Webinar: Developing Rich User Interfaces on Force.com Using Adobe Flex

By James Ward | Published: July 26, 2009

On August 27 I’ll be co-presenting a webinar – Developing Rich User Interfaces on Force.com Using Adobe Flex. This will be a great opportunity to learn more about combining Cloud and RIA to create software that works well for end users and significantly reduces IT costs. If this interests you then go sign-up now. Hope to “see” you on August 27th.

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  • Sungmoon Cho

    Hi James,
    One of your blogs led me here. I am Sungmoon from UCLA Anderson. Does that reminds you of the panel discussion with Mark? :) This is great. You are presenting the specific use case for Force.com. It should be really interesting.

    - Sungmoon

  • http://blog.pczone.be Bjorn Monnens

    Hey James,

    It actually has nothing to do with your current post, but I think this will reach you sooner then sending an email :)

    I recently posted an article on my blog. http://blog.pczone.be/?p=212 I’m still a believer in Flex but I’m a bit disappointed about the component market. I’m seeing a lot of opensource components, but not yet many suites like you find for Silverlight. I know Ilog has a suite, but it is more for graphs and visualisation. I actually spent quit some time on google looking for a component vendor but didn’t really find one that can offer something like http://silverlight.componentart.com/#Welcome . I agree that in many applications you would probably want to build a nicer GUI and use custom renderers inside grids and stuff like that. But still for a simple proof of concept it is always nice to have such a suite at your disposal.
    I have the feeling that Silverlight is slowly closing the gape. Okay for Linux it’s not an option, but many companies don’t even take this into consideration. If it runs on windows it’s ok, so …

    Could you giver your opinion on this? You as an Adobe person probably have a better view on the Flex business side.

    regards
    B

  • http://www.jamesward.com James Ward

    Hi Bjorn,

    I looked at those Silverlight controls and they were nice but I didn’t see anything that doesn’t exist in the out-of-the-box Flex SDK. Have you used Tour de Flex? It’s a great resource to see what components are out there. Also you should check out Scale Nine which has a number of custom skins / themes on top of the out-of-the-box controls.

    Does that help? If not can you be more specific about what you are looking for?

    -James

  • Manuel Loayza

    Hi James.

    I can’t assist to the web seminar.

    is there the possibility to make public the webinar or the presentations?.

    Thanks a lot.

  • http://www.jamesward.com James Ward

    Hi Manuel,

    The recording hasn’t been posted yet but it will be soon. Watch here to see when that happens.

    -James

  • http://www.worshipapps.com Batsirai Chada

    Hi James

    The link is up:
    https://admin.acrobat.com/_a13852757/p23759608/

    I would be interested in hearing about an air/flex/force.com app that will allow people to work online – store and update data/files online and/or locally – and have the app update force.com when back online. Could we also use cloud storage on force.com to store files, etc? Does Force.com do storage?

  • http://www.jamesward.com James Ward

    Hi Batsirai,

    Thanks for posting that!

    I contributed some alpha quality offline sync stuff to the Toolkit a while back. It’s currently still in SVN. You can checkout the code and play with it. It works for some basic stuff. And it’s open source so you can tweak it to do what you need.

    I hope that helps.

    -James