Cliff Hall has released a new version of PureMVC with various improvements which you can read about here. In conjunction with this release, Cliff has also unveiled the Manifold Project, which provides numerous demos and ports of PureMVC to languages other than ActionScript 3. I am proud to say that I am participating in the [...]
If you haven’t been to the FlexManiacs conference website, you should check it out. The conference is much bigger than last year, plus they’ve added ColdFusion and AIR sessions.
I’m particularly glad that Harris Reynolds will be speaking this year, and he has some pretty sweet topics: “Design Patterns and Architecture Frameworks” and “Highly Coordinated Visualizations [...]
Jason has posted a very useful list of Flex Builder tips & tricks. He doesn’t just list them, however; he takes the trouble to show us how to implement them, even including screen shots. Check them out.
Well, I had a three-day weekend right after the conference, and then a very busy week, but I’m finally getting around to posting some of the highlights of day three.
Air Bootcamp
In this 3.5-hour session, Mike Chambers and company walked us through the essential steps for building desktop applications using Flex Builder 3, Flash CS3, [...]
I actually wrote the following on Tuesday night, but WordPress was broken so I couldn’t post it. Apparently some files had somehow become corrupt; I re-uploaded them, and now it appears to be working again. Anyway, here are some of the highlights from Tuesday’s sessions.
Building Global Ready Flex Applications
Long-time Adobe employee Craig Rublee gave a [...]
As expected, the first day of MAX was full of useful, interesting, and exciting information. Here are some of the highlights from various sessions:
General Session / Keynote
Kevin Lynch announced that an upcoming release of the Flash Player will include support for the H.264 video codec. This was particularly timely for me, because just a couple [...]
Welcome to my blog’s new home. As Jason informed me in his comment, the RSS is not working at present. I hope to have this resolved soon; meanwhile, take a look at the photo in the header and see if you can spot the item that doesn’t fit with the others.
Update: The RSS [...]
Ryan McGeary is a co-worker who, paradoxically, is both a Flex skeptic and a nice guy. In fact, he was good enough to attend FlexManiacs in spite of his aversion to Flex / Flash so that he could provide me (and our CEO) with some constructive feedback. As I had hoped, he came away from [...]
During my Flexmaniacs presentation on Flex modules this morning, I encouraged the audience to check out Michael Labriola’s cool implementation of modules using ILibrary and LibraryLoader. However, for some reason I referred to him as “Jeff Labriola.” Thankfully, Rob Rusher was there, and he was good enough to point out my error. He also introduced [...]
