Comments on: Flex Builder 4 Refactored to Flash Builder http://blog.timeister.com/2009/06/06/flex-builder-4-flash/ Free Online Timesheet Software - Calendar, StopWatch, Reports, Exports Fri, 12 Feb 2010 05:21:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: admin http://blog.timeister.com/2009/06/06/flex-builder-4-flash/comment-page-1/#comment-2039 admin Sun, 07 Jun 2009 21:49:10 +0000 http://blog.timeister.com/?p=215#comment-2039 Hi Rainer, I have to agree with you. When you say you are a Flash developer people think at you mostly as a designer and not as a "real" developer. Maybe this is why, when Flex Builder came up, most of the Flash developers could not understand how thinks are going on and they quit trying to learn Flex. I had the surprise to see Flash developers not being able to do minor things with Flex, and telling that flex is too "programmatic". Anyway... the main idea is that all of us... flash, dreamwaver, catalyst, flex ... developers will be in the same bucket... and maybe someday we will not be called flex developers anymore.. but "Adobe XXX-technology developers". Anyway.. i hate Flash because I am a developer, and I will be still calling myself as a FLEX Developer. Hi Rainer,

I have to agree with you.
When you say you are a Flash developer people think at you mostly as a designer and not as a “real” developer.
Maybe this is why, when Flex Builder came up, most of the Flash developers could not understand how thinks are going on and they quit trying to learn Flex.
I had the surprise to see Flash developers not being able to do minor things with Flex, and telling that flex is too “programmatic”.

Anyway… the main idea is that all of us… flash, dreamwaver, catalyst, flex … developers will be in the same bucket… and maybe someday we will not
be called flex developers anymore.. but “Adobe XXX-technology developers”.

Anyway.. i hate Flash because I am a developer, and I will be still calling myself as a FLEX Developer.

]]> By: rainwebs http://blog.timeister.com/2009/06/06/flex-builder-4-flash/comment-page-1/#comment-2038 rainwebs Sun, 07 Jun 2009 21:23:29 +0000 http://blog.timeister.com/?p=215#comment-2038 For me this is one of those marketing tricks to get more attention. I have seen this during my three years at Sun. This is a bad behavior of the guys who don't really understand the customers. Finally, the Sun customers kept the first set name. Although, the marketing guys changed the name every year. Pretty annoying to the sales (support) force. So, now I'm a Flash developer instead of a Flex developer? Makes no sense to me. Flex is a trademark that differentiates the real developers from the designers. It's a sign of quality, because a Flex developer is able to think in Java backends, too ;-). And that's what the Flex Builder really stands for (or the Eclipse behind, if you so will). For me this is one of those marketing tricks to get more attention. I have seen this during my three years at Sun. This is a bad behavior of the guys who don’t really understand the customers. Finally, the Sun customers kept the first set name. Although, the marketing guys changed the name every year. Pretty annoying to the sales (support) force.

So, now I’m a Flash developer instead of a Flex developer? Makes no sense to me. Flex is a trademark that differentiates the real developers from the designers. It’s a sign of quality, because a Flex developer is able to think in Java backends, too ;-) . And that’s what the Flex Builder really stands for (or the Eclipse behind, if you so will).

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