Rough Draft Notes Craig Swann, CRASH!

Rough Draft Notes Marc Leuchner, Almighty Matt Wright, ROKKAN Everyone is working together to make projects happen. Most common sense but people aren't really calling it out. Industry overview: Best area related to Internet. Unique people, extremely creative, lots of technologies continually expanding. FWA tracking latest and greatest. newstoday.com, Communication Arts Magazine. Subcultures: code fiends, design junkies, framework freaks, application addicts, game gurus, usability nuts.

Rough Draft of Notes Joey Lott The Morphic Group Main application to be styled is just using standard components. VBox, List, Inline attribute on List: backgroundColor This isn't preferred since you have no centralized location of what your style information is. Adding . Type selector and Class selector.<mx:Style> List { backgroundColor: #0000FF; } </mx:Style> Applies to all components. Another List in the program would also get it.

Due to a scheduling conflict the time of my talk has been moved up a slot. The new details: Grand Ballroom, Salon E: Friday, September 21, 2007 1:30 PM-2:45 PM.

Rough draft of notes Flickr tag with flashforward Kevin Lynch from Adobe Pushing Flash forward with AS3. Complimentary copies of Essential ActionScript 3.0. With FP9 and AS3: E4X, regular expressions, strong and lose typing. Inside Tamarin is the Virtual Machine within FP9. Core of VM has been opened sourced to Mozilla. 10 times speedup in FP9. Also have this is as the scripting language for the web. FireFox and Flash Player 9. ECMAScript standard. Includes Just-in-Time compiler.

If you are interested in using the Flex automation features, this is a collection of links which might be helpful: Using the Automated Testing API (PDF)Best documentation on the APIs and how to use them. Flex Store: Automation-ready sample applicationAutomation enabled store to test with Mercury QTP. Random walk component: Automation-ready sample applicationSample of adding automation to a component (also covered in the PDF above).

On Friday I attended the on AIR bus tour in Boston. It was a free one day conference primarily sponsored by Adobe. The conference focused on getting people introduced to the AIR platform. While I was already familiar with most of AIR's capabilities I thought it would be a good opportunity to network with other Boston developers and meet a bunch of people from Adobe. Overall Adobe did a good job with the conference. My only complaint was that the building was very warm the entire time.

The last session was a collection of quick demos from the speakers and audience members. My apologies in advance if I missed your contact information. Todd Prekaski (audience): Demoed a photo album builder application. Allows pulling in pictures from the local file system. Has some integration with Flickr and zoomr (wasn't completely clear on what that functionality was). Has random photo placement mode for viewing a collection of pictures. Has ability to email collection to contacts.

Mike Chambers gave a talk about some of the technology being used on the tour bus. Using AIR applications to help track the location, what is going on, and display the information on the web. Code for all the applications is available from Google code. AIRTracker: Application that gets GPS info periodically and posts it to the server. The AIR application is passed the GPS coordinates via command line arguments. Uses a program called GPSBabel to get the GPS information.

Andre Charland from Nitobi gave a talk about AJAX in AIR. Why is AJAX in Air a good thing: code reuse, skills reuse, HTML is really good at some things, and maintaining existing UI patterns. He talked about the benefits AIR gives over browser. This was a quick rehash of the list from the AIR API overview. He showed an AJAX Fisheye Menu Example. Demonstrated that the same AJAX code works in a browser as in an AIR application, very little code shown. Offline Saleforce.com demo.