Tom’s Graphic Design Journal

All I can say is WOW. Adobe Flex is simply amazing. It's converted me from a Flash hater to a Flash lover. I still am a stickler for SEO so I have my reservations, but the ideas flowing through my head now are endless...ok they usually are endless, but I mean the ideas for using Flex and all the new possibilities with projects.

I came across an example for a book. Sure, we've all seen variations of book page turning in Flash. However, Flex does it right and Ely Greenfield's Flex Book work is shining proof of what everyone has been wishing Flash could do. His examples are beautiful, especially the one with transparency effect for the medical anatomy overlay book. It's also nice to note that he's also used Apollo to create a desktop application for this. I think quite a few encyclopedias and medical companies will be knocking on his door. Of course Ely has been extremely gracious enough to publish his source code so he's put everyone at a level playing field. Ahh, the joys of open source. Well, of course he's always going to have a better knowledge than anyone and can always create something even better.

Anyway, I'm definitely a big supporter of Flex now and of Ely's work here for one, but there are many other developers out there (ok, Google groups' count is only a couple hundred, but it's getting there, yea...sorta kinda). Another great link to share would be Flex Box, which contains over a hundred (currently) Flex components, most with source code or some sort of explaination. This is a Flex showcase site as well as a place to learn. Again, thank you open source and people who like to share. When I create something as cool, I'll share. However, mainly I combine technologies and web scripting languages all over the place...I'm not an inventor really. "Visionary" ha, I like that one. "Graphic Designer" ha, I almost forgot that one with all this code. Well, enjoy.

   

All I can say is WOW. Adobe Flex is simply amazing. It's converted me from a Flash hater to a Flash lover. I still am a stickler for SEO so I have my reservations, but the ideas flowing through my head now are endless...ok they usually are endless, but I mean the ideas for using Flex and all the new possibilities with projects.

I came across an example for a book. Sure, we've all seen variations of book page turning in Flash. However, Flex does it right and Ely Greenfield's Flex Book work is shining proof of what everyone has been wishing Flash could do. His examples are beautiful, especially the one with transparency effect for the medical anatomy overlay book. It's also nice to note that he's also used Apollo to create a desktop application for this. I think quite a few encyclopedias and medical companies will be knocking on his door. Of course Ely has been extremely gracious enough to publish his source code so he's put everyone at a level playing field. Ahh, the joys of open source. Well, of course he's always going to have a better knowledge than anyone and can always create something even better.

Anyway, I'm definitely a big supporter of Flex now and of Ely's work here for one, but there are many other developers out there (ok, Google groups' count is only a couple hundred, but it's getting there, yea...sorta kinda). Another great link to share would be Flex Box, which contains over a hundred (currently) Flex components, most with source code or some sort of explaination. This is a Flex showcase site as well as a place to learn. Again, thank you open source and people who like to share. When I create something as cool, I'll share. However, mainly I combine technologies and web scripting languages all over the place...I'm not an inventor really. "Visionary" ha, I like that one. "Graphic Designer" ha, I almost forgot that one with all this code. Well, enjoy.