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Adobe Releases Second Flex 2 Beta

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the and-there-was-much-merriment dept.

mikepotter writes "Adobe released the second beta of Flex 2 yesterday. As well, they announced a coding contest, where 6 people will win a Plasma TV and an XBox 360. Developers can also use the Flex / AJAX bridge to build applications using both Flash and AJAX technologies that can interact with each other, similar to what Google Finance does."

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  1. How about that ugly design?! by SlappyBastard · · Score: 1
    I'm curious how many other people put Flex and Flash together in their minds against the anti-design articles that have been running lately.

    Hmmm . . . Drudge Report and Craigslist . . . Flash websites.

    Just a loose thought that fell out of my head.

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  2. Re:Adobe, please buy out Macromedia!!!! by daranz · · Score: 1

    Didn't they already buy out Macromedia? Seems like that was what started their efforts to get into web development software.

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  3. Working For Beer by Saeed+al-Sahaf · · Score: 1
    As well, they announced a coding contest, where 6 people will win a Plasma TV and an XBox 360.

    I can't help but think that these types of coding contests are just trolls for ideas that would have cost the companies a lot more had they hired a developer to sit around thinking this stuff up, and it seems a bit disingenuous. If they actually had to pay a developer rather than just giving away a few relatively cheap toys, it would cost considerably more. And if any of these ideas they are getting on the cheap are patentable, well, we know who gets that slice of the pie.

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    1. Re:Working For Beer by bedroll · · Score: 1

      Yeah, but sometimes it makes a good project for a student who wouldn't have been paid anyway. Then they get a grade, get to say they won the contest on their resume, and get some free stuff. I bet if they really were giving beer as pay that college students would be all over this.

  4. Re:Adobe, please buy out Macromedia!!!! by DavidLeblond · · Score: 4, Funny

    Is it cold underneath that rock? You should come out in the sun more often.

  5. Question by Rac3r5 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Its nice to have some rapid development tool, but is Flex efficient to use? Is it completly flash based?

    Just asking.

    1. Re:Question by iamdaflash · · Score: 1, Informative

      It will still compile to a flash swf file but the IDE is eclipse based, it's pretty cool the display is all set up in xml and you can switch between source/display view. Also actionscript 3 is going to be alot faster, can't wait to see what people are going to make with it.

  6. The OSS Alternative by curunir · · Score: 2, Informative

    Open Laszlo is also a nice product. It still mostly requires flash on the client-side (they have an alpha-ish support for rendering in DHTML), but the server-side is licensed under the CPL (a.k.a. what Eclipse uses).

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    1. Re:The OSS Alternative by Rac3r5 · · Score: 1

      very interesting product.. I'll check it out when I get home..