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Grey Line

Two conferences are running side-by-side competing for better developers. Looks like I will be staying in CA for extra day – Eclipse one is running through March 8th. It would be interesting to see what new tools will be available to Flex developers sharing Eclipse IDE with the rest of the world.

At Eclipse conference, I will be doing hands-on for a chance to “Show the light of Flex” to very advanced group of Java developers/toolmakers: http://www.eclipsecon.org/2007/index.php?not_accepted=0&page=sub/&id=4009&conference=2007 These are the people who define what next generation of Enterprise tools are going to be – with very interesting possibilities coming out of merging different technologies. Architecture of the future frameworks will depend on how well and seamlessly they would integrate with the current trends.

At 360Flex.org one I will be doing “Enterprise Applications” demo – how to build the “meat and potato” systems quickly and reliably having the resources available in the corporate world. The approach is very different, but the result is the same – the RAD development based on proven ideas of client-server programming applied to distributed/network-based topology. I’ll call the approach “getting-rich-quick” or some other name people feel good about.

It’s going to be a fun week – see you there and there.

Regards,

Anatole Tartakovsky

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Grey Line

JetBrains team is well known and respected in Java community for their excellent IDE called IntelliJIDEA. Java developers in-the-know know – Eclipse is bigger, but IDEA is better. Last year, I had to switch from IDEA to Eclipse, because I’ve been doing mixed Java/Flex development, and Eclipse was my only choice.

When JetBrains announced Ruby support in IDEA, it was clear that Ruby fans just won the lottery. The next question in my mind was, “How about supporting Adobe Flex languages – MXML and ActionScript?“ But this was the case when no new was bad news.

Today, I’ve got an email with a reference to a ticket opened by Michael Klishin in the IDEA’s bug tracking and project management database that asks for Flex support. Way to go, Mike! I’m with you.

JetBrains, go for it! Adobe Flex is here to stay, and having two Flex IDEs is better than one.

Yakov Fain

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