The second part of the “Creating a Visual Experience in Flex” that Andy McIntosh and I did at 360Flex is now available for download. This is the hands-on portion of the “Skinning Mega-Session” and the supporting code and assets can be found here.
Day 2 of the 360Flex Conference started out with the “Creating a Visual Experience in Flex” back-to-back sessions presented by Andy McIntosh and I. We were up ’til 3am putting the finishing touches on our slide deck and hands-on materials to get it to where we were happy with it. The informational session ran a bit short to allow more time for the hands-on, which worked out great. Just for grins I thought I’d show the app we were going to build, which was a Mix Drinks Recipe type application. Here’s the mock up I did:
We ended up making a much simpler example for the hands-on session to insure people were able to grasp the core methods we were discussing, rather than getting caught up in the code. If anyone’s interested in making this an app let me know. All the artwork for this app is vector and those drinks are prepped and ready to go in Flash. You can check out the slide deck for the informational presentation and the grab the source files for the hands-on session here. There’s also a nice list of resource links on that page.
After the presentation I was able to get out of the hotel and explore Seattle a bit to grab some lunch. Later on I caught David Colletta’s presentation on Buzzword, which was great. I’m definitely looking forward to day 3 and a trip to the Space Needle restaurant.
The countdown is on ’til I leave for the 360Flex Conference in Seattle. I’m putting some of the finishing touches on portions of the presentation I’ll be giving with Andy McIntosh and grabbing handfulls of ScaleNine, Degrafa and AtomicCurve business cards. I’m really looking forward to meeting lots of people, learning a lot, checking out others’ projects and sharing a bit of my own. If you’re going, be sure to say “hi†and if you’re not sure who to look for, here’s my Flexcursion profile.
I just got back from doing a presentation at the Los Angeles Flex User Group organized by Tom Bray and Robert Cadena of Search Coders. It was great to finally meet those guys and have conversations with fellow “Flexers” along with shaking the dust off some of my presentation skills.
The presentation, titled “Creating a Visual Experience in Flex 2,” was a test run of some of the topics Andy McIntosh and I will be presenting at the 360Flex Conference in August. Overall things went great and I got a lot of feedback. Some of the feedback I got was to be expected like, “You need more visuals.” I got into a time crunch and didn’t get to implement all the visuals I wanted to, I mean come on, I’m talking about something visual and I have no visuals. Completely understandable and I’ll make sure to get more in there.
There was a bit of redundancy in parts of the presentation that I breezed through to get to showing some actual live examples of what I was talking about. Everybody really responded to those, so I’m going to try to work live examples in the presentation even if I do have to break between the slides and FlexBuilder. I’ve got a bit of work to do.
Also, I mentioned to those who attended that I’d be making the presentation slides available so you can access a PDF of the slides below. The redundant parts were stripped out and the majority of the slides have general concepts that I went into detail while speaking.
Download Presentation “Creating a Visual Experience in Flex 2″