FlexManiacs 08 presentation files

I had a good time at FlexManiacs. It was great to see some old friends and make new ones. I also got to sit in on some interesting presentations.
I’ve posted the files from my own presentations as follows…
Introduction to ECMAScript for XML (E4X) - This download includes a PDF of the slides, plus two Flex [...]

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This post was written by jimrobson on May 27, 2008 Comments (2)

Looking ahead to FlexManiacs 08

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 [...]

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This post was written by jimrobson on January 30, 2008 Comments (0)

MAX 2007, Day 3

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, [...]

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This post was written by jimrobson on October 12, 2007 Comments (4)

MAX 2007, Day 2

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 [...]

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This post was written by jimrobson on October 5, 2007 Comments (1)

MAX 2007, Day 1

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 [...]

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This post was written by jimrobson on October 2, 2007 Comments (3)

FlexManiacs files - better late than never

Well, I finally posted the files from my FlexManiacs presentations. I was hoping to have the source files completely documented before posting them, but I’ve been busy moving my family to Rhode Island (it isn’t easy to move a family of 6). I still plan to add the documentation, and to extend the sample applications [...]

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This post was written by jimrobson on August 5, 2007 Comments (2)