I went today on the Microsoft’s web site to get the IE7. After I have selected the download section in the site, a popup caught my attention, something like: Do you want to try the new Silverlight enable download center?
A line from a cartoon show comes to my mind: “Isn’t that nice?…”
A new initiative was started and I wish it good luck. A Flex developer from Craiova is trying to create the first Flex User Group in Romania and right now he is on the mission to deliver his message to as many Flex developers he can.
You can found out more here:
http://www.craiovaforum.ro/scripting-client-side/adobe-flex-user-group-pentru-romania-164146.html. (article in Romanian)
… for Leopard users at least.
After Mozilla found a new use for their technology, the XUL platform, in the form of Prism, somebody has found this technology inspiring and developed Fluid.
That somebody is not Apple as one first thought might be, but a web enthusiast, Todd Ditchendorf.
I have noticed lately that good training in Flex seems to be in high demand. That can only mean that Flex is becoming more and more popular.
There is a shift in the way people and especially companies lately are looking at the way they are learning things. Previously someone trying to learn or become more proficient in a particular technology was just looking for different articles over the internet or search on forums for some help. The companies, of course, were expecting to see this behavior in their employees. There is no doubt that all this are still good practices, however they are not always offering the best solution to the learning problem. There is always something that you can not learn from the internet, some tips and tricks, some best practices and if the company does not have a senior developer, a good tech lead to teach all this to the others, these skills will be acquired the hard way (by braking things) and that is not the best solution.
Here comes training.
For a company, sending people to training is like renting all that important good tech lead. Usually this is a very good thing and if this effort is backed up by a good corporate environment that is encouraging people to also learn on their own, you end up with high quality developers (axiom: the company hired good people with great potential for development).
