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Being on the bus last week was a blast. We covered 4 cities in 5 days and even CNet picked it up (although they must not have realized not all the bus riders work for Adobe J). In my session I covered the NativeWindow class and related APIs as well as the Window Flex AIR component. This also includes creating a custom chrome and communicating between windows. I have posted my session material on the onAir google code repository in the SVN repository under /trunk/projects/presentations/AIR Windowing API. Thank for everyone who came out!
Links to some of the other great speakers that were on the bus last week
- Christian Cantrell
- Mike Chambers
- Andre Charland
- Mike Downey
- Danny Dura
- Ben Forta
- Kevin Hoyt
- Ryan Stewart
Recommended: marijuana drug test
Held last week and fully sold out, Flexmaniacs was the Flex conference to attend. It was great to have a conference in DC for a change (my home town). Even better, they have already announced next year’s conference in April.
Here’s the description of the session I gave titled Component Development In The Flex World
Flex is an ideal Flash® application development platform that takes great advantage of built-in and custom-made components. For this reason, developing a good understanding of Flex components will help you build better applications faster, with fewer bugs. In this session, Chafic will detail the internals of how components are structured beginning with the basics, walking through the process of building a first component and providing details about the different development options. Attendees will gain insight into what makes up a component as a basis to extend existing components or develop their own.
Finally getting around to posting my 360Flex session materials. Although I’ve given this session before, this version of the notes is updated to reflect more details on the lifecycle and the latest best practices for component development. I really enjoyed giving this session, and apologizes for taking so long to get the material online.
You can download them here
360Flex was an awesome conference, I was really impressed with the turnout for a first time event, and the quality of the sessions was excellent. It was nice to see a deep level of technical coverage of Flex. If you have missed it, the 360Flex organizers have already announced the second even to be held in seattle.
Just in case people missed it on Ben’s blog. The session notes to the presentation we gave at FITC Hollywood on Flash and Flex working together to help build better Flex applications, and how a Flash designer/developer have a lot to offer the Flex platform has been posted on Ben’s blog. I really enjoyed giving this session and it seemed people found it very useful in helping reduce their fears of Flex.
Oh, and FITC was great too, great to hang out with everyone 
Just finished cleaning up my session notes for my session at FlashForward Austin on Component Development In The Flex World. I had a lot of fun giving this session, as many know I have a big interest in component based development and component development, and Flex has a solid platform for both. There are two main concepts that are important to walk away with. The concept of developing Application Component to help promote Component Based Development and developing Custom Components. Both are explained in the slides and an example component is provided for each.
For the first time, FlashForward will be held in Austin September 11th to the 14th, and I’ll be there speaking on the topic of Component Development in the Flex World. Flex is the ideal component based development platform, and I strongly believe in the power of knowing how to develop them, even if they are basic and will not be distributed. Component based development helps break down large problems into achievable ones, while still maintaining excellent quality (here are some thoughts I had back in Sept 03 on the topic).
If you haven’t build components before, never built component in Flex, or just interested to see how easy it is to get started, then you’ll enjoy this session
Session Description:
Flex is an ideal Flash® application development platform that takes great advantage of built-in and custom-made components. For this reason, developing a good understanding of Flex components will help you build better applications faster, with fewer bugs.
In this session, Chafic will detail the internals of how components are structured beginning with the basics, walking through the process of building a first component and providing details about the different development options. Attendees will gain insight into what makes up a component as a basis to extend existing components or develop their own.
Topics covered include: the hierarchical structure of the Flex Component Framework, component development with MXML and ActionScript 3.0, component development with ActionScript 3.0 only, building custom events, implementing data binding, implementing style support.
Prior experience with Flex is not required, although helpful.
This will be my first time in Austin, if you are attending make sure to say hi
My session titled “Intro to Flex 2.0″ at FITC 2006 went pretty well. Included is the presentation as well as all the code seen during the session. You will need MXMLC at least to build the different samples, or FlexBuilder.
Finally getting around to posting my presentation from MXDU 2005 notes on “Flash and .Net integration on the Desktop”. I really enjoyed giving this presentation. Many people came up to me after and mentioned how they didn’t realize it was so easy to accomplish such integration.
Posting my material for my session at FlashintheCan, Flash MX 2004 Component Development Using the Version 2 Architecture. The session went really well, thanks to everyone who attended. From the feedback I received after the presentation, everyone seemed to have found it informative.
The presentation material includes the PowerPoint presentation file, and the simple sample component (StatusIcon) built during the session.
