My thoughts on Flex 3.0 and AIR 1.0 launch
February 25th, 2008
Hi all,
I don't want to be just another enthusiastic developer opening champagne today. Basically - it's great news for Flex community that finally we have stable and official release of Flex 3.0 and AIR 1.0.
I have used them commercially for the very first time in September 2007, since than I made couple of projects for my clients using these environments. They're great, they allows us to do almost magical stuff however beta versions were full of bugs that couple of times really delayed my work while trying to find workaround. Some features were missing (like File.browseForSave file type filtering), some stuff seemed to be unfinished. Due to this fact I found it really hard to convince project managers and sales guys to go for it. Thanks god, there are some with widely opened eyes, that's how Vattenfall Energy Calculator or Statoil Hydro News Aggregator were made.
Therefore my first thoughts today are - I really hope Flex is now mature environment without time-and-effort-wasting bugs.
Now, excuse me but I need to sign for my own version of Flex Builder 
Cheers,
W.
ps. I must admit that pricing for the Flex environment is now really promising. It means for community that it will grow faster now due to many reasons including greater availability for bigger companies and on the other hand even for freelancers or due to fact of opening the framework.
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