Waxing Lyrical

Today was the first day of a 5 day course on flex, led by the illustrious Robin Hilliard. It's already shaping up to be a great course - naturally a lot of today was intro stuff but we still got into the event management, bubbling events and data binding, all of which are very exciting. Skipping ahead slightly in the manual I can see some interesting things coming up which I'm looking forward to.

It's a small group - just 10 of us plus Robin in the training room at the Adobe offices, and the environment makes it great for asking questions. Most of the people in the room are pretty advanced which is a big plus as we get into some more interesting discussions than might otherwise be the case.

Flex is soooo nice, and I've only scratched the surface of it. I'd encourage anyone in the industry to give it a look - even just for small time front end bits and pieces. However the ActionScript 3 language is really nice, and along with the power that comes with flexbuilder (it genuinely IS worth the money!) actionscript / flex is definitely a serious application development platform.

At once point we had a discussion about "target" and "currentTarget" as related to bubbling events, and Robin mentioned that "there need to be a few more blog articles written about it" so I thought I'd have a crack :) However since I was out of bed at 0400 this morning with a grand 3,5 hours sleep I may not get to it tonight. If not, then probably tomorrow.

Ok, I'm off to fiddle with some RIA shinyness!