The Viamentis Blog

I was reading through Reddit, and I found this surprising news. I think open sourcing Flex is a master stroke by Adobe to promote its rapid adoption. Now, I think Rails and its other brethren have serious competition. Flex brings an entirely new level of UI sophistication to webapps. Of course, I am not qualified to comment upon how good it is as a framework, but I generally like Adobe products, and I’m guessing they have a good product on their hands again.

That brings the question if they will open source the Apollo platform too. If they do, they have a double-whammy competitor to Rails - Flex takes on Rails itself, and Apollo would take on Joyent Slingshot. Of course, I am aware of the fact that I am talking as if Slingshot is already successful - it’s not, but I have to admit latching on to Rails platform is a smart idea, and it would be interesting to see how the this competiton between web frameworks plays out. Fun times ahead

Probably it’s no surprise why Google is where it is today, if you actually listen to one of it’s creators. That’s a very long video, but trust me, it’s a highly inspiring talk. He’s does a very good job of enumerating all the cool problems that are begging to be solved, and and how few people are actually working on stuff that would change the world. Awesome.