growth phase for the Flash Platform and we will see 2 Million new Flex developers by 2007. It will be similar to what VB did circa 1994, 20,000 devs to 3 Million in 3 years. There is a massive wave of development projects headed to Flex and there are simply not enough developers. Scarcity makes for a phat paycheck! I was really wrong about Flex, I had no idea. I sat on the Flash side and wanted the Flex product to die. I grilled Flex 1.5 publicly after it shipped at Max 2003. I was an idiot looking back on it, lesson learned. Flex is designed for very large scale projects. You can build and maintain applications that are just not feasible within Flash. Plus for larger corporate customers, Flex Licensing is a non-issue. Let me make sure we are clear. Flash has its place for very interactive and immersive projects, but for application development if your not using Flex, you are wasting allot of development time and money. I can build applications in both Flex and Flash but it takes me about 50% longer in Flash and the end project is very rarely maintainable and only 1 developers can work on it given the FLA format limitations. Flex is very different and allows for much more seamless reuse. My 2 cents, Ted Patrick -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: 267.13.3/174 - Release Date: 11/17/2005 _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
