I must have been living under a rock lately, but somehow I missed the event of Silverlight taking over the world. I am completely stunned by the fact that a lot of people hear Microsoft shoot out some bold statements, and they conclude that the web is reinvented… so many wrong arguments and so hard to start discussing about them with all their inventors. Must be the downside of making it so easy to start a blog… wrong opinions can be published just as easily… ( just in case, I am janking a chain here. Don’t take that too seriously).
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An online photo editing suite built in Flex 2.0 as it seems. An awesome example on how desktop applications are leaning more and more toward online use. This is the way we see Google and Microsoft moving. And thinking about the possibilities the new Flash Virtual Machine offers to users, it might be a future photoshop killer for the novice userbase. (Especially with the upcoming Apollo platform in mind.)

Development of the new generation Flex Builder and friends seems to be humming along nicely. A couple of months after releasing the first alpha build to the general public, the next release is complete and available for download .

I haven’t actually taken the time to look into Flex 2.0 and AS3 in particular. The first thing i would like to figure out how AS3 and Flex are related to each other. In other words, do I need the Flex mxml format to create apps? Or can i call functions inside the Flex 2.0 framework directly from AS3, without using mxml.

I hope option two is doable. I always loved the Flex “look and feel” and possibilities it offers for creating fully featured RIA’s. I just always had the urge to keep some sort of control and/or influence over it when developing. Just like i didn’t like to use databinding coponents in flash mx and above. Oh well, let’s see what Macromedia (ahum…Adobe) has in store for us shall we?

update: Current version of Flex 2.0 is at Beta2…. oh man, i’m so far behind….
update2: Current version of Flex 2.0 is at Beta3….