Re: [flexcoders] Fixed Price Contract in Flex with a DataGrid - I never would!
On Monday 18 Feb 2008, mr_j_harris wrote: application: infinite-type UI loops 'and the like' by, say, merely clicking on an empty row below the row that I added via drag-drop. It's like, I don't ever want to take my dog and pony show to the abattoir... I've not seen this particular error. If you've not already, can you submit a small test case into the bug list (bugs.adobe.com/jira) and quote the number back here ? How do other people here feel about being confident in being able to confidently offer fixed price contracts for not-yet-developed software that they would be expected to put together using Flex? I would. I'd have the payments staged over a number of 'sub' releases, but yeah, I feel confident I can predict how long a particular function will take to build. -- Tom Chiverton Helping to vitalistically coordinate real-time platforms on: http://thefalken.livejournal.com This email is sent for and on behalf of Halliwells LLP. Halliwells LLP is a limited liability partnership registered in England and Wales under registered number OC307980 whose registered office address is at Halliwells LLP, 3 Hardman Square, Spinningfields, Manchester, M3 3EB. A list of members is available for inspection at the registered office. Any reference to a partner in relation to Halliwells LLP means a member of Halliwells LLP. Regulated by The Solicitors Regulation Authority. CONFIDENTIALITY This email is intended only for the use of the addressee named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not the addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in nor copy it nor inform any person other than Halliwells LLP or the addressee of its existence or contents. If you have received this email in error please delete it and notify Halliwells LLP IT Department on 0870 365 2500. For more information about Halliwells LLP visit www.halliwells.com. -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [flexcoders] Fixed Price Contract in Flex with a DataGrid - I never would!
- Original Message - From: mr_j_harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 10:47 PM Subject: [flexcoders] Fixed Price Contract in Flex with a DataGrid - I never would! You may have seen some of my postings here, concerning my troubles with mx:DataGrid They've changed up somewhat, now I can produce an RTE in my application: infinite-type UI loops 'and the like' by, say, merely clicking on an empty row below the row that I added via drag-drop. It's like, I don't ever want to take my dog and pony show to the abattoir... In light of my experience with software development in general and Flex in particular, I sure am glad I did not offer a fixed price contract for the work I am doing. How do other people here feel about being confident in being able to confidently offer fixed price contracts for not-yet-developed software that they would be expected to put together using Flex? I know I never would! I think that most of the problems I have had with Flex have come from the asynchronous nature of the software and binding dependencies. I can't claim to have attempted what you're doing, but in something like 70,000 Flexcoders posts, your extreme problems seem to be fairly unique. So far any difficullties I have experienced have either been of my own inadvert making, or able to be worked around. One thing is for sure, Flex can bite you in the posterior quite easily, especially coming from other development environments and I think the highly asynchronous nature of Flex coupled with the use of binding is responsible for that. Flex is pretty amazing as a product, though I doubt anyone would understand that from your reported experience. Maybe you should build a small example demonstrating how bad Flex is? Paul
