Word of the day - gription
As the term friction refers to the coeffecient of pressure against a surface, gription refers to the coeffecient of your hand’s pressure on an object (such as your beer bottle).
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Integrating Flex Apps with Browsers and Ajax
Day 2. Session 4. Jason Williams shows us two very pertinent pieces of information: A method to send data between Flash player and Ajax, and the sweetness of AMF.
There are some old-school methods for communicating between javascript and actionscript. These generally suck.
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Design Patterns in ActionScript 3
Day 2. Session 3. Luke Bayes and Ali Mills talk about what they describe as the most powerful design pattern: the Composite Pattern. While I believe Flex incorporates most if not all of the facets of this design pattern, these 2 gentlemen have set up their own framework to satisfy their needs.
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Increasing Effeciency and Quality with Flex Automation
Day 2. Session 1. Alistair McLeod introduced us to FlexUnit testing and test automation using Mercury Quick Test Pro (9.1). Unit testing in Flex works pretty much like its Java counterpart, JUnit. For each ActionScript class, you build a FlexUnit class that asserts certain result cases for the functions in you application code.
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Keynote for Wednesday
Day 2. General Session. Everything mobile - Adobe wants you to build mobile apps for Verizon and BREW. And they have 3 providers that will sell your mobile game/app for you. Only thing is, do they get a reseller fee? Yeah, probably. At least we got to see a cool mobile game called Poolside Air […]
Advanced Apollo Application Development
Day 1. Session 5. Ethan Malasky and Brent Rosenquist discuss the upcoming Apollo platform, and how we can build cross-platform desktop applications using Flex. Applications can be installed via a seamless browser install, or directly from an AIR package.
Tags:Adobe» Apollo» browser» desktop» Flex» hardware» software» UI» windows»
Note to self: check out RIA Forge
http://www.riaforge.org/
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Real-time and Collaborative Apps with Flex Data Services and Flash Media Server
Day 1. Session 4. Christophe Coenraets discussed the capabilities and differences between Flex Data Services and Flash Media Server. To set up real-time communication, you define consumers and producers, and a common “destination” on the server.
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End-to-End Debugging of Flex Applications
Day 1. Session 3. Mike Morearty showcased all the debugging features of Flex Builder, which ties into the core debugging in Eclipse. Points of note:
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Developing Hybrid Applications with ColdFusion and Java
Day 1. Session 2. Jason Delmore talks about using Java in ColdFusion and vice versa. There are 3 ways to combine the two areas, made much easier since ColdFusion 6 due to CF running as a J2EE application:
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