Tariq Ahmed is the manager of product development at Amcom Computer Services, a former project lead at eBay, and host of www.cflex.net. He specializes in leveraging technology with process engineering to reduce operating costs while maximizing revenue potential. You can find him on the Web at www.dopejam.com.
One of the great things about Flex is that you get to spend most of your time
working on the business logic and workflow, and less on the cosmetic aspect.
This is because the Flex default's look-and-feel is great! The only problem
of course is that most people won't spend much time customizing the look,
resulting in many Flex apps looking the same. In Flex 1.5 many folks
customized the color scheme, but few ventured into modifying the actual skins
of the components.
The designer approach would be to modify the graphical aspects of a theme,
a laborious process of editing many items in various Flash source files
("FLAs") using the Flash Professional IDE.
The second approach let advanced Flex programmers create extremely customized
interfaces; however this approach made i... (more)
You read the blogs, see a couple of articles, and hear all the buzz about
Flex 2 and how it can really transform how your users can fluidly interact
with information and the business in an exciting and efficient new way.
But at the same time you're under tight deadlines, you're an expert in the
technology you're already using, and are able to maintain a certain pace and
deliver projects w... (more)
Tariq Ahmed is the manager of product development at Amcom Computer Services, a former project lead at eBay, and host of www.cflex.net. He specializes in leveraging technology with process engineering to reduce operating costs while maximizing revenue potential. You can find him on the Web at www.dopejam.com.
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