i agree, learning actionscript was like that. adobe/mm just don't do good developer cultivation.
On 27/04/07, <cfgroupie> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I walked into worked today with everyone around me saying did you > hear? Flex has been open- sourced. My imediate thoughts was that's > interesting. But honestly it won't make me continue with flex. > > I started a project about 2 months ago which was only going to take a > few weeks. Without going into a massive post about the project we > found a need to try out some Flex. I was Whoa stoked. We started off > very small a simple form posting to a database. My background is > mainly CF so I tackled Flex like a CF programmer would. It's sad to > say that I totally under estimated the complexity of programming Flex. > Now guys/gals, this page was the most BASIC page you could imagine. > > Where I felt Adobe let me down was the fact that all their PR > explained how easy it was to pick up the Flex language. What they > don't tell you is that you REALLY need to know OO and you REALLY need > to have a good framework. The lack of examples in which I personally > learn from is so limited that it left me shell shocked. When I learned > ColdFusion it was SO much easier. Ben Forta is my friend! And of > course this list bailed me out a number of times. Adobe are constantly > pushing the fact that 9x% use flash player and video format is taking > off. Then how come Adobe doesn't utlise this and create tutorials on > how to use their products!? > > The company I work for is "Huge" and the amount of time that I wasted > trying to achieve the most basic results I could have done 10 times > quicker in ColdFusion AND .NET twice over. > > The sad fact of the matter is I will never recommend Flex to any > programmer or company that I deal with again. So I hope that making > Flex open-source will help bridge the massive learning curve that > developers will encounter. > > Flex had so much potential and that I personally feel its fallin flat > on its vector based face. > > Jeremy > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To post to this group, send email to cfaussie@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
