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January 25, 2006
Flex 2, tell a friend
Flex 2, tell a friend: I'm asking your help with something, because there will soon be a short window in which we can have a big impact. I want lots of new people to actually try Flex 2 when in goes in public beta, very soon. The Flex 2 alpha, described in Mike's article above, has been extremely well received -- by those people already working with Macromedia/Adobe technologies. But people who work in Perl or Python, Java or .NET, XHTML or XUL, they need to learn about this too. Flex 2 is really a big advance, of long-term significance for the web, and those who do any work in this area deserve to know the truth. When the Flex 2 Public Beta arrives, I'd appreciate it if you could download it, or even just watch the Breeze presentations, and then recommend it for investigation to people whom you think it might help. No hardsell, no evangelism -- other people know their own situations better than we do, so we've got to respect different decisions. But if you can check into Flex 2 Public Beta yourself when it launches, and then spread the word to friends who might benefit from it, then that would really help the whole platform... just say what you see, how it benefits you, and how you think it might benefit your friend who may never have used Flash-y things before. I want to see this XML separation of authoring and deployment succeed -- I think such a success would be a good advance for everyone. So when Flex 2 hits Public Beta, please tell a friend from outside the MXNA circle -- thanks!
Posted by John Dowdell at January 25, 2006 1:25 PM