First Time Flex Developer on Integrating Flex and SAP
Dan McWeeney is a developer employed by Colgate who is currently doing some work at SAP. As part of that work, he’s been digging into Flex and making it work with parts of SAP’s infrastructure. He hasn’t even touched Flex before, but he’s a smart programmer, which makes his feedback the kind that I really like getting. He blogged about his initial impressions with Flex and using Flex within SAP.
He’s generally pretty positive about how easy it is to get started. He’d like to see the documentation a bit more organized, which I agree with. He mentions that you can extend Flex with custom components and also tapped into Flexcoders to find information. Part of being able to get started is being able to find resources, and it sounds like we’re doing a good job of that. It’s cool to see new Flex developers talk about their experiences, if you have any other examples let me know.
[tags]Dan McWeeney, Flex, SAP[/tags]
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June 12th, 2007 at 6:38 pm
“and it sounds like we’re doing a good job of that.”
Hmmm… there’s still lots of room for improvement.
The Livedocs (developer guide) can be really obtuse. Sometimes the examples are far too complicated for what you need, sometimes there’s just simply not enough examples to illustrate the point.
“He’d like to see the documentation a bit more organized”
so I won’t bore you with examples of this, now you know.
Flexcoders started to hit it’s “sweet spot” late March. Before that there were far too many unanswered questions and searches returning zero replies.
man, we’re all on the same team. I just don’t want to spend half a day looking for something that should take 5 minutes. Only now the Flex cookbook is starting to become useful.
I’ve already come across people who have a bad taste in their mouth with Flex because they started their projects before that “sweet spot”. That’s a scar that will irk their bosses for quite a while, unfortunately…
June 12th, 2007 at 7:02 pm
Nope, you’re absolutely right, you can never have too many resources (for the most part). I’d love to see the Flex cookbook keep growing, but I haven’t gotten any feedback on it.
And I can remember very well when my posts to Flexcoders would go into a big black hole. I always cringed when I thought of beginners having the same issue, but it seems to have gotten better.