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August 22, 2008

360 Flex Camp NJ!!!!!!!

Filed under: Flex — The Mad Admin @ 1:34 pm

 

 

360|Flex Camp - NJ!!! (Sept 26th-27th, 2008)
Please mark your calendars for next month’s 360|Flex Camp, which is being hosted at Montclair State University’s Conference Center, located right here in New Jersey! If you’re just beginning to learn about Flex and need a little nudge in the right direction,
On Friday, September 26th - Yakov Fain of Farata Systems will be conducting an "Advanced Intro into Flex" workshop the entire day.  Yakov is an Adobe Certified Flex Trainer, and is very well know around the community.  He recently finished work on the new Flex-based www.MBUSA.com site, so trust us when we say that this workshop will be VERY informative.
On Saturday, the 27th, we’ll kick off the official Flex Camp (360|Flex style).  We’ve teamed up with 360|Conferences to ensure that this event is a success.
Speaker and Sponsor information is being finalized now, however I can let you know the following speakers have signed on board…

Feel free to register by using the form below or you can visit www.360FlexCamp.com for more details.

 

July 25, 2008

August Meeting NJ Flex–Yakov Fain

Filed under: Adobe, Flex — The Mad Admin @ 8:21 am

 

The Link to meeting details

Wednesday August, 20th at 7pm - Monthly Group Meeting

Yakov Fain of Farata Systems will be doing Comparing Flex Frameworks.
The goal of any framework is to make the process of software
development and maintenance easier. There are different ways of
achieving this goal. Some people prefer working with frameworks that are based on the Model-View-Controller pattern, while other like dealing with class libraries of components. Each approach has its pros and cons. During this session we’ll go over the same application that was built using Cairngorm, Clear, PureMVC and Mate frameworks

 

About the speaker
Yakov Fain works as Flex and Java architect at Farata Systems, a
company that provides consulting and training services in the
metropolitan New York area. He authored several Java books, dozens of technical articles. Recently he co-authored book , "Rich Internet Applications with Adobe Flex and Java: Secrets of the Masters" in Spring 2007 that was shipped to over 60 countries. Sun Microsystems has nominated and awarded Yakov with the title Java Champion. He leads the Princeton Java Users Group.

Yakov teaches Java and Flex part time at New York University.He hold MS in Applied Math. He’s a co-author of the upcoming OReilly book "Enterprise Flex: Best Practices"

 

 

I have seen Yakov speak before and he really knows his stuff.  IF you get a chance come to the meeting, grab a beer and learn something interesting.

 

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July 17, 2008

EasyMVC Presentation at NJFLEX

Filed under: ActionScript, Adobe, Coding, Flex — The Mad Admin @ 8:43 am

 

 

Last night I had the honor of giving the first presentation to NJFLEX group and the topic was EasyMVC as shown by Tom Bray 

The basics of the talk are simple.  I use the EasyMVC because it helps organize my code and make it easier to upgrade or for that matter even read a few months later.

 

The architecture breaks it down into three areas.

Model—The Data Repository for the app.

The View — What the user Sees and or does.

The Controller — Takes Action when the View says something has happened.

 

I have a code example posted HERE.

 

I will also post the Visio and the Powerpoint i used last night as soon as I get a chance.

 

I wanted to thank everyone that came last night, it was a good group and let me know if you have questions.

Here is the power point.

Here is the Visio (PDF FORMAT)

Thanks

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July 11, 2008

Flash, Flex, and ActionScript Oh My

Filed under: ActionScript, Flash, Flex — The Mad Admin @ 7:36 am

 

 

A list.  I found a list on the internet, what’s next, the Top Ten {fill in the blank}.

 

But this list is good.  Six Revisions List is on Flash, Flex, and AS tutorial sites.  It is a good list, but why are there so many lists on the net?

June 12, 2008

New Flex Project–LDAP

Filed under: Flex — The Mad Admin @ 11:46 am

I was looking at the code for an LDAP/PHP phone list that my boss did in the office for the intranet.  So where does my mind go???  You guessed correctly, "I Can Do That In FLex!!!"

So I have started (Helped by the code already written in PHP for the address list.

I have

  1. Converted the PHP into a class that is used by AMFPHP to get the data using AMF3.0.
  2. Set the frame work to use EasyMVC.
  3. Hit my first error.

Ok the error is a simple one  dealing with custom events

and I will be past it soon enough.  But it feels good to be coding again.

 

Once I get it nailed down I will publish the source code.

