Our Flex Podcast Is Up – The Flex Show | Ryan Stewart

I’ve been keeping it under wraps while I get everything else straightened up, but Jeffry Houser and I recorded the first episode of The Flex Show before Christmas. As far as I know it’s the first Flex Podcast out there. It runs a little over 20 minutes, so it won’t take much time to check out.

I’m not going to lie to you, this first episode isn’t really meant for hard core Flex developers. Even as first episodes go, it’s a little bit rough around the edges. We talked about some of the good Flex resources out there and some of the blogs we liked so in some ways it’s more for a ColdFusion audience than those of you who have been doing Flex for a long time.

All that said, we really are hoping to straddle the line between newcomers to Flex and grizzled Veterans. I’m hoping to line up some interesting interviews and also as a way for people to get some of the best Flex news. As Jeff and I get into the swing of things we’re both hoping it becomes more valuable for everyone.

If you have any tips, feedback or interview ideas, drop us a line at info@theflexshow.com. Also, I have a terrible Podcast voice. I apologize in advance.

[tags]Flex, Podcast, TheFlexShow[/tags]

http://blog.maestropublishing.com Peter J. Farrell

Congrats Ryan and Jeff!

From podcaster to podcaster, best of luck. If you make it past your 10th show – consider yourselves veterans!
http://blog.maestropublishing.com Peter J. Farrell

FYI, Ryan – the Lyla (yippy) captcha on the flex show’s website isn’t configured correctly and thus not working.
http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com Ryan Stewart

Hey Peter,

Thanks for the heads up, I’ll check it out.
http://www.jeffryhouser.com Jeffry Houser

Peter, what browser were you using?

We tried Firefox 2, IE6, and IE7 but found no errors.
http://dougr.net Doug

That is Great News as my Flex interest has recently piqued and I have been looking for community resources.
Best of luck to you both!

BTW – Adobe contacted me (Adobe Direct) re.Creating Rich Internet Applications with Flex 2 and ColdFusion MX 7.
Seminar(s) Jan. 11 & Jan. 25
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/event/index.cfm?event=detail&id=506273&loc=en_us
D.

p.s. How is Skype working out for you, I was just looking at VoIP solutions yesterday.
http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com Ryan Stewart

Thanks Doug, are you going to be doing it? Very cool!

So far Skype works pretty well. It’s been good for us.
http://dougr.net Doug

I am at that (tomorrow’s session), this will be my first Flex exposure – I am not even a newbie yet (-;.
D.
http://www.flexonrails.net Derek Wischusen

Very cool. Do you envision that this show will be similar to the .NET rocks (http://www.dotnetrocks.com/) radio show?

Derek
Jason

Attended the Flex seminar yesterday. I’ve been a Flash/Coldfusion developer for about six years. I was pretty impressed with Flex. I think it is going to be the solution I use for my next web app. Any thoughts on the learning curve? Checking out your podcast tomorrow.
http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com Ryan Stewart

Derek, I’m planning on listening to a few episodes to get their format down.

Jason, I think for CF developers the learning curve is short. I started out on CF and that’s how I came to learn Flex. It definitely takes a different way of thinking but in the end the CF skills are complimentary.
http://www.jeffryhouser.com Jeffry Houser

Jason,

I think you should be able to come up to speed on the language / syntax rather quickly. The problem I’m having is learning the class hierarchy. Sometimes it will take hours trying to figure out how to do the simplest thing in CF.

For example, how do you find the domain that was serving the Flash movie? In CF, you would just access a CGI variable and it would be trivial. It took me ~6 hours of documentation sifting to figure it out to use Application.application.url.

Ryan Stewart – Mountaineer Coding

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Our Flex Podcast Is Up – The Flex Show