I'm thrilled to announce that after a lot of hard work writing, editing, and re-writing, an article that I wrote is now live on the Adobe Developer Connection: A Flex 3 developer's introduction to Flex 4.5 and Flash Builder 4.5
In the article I give a (very) brief overview of most of the changes and new features between Flex 3.x and 4.5 and between Flex Builder 3 and Flash Builder 4.5. If I covered everything in depth then the article would be longer than you would want to read and longer than I want to write -- so I stuck with an overview of each change/addition, and then tried to provide links for further reading if a topic is of particular interest or importance to you.
I hope you find it useful!
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July 26 2011
This year was my first time attending Adobe Max, and by all accounts, I picked a great year to be my first.
It seems all anyone wants to talk about is free stuff -- and yes, there were some nice giveaways -- but there was so much more to it than that. I think I averaged somewhere around 4 hours of sleep per night, from Saturday night through Wednesday night, because there was so much going on. All day every day I was forced to make tough decisions between sessions that I really wanted to attend, and every evening seemed to include both an officially sanctioned social activity (like bowling at Lucky Strike) and something more or less spontaneous with a gathering of other friends (like 1am pancakes!). I made new friends every day. I tasted homebrew, and went to an expensive restaurant on Melrose. (My god the taxi ride over was hot!)
But more importantly I sharpened my saw, I learned new skills (apparently I'm a mobile developer (or at least I will be once the new versions of Flex and Flash Builder are released)), and came back invigorated and inspired to push my own boundaries. I probably have half a dozen ideas for applications I want to develop, all of which involve something I've never done before: at least one for AIR for TV app, one or two for AIR for Android, and one combination Flex / HTML5 app all immediately spring to mind.
Previously I had a view of Max as more of a sales pitch and less of a place where I could learn, and I'm happy to report that this view has changed.
I'm excited for what the future holds. I hope to be back at MAX next year. And I hope to see you there.
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Conferences
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November 02 2010
First, let me say that I'm thrilled that Apple finally decided to say something --anything!-- publicly about the topic. Living behind a curtain like that only leads to speculation, and that only leads to worse speculation, which leads to dissent. I know that I've personally started to feel some dissent because of the secrecy; so I'm hoping that more transparency will make things clearer, for better or worse...
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Flash
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April 29 2010
Woot, more resumé fodder! [Note to my employer: Not that I'm looking! ;)]
Today I found out that I'm among those selected to join the Adobe Community Professionals program (formerly Community Experts, aka A.C.E. -- but there was a conflict with Adobe Certified Experts, thus the change).
I took over as manager of Philly CFUG last October, and through that I've been working on my stage-freight and hopefully helping the Philly CF community start to re-awaken. I'm working on my own presentations, submitting topics for conferences and CFUG meetings, and still working as a copy editor for FAQU, which I personally hope finds a way to get back into print as the economy stabilizes.
2010 is going to be a great year. I'm just glad I get to go along for the ride.
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Philadelphia
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January 19 2010
