Archives for October 2006
Many years ago, I wrote (in concert with Dave) a little gravity simulator in flash. By “gravity simulator”, I mean there were a few graphics representing planets, your mouse was the sun, and things moved about in some interesting patterns. Not exacly a model for our solar system, but fun to play with. The interesting […]
As I promised, here are some bad photos from the sneak peak session.
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Day 3. Session 5. Roger Gonzalez really digs into optimizing your large Flex applications. Warning: this one is heavy, folks.
Tags:Compilation» Modular» Portal» RSL»
So as Dave mentioned, we got the Mac beta from the Adobe guys, and so here it is!
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Day 3. Session 4. Alex Harui talks about the innards of building Flex components, from construction to interaction, and then detachment.
These are the steps that a Flex component undergoes during its lifetime:
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Day 3. Session 3. Ely Greenfield builds a carousel for showing images (kinda like iTunes new view)
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Day 3. Session 2. Steven Webster and special guest Alistair McLeod talk about the fundamentals of the Cairngorm microarchitecture. Cairngorm 2 and 2.1 (beta) are targeted for larger-scale applications that require a more sophisticated method for abstracting MVC components.
Tags:Cairngorm» Flex Data Services» MVC» security model»
Day 3. Session 1. Joe Berkovitz talks about design patterns are mini-architectures, applicable to small, recurring problems. Frameworks are larger and instantiate an architecture and set of patterns.
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So Dave posted some pictures on his Flickr account, since I was there too, I thought I could abuse his site by linking to it!
See some margaritas
Hear some margaritas
Drink some margaritas
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Day 3. General Session. Adobe brings out all their development teams to discuss features on the horizon. I’ve got tons of photos for you today, though they’re not that great, as the room was dark. I’ll post the photos later tonight.
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