Re: Apache Flex Website thought

I can. Do you have the links to those videos? I'm also working on a re-do of the website on the side as well. The purpose is to delete some of the sections that we never really fleshed out, and to better integrate the donated documentation and asdocs. It is taking a bit longer because I'm havin

Re: Apache Flex Website thought

Can someone with time update the website's home page? I think there are several new videos created by Joseph that we can use. Thanks, Om On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 9:50 PM, piotrz wrote: > Maybe writing whole website at this point in FlexJS will be really hard to > achieve. But what about split e

[FlexJS] Responsive UI (was Re: Apache Flex Website thought)

Forgot to respond to this. This deserves its own thread. I’m open to ideas as to what Responsive UI means in Flex. It isn’t clear how much we are going to rely on CSS and the browser for layout (I definitely hope to rely on CSS and the browser for lots of visuals). I would like FlexJS to suppor

Re: Apache Flex Website thought

Maybe writing whole website at this point in FlexJS will be really hard to achieve. But what about split everything into two directions. - Modify/write website in an "old" fashion in html - Start writing CMS for this website in FlexJS Many years ago I was working for some company where we wrote w

Re: Apache Flex Website thought

I don't mean to pile on, but the user groups section[1] needs a little attention. Some of the links go to dead websites or groups that no longer exist. From my perspective, which is that of an amateur at best, I had found the website and wiki difficult to navigate. And when I had tried to visit so

Re: Apache Flex Website thought

Now THAT, is a really interesting idea! I can’t think of a better way to promote it (assuming it looks good…) It might also be a good way to flush out some of the components. If we’re on that topic: Has anyone given thought to responsive HTML in FlexJS? On May 27, 2015, at 11:04 PM, Alex Harui

Re: Apache Flex Website thought

Yeah. Ultimately, I'd really love to see the site powered by a CMS. The bastardization of a CMS we have right now really makes even the small changes like smashing a triakis tetrahedron peg into a round hole. With the advent of modern CMSs generating static sites and Apache really wanting to go a

Re: Apache Flex Website thought

On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 3:52 PM, Michael Schmalle wrote: > > BTW, Did you mean Joseph, not Josh? The one with the videos? > > Yes, sorry about that. My eyes wandered to something else and I didn't type the write name. Sorry Joseph! -Nick

Re: Apache Flex Website thought

And FTR, my wild dream is to write our site using FlexJS. ;-) If this was all MXML and AS, wouldn’t it be much easier to maintain? -Alex On 5/27/15, 12:52 PM, "Michael Schmalle" wrote: >If I can manage to get my foothold with my business int he direction I >want, I would be up to helping keep

RE: Apache Flex Website thought

ginal Message- From: Nicholas Kwiatkowski [mailto:nicho...@spoon.as] Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2015 1:44 PM To: dev@flex.apache.org Subject: Re: Apache Flex Website thought I'm willing to take on a bit of a refresh of the website after I get a few other commits taken care of. Idealy, I

Re: Apache Flex Website thought

If I can manage to get my foothold with my business int he direction I want, I would be up to helping keep it fresh (in the future). One thing that would help Nic is when you go through and make updates, write a wiki page explaining what you did and the exact places that should be kept up and a li

Re: Apache Flex Website thought

I'm willing to take on a bit of a refresh of the website after I get a few other commits taken care of. Idealy, I'd like to integrate the newly donated Flex Docs into the site (with search, etc.), so doing a quick refresh of the content would make sense. The biggest concern when we launched the w

Re: Apache Flex Website thought

Agree. More my comments: * Double/triple linking to same content doesn't make website more rich of content, it makes it not organized. For example: - 'Licensing' on front page and 'About Flex->License & Trademarks' link to same page about-licensing.html

Re: Apache Flex Website thought

Yeah, the Apache Flex website needs a little love for developers who are new to Flex. A couple of thoughts: * The big hero image carousel might be a little too big. I've seen multiple studies that say that carousels aren't very effective. They tend to hide important things because people don't sti

Re: Apache Flex Website thought

On 5/27/15, 9:01 AM, "JosephLabrecque" wrote: > >Great. I'll start developing a small "wish list" of learning and demo >resources that could be produced. > >My wiki username is "josephlabrecque". Thanks. > OK, you should be able to add and edit pages now. -Alex

Re: Apache Flex Website thought

For me, experienced with Flex, flex.apache.org is totally not useful. If I am new to Flex and go on website, I would be confused and give up. It does not look like some SDK website. More like some template site left alone. That big slider on frontpage? Come on... For every release one text line i

Re: Apache Flex Website thought

Alex Harui wrote > On 5/27/15, 7:48 AM, "Joseph Labrecque" < > Joseph.Labrecque@ > > wrote: > >> is there a mechanism to keep a list or wiki within Apache? > > There is a wiki for Apache Flex. It is at [1]. You don’t have to be a > committer to contribute content to the wiki. If you are inte

Re: Apache Flex Website thought

On the web site, how about a column that shows simple quick links to the major parts of the site? WIKI, Source code, some "incubating projects" within the Apache Flex project. I know this stuff is in the drop down, but if people see it on the front page, they are more likely to click into and read

Re: Apache Flex Website thought

On 5/27/15, 7:48 AM, "Joseph Labrecque" wrote: > is there a mechanism to keep a list or wiki within Apache? There is a wiki for Apache Flex. It is at [1]. You don’t have to be a committer to contribute content to the wiki. If you are interested in creating wiki content, go to the wiki, crea

RE: Apache Flex Website thought

The problem I see with most of this content is that it is very old - using older versions of Flex and older tools like Flex Builder. This is one of the reasons I started to create some tutorials around Apache Flex and IntelliJ - for there to be some updated content out there using modern IDEs,