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Looks like Adobe is getting ready to release the official beta of Apollo this month. Dave and I got a great preview of some Apollo features at Max last year. It will be good to see desktop derivatives of the more popular online services popping up soon. (sooner than later, I hope!) And - don’t […]

Flex 2 is built to support any back-end web server as a source for data, and .NET is no exception. Chafic Kazoun was one of the presenters at Adobe Max 2006, though I did not attend his session. The topic was (of course) how to integrate Flex 2 RIA’s with .NET data services.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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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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