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" <n...@joeflash.ca> To: users@flex.apache.org 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 d...@flex.apache.org list. _______________________________________________________________________ Joseph Balderson, Flex & Flash Platform Developer :: http://joeflash.ca Author, Professional Flex 3 :: http://tinyurl.com/proflex3book modjkl...@comcast.net 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 longer live (what's up with that?), and many are outdated.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. > > > >
