Flex primer for Flash users

Flex, baby, flex baby one, two.

So what's this Flex thing Adobe keeps talking about? Well, we found out real fast when a prominent client announced their Rich Media was going to be based on Flex. So we made a mad scramble to find a developer who was versed in this new framework.

Some of you may remember that 3 0r 4 years ago I predicted Adobe InDesign would take over Quark. I adopted InDesign 2.0 and never went back.

There is a battle brewing. CSS based AJAX enabled pages with an ASP.net 2.0 framework (LAMP and ROR are also good alternatives) and Rich Media applications built on Flash/Flex.

I'm making a similar prediction now. Adobe has been Flexing it's own muscles making this application more robust and integrated with Flash. I'm convinced Flex is going to be a major player in the industry within a year. Developers, you better get up-to-speed on this one.

Here's the complete Flex Primer.

A Designer's Todoist

A some of you know, I contribute to the Jaxopolitan blog. The blog's owner puts out a column called the Todoist, a weekly list of things to do in Jacksonville. I just came across something similar for designers called the Dexigner.

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They don't just mean the planet. They mean cash, too.

Everyone's talking about it -- going green, being sustainable, saving the planet, etc. But the NRDC doesn't just talk -- it persuades with many simple tips on how to get started, and one great reason -- because it pays to be green.

Natural Resources Defense Council's Greening Your Business