ROTR

As I dive head-first into the world of Flex, I decided to start trial use of Flex Builder 3 public beta 3.

Although there are some incomplete areas and a few glitches, on the whole the tutorials they provided were nice introductions.

I'm pleased with the manual layout tools. I tend to like to do things "dynamically" (and that is what I'm setting out to do) but every UI designer/developer can make use of a good layout tool.

MXML is, to a Python programmer, XML. :) I've heard that you can do a lot of stuff using straight ActionScript though; that is the direction I'm going to head.

It's clear that a lot of people out there are using MXML though, and Adobe seems to be pushing it as the way to glue things together using their Flex Builder product.

So, what I'm likely to do is to lean toward the ActionScript side of things, but keep MXML handy and learn bits and pieces of it as I go along, discover what it's useful for, and figure out how to make it even more useful for what I'm using it for.