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Back from Flex Camp Miami

Sat, 14 Mar 2009 04:30:06 GMT

I think the event went very well. The setting was a little strange, with round tables and small screens spread out in the room, many of them looking away from the speaker. I was happy to see some more advanced presentations, so there was a little for everyone, I think. I'd like to thank Brian Rinaldi for his hard work and invitation.

Flex Camp Miami

Sun, 22 Feb 2009 21:16:55 GMT

If you don't know, there will be a Flex Camp in Miami, in only two weeks. These one-day events are a great way to get a taste of Flex and to have the opportunity of attending a "mini" conference, close to where you live. So if you are in Florida, don't miss it!

I'll be giving a presentation about Mate there. As part of a series of interviews for the event, Brian and I had a little chat where we discuss Mate and Mango blog.

I hope to see you in Miami!

Asfusion at 360Flex

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 19:36:25 GMT

Two of us here at AsFusion just got accepted to speak at 360|Flex Indy! Laura will be presenting a deep dive into Mate, and I will have a hands-on programmatic skinning session. The show will be going down May 18-20, 2009. You can check out the other great 49 speakers on the schedule at: http://360conferences.com/360flex/downloads/schedule.pdf It's looking like it's gonna be another great 360|Flex conference, especially with yours truly speaking. Tickets are cheaper on a first come, first serve basis! So buy your tickets asap at http://360flex.eventbrite.com to get the best possible price. See you there and you better go to our sessions :)

FlexCamp OC - Party with the Rockstars

Thu, 15 Jan 2009 19:17:02 GMT

Lately at AsFusion we have been preparing a sweet little event by the name of FlexCampOC. We have even teamed up with Tom and John (You know, the 360Flex guys?). We wanted to put together a one day Flex event that will rock the west coast with a speaker list that consisted of some of the finest in the industry. Some of these Flex Rockstars and their topics are:

So what are you waiting for? Mark your calendar for January 31, 2009. If you are anywhere near this event, you should already have a ticket. It would be a big shame to miss it...

Oh yeah, did I mention the price? $25 for all of it! Sessions, lunch, dinner, afterparty(woot!). It's all for $25. So if you have been on the fence, be on the fence no more! Go register now at www.flexcampoc.com

Flex Skinning with Degrafa - Part 3

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 01:30:42 GMT

Part 3 of the video series, 'Flex Skinning with Degrafa'. I walk through the creation process of a skin for a Flex Button component using Degrafa. I finish this part of th series by adding syles support for our Flex Button Skin.

Enjoy!

Download the example source files

Flex Skinning with Degrafa Screencast, Part 2

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:41:32 GMT

Part 2 of the video series, 'Flex Skinning with Degrafa'.

In this screencast, I walk through the creation process of a skin for a Flex Button component using Degrafa. I show how to add up, down, and over state functionality to our Flex Button component skin.

Enjoy!

Download the example source files

Flex Skinning with Degrafa Screencast, Part 1

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 01:40:25 GMT

Part 1 of the video series, 'Flex Skinning with Degrafa'.

In this screencast, I walk through the creation process of a skin for a Flex Button component using Degrafa. I show how to import the Degrafa .swc file and go over how to add gradient fills and strokes to output an attractive button skin.

Enjoy!

Download the example source files

ScaleNine Skin to Win Challenge winners

Sat, 13 Dec 2008 02:04:16 GMT

We are happy to announce that Nahuel's entry made it second place in ScaleNine's Skin to Win Contest! Congratulations to all the winners.

Mate will be at MAX

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 08:34:14 GMT

Mate will be at MAX this year thanks to the Unconference event.

I will give a presentation tomorrow at 5:30pm (Monday November 17th).

Applying Dependency Injection to your Flex application using Mate Framework

This presentation will focus on how to solve some common problems encountered when working on views. We'll discuss what a view needs, and how we can use dependency injection and Mate framework to fulfil those needs in an unobtrusive way. We'll also discuss the advantage or disadvantage of alternative approaches and how Mate helps you deal with difficult-to-solve problems.

We will have some time at the end, so bring your Mate questions

There will also be other two presentations that will touch on Mate:

Comparing Flex Frameworks by Yakov Fain

Tag Based Frameworks by Harry Garland

I hope to see you there!

360|Flex presentation survey results

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 06:01:20 GMT

360|Flex conferences are well known for their openness and transparency, they even tell you how much they make! In that spirit, speakers at 360|Flex Atlanta started to share their session survey results.

I received my results for 360 San Jose, and I'll share them with you. A lot of people told me during the rest of the conference that they enjoyed the session, so I was hoping to get good numbers in the survey ;)

Back from 360|Flex

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 03:59:17 GMT

It is great to get to see everybody in the Flex community every now and then. As always, we end up spending more time talking in the hallways than attending sessions. I met so many people that I can hardly remember the name of everybody, if we met, please write a comment, so that I can recall :)

Though I couldn't attend to many sessions, this time I'm lucky, because thanks to Adobe's Sessions Project, all the presentations were recorded and they will be available to everybody to see and hear. From the ones I saw, I recommend Tony Hillerson and Juan Sanchez' See the Data, Be the Data. I heard a lot of good things about Labriola's Diving in the Data Binding Waters session, so I look forward to seeing that when it gets published.

Mate at 360Flex San Jose

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 22:00:30 GMT

360Flex has started and we will be there. We arrived to San Jose and now we are waiting for our hotel room in the lobby. Laura is adding the finishing touches to her session about Mate for tomorrow. I need to help her with the example that she will use at the session.

She is planning to show how you can create an application with Mate and how all the parts are assembled together. For this, we created a sample app that allows you to browse movies and make movie recommendations. To skin it and make it look nicer, we are using Degrafa.

SpatialKey: reinventing map visualizations

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 07:20:45 GMT

We've had the pleasure to work with an amazing team in what I think is the next generation of map visualizations.

We are not talking about a few hundred of points on a map, you can see millions of those points. And not only that, but also you can view them as heatmaps, squares, aggregated points and more.

Don't look at my SWC size

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:05:02 GMT

If you want to use a library in your Flex project, distributed as a SWC file, you should not look at the SWC file size as any indication of how much your compiled application will increase in size. If you want to know how much size overhead the library imposes, look at the compiled release version of your app (Click on Export Release Build button). Even then, it will depend on how much of the library you are using.

Firefox 3 + Adblock = disaster

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 06:42:59 GMT

I installed Firefox 3 in my Mac yesterday and I'm liking it better than version 2. It seems to be faster and it solved some problems I was having.

So my day went along until I wanted to test a Flex app I am developing in Firefox (my default browser for these things is Safari). What do I see? Just the background. Nothing else. Not even right click > Movie not loaded message. No JavaScript errors... At first I thought Firefox 3 had broken SWFObject, or even SWFAddress.