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Friday, December 15th, 2006

El Reg interview with Mark Anders (Flash, ASP.Net fame)

You all may find this interesting as well. I haven’t tried out Flex Builder yet… will need to find a demo somewhere.
http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2006/12/15/mark_anders_flash/ 

There’s a ringing endorsement for Eclipse built into this too:

Microsoft isn’t doing that [cross platform support] with Windows Forms and Rotor is just nothing – because I knew how it was built. That was kind of surprising. Even if I liked .NET more than I liked Java and even if I thought there were some better features in .NET, and I liked C# as a language - if you’re building a tool .NET has nothing for you. And the problem is not the syntax of the classes or the performance or that it gives me a nice Windows native UI. It’s just Eclipse is an incredible framework for building tools.