Adobe Flex on MySpace

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I just got a friend request from Adobe Flex on MySpace. No idea who set this up, but I think stuff like that is great. Whomever did this was pretty clever about the interests section. Here’s the bio:

I’m a product from Adobe Systems’ Enterprise and Developer Business unit. I help developers build cool rich Internet applications. I come from a single parent, Eclipse. Most of my friends right now are Java and Flash developers, but I’m trying hard to find new friends, especially PHP, Ruby and other web developers.

Turns out Flex is a Cancer, and he/she is single. That’s too bad, but Flex is only 16 (I don’t think MySpace goes to 3 years old). I’m going to put Flex in my Top 8.

[tags]MySpace, Flex[/tags]

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  • dave

    $50 says its really Bill Gates and was posted on a mac ;) ~

  • http://weblog.mrinalwadhwa.com Mrinal Wadhwa

    Google’s Orkut, which is a more popular social network than myspace in many parts of the world (like here in India) has had Flex communities since 2004 .. some big some small ..the two big ones are Adobe Flex(361 members) and Adobe Flex Brasil (218 members)

  • Warren Henning

    Ryan,

    I’ve been thinking about what you’ve said about rich applications and so on. And I thought of some examples where I think something like Flex or Apollo could considerably shorten development times.

    In short, basically anything that doesn’t have a simple, highly constrained, data-driven interface is. So, calendars could actually be developed in a sane way. The calendar in 37Signals’ Backpack , which is really nice, took 3 months to develop because of Internet Explorer 6. I bet you could do better in Flex.

    Consider also DabbleDB. Ignoring the wonky data model which wouldn’t work well with a traditonal relational database (they apparently have a custom object database), I think in general you could have an application with considerable amounts of client-side state.

    It also forces an interesting separation of concerns as there are two sides to developing a Flex app: the interface, which doesn’t and can’t directly access the database, and the backend, which now is basically just a set of web services the frontend calls; it no longer does redirects or concerns itself with templates.

    To summarize: I think Flex makes developing an app with significant clientside state much more reasonable. Using it for CRUD apps doesn’t make sense.

  • http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com Ryan Stewart

    Warren, you’re right, Flex lets you hand off more to the client side and so for applications where state is very important, Flex is ideal. I think we’re going to see more applications like that, but the examples you gave are good, and would be excellent candidates for Flex right now.