TheMadAdmin

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May 15, 2008

NJFLEX Inaugural Meeting.

Filed under: Adobe, Coding, Flex — Tags: , , — The Mad Admin @ 2:47 pm

Where:

157 Broad Street, Suite 211
Red Bank, NJ 07701

Map

TIME:

Wednesday, May 21st @ 7pm

Give Away and Pizza/Drinks, and Meet the other Flex People!!!

This meeting will be very “introductory,” and is geared more towards a meeting the other members, rather than an educational discussion.

Next month we’ll start up the speakers.

Please RSVP on www.NJFlex.com to ensure we have enough food and chairs for everyone.

Thanks,

Jason

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I will try to be there, how about you?

The MadAdmin

April 3, 2008

Going To Flex On Wall Street (FLEXCAMP)

Filed under: Coding, Flex — The Mad Admin @ 10:32 am
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I am looking forward to this, lots of information to learn and great people top talk with.

 

Meet with the Flex experts and get ready to build your next cutting edge financial application.
Be there to catch-up with the famous Adobe Flex & AIR evangelists — Christophe Coenraets & James Ward. You have read their blogs, now talk to them live. A full-day event for Flex developers and architects and the Flex-curious.

 

Speakers

Speaker Profiles

Christophe Coenraets is a Principal Product Manager and Evangelist (at Adobe) working on Flex with an Enterprise twist in the BlazeDS and LiveCycle Data Services Engineering Team. Christophe joined Macromedia in 2000 as a J2EE Evangelist, and started working on Flex from its early days. Before joining Macromedia, Christophe was at Powersoft / Sybase from 1994 to 2000 where he managed Technical Evangelism. Christophe has been a regular speaker at conferences worldwide for the last 10 years. His blog is popularly read by all in the RIA community.
In this keynote, Christophe Coenraets will review the state of Rich Internet Applications in the context of some of the new and exciting features of Flex 3, AIR, BlazeDS, and the upcoming version of LiveCycle Data Services. Christophe will demonstrate how these features along with new projects and initiatives at Adobe can profoundly transform financial services applications.

Yakov Fain is a managing principal of Farata Systems, consulting, training and product company. He has authored several Java books, dozens of technical articles. Recently, Yakov has co-authored an advanced book, “Rich Internet Applications with Adobe Flex and Java: Secrets of the Masters“. Sun Microsystems has nominated and awarded Yakov with the title Java Champion. He leads the Princeton Java Users Group. He is an Adobe Certified Flex Instructor. Yakov holds Masters Degree in Applied Math. You can reach him at yfain@faratasystems.com

Michael Labriola has been developing Internet applications since 1995 and has been working with Flex since its 1.0 beta program. He specializes in developing applications with high business impact using emerging technologies. Michael worked as an author and technical editor on Adobe Flex 2: Training from the Source and has published a series of articles on Adobe’s Developer Center teaching others to integrate Flex client and server technologies. As a frequent speaker on Flex topics and contributor to Flex mailing lists, he is known throughout the developer community. Michael also speaks Spanish and Italian, and pretends to speak more Japanese than he actually knows. Michael is currently a senior consultant at Digital Primates IT Consulting Group. (Michael’s Blog)

Mike Nimer is a former member of the Adobe ColdFusion engineering team. There he was responsible for the integration of Flex 2 with ColdFusion Server as well as many other current features of ColdFusion. Before joining the Adobe engineering team he worked for three years as a senior consultant with the Macromedia consulting group, assisting clients on-site with their architectural planning, code reviews, and performance tuning. He has spoken at every Allaire & Macromedia DevCon/Adobe MAX since they began 1998. Mike is currently a senior consultant at Digital Primates IT Consulting Group. (Mike’s Blog)

James Ward is a Technical Evangelist for Flex at Adobe and Adobe’s JCP representative to JSR 286, 299, and 301. Much like his love for climbing mountains he enjoys programming because it provides endless new discoveries, elegant workarounds, summits and valleys. His adventures in climbing have taken him many places. Likewise, technology has brought him many adventures, including: Pascal and Assembly back in the early 90’s; Perl, HTML, and JavaScript in the mid 90’s; then Java and many of it’s frameworks beginning in the late 90’s. Today he primarily uses Flex to build beautiful front-ends for Java based back-ends. Prior to Adobe, James built a rich marketing and customer service portal for Pillar Data Systems.

