Bored. That's the best way to describe my feelings right now. I've
had a chat with my "sensei" this morning and he told me that he noticed
my lack of enthusiasm. I agree with him, it's been sometime since I've
felt very anthusiastic about the work I do. I don't think I'll ever
like doing maintenance work, really... I've been adding a lot of stuff
as I fix bugs along the way (refactor, fancy comments, understanding
the business flow) and though they might prove beneficial they still
don't as much excitement when I'm doing development work. But since I'm
developing myself to be more proactive, I've decided this day to put
these braincells into work and search for a particular technology that
I haven't had any experience with before.
RIA... Those three
letters ring a bell! Yes, and I've chosen Adobe Flex to be my
technology of choice. I just downloaded the Flex SDK and I'm very
excited to go home and try this). No, I promise I won't spend too much
time with my PSP tonight. :)
I started out by looking at an application built with Flex.
http://examples.adobe.com/flex2/inproduct/sdk/flexstore/flexstore.html
Then, for an overview... I wanted to understand what I needed, and similar things with server-side language, Flex could do.
http://www.visualbuilder.com/flex/tutorial/
I'm hoping to push forward and write my first flex program with this tutorial here...
http://www.petefreitag.com/item/490.cfm