FlexCamp OC – Cocomo Overview

So FlexCamp OC is a wrap.  It was great to see everyone out there, even with the odd security at Boeing (sorry Suraj – REJECTED)…  All in all it was a lot of fun, unfortunately I did miss the middle sessions as I had to run back to my daughters Science Fair in Irvine (Gabi won top honors in her category!).

So as promised, here are the recommended links from my Cocomo presentation:

Cocomo page on Adobe labs: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/cocomo/

Cocomo Developer Portal: https://cocomo.acrobat.com/

Cocomo Dev Blogs: http://blogs.adobe.com/collabmethods/

In addition here is my PowerPoint file (Cocomo Overview), although without the discussion from the conference not really sure how useful it is.  Jeremy is promising we will have the videos from the conference online “soon”… Will update this post with a link when available.

All the demos presented at the session were straight out of the CocomoSDK, so go sign up now and start collaborating!

E4X is Good4U – MAX Session

Just wrapped my session at Adobe MAX on E4X.  I think the session went well, although there were not as many questions during the session compared to the previous times I’ve given this topic.  Don’t know if that means I’m getting better at covering the topic or losing the audience…

I did get several good questions at the very end of the session (post closing – so unfortunately it did not go on the recording).

The two followups I have from the session are on XSLT and data validation (XSD/DTD).  Stay tuned for updates on those.

Presentation slides (warning, it is a big file -700k- because of the Adobe images):

http://www.rapidninja.com/blog/MAX2008/Marc_Bir_E4X.ppt

The code for the samples

http://www.rapidninja.com/blog/MAX2008/E4XSamples.zip

And finally the CSV2XML converter I used to create the Sessions XML file.

http://www.rapidninja.com/blog/MAX2008/CSV2XML.zip

360Flex E4X

Here are the materials for my session on introducing E4X at 360Flex 08 San Jose.  If you aren’t at 360Flex you are REALLY missing out, Tom and John really know how to put on a fun show.

360 Flex San Jose 08, E4X

Just got my confirmation to present at 360 Flex this August in San Jose. The sessions will focus on E4X, starting out fairly basic but hopefully moving very quickly to the more interesting advanced things that E4X lets you do in AS3. I normally run with a fairly fluid agenda so we can get conversations going during the session. So bring questions! We will be working through a ton of code samples as well.

Let me know if there are any specific areas of E4X that you find especially tricky (either to get working or even just remember) and I’ll see what I can do.

See you Tuesday Aug 19th @ 10am

In case you don’t know about the 360 Flex conferences it is an awesome conference designed to actually be affordable for developers. I’ve known the guys running the show for about 4 years now (before they were cool) and they really care about making the show something worth attending and it shows. So head on over and register now!

Fun with Canvas and DragDrop

So we were working on a simple little drag and drop interface for a project and ran into a weird bug that wouldn’t allow us to accept a drop onto a canvas no matter what we tried. Fortunately I remember running into the same problem with Flex 2 a couple years ago, unfortunately I couldn’t remember what I did to resolve it. I just don’t use drag/drop very often and didn’t remember the details.

So what is the issue? Here is the sample app: