Where do the Flex Developers Live
We started this blog approximately a month ago. There were several reasons why we did it but the main one was and still is that we believe that Flex has a future and we would like to involve as many people as early as possible. Business people have waited for a long time to have finally good looking tables with sortable and draggable columns without an extra development request and Flex has it. Ok, there is of course a lot more in it but they don't care...at least today. As the guy in this clip says: "when I see the little kid and the look in his eyes...that's all I need" and probably it will be the same story with a Flex programmer and a business person for a while.
It has been a quite interesting month as we have learned a lot. One of our goals was to find out whether there is any considerable interest at all about Flex in the world and if there is, where is it. As the blog is only a month young, has had more than 1000 hits, and does not contain even half we would like to write into it, the statistics displays probably only a very small part of the reality but it should still give some information about the current situation. On the graphs below which were taken from Google Analytics you can see the Flex world through the eyes of this blog (darker countries are the ones with more visits). As we initially thought, the center of interest is situated on the west coast of the US. A lot of traffic came also from China but as a small surprise was quite small interest from Europe and we really wouldn't like to see Flex becoming pretty US centric as it happened with .Net. In the beginning of the next week we'll visit 360 Flex Conferences in Milan which should be the main Flex event in Europe. Hopefully this conference gives a better overview of the future of Flex in Europe. As the first day is free of charge, we expect to see many Flex developers and hear some great new ideas.
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| Figure 1. The visits from around the world (last month) |
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| Figure 2. The visits from the US (last month) |
April 4th, 2008 at 11:00 am
Hi from Bulgaria *waves*
April 13th, 2008 at 8:54 pm
[…] Flex is like a new island in the ocean about what you have read from books, heard from friends and decided that this is probably the place where you would like to live. The only reason you haven’t moved there yet is that you still don’t know exactly how is the weather there, is it going to be too crowded or too lonely, and is there something else to eat but bugs. As an unique opportunity, we found from Internet that there will be a so to speak tourism fair concentrating only on Flex island. There was no hesitation, we packed our bags and flew directly to 360 Flex Europe in Milan. The main reason why we wanted to be there was our doubt that the Flex tree grows poorly in Europe and we wanted some proof that this is not true (see previous post by Martin Where do the Flex Developers Live). […]
May 13th, 2008 at 5:02 pm
hey
Really nice tips!
will try to keep it in my mind
thanks!
March 27th, 2009 at 5:30 pm
It is a good idea.
September 2nd, 2009 at 9:31 pm
Shout out from the D! (Detroit, Michigan) BTW: That is the worst Michigan on that Map I have every seen.