Re: [PR] Getting people excited about Flex

2013-02-05 Thread Paul Hastings
ESRI has some slick (well to the GIS crowd anyway) samples for their flex API: http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/flex-api/samples/

Re: [PR] Getting people excited about Flex

2013-02-05 Thread Johan Kustermans
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Re: [PR] Getting people excited about Flex

2013-02-05 Thread Harbs
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Re: [PR] Getting people excited about Flex

2013-02-05 Thread Tomislav Pokrajcic
On 5.2.2013. 23:10, Jim Robson wrote: But in general, to address your point, Flex isn't for websites. It's primary purpose is enterprise applications - though now it's good for mobile, too. Our experience is that Flex (on Flash) can still find it's place on public websites in various apps for ge

Re: [PR] Getting people excited about Flex

2013-02-05 Thread Harbs
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Re: [PR] Getting people excited about Flex

2013-02-05 Thread Om
>>>>>> type: INFO > >>>>>>> appRunTime: 30772 > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> On 5 February 2013 20:31, Om wrote: > >>>>>

Re: [PR] Getting people excited about Flex

2013-02-05 Thread Edouard
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Re: [PR] Getting people excited about Flex

2013-02-05 Thread Jim Robson
== > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> On 5 February 2013 20:31, Om wrote: > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> A couple of projects that I was involved with in the past -

Re: [PR] Getting people excited about Flex

2013-02-05 Thread Alex Harui
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Re: [PR] Getting people excited about Flex

2013-02-05 Thread Erick Ghaumez
t; http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui > > >> -Original Message- >> From: Harbs [mailto:harbs.li...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2013 8:24 AM >> To: dev@flex.apache.org >> Subject: Re: [PR] Getting people excited about Flex >> >> Well, y

Re: [PR] Getting people excited about Flex

2013-02-05 Thread Om
to perform takes "a while" so most folks won't > > really > > > try > > > >> it to completion and get a good feel for what it can do. > > > >> > > > >> Startup time is an important part of the new framework I'm working

Re: [PR] Getting people excited about Flex

2013-02-05 Thread Roland Zwaga
; >>>>> > >>>>> On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Lee Burrows < > >>>> subscripti...@leeburrows.com > >>>>>> wrote: > >>>>> > >>>>>> Im happy for this small web app (and source code) to be used

Re: [PR] Getting people excited about Flex

2013-02-05 Thread Alex Harui
Alex Harui wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> It would definitely be great to get some apps for the showcase. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> The Adobe Flex showcase is still up, but it suffers from the fact >>> that >>>>>>

Re: [PR] Getting people excited about Flex

2013-02-05 Thread Harbs
what it can do. >>>>> >>>>> Startup time is an important part of the new framework I'm working on >> so >>>>> that public-facing apps over slower connections startup reasonably >>> quickly, >>>>> but it I am still searc

Re: [PR] Getting people excited about Flex

2013-02-05 Thread Roland Zwaga
ndering is that what the killer showcase app > > > would > > > > >> be. Even PrintUI requires a healthy wait at startup (at least at > > home > > > > over > > > > >> DSL) and the task to perform takes "a while" so most folks wo

Re: [PR] Getting people excited about Flex

2013-02-05 Thread Roland Zwaga
d, the static screenshots and even some of these dynamic apps > > are > > >> becoming easier to do in HTML. So really, maybe developer > productivity > > is > > >> our best selling point these days? Or is it the ability to use > > structured >

Re: [PR] Getting people excited about Flex

2013-02-05 Thread Om
t; advantages of Flex. > >> > >> That said, the static screenshots and even some of these dynamic apps > are > >> becoming easier to do in HTML. So really, maybe developer productivity > is > >> our best selling point these days? Or is it the ability to use

Re: [PR] Getting people excited about Flex

2013-02-05 Thread Harbs
On Feb 5, 2013, at 8:57 PM, Alex Harui wrote: > I sent a screenshot of PrintUI to Infoworld, and apps like that would be nice > to have in a showcase. Thanks. > One thing I've been pondering is that what the killer showcase app would be. > Even PrintUI requires a healthy wait at startup (at

