If you’re a Flash developer then you got to get your Flex on. This framework is way powerful. It’s stunning how much you can do with so little code and really with very little effort.

What’s important is that there needs to be a bunch of people out there developing, creating, and pushing with Flex and Flash. (Oh, lets call the combination Flesh. I like it.) I know that in my past dealings with managers and clients trying to sell them on Flash was sometimes an effort and sometimes a brick wall. That can’t happen anymore.

Flash is by far the best solution for video. Anyone who is posting video in any format other than Flash is just being lazy.

You want to talk RIA? I’ll tell you what. I just saw my first Flex code two days ago. I’ll put myself up against any team of 2 developers working in AJAX to create the front end. I’ll get it done in the same time, with better usability and it will work on every platform. Yes, people will have to upgrade to the 8.5 Flash plugin. If anyone wants to pick on Flash for that then I’ll tell them that roughly the same number of people have Javascript disabled as don’t have the Flash plugin. 8.5 is just getting going but in 12 months it will be everywhere.

You want to talk expressiveness? Please AJAX doesn’t even come out of the corner on this one. What does it say that the best interface to GoogleMaps isn’t Google’s own interface. It’s a Smashup done in Flash. (Can’t find the bookmark but it’s out there.)

Maybe I’m the only one out there who has loved Flash for years but been snuffed at trying to use it at work but I doubt it. The day has come that it is no longer acceptable. If you want to use Flash or Flex then get your game face on. Study, work, pound out some code and get good at it. If you’re employer isn’t ready to take the Flash/Flex challenge then a company around the corner will be.

There is a culture out there that doesn’t take Flash seriously. It’s time to beat them at their own game. I would rant more about this but I got some Flex docs to read. What are you waiting for?