Comments on: Consulting Chronicles #4: Qualifying Leads

By: rob

rob — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 23:13:21 +0000

@Robert, I agree on the not all flex developers are good at flash. I actually work with a flash designer that will ask me to come over and code him little things like mouse overs, dynamic tweens , etc every once in a while. Even though I consider myself a Flex expert, that doesn’t mean I could build an entire site in timeline view….. but I could proabably write it from scratch in actionscript just using the first couple frames. ;)

By: Erin

Erin — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 20:40:54 +0000

My danger keyword is “just” as in ‘I just want…’ or ‘You just need to …’.

This almost always means the client does not really know what they want or how much it should cost.

Great post.

Erin

By: Samuel Asher Rivello

Samuel Asher Rivello — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 15:32:17 +0000

Fantastic read. Your fearless merger of personal and professional personaes is admirable.

-Sam
sam [at] RivelloMultimediaConsulting [dot] com
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By: Leo

Leo — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 08:39:22 +0000

@Robert
I agree that Flex attracted a new group of developers for the Flash platform. But I think that is not so much due to Flex as a framework, but more due to Flex builder as a tool. Even if not all developers are comfortable with using Flash for authoring, I would think that any decent Flex developer is capable of doing an AS3 project with Flex/Flash Builder.

I’m not saying that it’s incorrect to generalize and attribute different qualities to someone calling himself Flex developer as opposed to Flash developer, or that Flex projects don’t tend to require more time and skills. I’m just saying that on a technical basis that generalization does not make a lot of sense.

It becomes a bit annoying when clients insist on using Flex in cases where it does not bring any benefits to the project, simply because they have been fed with a generalization that makes them believe that using Flex automatically makes the project more serious. And if I as a developer would have limited myself to only going for Flex projects I would have missed out on some very large and interesting projects.

By: Curtis Fisher

Curtis Fisher — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:13:23 +0000

Excellent and many points of experience I myself have faced.

Thanks for stating the issues so clearly…

Curtis