The latest post in the Learning Flex from Scratch series is up. It focuses on the online resources Scott has found useful while learning Flex. We’ll be doing more of these posts as the series continues, but you can also check out the del.icio.us account that Scott setup for LFFS. Here you will find the [...]
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Apart from the Learning Flex From Scratch series I’ll be doing some guest blogging on my own from time-to-time. My first post is on 360|Flex San Jose. Thanks to Rich for making me a two time Inside RIA guest blogger.
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Looks like I forgot to do a post announcing LFFS 5 and now 6 is out as well. In LFFS 5 Scotty is taking us into the world of ActionScript loops and conditionals. Need a beginners look at a for, for in, for in each, while, or do while loop? Look no further than LFFS. [...]
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Our latest post in the Inside RIA series “Learning Flex from Scratch” is up. It’s called: LFFS – 4: Actionscript 3.0. In this post Scott begins his journey into the syntax of Actionscript 3.0. This first post is a look at how to write a basic class… posts will follow with examples on writing loops, [...]
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I thought I’d mirror Tom and John’s style of being transparent about 360|Flex and share the survey results of my talk. Thanks to everyone that gave feedback. I’ll be giving a 2.0 version of this talk at Flex Maniacs in May and feedback from attendees is really helpful to know what to polish. If you [...]
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Our latest post in the Inside RIA series “Learning Flex from Scratch” is up. It’s called: LFFS – 3: Object Oriented Language. In this post we unpack the definition and need for an object oriented language and also define object oriented concepts that are relevant for our next post on ActionScript. Stay tuned.. thanks for [...]
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You can download the resources for my talk here.
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If you’re at 360|Flex in Atlanta this week, we’ll be doing a panel discussion of a bunch of different Flex Open Source projects in the hands on room tomorrow at 10am. I’ll be there talking a bit about Merapi, there’ll be folks representing other projects such as, Degrafa, OpenFlux, Flex Lib, the MDI windowing project.. [...]
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I’ll have Merapi t-shirts and stickers on hand at 360|Flex. There’s a limited supply of the shirts, but if you come to my talk you’ll have a better chance of vying for one. Thanks to Andrew Powelll for receiving the shirts at his house in GA (and modeling for the photo). Also, I need to [...]
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My talk at the upcoming 360|Flex conference in Atlanta is called : Advanced Skinning and Component Development. Once I got in the thick of preparing for this talk I realized it was really two topics. So, my talk will focus more on skinning than component development, but I’m still going to try to hit both [...]
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