Flex and Flex Builder Codename History
August 15th, 2007
This is history according to Ted Patrick and shared at the keynote at 360Flex in Seattle.
Lego
Mindstorms
Lliad
Odyssey
Royale
Monk
Zorn
Mistral
Zaphod
Moxie
2000 to 2007
2000 - Developer Paradigm for SWF (Lego, Mindstorms)
2001 - SVG/XML to SWF (lliad Odyssey)
2002 - “Royale” begins (Flex 1.0)
2003 - Matt and Deepa join team
2004 - Flex 1.0 arrives (J2EE Server)
2004 - David and George Comninos join “Monk” - Flex Builder start
2004 - Flex 1.5 arrives (J2EE Server)
2005 - Flex 2.0 Alpha at MAX
2006 - Flex 2.0 arrives (SDK + Builder + Data Services)
(note the references to the team members of Matt, Deepa, David, and George i think was because they were at the conference. There are many other great devs that have been part of Flex for quite a while.)
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5 Comments
1. Carlos | 2007-08-15 at 12.35 pm
I thought Zaphod was the code name for Flash Player 9… as in a player supports two AVM’s.
2. Renaun Erickson | 2007-08-15 at 1.56 pm
Probably so, Ted was liberal to include codenames that where related to Flex’s history. And he did mention the FP9 and the new VM’s.
3. nig | 2007-08-15 at 2.35 pm
Go Team Lego!
4. Jamie Badman | 2007-08-17 at 8.52 am
Weird how Firefly never gets a mention - it was a definite precursor within Flash to what we do in Flex now.
So why’s it been ignored I wonder?!
Jamie.
5. Carlos Rovira | 2007-08-18 at 4.10 pm
Yeah! I arrived to Flex when the name was royale.
I always like that name… : )