[cfaussie] Re: What's it all mean for CF developers? [Flex now Open Source'd]

2007-04-26 Thread Barry Beattie
> ... I hate any business/company that think they can exploit a > consumer. really? this seems to be a popular issue... - http://www.amanwithapencil.com/adobe.html - http://aralbalkan.com/918 --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscr

[cfaussie] Re: What's it all mean for CF developers? [Flex now Open Source'd]

2007-04-26 Thread Andrew Scott
April 2007 4:00 PM To: cfaussie@googlegroups.com Subject: [cfaussie] Re: What's it all mean for CF developers? [Flex now Open Source'd] > ... I hate any business/company that think they can exploit a > consumer. really? this seems to be a popular issue... - http://www.ama

[cfaussie] Re: What's it all mean for CF developers? [Flex now Open Source'd]

2007-04-26 Thread Andrew Scott
What ever tickles your fancy Scott, but at the end of the day who cares. I don't hate M$, I hate any business/company that think they can exploit a consumer. Andrew Scott Senior Coldfusion Developer Aegeon Pty. Ltd. www.aegeon.com.au Phone: +613  8676 4223 Mobile: 0404 998 273 --~--~

[cfaussie] Re: What's it all mean for CF developers? [Flex now Open Source'd]

2007-04-26 Thread Andrew Scott
ailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Barnes Sent: Friday, 27 April 2007 3:18 PM To: cfaussie@googlegroups.com Subject: [cfaussie] Re: What's it all mean for CF developers? [Flex now Open Source'd] ps http://www.sauria.com/blog/2007/04/25/adobe-open-sources-flex/ "Adobe is moving

[cfaussie] Re: What's it all mean for CF developers? [Flex now Open Source'd]

2007-04-26 Thread Scott Barnes
; > From: cfaussie@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > > Of Scott Barnes > > Sent: Friday, 27 April 2007 3:06 PM > > To: cfaussie@googlegroups.com > > Subject: [cfaussie] Re: What's it all mean for CF developers? [Flex now Open > > Source&

[cfaussie] Re: What's it all mean for CF developers? [Flex now Open Source'd]

2007-04-26 Thread Scott Barnes
rom: cfaussie@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Scott Barnes > Sent: Friday, 27 April 2007 3:06 PM > To: cfaussie@googlegroups.com > Subject: [cfaussie] Re: What's it all mean for CF developers? [Flex now Open > Source'd] > > > > > http

[cfaussie] Re: What's it all mean for CF developers? [Flex now Open Source'd]

2007-04-26 Thread Andrew Scott
ECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Barnes Sent: Friday, 27 April 2007 3:06 PM To: cfaussie@googlegroups.com Subject: [cfaussie] Re: What's it all mean for CF developers? [Flex now Open Source'd] http://www.codeplex.com/Project/ProjectDirectory.aspx?TagName=WPF We do enough in the OS space

[cfaussie] Re: What's it all mean for CF developers? [Flex now Open Source'd]

2007-04-26 Thread Scott Barnes
http://www.codeplex.com/Project/ProjectDirectory.aspx?TagName=WPF We do enough in the OS space we don't always chase headlines for it ;) On 4/27/07, Bjorn Schultheiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hey Scotty, > > When will microsoft be open sourcing wpf :) > > > > > > > > On 27/04/2007, at 2:3

[cfaussie] Re: What's it all mean for CF developers? [Flex now Open Source'd]

2007-04-26 Thread Bjorn Schultheiss
Hey Scotty, When will microsoft be open sourcing wpf :) On 27/04/2007, at 2:32 PM, Andrew Scott wrote: > > Scott, > > I knew it would not be long for you to voice your opinion on your > blog. > > But let's take a step back for a minute, Adobe have done a great > job with > Flex as Macrome

[cfaussie] Re: What's it all mean for CF developers? [Flex now Open Source'd]

2007-04-26 Thread Andrew Scott
Scott, I knew it would not be long for you to voice your opinion on your blog. But let's take a step back for a minute, Adobe have done a great job with Flex as Macromedia before them. But one thing that seems to be missing and Scott you touched on it, but I do not think that you fully looked in

[cfaussie] Re: What's it all mean for CF developers? [Flex now Open Source'd]

2007-04-26 Thread Blair McKenzie
Interesting. Blair On 4/27/07, Mike Chambers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > fyi > > We will be allowing contributions. This is mentioned in the FAQ: > > > http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Flex:Open_Source:FAQ#Will_Adobe_be_allowing_external_developers_as_committers_to_the_project.3F > > mik

[cfaussie] Re: What's it all mean for CF developers? [Flex now Open Source'd]

2007-04-26 Thread Mike Chambers
fyi We will be allowing contributions. This is mentioned in the FAQ: http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Flex:Open_Source:FAQ#Will_Adobe_be_allowing_external_developers_as_committers_to_the_project.3F mike chambers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Blair McKenzie wrote: > You shouldn't assume that open sour