Shashank Tiwari is the Chief Technologist at Saven Technologies, a technology driven business solutions company headquartered in Chicago, IL. As an experienced software developer and architect, he is adept in a multitude of technologies. He is an expert group member on a number of JCP (Java Community Process) specifications, JSRs 274, 283, 299, 301 & 312, and is an Adobe Flex Champion. Currently, he passionately builds rich high performance applications and advises many on RIA and SOA adoption. Many of his clients are banking, money management, and financial service companies that he has helped build robust, quantitative, data-intensive, highly interactive, and scalable applications. He writes regularly in many technical magazines, presents in seminars and mentors developers and architects. He has a popular blog on the O’Reilly Network. He is an ardent supporter of and contributor to open source software. He lives with his wife and two sons in New York. More information about him can be accessed at his website.

Victor Rasputnis is a Managing Principal of Farata Systems. He’s spends most of his time providing architectural design, implementation management and mentoring to companies migrating to Flex and JEE technologies. Victor authored several books and technical articles. Recently, he has co-authored an advanced book, “Rich Internet Applications with Adobe Flex and Java: Secrets of the Masters“. Victor holds a PhD in computer science from the Moscow Institute of Robotics.You can reach him at vrasputnis@faratasystems.com

December 29, 2007

TheMadAdmin’s Tutorial For Using EasyMVC by Tom Bray With AMFPHP

Filed under: AMFPHP, Adobe, EasyMVC, Flex, Something to Talk About — Tags: , , , , — The Mad Admin @ 1:52 pm

A couple of months ago I had the good fortune to participate in an online Adobe seminar that was being hosted by Tom Bray. The topic was easyMVC. I had spent months looking and trying different frameworks for Adobe Flex and I was pretty set on cairngorm.

Tom’s presentation changed that and I am now working using easyMVC by Tom Bray.

  • It has no Library to load, so it is light.
  • It is easy to understand.
    • If you can write custom events and handlers you can do easyMVC
  • You can pick up the major concepts quickly
  • Did I mention it is easy? Well it is.

I had to struggle with cairngorm but easyMVC just seemed to fit my way of thinking. All that being said I started a project using easyMVC that also required AMFPHP 1.9. And I stumbled, badly. I asked Tom some questions and he gave me answers on how to do remoting with easyMVC and I was able to get my project moving.

I also had a question from a one of my blog readers (yes people do read this blog, sometimes) about using amfPHP with easyMVC and it struck me that it was time to give back to the community. So I made a sample application using easyMVC and AMFPHP.

(Click for Sample) Right Click and the source code is there.

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December 13, 2007

BlazeDS

Filed under: Adobe, Flex — The Mad Admin @ 4:03 pm

Adobe to open-source Flex back-end connector

Posted by Martin LaMonica

Adobe Systems on Thursday released the code for messaging software designed to connect back-end data sources to rich Internet applications written with its Flex development tool.

Called BlazeDS, the software is a subset of Adobe’s full-featured LiveCycle Data Services ES, which it will continue to sell to its corporate customers.

BlazeDS will be made available for free under the Lesser General Public License (LGPL). Adobe will initially host the open-source project and next year plans to create a separate site to host BlazeDS and its Flex developer tool, which it intends to open-source, said Phil Costa, director of product management for Adobe’s Platform Business Unit.

The software is not meant to replace other messaging products, such as enterprise service buses, Costa said. Instead, it can get data from messaging software to move data between databases or enterprise applications and Flash clients, he said.

The company already offered a free, low-end version of LiveCycle Data Services, but the companies decided to go the open-source route because customers were interested in using only pieces of the overall package, Costa said. Also, the free version had limitations on how many users could connect to it.

Like nearly all software companies, Adobe has started to use open-source techniques for its own developer products. It is also building its own products using other open-source software, such as the Eclipse development tool and the SQLite embedded database, which will be part of AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime).

Costa said Adobe plans to offer subscription-based support services for customers of BlazeDS.

November 29, 2007

Going to NY FLEX User Group Tonight

Filed under: Adobe, Flex, NYFLEX — The Mad Admin @ 9:45 am

http://www.nyflex.org/

Great group of Flex developers that meet on a monthly schedule and talk about Flex. You can learn a lot. So if you are in NY and in to Flex this is a great place to go to.

Todays Topic:


About the presentation

Flex from the perspective of a designer. We’ll discuss the capabilities of Flex as a platform and how designers can easily contribute to a Flex based rich Internet application and improve their existing flex designer-developer workflow.

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