Ryan Campbell Flex/Flash Developer Blog

Adobe Flex Coolness

The last couple weeks I have been working on a classified ads perl script that I am planning to sell. Originally I created the software for my fiancee's http://www.petsbc.com website but have recently decided to try and make some money from it. (Our first child is on the way, so my mind seems to be stuck on career lately ha)

The software front-end has lots of features but the back-end admin was almost non-existent. Other than a page to view unapproved ads, I would just use the MySQL command line client to manage the database. Since not everyone enjoys writing SQL statements as much as I do (and I don't enjoy it very much) I have been spending the majority of my time developing an admin interface using Adobe Flex.

Although I've read books, watched videos and visited every blog around related to Flex, up until this project I haven't had a chance to build any large real world applications using it. I'm almost finished development and am very excited to see what potential customers think of the application.

In the past I spent a lot of time focusing on making my cgi scripts look and feel like an application. With Flex I don't have to try, it is a real application and looks very professional even with the default skin. I think Flex not only produces a useable great looking application but will give me the edge over the competition with its coolness factor. Not to mention I can easily take the admin app to the desktop with Apollo.

I look forward to showing off the completed app and am also very interested in hearing what your customers first impressions were on Flex apps that you've built.