What better to test than on an application I might actually use at some point?  Tonight I made a first draft layout of an applicaion that we currently use at work.  It was first written using VB6, then upgraded to VB.NET.

It’s just the shell right now, but it’s a start and as I figure Flex out, I’ll update, add the functionality to hopefully end up with a replacement to the current applicaion.

There was a time a while back when I was looking for something to start doing on my own time to expand my knowledge.  I thought it was going to be some Ruby work, but that has now changed.

The new ‘thing’ for my free time is now FLEX or Flex – however you want to put it…

My quest started when I saw the new Flex API with ESRI being released.  This got me going a little in checking things out with ESRI and other mapping APIs.  I started digging into the Flex API and created a few basic connections and maps.  I even created a basic map for the first time using AIR connected up to Google.  Once I started looking I found some really cool stuff that could be done using Flex, not only in mapping but in other ways as well.

Then it was time to step back a few…  I want to know HOW it works, not just how to hack a map together using examples and others code.  I wanted to build it myself while really digging into FlexBuilder and the meat behind it.

So, now I am deep into a couple of books, online training and dev sites to pass the free time I have (work for the past 2 weeks though has really kept me from doing much of anything…).    One book is finished and another was started last night.

I’ll post more as I get further into learning and start actually doing a more than samples and small applicaions.