A Message From the Editor-in-Chief of Flex Developer's Journal

On August 16, 2007 SYS-CON Media has launched Flex Developers Journal, an online technical publication for developers that are using or considering Adobe Flex as a technology for creating rich front ends for Web applications. While in the past SYS-CON was publishing Flex-related articles here and there, now we've got the critical mass of interest required to have an independent publication covering this solid platform for creating Rich Internet Applications (a.k.a. RIA). You can have lots and lots of people screaming and shouting 'Flex is cool', but publishers of technical magazines are very pragmatic people, and they would not start a new publication unless the software has already some serious following and good growth potential from the business perspective. Today, Adobe Flex has both.

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Flash The Ripper commented on 4 Sep 2007

So now we have modest but proud FLEX item in the SYS-CON top navigation menu! Really a great news.

Thank you Yakov, and all other author of past Flex articles here at SYS-CON for making this brand new section possible!

John Farrar commented on 23 Aug 2007

I would like to know if you will be offering sample issues? Digital and 99 is acceptable only if the content is great. (And as an Adobe Flex Champion, Adobe User Group manager... it's good to see Flex move into it's own realm and to not hound CFDJ.)

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	We've taught Adobe Flex to talk to Microsoft Excel By Yakov Fain D G wrote: Using two activex controls seems rather complex and most excel files will not have the activex control embedded anyway. Why not just call an external program that talks directly to any excel file? See http://www.d-w-systems.com/products.html for an example.
	We've Taught Adobe Flex and Microsoft Excel Talk To Each Other By Yakov Fain Dev G wrote: Using two activex controls etc seems rather complicated. Also, you can not access excel files whihc do not have this control embedded. It maybe simpler to just call an external process (using an http or webservice call) that can read/write to any excel file. See http://www.d-w-systems.com/products.h...
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	Flex Is Strong Because of Java By Yakov Fain NN wrote: DRH: you are jumping up and down on silverlight without any light. let see Microsoft work so hard to kill Java and all know the story. Today we have so many apps running on Java (backend more and front ends sucks where flex shines). Now we have great tools for complete RIA (almost free) Flex + Java...
	Adobe Flex: Program in Style or an Elevator Pitch By Yakov Fain Daniel Szmulewicz wrote: Shalom, OK, so this post is two years old, but I just found it today and appreciated it a lot. Very instructive, indeed. Since you asked for more versions to achieve the desired resizeable canvas, may I offer mine. It is in the line of the Flex version offered at the end, only simplified. Here...