Sam's occasional tech thinkings » max http://www.ziazoo.co.uk/blog I wish I got it right more! Wed, 12 May 2010 13:05:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1-alpha-15359 Woo, I presented at Max http://www.ziazoo.co.uk/blog/2008/12/03/woo-i-presented-at-max/ http://www.ziazoo.co.uk/blog/2008/12/03/woo-i-presented-at-max/#comments Wed, 03 Dec 2008 15:42:22 +0000 sammy http://www.ziazoo.co.uk/blog/?p=75 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)

]]> http://www.ziazoo.co.uk/blog/2008/12/03/woo-i-presented-at-max/feed/ 0 Day one at Adobe Max Europe http://www.ziazoo.co.uk/blog/2008/12/01/day-one-at-adobe-max-europe/ http://www.ziazoo.co.uk/blog/2008/12/01/day-one-at-adobe-max-europe/#comments Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:33:33 +0000 sammy http://www.ziazoo.co.uk/blog/?p=71 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

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