April24
This second episode is from the session by Kevin Hoyt, he is an evangelist with Adobe, and gives the keynote for the first day of Flex Camp Chicago. He talks about the Flash platform, what is upcoming for Flex and tools for designers to create user interfaces that work with Flex so that the developers don’t need to figure out how to do them as non-designers. For those of you who are designers and developers it looks like a great workflow improvement.
I did try and capture the questions this time, so you will hear some differences in the background noise levels as I normalize the audio to get the questions to be audible. They are still hard to hear some times, but most of them should be understandable without killing your ears.
If you have any questions or comments about the podcast recordings, feel free to contact me at http://vandermore.com. If you have questions for the presenters, most of their contact information can be found on the Flex Camp Chicago website, http://flexcampchicago.com.
I hope you enjoy the sessions, now on with the show.
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April20
This first episode is from the very first session, Overview of Flex and the Flash Platform for Newcomers and the Non-Technical, presented by Michael Epstein. Michael gives an overview of what Flex is, some of it’s roots, and also some of it’s competitors.
I recorded all of these from a portable recorder, and the quality is fairly good, but the mics are facing towards the front of the room, so while I was able to capture Michael very well, the last questions from the audience were too soft to capture so I had to cut them.
If you have any questions or comments about the podcast recordings, feel free to contact me at http://vandermore.com. If you have questions for the presenters, most of their contact information can be found on the Flex Camp Chicago website, http://flexcampchicago.com.
I hope you enjoy the sessions.
Popularity: 2%
April6
As some of you know, but some others might not, I am now employed full time again. It’s with an excellent company, Digital Primates. The company has some excellent people working there, and it has several Flex luminaries at it’s head. I’ll give you a moment to go over there and look, go ahead, I don’t mind.
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Before I was hired, I thought I knew a fair amount about Flex, having been working with Flash AS2 for many years, and then moving over to Flex and AS3, it seemed more or less like a change in syntax, plus some nice things with the Flex framework that were definite improvements over the Flash IDE for developers.
I was wrong.
I thought I knew, but there is so much more that I didn’t know that I am humbled by the amount that I know is still there and the huge leap in knowledge that I have gained since working there for the few short weeks that I have been training there. Yep, you heard right, training. It’s been a while since I have worked at a job that cared enough about it’s employees, and it’s reputation enough to train new employees enough so that they can do the job right the first time.
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I’ve had this blog post mostly written for at least a month now. So I am posting it here so you can get an update on what I have been doing. The rest of the post I will write up later. It will be about the Flex component framework. From what I understand, as soon as Flex 4 comes out later this year, that post may become out of date. I’ll be doing it anyway so I know it better, and there are probably more than a few people who will be using Flex 3 for a while after Flex 4 comes out. It’s just the nature of business to not upgrade right away.
Popularity: 56%
