Maybe you should change the title to Things to Consider When Developing Flex Applications. It's not necessary to belittle other CF developers who may have had challenges adapting to Flex.

what??? flex is hard??? then why was I able to program with it in less than a week?

I think you just did a good job of alienating your audience. Just because bad practices can be done using ColdFusion doesn't mean the people doing those things can't straighten up when necessary. Really? You are putting down the very people that might read this? Really?

Here's what I took away from this article: a lot of CF developers may be to stupid to use Flex because CF is a very simple language geared towards novices.

CF, basically, is a dead language anyway; however, you may have just sucked any life it may have had left. Good job...

The harder everyone makes it sound to make the move to Flex, the more work there is for those of us who have dumped everything and have dove head first into Flex. :)

I agree with the basic idea. MXML is quite a bit different than CFML. But 'old dogs' can change and learn new things. From my experience, I was suprised (and wasted about a day) because case matters tremendously: bindable is very different than Bindable. But I'll learn.

That's like saying that not every ColdFusion developer can be a hairdresser. I didn't find out I was terrible at cutting hair until I tried. My wife did not like her new do at all, but at least she no longer had to comb it, brush it, or blow it dry.

The important part was that I tried and failed; much better than letting someone tell me flat out that I just can't do it. Sorry Andy, but this wasn't exactly a well thought out article.

@Andrew,

I disagree with you and I see no reason for a ColdFusion developer not to use Flex. I'm new to Flex and within only a week of searching through the API and fooling around with the Eclipse Plug-in it's amazing what I've been able to accomplish.

The power of flex is amazing and the road seems to not just be tilted but directed smack dab at Flex as the next big web craze.

Wouldn't you agree that soon Flex applications and RIAs will become a standard? What I don't understand is why any company or developer would not want to take advantage of the rich interface and tools Flex provides.

When you think ahead to a year from now, when RIAs dominate the web, wouldn't ColdFusion developers simply be at a huge disadvantage? Shouldn't ColdFusion developers get the ball rolling and dive right in. Isn't this just another step in the learning process? Yes this leap may be further for a ColdFusion Developer but when beginning programmers said it was time to learn java was there really any difference.

-Mike