…make that chatting on Flex. All Flex front-ends but a multitude of approaches to flinging the messages about on the back-side.
- Ted (on Flex) has his AIRchat running on Python Twisted.
- Derek Wischusen has his messages moving atop Rails, Apache ActiveMQ, ActiveMessaging, and STOMP (post 1, post 2)
- Alex McCaw is the creator of Juggernaut which can use Flex or Ajax to push messages on Rails (using a Flash socket)
- Renaun Erickson has an example using Flex and Red 5 the open source Flash server.
- The new Yahoo! Messenger for the web runs on Flex.
Fire up those Flex chat apps and talk amongst yourselves, I’ll give you a topic:
Buzzword is the most wondrous invention since the printing press and will kill off both MS Word and Ajax in one fell swoop, discuss
One Comment
Flex is neat and I am beginning to work in it. I really like the widget based web-ish approach to development. However, it’s really not quite as flexible (pun intended) as dynamic runtime environments such as JavaScript, SmallTalk, Python. Take a look at Qooxdoo. And get ready: be on the look out for Project Flair – I think that that’s gonna rock. But kudos to Adobe, I would rather develop using Flex (or even Qooxdoo) over the atomic HTML and CSS any day.