Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex Marketing

2006-12-24 Thread Scott Barnes
Heya's Sorry, I saw this post as I was catching up on some light reading and what not and thought I would add to it with a simple equation. You have $100,000 to spend tommorow on Marketing FLEX. Your job is to reach out to as many developers as possible and your job is not to sell units of FLEX

[flexcoders] Re: Flex Marketing

2006-12-24 Thread pk_wasp
Ideas from Adobe employees like these might help convince ur I.T CEO, Managers, Clients etc and show examples of what people are doing with Flex. http://www.onflex.org/ted/2006/12/surfacing-flex.php http://www.flickr.com/photos/flexapps/ --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, dorkie dork from

RE: [flexcoders] Re: Flex Marketing

2006-10-14 Thread Carson Hager
PMTo: flexcoders@yahoogroups.comSubject: Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex Marketing In the context of creating 1MM Flex developers, I think it is 1MM availableFlex jobs that will make it happen. How to get those jobs is the magic question. Whoever figures that out will make the 1MM developers

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex Marketing

2006-10-11 Thread DUANE NICKULL
Agree - as I stated when I posted, its' not scientific for all three given Java also refers to coffee and at least one book was on a flex swing for golfing which probably had little to do with e4x operators in AS3 ;-)  For the books however, I suspect that Macromedia Flex would have turned up a

[flexcoders] Re: Flex Marketing

2006-10-10 Thread Ray
Matt, One of the best ways in my opinion to market Flex is by having Flex applications in the wild. As a ColdFusion developer I am excited about the possibilities of using ColdFusion and Flex together. I do however think it would be nice to have a few more CF Flex-centric articles and tutorials

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex Marketing

2006-10-10 Thread DUANE NICKULL
What drives learning/adoption is jobs.  When there are Flex jobs, there will be Flex coders taking those jobs.  The metrics I used for Perl/Java/Flex are not perfect but I have found this method to be very accurate in the past to predicting trends in the market.   Given Perl and Java are both

[flexcoders] Re: Flex Marketing

2006-10-10 Thread Mark Piller
45,894 books on Flex??? That number must be so much off, given that the search for Adobe Flex on Amazon returns just 6. Mark --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, DUANE NICKULL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What drives learning/adoption is jobs. When there are Flex jobs, there will be Flex coders

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex Marketing

2006-10-10 Thread Brendan Meutzner
As would be the number of jobs on monster.com... flex time would be the culprit...On 10/10/06, Mark Piller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 45,894 books on Flex??? That number must be so much off, given that the search for Adobe Flex on Amazon returns just 6. Mark

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex Marketing

2006-10-10 Thread Clint Modien
Isn't that the cart pulling the horse?You need to have companies know it's an option before they create the jobs?On 10/10/06, DUANE NICKULL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What drives learning/adoption is jobs. When there are Flex jobs, there will be Flex coders

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex Marketing

2006-10-10 Thread DUANE NICKULL
In the context of creating 1MM Flex developers, I think it is 1MM available Flex jobs that will make it happen.  How to get those jobs is the magic question.  Whoever figures that out will make the 1MM developers happen.;-) "Speaking only for myself"Blog - http://technoracle.blogspot.comSite -

[flexcoders] Re: Flex Marketing

2006-10-09 Thread Santo
Hello Again! I found the post that I talked about: http://www.mossyblog.com/archives/520.cfm Regards! Rogério Gonzalez FLEX 2 needs to be the purple cow, the anomaly in the herd that stands out and people go 'holy shit, did you see that cow back there' and then 2 dinner parties later the