new stuff

I have encountered with an interesting client technology a few weeks back: Flex. Its by adobe that have look n feel of Flash but with Flex we can program it. Hope I got this definition right. Actually its been introduced a few years back. I'm the one whose always in slow mo. hehehe.

So I'm planning to replace jsp and html with flex in the front end. But the thing of using technology that I'm not familiar with... It will always take me a damnnn long time to configure it!. And I'm 90% sure about this. But since I have a year to do this. What the heck. And it looks exciting so why not right. Anyway, the good thing about Flex, we can integrate it with almost all server tech. Java, PHP, coldfusion, etc. So in my case I pick Java, since thats the only language I think I have interest to do it.

So turn out the flex builder is using Eclipse; the same IDE for Java and that means we can edit both in the same editor and the same project. Found a nice simple tutorial for this configuration.But haven't quite finish it yet. Hope it works...

Another thing , it seems that I can't really host web site on my PC at work because for obvious reason; its in my workplace's network of course. I need the router password and whattnot and "fat chance" the IT people gonna let me have it. And I don't really understand all these networking jargons. So I thought maybe I can put in web hosting like the other people do it. But if we want to install the hosting server with any kind of software we need.. we can't. The hosting server that let us do that is.. dedicated server. And it is freaking expansive for rent. Like a few hundred ringgit per month. Hurmm.. I hope I'm getting all these info right.

So in my thought lets put the issue of publishing the web app or ria or whatever behind first. Lets focus on building the thing. And to start developing.. hurm lets see what should I buy now.. can't wait to spend on my grant. ;p