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Joseph Balderson, Flex & Flash Platform Developer :: http://joeflash.ca Author, Professional Flex 3 :: http://tinyurl.com/proflex3book [email protected] wrote: > Thanks Joseph, I read them just now, and, you are my hero! Glad to see some > new efforts underway. Would be nice if there was a path others could provide > examples as well... all on one site (which is specifically designed for this; > not the Apache Flex blog which covers many other things). I'm thinking > hundreds and hundreds of examples from simple to more complex. I spend so > much time Googling for current examples scattered around the internet, it's > not productive. Looking forward to whatever results. > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Joseph Balderson" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2014 2:37:09 PM > Subject: Re: how about "cookbook" website for Apache Flex? > > See "Apache Flex Examples" and "Apache Flex Examples Proposal" threads on the > [email protected] list. > > _______________________________________________________________________ > > Joseph Balderson, Flex & Flash Platform Developer :: http://joeflash.ca > Author, Professional Flex 3 :: http://tinyurl.com/proflex3book > > [email protected] wrote: >> All this talk about an Apache flex book got me thinking about what I would >> like to read. >> >> As a newcomer to Flex, I learned so much from this website >> http://blog.flexexamples.com , but it seems a lot of the examples are no >> longer live (what's up with that?), and many are outdated. I spend most of >> my development learning about Flex from Google searches that brought me to >> peoples' blogs. I bought the Flex Bible, which was great for the basics, but >> didn't answer all of those one-off questions like the blogs tackled (because >> the writers couldn't find it anywhere else I suppose). Now those blog links >> are starting to go away, and they're so hard to find anyway. >> >> Why not have a separate section of the Apache Flex website dedicated to >> examples that USERS can upload for others to run and view the source code? >> >> It would be like http://blog.flexexamples.com, except the content is driven >> by users and relevant to life with current SDKs. The critical part of the >> website would be just to provide an infrastructure for people to easily >> contribute their work. It might also include some search capability or other >> navigational aid, and a comments section for each example so discussions can >> follow. Then the users take over... >> >> I just think people learn by doing and if a website can be created with some >> basic infrastructure, it can grow organically over time and be a great >> resource to newcomers. It would also show that people are actively working >> and contributing to Flex (I envision future marketing efforts could say >> "...over 100 examples were added just this last month..." as a metric for >> Flex's growing relevance). The advantage over a published cookbook is that a >> book requires a dedicated team with long hours, it becomes outdated with >> newer SDK releases, covers a limited number of topics, and it's not >> interactive. Anyway, that's just my 2 cents for what I'd like to see from >> Apache Flex. >> >> >> >> > >