Re: [PR] Getting people excited about Flex

2013-02-05 Thread Lee Burrows
:harbs.li...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2013 8:24 AM To: dev@flex.apache.org Subject: Re: [PR] Getting people excited about Flex Well, you can feel free to use PrintUI.com in both capacities... ;-) Anyone on the dev list who has permission to showcase apps, can just post them here

Re: [PR] Getting people excited about Flex

2013-02-05 Thread Nicholas Kwiatkowski
;> Apache Flex Team >> http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui >> >> >> -Original Message- >>> From: Harbs [mailto:harbs.li...@gmail.com] >>> Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2013 8:24 AM >>> To: dev@flex.apache.org >>> Subject: Re: [PR] Getting

Re: [PR] Getting people excited about Flex

2013-02-05 Thread Roland Zwaga
gt; becoming easier to do in HTML. So really, maybe developer productivity is >> our best selling point these days? Or is it the ability to use structured >> programming? >> >> Alex Harui >> Apache Flex Team >> http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui >> >>

Re: [PR] Getting people excited about Flex

2013-02-05 Thread Lee Burrows
ginal Message- From: Harbs [mailto:harbs.li...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2013 8:24 AM To: dev@flex.apache.org Subject: Re: [PR] Getting people excited about Flex Well, you can feel free to use PrintUI.com in both capacities... ;-) Anyone on the dev list who has permission to showcase apps

RE: [PR] Getting people excited about Flex

2013-02-05 Thread Alex Harui
ex Harui Apache Flex Team http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui > -Original Message- > From: Harbs [mailto:harbs.li...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2013 8:24 AM > To: dev@flex.apache.org > Subject: Re: [PR] Getting people excited about Flex > > Well, you can feel free to us

RE: [PR] Getting people excited about Flex

2013-02-05 Thread Guthmann, Scott
> It also might be a good idea to find a way to showcase apps that are on all > (desktop/web/mobile) platforms with same(ish) codebase to showcase the code > once/run anywhere theme. > Maybe some sort a filter in top so you could sort/organize the apps quickly > by type. 1) There is an area on

Re: [PR] Getting people excited about Flex

2013-02-05 Thread Harbs
Well, you can feel free to use PrintUI.com in both capacities… ;-) Anyone on the dev list who has permission to showcase apps, can just post them here as a starting point for the list. On Feb 5, 2013, at 6:11 PM, Nicholas Kwiatkowski wrote: > I'd love to see something like this on the website.

Re: [PR] Getting people excited about Flex

2013-02-05 Thread Scott Rowe
It also might be a good idea to find a way to showcase apps that are on all (desktop/web/mobile) platforms with same(ish) codebase to showcase the code once/run anywhere theme. Maybe some sort a filter in top so you could sort/organize the apps quickly by type. On Feb 5, 2013, at 10:39 AM, Ma

Re: [PR] Getting people excited about Flex

2013-02-05 Thread Nicholas Kwiatkowski
I'd love to see something like this on the website. The only problem was seeding the list. Heck, I couldn't even get 6 companies to allow us to use their logos to say that they use Apache Flex to put on our website... -Nick On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Marcus Fritze wrote: > Yes, this sou

Re: [PR] Getting people excited about Flex

2013-02-05 Thread Marcus Fritze
Yes, this sounds good. I think, on the old flex.org page there was also a showcase section. And everybody could see, what's possible with Flex. And we should not forget the category desktop AIR apps. And maybe "categorize" these apps into topics (or tags - what does the application). Marcus Fri

Re: [PR] Getting people excited about Flex

2013-02-05 Thread Roland Zwaga
here's a nice one that just got posted: http://away3d.com/index.php/comments/away_foundation_roadmap_releases Away 3D name checks Apache Flex as the technology they're going to use for Away3D Builder. On 5 February 2013 16:28, Harbs wrote: > I was thinking: There's nothing quite like showing p

[PR] Getting people excited about Flex

2013-02-05 Thread Harbs
I was thinking: There's nothing quite like showing people quality working applications to convince them that a technology is a viable option for their own needs. Should we have a featured page of the Flex website that has a list of featured applications? We could break it into categories of web