First of all thanks to the Flex team for including the community in this soiree. It was slightly difficult for me jumping into the fray of conversations with my social skills being that of a… well of a programmer. But thats why I always drag my girl with me (She is awesome). Eventually towards the end I did get a chance to talk to Ted Patrick some about WPF/e and how Flex was a big step forward for making the flash platform excessible to .Net type developers. He was extremely candid and interesting. The whole team seemed to have a relaxed yet confident, attitude answering all questions honestly even if the answer had to be “we’re working on it”.
About Apollo. From talking with Ted, I did find out that an alpha/beta release of Apollo will be out in the near future. However, it will not be in the next couple of days or weeks. So everyone can just give the labs.adobe.com homepage a break.Two applications were demonstrated. One Flex application for monitoring and controlling different aspects of a yacht which seemed to have features that went on and on and on and on. I call it the iYacht. They may want to see if that trademarked before they try to use it. For me it was good to see a large Flex application functioning that smoothly regardless of what it did. The second application was a word processing application that was cool but didn’t really float my boat as much.Anyway, thanks again to the Flex team you’re doing fantastic work. You make development fun.Oh yeah. Just one suggestion for the next get together. Music. Let me know if you need me to bring some.-s
Archive for January, 2007
So my blog has been added to the MXNA aggregator. Does that make my blog special? I like to think so. I like to think that there is a huge series of tests that must be performed before they add your blog. Its a high standard of criteria that has to be met. I imagine them to be something along the lines of the following:1. Is it funny? Is it “Ha Ha” funny or is it “Ha Ha” sad.2. Is it explosive? What happens when you add mentos and diet coke to it?3. Is the content original or should the blog just redirect people to Ted Patricks blog?Just some random possiblities.Does anyone know what this criteria really is?I’m somebody now! -s
So a developer I work with was going to use an include file and a prototype for a string altering method he wanted to use throughout his application. The only thing that came to mind was the Mr. Horses catch phrase from Ren & Stimpy.
“No sir I don’t like it”.
I offered the possibility that he might create a utilites class in our namespace with a static function to accomplish his goal. To that he asked “Can you give me an example of how to make a static function”. Well here it is:
First we have our class:
class com.imart.utilities.StringHelper{
function StringHelper(){
}
public static function returnString(passValue:String):String{
return “Here you go:” + passValue;
}
}
Then we can call the method:
import com.imart.utilities.*
example_txt.text = StringHelper.returnString(”Steve”);
Macworld Final Thoughts
1. Most Unexpected part - Star Spotting
I’m walking down 4th street with my girlfriend Kelly on the way to Macworld in the morning and who passes us walking down the street drinking his coffee, no body guards or anything. Dave Chappelle!!. I had my mouth hanging open while knudging my girlfriends arm in a spaztic fashion. She quickly caught on and started in with her own mouth hanging stare which is probably how he thinks everyone looks these days. Anyway, I wanted to yell “Rick James! B**th!” but held back and let the man be. That alone made our Macworld.
2. Funniest Part
We laughed for an hour and a half straight during the Kevin Smith presentation. He talked about where he thought Steve Jobs could go from here to improve the iPhone, which I can’t really speak about in this Family oriented blog. He also talked off subject about his movies including his upcoming appearance in Die Hard 4. Which is really cool despite the title “Live free or die hard”. Who are the ad wizards who came up with that one?
3. Biggest Disappointment
It could have been Leopard not being released but it wasn’t. It was the Adobe Booth.
1. No Apollo demos.
2. I walk up to there booth where there is a “Ask an expert sign”. As my girlfriend is watching, I ask the expert if they have any apollo applications we could look at. He just looks at me in an uninterested fashion and says “no”. Then i continue with “I’m just really excited to try it out”. Which he then just nods expressionless at me almost as though he has no idea what I’m talking about. I then turn to my girlfriend who is rolling her eyes and mockingly saying in her best naisely geek voice (which is hilarious) “i’m just so exxxxcited”.
So no apollo and I had to endure the taunting from my woman. Lucky for us in SF, Ted patrick has made up for this with a meet the Flex team event which I’ll be at next week at the Adobe offices.
4. Most Awesome
Kevin Smith, Dave Chappelle, all your favorite Software people, in one place and the cost?
$0
We got in for free using the digg code for exhibitor passes. Thanks Digg!
What I’m wishing for.
1. Leopard
2. Getting to check out Apollo close up at the Adobe booth
