Sep
30
Macromedia Flex BULLSHIT!
Filed Under DIY (Do It Yourself), Websites | 5 Comments
The more I learn about what Flex can do for me, the more I want to use it. However it is just becoming the biggest pain to get it to talk with CF. I have read through the forums, walkthroughs and anything else I can get my hands on and still cant get it to work. Maybe Flex is just too new of a technology to use.
The sample apps I've looked at so far, require no less than 20 steps of copy/pasting code and configuration. The "simple" contact_manager application has 28 steps!! There are so many things that go wrong, it's impossible to figure out what to fix when something breaks. Belive me, with 28 steps there is a huge margin for error. For example, it is suggested that the a project file be "cleaned", so you press the button to clean it. However, that deletes files you need to run the application, and now something else is broken.
Every example on the macromedia site isn't difficult, but the whole point of Flex, is do get stuff into and out of databases, and that is the most complicated process I've ever encountered in web development. If a designer can't do it, or it requires the skills of an engineer to figure out, it isn't worth it. I mean really, just look at how much code it takes to populate a listbox with values. This is stupid!!!!
