Ask YC: Adobe Flex in practice
it's more than just flash
enterprise level big apps
not just eye candy
swivelmaster had an excellent idea to try to bring together the Adobe Flex developers who frequent News.YC and learn from each other. (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=494732)
I've been working with Adobe Flex since mid-2007, off and on. I curse Eclipse sometimes for the minutes every day that it taunts me with 'Building workspace...Building'. Adobe Flex, for all its flaws, is a decent RIA platform that we have successfully built a major application on.
Perhaps this thread can be a persistent discussion area for Flex hangups and tips. I'll be cross-posting the ones that I have posted on our internal Confluence wiki. (I just read the guidelines again - I think a discussion of this sort is allowed - and will adjust/stop if prompted). I prefer maintaining my semi-anonymity (for now) so I will not be divulging too much about our product.