Flex / Apollo IRC Channel?
There have been a couple of posts over the past couple of days with people talking about using IRC to chat about Flex and Apollo. I think this is an cool idea, and would love to get an room started that stayed pretty active.
I would especially like to do weekly chats with the Flex, Apollo and Player teams. I think that would be a lot of fun, and enable everyone to speak directly with the people building these technologies.
Is anyone else interested in participating in an IRC channel for Flex / Apollo / ActionScript discussions? If so, which server should we use? What about a channel name?
Anyone interested? Post feedback in the comments?
I’m definitely interested here. I would love to be able to get simple questions answered now and then, and I wouldn’t mind answering a few myself.
George
19 Apr 07 at 5:36 pm
Hey, I suggest the EFNet network:
irc.efnet.org – direct IRC server address
http://www.efnet.org/ – website of the network (which also includes a webchat)
and the channels:
#actionscript (which has been there for quite a long time, a few years at least),
#flex (fairly new, as flex is),
#apollo (isn’t really active/doesn’t exist all the time).
Both #actionscript and #flex are established well and people there are very nice (the regulars at least). I know that they would love to get some Adobe people in there. I personally know that it would be awesome! I was actually thinking a while back how it would be like if someone from Adobe would be on IRC, it was a crazy dream then, but it seems like it’s turning into reality, or at least I hope so :D
I hope you could consider those two/three channels, because that would be great, thanks :)
Miha
19 Apr 07 at 6:22 pm
DALnet has #cfflex (and #coldfusion and #fusebox and #transfer and… ) :D
charlie griefer
19 Apr 07 at 6:24 pm
A weekly Acrobat Connect (Breeze) session run by Adobe will be nice
or one that is permanently running for Flash, Apollo and Flex stuff would be great.
nz
19 Apr 07 at 6:34 pm
Yes please.
Call it ASX.
srr
Stacey Roestel
19 Apr 07 at 6:47 pm
Efnet
These 3 channels #flash #flashelp #actionscript have existed forever and all are very active. Will be awesome to have #apollo / #flex added to the list.
Jay
19 Apr 07 at 7:27 pm
I agree strongly!
with, apollo IRC Client :)
comfuture
19 Apr 07 at 9:25 pm
I think Freenode would be a better network. It is dedicated to development and contains active channels for technologies that would be used on the server side too such as php/ruby/python/java/etc…
GMFlash
19 Apr 07 at 10:00 pm
Would be great!
Yeah, with an Apollo IRC Client ;) nice idea!
Johannes
19 Apr 07 at 10:14 pm
Don’t they already exist #cfflex and #apollo on irc.dal.net?
Kyle Hayes
19 Apr 07 at 11:09 pm
Absolutely. I’m very interested in the idea and would love to get involved.
Ryan Taylor
19 Apr 07 at 11:57 pm
I don’t really have any preference about channel selection but I think it’s a great idea and I’m all in :-)
Morten Reinholdt
20 Apr 07 at 12:15 am
i’d prefer freenode, too!
tom
20 Apr 07 at 6:17 am
I too would be quite interested.
Jeremy
20 Apr 07 at 9:40 am
Yes yes yes yes yes….
Mike, could you in a future post tell us all where to go? I saw that there were a few different suggestions, it would be a lot better if we all went to the same place though.
We should have two channels that mimic the flexcoders list. Like a component channel and a coders channel; along with a channel just to discuss why flash > silverlight ;).
Nate
20 Apr 07 at 9:52 am
Sounds like a great idea.. would be nice to have a web access point for those who do not wish to install a client.
Art
20 Apr 07 at 10:15 am
Not a big fun of IRC. But a regular chat will be a very nice idea indeed. Technology users and developers talking will make everyones life easier.
Some days ago I had the luck of speaking and making some Apollo questions to Mike Downey personally, and that make me fell more interested on the product and on what new cool stuff I can integrate on my products.
Paulo Moreira
20 Apr 07 at 10:15 am
I think it’s a great idea and would definitely participate.
Michael Levine
20 Apr 07 at 1:24 pm
As a designer who works and develops a lot with flash, I would be very interested in such a channel. Especially now since so much exciting new technology is being released.
Patrick
21 Apr 07 at 5:52 am
Yay! IRC! I’m in. :)
Tara Hunt
22 Apr 07 at 12:16 pm
Count me in, would be very interested.
Mike
Mike Baker
22 Apr 07 at 11:38 pm
I like the idea of an IRC channel as well, but…
Doesn’t a company that makes the most awesome communications backend for Flash see some irony in NOT using it’s own technology to build a developers chat room? Can’t someone just build a “pod” for Central or slap a realtime chat popup to the Adobe forums?
Microsoft will have a field day publicly pointing out that Adobe users HAVE to use IRC rather than Adobe’s own RIA technology. They are in this space now and will poke holes anywhere they can (just thinking out loud here…).
Simon Lord
23 Apr 07 at 4:40 am
Cool! Count us in as well.
My preference would also be Freenode.
Alex
23 Apr 07 at 5:36 am
Mike,
It would be cool. As you mentioned when we met, it would be great to have one channel to discuss Flex, Apollo and ActionScript.
Thanks
-abdul
Abdul Qabiz
23 Apr 07 at 6:50 am
Simon Lord: By that same argument, why are adobe’s blogs not written in flash? and why do they use email, instead of some custom flash messaging tool?
The reason being that sometimes it’s better to not reinvent a standardized wheel, with your own custom proprietary one.
David
23 Apr 07 at 11:45 am
so. what network and what channel?
im on efnet in #apollochat…. and some other more or less quite users too. =)
phazer
29 Apr 07 at 8:12 am
im always on efnet.. would be keen to join in
matt
16 May 07 at 1:46 pm
I was just looking for a flex irc channel, good call. #flex would be most obvious. I’m going to see which has more people now, efnet or freenode. I find myself on efnet more often though.
Andrew
9 Jun 07 at 9:32 pm
I realize this is a late response, but worth posting anyway. For the last week or so, a few other dedicated air developers and I have been camping out in [irc://irc.freenode.net/air].
We have a mix of talents, some coming from the html/css/js side, some from the flex/as side. All are welcomed and encouraged to come join us!
Jim R. Wilson
15 Aug 07 at 3:01 am
Yes, I was actually looking for an IRC channel right now. I would certainly help the community.
Mirux
16 May 09 at 11:10 am
Count me in too. :)
Usman
8 Nov 09 at 3:08 am
The last post is from over a year ago, but I’m hoping to rekindle something here. I’m shocked that there isn’t a thriving channel on freenode for Flash Platform developers, so I created #flash-dev. I’ll be there.
adbalc
4 Jan 11 at 1:52 pm