Great post. And yes flex is the BEST! Ashish Desai Zootar LLP ashish.de...@zootar.com
On Jun 29, 2012, at 3:41 PM, Om wrote: > Thanks everyone! This is a huge responsibility and I will do my best to do > justice to it. > > Just a bit about me: My background is in computer graphics and user > interface programming. I have been working with the Flash platform from > Flash 5 onwards. I have worked with ActionScript1 and have done prototype > based programming before it was cool (hipster alert!) I started building > enterprise applications using Flash MX 2004 and ActionScript 2. It was > cool, but it lacked several very important features. Moreover, I had to > build a whole lot of things multiple times for different projects. Then > came Flex 2 + ActionScript3 and (almost) all my problems were instantly > solved. Since then, I have never looked back and never had to even look at > any other framework/technology to build interactive web applications. > > I also want to take this time to give a shout out to the Adobe(Macromedia) > engineers who built the wonderful Flex framework and SDK. We are the first > to scream when we find issues or bugs, but we need to take a moment and > thank them for creating it in the first place and now donating it to > Apache. Special thanks to Alex and Carol for keeping a cool head through > the transition. It is not easy to have thousands of developers all around > the world breathing down on your necks when your trying to code. Not to > mention a needlessly belligerent tech community that wants to see this > technology fail. > > Flex is the BEST multi-platform application framework that exists today. > Lets make it better :-) > > Thanks, > Om > > > On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 6:53 AM, Joan Llenas Masó <j...@garnet.io> wrote: > >> Congrats! >> keep it up! >> >> -- >> Joan Llenas Masó >> CTO Garnet Works SL >> T. 93 848 57 27 >> -- >> @joangarnet (es) >> @joanllenas (en) >> http://joan.garnet.io >> >> >> >> >> >> On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Carol Frampton <cfram...@adobe.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Welcome. >>> >>> On 6/28/12 9 :34PM, "JP Bader" <j...@zavteq.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Mazel tov! Your efforts are greatly appreciated. >>>> >>>> Good job big O small M! >>> >>> Geez, I always wondered why Om's app was in >>> bigosmallm-MakeApacheFlexForFlashBuilder-396f025. That explains it. >>> >>> Carol >>> >>>> On Jun 28, 2012 7:21 PM, "Justin Mclean" <jus...@classsoftware.com> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi Om, >>>>> >>>>> Welcome and congratulations. >>>>> >>>>> Thanks for all the work you have been doing. The IDE packager is >> going >>>>> to >>>>> be a great help to anyone using the Apache Flex SDK. >>>>> >>>>> Justin >>> >>> >>
