Hey everyone -
Just introducing myself, having joined the list a little over a week ago. I developed Flex apps and taught Flex from 2007-2010 or so, and had followed the future of Flex marginally since it was announced of it being turned over to the ASF. I am doing a presentation for the local dev community here in Toronto tomorrow evening on what's new and / or happening with Apache Flex, and (when you have a moment) would appreciate your brief thoughts and comments on it. Seems like a lot of activity here, so I thought I would ask some salient questions: 1) Is there an expected date /time frame for the IDE packager to be released? (Although I will walk through the setup of the current Apache Flex install, most of the dev audience will probably want something simpler) 2) Is there a difference between Apache Flex SDK and the SDK released with Flash Builder 4.7 Beta (https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=labs_flashbuilder4-7) - I assume that since the mailing lists are referring to Flex as 4.8 that it is further along than what Adobe has just packaged. 3) I've seen some threads here regarding unit testing - is there going to be some support or foundation for using Apache Flex with FlexUnit or other unit testing systems? 4) What is currently being worked on in terms of feature support that for example the Flash Player has that Apache Flex has yet to implement? video for example? Components? 5) (Last one for now) I'll be using Andrew Tryce's example to showcase functional Flex 4.8 demos. I also have older demos to illustrate basic functionality (from Flex 4.5). Are there any other demos that can be used to illustrate anything unique about the 4.8 build that can be used for demonstration purposes? And I am interested of course in becoming involved in the Apache Flex community as well. Any answers to these questions are greatly appreciated. Cheers, Edward J. Apostol Consultant & Instructor - Web, RIAs and Mobile Toronto, ON Canada E: e...@edapostol.com Twitter: @edwardjapostol Web: http://about.me/edwardapostol