[cfaussie] Re: What's it all mean for CF developers? [Flex now Open Source'd]

2007-04-26 Thread Scott Barnes
Did a blog post, http://blogs.msdn.com/msmossyblog/archive/2007/04/27/flex-open-source-what-s-changed.aspx There will be complaints hehe. On 4/27/07, Blair McKenzie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You shouldn't assume that open source = open contributions. Open source > means only one thing - the s

[cfaussie] Re: What's it all mean for CF developers? [Flex now Open Source'd]

2007-04-26 Thread Blair McKenzie
You shouldn't assume that open source = open contributions. Open source means only one thing - the source code is publicly available. It does NOT mean that Adobe is going to allow community contributions to the core code base. In fact I would say that it is very unlikely that Flex will be opened t

[cfaussie] Re: What's it all mean for CF developers? [Flex now Open Source'd]

2007-04-26 Thread Mike Chambers
Yeah. I have been on for some time, mostly to keep up with any discussions about Flex and Apollo. mike chambers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Andrew Scott wrote: > Yeah, > > Mike has posted here a few times over the years just very rare. > --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You recei

[cfaussie] Re: What's it all mean for CF developers? [Flex now Open Source'd]

2007-04-26 Thread Scott Barnes
On 4/27/07, Barry Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > this thread didn't really go where I hoped... Angus Johnson and Andrew > Muller got closest (thanx guys) My bad :) > (and it looks like it's degraded into the typical off-topic slanging > match that [many people] are well and truly over)

[cfaussie] Re: What's it all mean for CF developers? [Flex now Open Source'd]

2007-04-26 Thread Andrew Scott
Yeah, Mike has posted here a few times over the years just very rare. Andrew Scott Senior Coldfusion Developer Aegeon Pty. Ltd. www.aegeon.com.au Phone: +613  8676 4223 Mobile: 0404 998 273 --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscr

[cfaussie] Re: What's it all mean for CF developers? [Flex now Open Source'd]

2007-04-26 Thread Barry Beattie
the trouble about making general statements is people arguing the point with edge-cases. yes, there will always be simple sites that use server-generated HTML and there will always be controlled conditions (intranets) that will allow for specialised solutions. and I'm not talking about developin

[cfaussie] Re: What's it all mean for CF developers? [Flex now Open Source'd]

2007-04-26 Thread KC Kuok
I agree with you Barry. As with the community aspect, I expect there will be Adobe staff assigned to help manage and push the project along, but there will need to be people who are not employed by Adobe to get fully involved. (and they have to be capable and impartial) Adobe will look after their

[cfaussie] Re: What's it all mean for CF developers? [Flex now Open Source'd]

2007-04-26 Thread Haikal Saadh
Pundits Preaching the Passing of HTML have been Persistently Proven Pungent. No one size fits all solution for anything, IMO. Vanilla HTML does somethings very well, and adding fluff, in the form of AJAX/flash wizardry on serves to get in my way. That said, there are things where a liberal spr

[cfaussie] Re: What's it all mean for CF developers? [Flex now Open Source'd]

2007-04-26 Thread Andrew Scott
Barry, Ajax will not die, it is thriving. The reason being is that for a quick Web2.0 solution it is the most easiest to get up and running very quickly. I have just finished an intranet system using dojo, and it was completed in half the time it would have if I had been using flex. The reason b

[cfaussie] Re: What's it all mean for CF developers? [Flex now Open Source'd]

2007-04-26 Thread Barry Beattie
this thread didn't really go where I hoped... Angus Johnson and Andrew Muller got closest (thanx guys) (and it looks like it's degraded into the typical off-topic slanging match that [many people] are well and truly over) so before it collapses into a steaming pile of poo... Getting back to Flex

[cfaussie] Re: What's it all mean for CF developers? [Flex now Open Source'd]

2007-04-26 Thread Scott Barnes
alf > Of Scott Barnes > Sent: Friday, 27 April 2007 10:05 AM > To: cfaussie@googlegroups.com > Subject: [cfaussie] Re: What's it all mean for CF developers? [Flex now Open > Source'd] > > > Yup ;) I can't suffer sillyness... > > > > > -- Regards, S

[cfaussie] Re: What's it all mean for CF developers? [Flex now Open Source'd]

2007-04-26 Thread Andrew Scott
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Barnes Sent: Friday, 27 April 2007 10:05 AM To: cfaussie@googlegroups.com Subject: [cfaussie] Re: What's it all mean for CF developers? [Flex now Open Source'd] Yup ;) I can't s

[cfaussie] Re: What's it all mean for CF developers? [Flex now Open Source'd]

2007-04-26 Thread Scott Barnes
98 273 > > > -Original Message- > From: cfaussie@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Scott Barnes > Sent: Friday, 27 April 2007 8:31 AM > To: cfaussie@googlegroups.com > Subject: [cfaussie] Re: What's it all mean for CF developers? [Flex now Open &g

