:) creative On 6/1/07, Alex Harui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
100 years ago, in the back woods of Pennsylvania, a young couple had a baby the named Gordon. He wandered the woods as a child, chopping down trees with his axe and whittling the wood into intricate structures. One day, Gordon wandered too far and happened upon a road. He followed that road all the way to California. Starving and dehydrated, he collapsed on the road side. Fortunately for him, he was found the next morning by gold miners who gave him food and shelter and put him to work in the mines. One day, on a trip into town, he saw a shiny new machine in a store window. It was a computer. Intrigued, and fed up with the dust and grime of the mines, he spent his life savings on the computer, studied it carefully and learned how to operate it. Soon he was building intricate structures on the computer and townsfolk would gather around admiring his work. Word of his acumen spread and one day, there was a knock on his door. It was a group of rich men from San Francisco. They wanted to build the next generation of web application technology, called Flex. It would be based on an existing platform called Flash and an existing language called ActionScript. The plan was to make it possible to use declarative XML-based languages to create applications that would revolutionize the world. Of course, Gordon could not resist, and joined the team and started building his intricate structures in ActionScript. Today, Gordon steadfastly continues his quest to perfect the intricate structures in Flex, despite colleagues who make up stories about him. ------------------------------ *From:* [email protected] [mailto:flexcompone [EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *dorkie dork from dorktown *Sent:* Friday, June 01, 2007 3:01 PM *To:* [email protected] *Subject:* Re: [flexcomponents]What background are the Adobe Engineers? i would love to have sat in on the discussions when Flex was first conceived. how did you guys decide to use mxml (xml)? how did you decide to use actionscript or at what point did you say we need to rewrite this and then decided what features to add in? On 6/1/07, *Gordon Smith* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think the team has quite a mix of language backgrounds. My previous experience was mostly in C++ with ancient knowledge of Fortran, Forth, Pascal, and C. - Gordon ------------------------------ *From:* [email protected] [mailto:flexcompone [EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *dorkie dork from dorktown *Sent:* Friday, June 01, 2007 11:25 AM *To:* [email protected] *Subject:* [flexcomponents]What background are the Adobe Engineers? What are the background languages of the Adobe Flex programmers? I read this article on Oliver Merks blog about how Java is similar to AS3 and the team I work with is all Java developers. http://blog.olivermerk.ca/index.cfm/2007/6/1/Flex-for-Java-Developers
