Thanks to everyone who came out to this event! The meeting was a collaboration between RDAUG, the Triangle Area Coldfusion User Group, the Carolina Adobe User Group, and the newly formed Triangle User Experience. In preparation for a soon to be released 3rd version of Adobe Flex and the 1st version of the Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR), Ben Forta joined us in the Triangle on the NC leg of the Flex 3 / AIR Pre-Release tour. Ben is Adobe's Senior Technical Evangelist, and as always, gave a great presentation.
Ben started with the official presentation slides, and veered off in whatever directions the audience wanted. It was a lively and somewhat sarcastic crowd as we approached the subject of pricing and release dates as Ben politely answered our question about when Flex will be released - stating only:
"Wouldn't it be a shame if your trials ran out before the product was released?";
The crowd was big too - looking to be around 120 attendees. So thanks everyone for making another Triangle stop on Adobe's tour schedule a no-brainer.
Tony Chester
OnWired, LLC
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Book Review: Advanced ActionScript 3 with Design Patterns
on Jan 15 in Tips & Resources
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Joey Lott, Danny Patterson
Reviewed by: Ben Gomez Farrell
This book didn't pack that much bang for me. I read it after Head First Design Patterns and the Actionscript 3.0 Cookbook. If you had never read those books, then this is a great book for you if you want to learn Design Patterns for Actionscript 3. However, if you want to learn Actionscript 3, this book is light on AS3 basics. What this book discusses, rather well in fact, is Design Patterns for Actionscript 3. For those that aren't familiar with Design Patterns - this is not a graphic arts type book. Design Patterns are a collections of philosophies oon how to code your application. This book does a good job explaining Design Patterns as they pertain to Actionscript 3. Additionally, the first chapter discusses some application development and object-oriented programming methodologies that are great to brush up on. As good as this book is, I suggest reading Head First Design Patterns if you want to learn about Design Patterns, and don't mind that it's written for Java.