I recently received all of the feedback and comments from both my Max sessions and my presentation at the Chicago Web Design Conference. I was amazed at the number of people who took the time to write really detailed critiques about what they liked and what they would like to see changed in future presentations.
So, thank you. It's appreciated.
Labriola
To all of you that I missed or didn't manage to meet up with during Max this year, I have an amazing excuse. Meet Lilia Michelle Labriola, born shortly after Max ended.
My wife and I vetoed Jeff Tapper's suggestion that we name her Max(ine), but I am still grateful to Jeff for covering my last session 'Creating New Flex Components' so I could get to the hospital.
It was great meeting/seeing all of you at Max and I look forward to next year in San Francisco. I plan to post my sample code and get back to finishing my other posts soon.
Labriola
Well, things got busy and this slipped lower on the priority list, but I have finally posted my slides from FITC Chicago, the AIR talk at Adobe User Group Chicago and more recently my slides for the FDS2 and Flex Framework talks at FlexManiacs. All are enclosed below.
My apologies to any who have been waiting
Some very cool news, the Adobe Max speaker list is available and I can finally officially say that I am on it. I will be giving a talk on New Component Creation in Flex 2/3 at Max with focus on integrating those components with Flex Builder tightly.
For anyone considering registering for Max, please feel free to use my name 'Michael Labriola' as your community leader when asked during registration. Adobe has a 'competition' of sorts going between Adobe Community Experts and User Group Managers. Whichever individual causes the highest number of Max registrations wins a brand new Mac book with all the goodies.
Two final items.
First, I would really like to thank the organizers of FITC - Chicago and of FlexManiacs, both conferences were wonderful events with great sessions and great attendance. The AUG Chicago event was an amazing success and I was happy to see a tremendous turnout for such a new product. Good job all the way around. Also, in our continuing effort to support and raise recognition for user groups, we will be presenting an AIR and ColdFusion session on 7/18 and the Chicago ColdFusion, Flash and Flex User Group.
Second, inspired by a few great conversations I had with other developers over the last month and Adobe's decision to open source the framework, we are going to begin publishing more items from the digitalprimates framework/library that we use internally. In the past we have put up some code from our module loading library (which I am proud to say was used as content by another speaker at FlexManiacs) and thrown out some ideas, but our intent is to publish more of the source and example apps with instructions on their use. We hope the community will grab some of these pieces that have saved us time and energy over the last year and incorporate them into their own projects.
I had the 'pleasure' of sitting next to a lawyer screaming previously confidential information into his mobile phone on the return home from a trip to New York.
It seems that Motorola is actively working with Google/YouTube to bring their content directly to your mobile phone using Flash Lite. While they still seem to have some issues with licensing for international distribution, it made me briefly wonder if this would be one of the apps that really pushes Flash Lite.
It also made me wonder about seeing some version of Flex on your friendly mobile phone some day. That said, with the recent open source announcements and the ideas behind Apollo, it really make me think that Flex Lite is a legitimate idea. Yes, it is big, but I came from the world of embedded programming and I don't think it is beyond reason when embedded device memory size and processor speed is now a factor of hundreds/thousands greater than even 3 years ago.
Now we just need to find some time to write this too....
ML
I will be presenting the second part of a series about Flex Data Services at the Flash Platform Group in New York (fpgny.org ) on May 2nd, 2007.
I encourage anyone in the NY area to check out this and other NY area Adobe groups. It is a great way to meet your fellow developers and find resources to answer that singular frustrating flex or flash issue that stands between you and world domination.
On somewhat related news, I passed my Adobe Certified Instructor stand-up exam with James Talbot and Kai König on Tuesday. A bit stressful, but worth it just for the feedback they provided.
ML
I admit it.
Despite the (sometimes) good natured ribbing of individuals on my native North American continent, it took the comments of Geoff Bowers and Jesse Warden while I was Down Under at webDU to actually get this blog online.
I intend to use it to demonstrate some interesting, and occasionally useful, techniques and code snippets that are created throughout my day. I also intend to post materials and code from my various presentations and address questions that I couldn't answer due to time constraints.
Over time, I want this blog to become a useful resource for Flex, Flash and perhaps some ColdFusion and Java.
However, I think it is important to clarify some expectations up front.
Lastly, this is a blog, so, I am going to write as I come across useful information. I may not always be on the right track so your comments are always appreciated.
ML
