Flex Development
I’ve been reading through a bunch of books on Flex development. It’s pretty interesting stuff. It is probably most easily understood as a programmatic interface into Flash with a bunch of widgets such that you can develop very sophisticated applications that talk asynchronously to a backend server. The upside of this being that wherever you can get a Flash player installed you can have your application and it works the same everywhere, something that can’t be said for AJAX.
I wrote up a quick app yesterday afternoon to look at a customized RSS feed for this blog and allow a user to navigate through the results. It’s just something I was fiddling with, it’s not complete and probably never will be. I’m going to investigate a different approach to some things I was doing to see if it makes things cleaner. Check it out here