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What’s under your skin

tapper — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 13:52:42 +0000

At 360|Flex DC yesterday, I presented my “Whats under your skin” presentation, all about architecting components with skins and layouts. I had a great audience, who was very engaged and asked lots of pertinent questions.

For anyone interested, here are the slides. The code for the ShoppingList component can be found below from the download link. The code for the Clocks are proprietary, and can not be shared. Sorry. Download

Ouch, it hurts when i do that

tapper — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:03:00 +0000

As promised, here are the slides for “Ouch! It hurts when i do that.” presentation first delivered at 360Flex San Jose, March 10th, 2010.

Flex 360 tickets selling fast

tapper — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 07:12:00 +0000

Down to the last 5 (Cheap) tickets left for 360|Flex. Register now, save $100 and get the same awesome content for a little less coin. Act fast, these last tickets won’t last. When they’re gone, the regular price of $599 kicks in. Come on out and hear me give advice how not to hurt yourself with code, in my “Ouch, it hurts when i do that” talk.

Wanna know more about how not to code flex apps?

tapper — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:11:00 +0000

I’ll be presenting my freshly revised “How Not To Code Flex Applications” twice in the next few days. Tomorrow, in the boston area at RIA-Unleashed and then next week at Flash Camp Wall Street. c’mon by and see us at … Continue reading →

I’ll be speaking at Adobe MAX again this year

tapper — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 10:06:00 +0000

For the 9th year of the last decade I’ll be speaking at Adobe MAX, being held this year in Los Angeles, between October 3rd and October 7th. This time, adobe has asked me to present two sessions, one an “Intro to Flex 4,” and the other a session on “How not to code Flex Applications.” You can find information on registration and everything else at max.adobe.com

If the schedule stands as planned, I’ll present my “How not to code” 10/6 at 3pm, and my “Intro to Flex 4″ 10/5 at 11:30am

In case you are wondering, here is what I have spoken on in years past…

2009 – Los Angeles – How Not To Code Flex, Intro to Flex 4
2008 – San Francisco – Intro to Flex 3
2007 – Chicago – Intro to Adobe AIR / Building Desktop applications with HTML and AIR
2006 – Las Vegas – Getting Started with Flex Development
2005 – Anaheim – Creating Better Performing Flex Applications
2004 – New Orleans – Using ColdFusion to Power Flex and Flash Applications
2003 – Salt Lake City – XML in ColdFusion / Building Components in Flash
2002 – Orlando – Styling a Flash Application
2001 – Orlando – Did not speak
2000 – Washington DC – Planning a Spectra Application

Flex Camp Chicago

tapper — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 11:01:00 +0000

I’m speaking today and tomorrow at Flex Camp Chicago. Today, I’m covering for Mike Nimer (who is recovering from some dental work), and presenting his “Flex for ColdFusion Developers” session. For those of you looking for the presentation or source code, you can find it on Nimers blog. