Monday, August 13, 2007

Afternoon wrapup



George Cominos: Building Flex Apps with Flex Builder and CSS

Was 20 minutes in to this one and then snuck out when it seemed to be mainly design stuff for CS3 (dont have) and Flex 3 (brand new). 2/2 macs used in presentations.

Flex 101 Building RIAs

This was the shot in the arm i needed to start building flex apps. Picked up a copy of the instructional which actually lasted 4 hours. I stayed for about 15 mins after i felt like i was in elementary school. the one they had for the 'left behind' kids. moving too slow...

Brendan Meutzner (CNET): Advanced charting

This guy did a rewrite of google finance in flex. very cool app, src code on his blog. He extended the chart components (area, cartesian, easing functions, Series) Lots of work with annotations.

also see: eli greenfield (www.quietlyscheming.com)

Andrew Trice: Programmatic Visualization using the drawing api
Standing room only presentation delving into using the drawing api in flex. much simpler to get going then in flash. Probably the most dialed-in presentation so far. No wandering or tangents yet. Ex. friend relationship, network monitors..nodeHashmap class displaying items rendered with relationships, override updatedisplaylist method.

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