Help a brotha out the Ghetto...

So, John Dowdell from Adobe (Formerly Macromedia) posted a request on his blog the other day. This request, although funny to a point makes, well... a good point.

It's easy, in our world of new technology EVERY DAY, to take a VERY cool product, such as FLEX, read about it, try it out... play with it for a couple days... and never really take that next step.

I for one know that I am guilty of it. I probably couldnt even come close to enumerating all the various new software apps or technologies that I have downloaded, installed, tried out, got frustrated, and never looked back at again. I think we all have.

The disconnect happens when we, as developers do not build something with meaningfulness. If there is no project that fits the need, we might build a "Hello World" application, but thats it. I myself, am trying to learn C#, but until I have a real world application to build with it... it will most likely be a dabble here, and dabble there.

But this is a call my brothers and sisters of the web. Let's take another hard look at Flex (Flex 2 Beta, actually), lets take the time to embrace this technology. Let's all give it a shot.

I cannot imagine that they would work so hard on a product that had no promise, would they? I doubt it. I think it also works hand in hand, and quite nicely with ColdFusion driven applications. And no, Adobe is not going to take the ColdFusion team outside to torch them, I think they are going to stay around for awhile!

Anyway, check it out, it's FLEX, not Funkmaster Flex, but FLEX 2.0!