I first learnt about Adobe Flex a year or so ago whilst carrying out some research for my final project. Flex builder - the Eclipse-based IDE - wasn’t avsailable for Mac, and despite several attempts to work it from the terminal, I gave up and resorted to a simple Web interface.
This week, I found that the Flex builder has now been released for Mac. It might mean that I am now finally an ActionScript convert - just playing with the tutorials to build a blog reader (in 20 lines of code - interface included) already shows how great Flex is. With Adobe Apollo on the horizon, it’s questioning whether I should be coding in anything else method I’m using to make HostManager 2.0. Maybe one day, Cocoa might adopt XML-built interface files…?