Mike Potter has been developing websites and web applications for over 8 years. He has extensive experience with PHP, having created the website for the largest amateur sporting organization in Canada, the Canadian Curling Association. After developing that site, he went to work for OEone, where he helped build a Linux based desktop that ran inside the Mozilla web browser. He helped open the code to the calendar application in that desktop, and ran the Mozilla Calendar Project for 1 year after that. He joined Adobe a year ago, and is now working in Developer Relations as an evangelist for open source and web developers.
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Mike Potter (Adobe)
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2 comments | Tuesday, March 7, 2006
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I don't know who you are creating these examples for but it must surley not be for newbies as you provide no real explanation of what you are doing, which makes it very frustrating to learn.
As an employee of Adobe, we would expect better information to be available to the community.
We have had to fix several of your code examples. In the example with the Users table, your MXML code had ColumnNames listed in the datagrid which we had to change to DataFields to get it to work.
So you have 8 years of building apps and it seems that you are the Adobe offical PHP guy.
So my question to you is, do you want the PHP Community to start using Flex 2?
The if that is the case then Adobe really needs to provide STEP-BY-STEp tutorials that show exactly what you need to do to get PHP and FLex 2 working togther. All this info about WebORB or Nu-SOAP is great if it made any sense, but what the hell is it all.
Your dealing with a majority of PHP people that are not hard core programmers, many of us know PHP well enough to get our jobs done.
I spent 6 months 2 yrs ago trying to figure out .NET and our comapny choose to not use it because of the lack of good information, along with the fact that it's M$ and just plain sucks.
So LET'S SEE IF aDOBE CAN STEP UP TO THE PLATE ON THIS.
I have visted numerous Blogs and Forums and no matter where I go, people all same the same thing as I am - WE NEED BETTER INFO!!
Take this for what you want - all I can say is that if Adobe really wants to capture the PHP developers market, then they need to get on the ball, because not everyone is a ColdFusion or .NET developer!!!!