I’ll be leading a 90 min hands on presentation at BFlex ‘09 in Bloomington, IN. Title: Practical Cairngorm for Adobe Flex Applications.
We will cover real world examples of how Cairngorm can make your life (and the life of your teammates) easier. While these concepts can be applied across frameworks, we will be using Cairngorm as the basis for the examples.
Please check out these resources if you’d like to attend but need a crash course in Cairngorm.
- Adobe TV video resources for Cairngorm
- Adobe’s Cairngorm home page
- Cairngorm extensions by Universal Mind (will be used in the presentation).
This is the session to see if you’re interested in getting started with the Flash Builder 4 beta, now available on http://labs.adobe.com. The presentation will highlight some cool new features of the IDE, and then jump right into the goods. I may include such topics as: The Flash Player 10 Text Engine (which is awesome), Skinning components with FXG, Creating custom components, and the wonderful new syntax for States. If you have a topic you are especially interested in, please send me an email or drop me a line in the comments below!
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I’ll be presenting at the next 615Flex user group meeting [details & directions] on Tuesday, 11/11. We should have a great turnout and a decent intro hands-on about creating custom Flex components by extending the UIComponent class.
Description:
1) What you get for free with UIComponent
2) Component lifecycle
3) Invalidation
Throughout) Hands on - Creating an interactive component
[View examples & source from the presentation]
If you’ve ever wanted to create a component from scratch and didn’t know where to start, start here. This isn’t going to be excessively technical - so bring your laptops, I’ll bring the beer, Vaco will bring the pizza, and we’ll have a good time. See you there!
My presentation files for Sorting, Filtering & Paginating Data in Flex are posted here. This session is a two hour hands-on in which attendees will build a Flex application from scratch [see it live]. The application demonstrates basic sorting, filtering and use of a web service that generates paginated results. In this case the web service is the Yahoo Image Search API.
The application is approximately 200 lines of code and should be comfortably completed in the two hours. If not, the source code is available by right clicking the live demo above.
I’ll be finishing the second half of a Cairngorm series tonight. The topic is “Commands, Responders, Delegates and the ServiceLocator - Getting data into a Cairngorm application.” This should be a relatively short presentation compared to the last one 
Also tonight - Andy Matthews of DealerSkins will be showing off his latest work in AIR with HTML, jQuery and BlazeDS. Hope you can make it!
