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I’m really excited to be presenting a session on Adobe AIR at Bath Camp on July 1st. It’ going to be an introductory session into what Adobe AIR is, how you can develop for it and a view of some cool apps created using the framework.
Bath Camp is going to be the first non Adobe focused event that I’m speaking at so it’s a great chance to meet up with other developers and designers from the Bath & Bristol region.
For my session at Flash Camp Birmingham I wanted to introduce people to declarative skinning within Flex. I was skinning Flex applications back in Flex 2 and to get the right visual appeal it was quite a tricky thing to get right. There was a reliance on heavy external assets brought into Flex and scaled using Scale9 techniques. There were many times I wanted to have better control of the UI I was creating through not only a more advanced CSS capability but without having to resort to creating skins from scratch directly with the Flash drawing API.
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Flash Camp Birmingham (UK) organised by the Flash Midlands user group. After a very good Flash Camp London it was always going to be interesting to see how the format would work outside of London. The answer very well!
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Having been in an agile working environment for the last few years, I’m certainly becoming more aware of how similar techniques can be used outside the office.
I have recently come across the Pomodoro technique, it’s an interesting take on how to improve your personal productivity. As I do a lot of work outside of the office on personal and freelance projects I have struggled to get focus sometimes, this is where the Pomodoro Technique can be applied; to get your focus back on track. I have seen it referred to as one technique for a solo scrum.
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Adobe Flex is a great platform to work with for creating rich engaging applications of all sizes for the web and now the desktop with AIR. Now we are at Flex version 3 and the next version Flex 4, which is the SDK, and the editor now called Flash Builder are just around the corner.
There are a number of resources, guides and articles that I use regularly when building Flex or AIR applications. This is a growing resource so bookmark the page and feel free to suggest anything that I may have missed.
Here we go then:
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James Whittaker is a front-end Technical Architect, International speaker and Adobe Community Expert. He specialises in interactive development for web, desktop and mobile devices. more »
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