Presentations

Over the past three years, I have done a number of presentations on Flash and Flex related subjects. On these pages are the presentation materials for those sessions and other relevant information. In situations where I’ve presented similar material on numerous occasions, I have included the most comprehensive version of the content only.

Application Frameworks – The new kids on the block

Presented at

GotoAndSki(), 12 June 2010

In this session, I compared and contrasted four of the newer application frameworks (also known as micro-architectures) for Flex and Flash projects. They are

Robotlegs
Swiz
Parsley
Spring Actionscript

Slides and example code are available here.

Re-architecting the designer-developer workflow

Presented at

360|Flex San Jose, 8 March 2010
London Flash Platform User Group, 29 July 2010
360|Flex DC, 21 September 2010

In this session, I discussed and showed a new Flex application architecture that we are using at BrightTALK to enable the rapid development of new projects based on previously designed features. This was specifically devised to serve two purposes

To enable us to rapidly and easily create new, custom designed, webcast players for clients
To enable our designers to do this work without the need for developer involvement

Slides and example code are available here.