Today at Web Maniacs I gave a fairly brief, short notice talk on Merapi. I had a few slides and presented a couple examples. The coolest example by far is something that Doug McCune helped me throw together. This example involves using a physics engine for Flex called Foam and Merapi to invoke the Java/C [...]
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When I originally submitted two topics for Web Maniacs a few months ago I figured I might end up presenting one of them. Now I’m doing four. In order of appearance: 9a, Wed: Advanced Skinning and Component Development This session will actually be more about skinning and less about component development. After presenting this topic [...]
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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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10 - Swag 9 – Tons of Great Sessions 8 - Adobe’s Big Announcement 7 - The new 360 API Contests 6 – Awesome Networking Opportunities 5 – Tom and John know what’s up… you need to meet them if you do Flex 4 – Doug McCune.. you just never know… 3 – Ryan Stewart + Thermo.. c’mon [...]
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I’ll be speaking at the next 360|Flex conference coming up in Atlanta. If you’ve not been to a 360|Flex in the past, they’re great conferences and you should definitely check it out. Tom and John do a great job a putting these events on. There will be a ton of great speakers, include several from [...]
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I’ll be presenting at the eBay Developers Conference on June 12th in Bosoton. My topic will be on using the eBay ActionScript SDK to create eBay Widgets. I was the lead develoepr on the eBay ActionScript SDK project. (Read more on Ryan Stewart’s Blog: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Stewart/?p=302) This project leverages the Apache Axis toolkit to generate web [...]
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