(Adobe Donates Flash Code to Mozilla) An small Advice to New Developers.

Adobe always have been a great contributor to open source community, surprised me last time when they ignore their own Deramweaver application and release Flex for Eclipse Editor. Now they did it again. This time Adobe donated Flash code to Mozilla.

Without a question Flash is the most powerful platform for Internet. Now Mozilla have its script engine. Lucky Mozilla! With this marriage (Tamarin as they call it) Mozilla can cover one of it is biggest weakness not supporting ActiveX. And Adobe can widen the playground for it is Flex technology.

I'm always interested in Flex - Ajax cold war. So far Ajax has edge because of all the support it received form Microsoft, Google and others. Now Flex starts to shine where it really matters. Next version of SAP NetWeaver will be base on Flex. Yahoo also starts using Flex. Now, Mozilla.

Not only Flash base technology, Adobe's other web applications also start to come forward faster. This is a good opportunity for new developers. PHP, .Net is the mainstream technology without a question. But some times it is good to be a big fish in small pond than be a small fish in a big pond. It is very hard to find good Flex or Coldfusion developers right now - but I can kill 10 .Net/PHP developers with one stone quite easy. If you finish your A/L or O/L last year, looking around computer technology, pay good attention to Adobe technologies. You can find more opportunities to scoop in without wasting your time on useless Microsoft exams.

08 November, 2006