[cfaussie] Re: What's it all mean for CF developers? [Flex now Open Source'd]

2007-04-26 Thread Andrew Scott
AM To: cfaussie@googlegroups.com Subject: [cfaussie] Re: What's it all mean for CF developers? [Flex now Open Source'd] Oh quit crying about the same attempt to discredit anything I say by associating as being Microsoft propaganda. You look like an idiot as everyone on this entire

[cfaussie] Re: What's it all mean for CF developers? [Flex now Open Source'd]

2007-04-26 Thread Scott Barnes
On 4/27/07, Mike Chambers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This has nothing to do with Silverlight. > > I am not sure about your experience working in large companies, but a > decision of this scale takes quite some time to finalize, and get > approval for. Yup, but the announcement itself is appea

[cfaussie] Re: What's it all mean for CF developers? [Flex now Open Source'd]

2007-04-26 Thread Mike Chambers
This has nothing to do with Silverlight. I am not sure about your experience working in large companies, but a decision of this scale takes quite some time to finalize, and get approval for. We have been working on this internally for over a year, and it is really the natural evolution for Fl

[cfaussie] Re: What's it all mean for CF developers? [Flex now Open Source'd]

2007-04-26 Thread Scott Barnes
Exhibit A - http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1020 "For some people, (open source) is a philosophical requirement, a sign of integrity and trust in a vendor. This will close that gap and address any lingering doubts they have about our openness and commitment to community." "You have to enga

[cfaussie] Re: What's it all mean for CF developers? [Flex now Open Source'd]

2007-04-26 Thread Scott Barnes
On 4/26/07, Angus Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The podcasts contain some pretty interesting info. Namely Adobe and "trusted > committers" will be responsible for the main source. I suppose this will be > for the core branch... with forks for more focused audiences. > Cool, not sure how th

[cfaussie] Re: What's it all mean for CF developers? [Flex now Open Source'd]

2007-04-26 Thread Angus Johnson
The podcasts contain some pretty interesting info. Namely Adobe and "trusted committers" will be responsible for the main source. I suppose this will be for the core branch... with forks for more focused audiences. The expanded client market will drive more server sales. Red5 and co will benefit.

[cfaussie] Re: What's it all mean for CF developers? [Flex now Open Source'd]

2007-04-26 Thread Andrew Scott
Scott, I think we need to wait and see how they plan this, my thoughts are more on a tight repository because of the more upto date builds. Could be wrong, but if anyone wanted to branch out then they would be hitting a merge nightmare. But guess we need to wait and see... On 4/26/07, Scott Bar

[cfaussie] Re: What's it all mean for CF developers? [Flex now Open Source'd]

2007-04-26 Thread Scott Barnes
I can see a lot of positives about Adobe's move in this regard, suffice to say some interesting thoughts popped into my head for CFMX'ers especially well anyone for that matter. Here's the thing I did wonder though today, what if Bluedragon + WebORB + CFEclipse folks go together and formed an OS

[cfaussie] Re: What's it all mean for CF developers? [Flex now Open Source'd]

2007-04-26 Thread Angus Johnson
You're right Andrew. Not all the source was available, rpc for one. Also you can't currently recompile the framework if you want to strip out debug for instance. so i guess we'll be able to do that soon. On 26/04/07, Andrew Muller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Angus > > You're quite correct abo

[cfaussie] Re: What's it all mean for CF developers? [Flex now Open Source'd]

2007-04-25 Thread Andrew Muller
Angus You're quite correct about a relationship between Flex and ColdFusion sales. I interviewed Tim Buntel at MAX last year for BuilderAU and he told me then that CF sales had been helped by Flex. Scorpio will offer even better Flex support so if you're building frontends in Flex and you want

[cfaussie] Re: What's it all mean for CF developers? [Flex now Open Source'd]

2007-04-25 Thread Andrew Scott
: +613 8676 4223 Mobile: 0404 998 273 From: cfaussie@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Angus Johnson Sent: Thursday, 26 April 2007 4:38 PM To: cfaussie@googlegroups.com Subject: [cfaussie] Re: What's it all mean for CF developers? [Flex now Open Source'd]

[cfaussie] Re: What's it all mean for CF developers? [Flex now Open Source'd]

2007-04-25 Thread Angus Johnson
Ok here's my take... It's really not unexpected. The SDK source was provided from day one, this at least makes it official. No more concerns about IP when building custom components. >From a Coldfusion perspective? Learn Flex / Actionscript as of yesterday. There's going to be an explosion in th

[cfaussie] Re: What's it all mean for CF developers? [Flex now Open Source'd]

2007-04-25 Thread Andrew Scott
Barry, My first reaction, what date is it again oh wow its past April 1st:-) My second reaction, after I picked myself of the floor, that is a very bold and very strategic move by Adobe on this. My thoughts are that it would be to compete with Blend / WPF / silverlight or whatever they damn call