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Woo, I presented at Max
I gave my presentation at Adobe Max this morning on building Flex applications with PureMVC. It was a real privilege to get the opportunity to speak, and I hope those who attended found it useful.
I also feel fortunate that I had such a good topic to talk on, as that always makes it easier 
so many thanks to Cliff for doing such a great job with PureMVC
In case anyone is interested I have uploaded the slides and the sample code…
code
slides (keynote)
slide (swf)
Day one at Adobe Max Europe
The highlight of the first day was always going to be the keynote. Whilst there was nothing revelatory, it was inspiring to see Adobe showcase their products. This was perhaps helped by the impressive circa 30m wide video wall.
I particularly enjoyed the talk given by the BBC. The somewhat muted service they provide for non-Windows users has always been a bug bearer for me. I was pleased to hear though that they have been handed a solution to their licensing issues by the DRM support in Air 1.5. This means we can now have the same download manager facilities, along with some notification goodness, wrapped up in a shiny cross-platform AIR app – result.
Another demo that caught my eye was a news reader for the New York Times. I was shown the current New York Times news reader about a year ago. It’s a chunky WPF application, so no good to me in Unix land. What it did do very nicely however was display column based text in whatever sized window you might have the app open in. That same functionally is now available (or soon to be, I’m not sure if it’s out yet) in an Air application. This is no doubt made a lot easier by the new text rendering engine within Flash 10, which allows text to flow between containers. For some more info check out this report
Ohh, and for general information about the Keynotes go here
ta ta
ps, I’m also posting on the LBi blog, check it out here
Speaking at Max
Some exciting news I left off the last post (as I thought it deserved its own) is that I have been confirmed as a speaker at Adobe Max Europe. Im going to be speaking about building Flex applications with PureMVC, so a lot like the FlexCamp talk only this time I will be going into more detail…. I’m currently trying to figure out how to communicate something quite abstract without sounding dry, or making the usual mistake of just saying something is elegent without backing it up with facts/justification. Hummm, righto back to keynote!
Lazy sammy
Wow, been a while since I did this!
Since March (when I last posted) I’ve had a rather busy time. I have settled into my new Job at LBi (not that new anymore, I started in February 08) and have finally moved to London.. so no more moaning about First Great (really not very great) Western!
Here are some brief highlights:
Getting published by adobe
Seems someone did read my blog after all (though probably not anymore as I have been a little quiet) as I was contacted by adobe after they read my blog and asked me to write an article… you can read it here. Not sure its very good to be honest… and I might have some different things to say if I were writing it now, but I guess thats all part of the learning process. Mostly I was just flattered that asked!
Building some cool apps
Things have been going well at LBi, and I have been lucky enough to work on fairly awesome apps… probably the most exciting has been a platform game for Centrica. We had a team of 5 actionscript developers working on it, and I think there are somewhere in the region of 1000 class files making it up, so it was no small feat! Its a PureMVC application, with the physics engine Box2D providing the core of the game engine. Check it out here
Speaking at FlexCamp
We use PureMVC to build all our apps in the RIA team at LBi, consequently we’ve ended up knowing a fair bit about it. We got a chance to share some of that experience at FlexCamp the other month. I presented along with Justin Clark (me boss) on the basics of creating Flex applications with PureMVC. I was pretty nervous… but I think it went well, and we did get some good feedback on the day.
phew… I think there may be more, but I’m hungry! so think its time I signed off and shut up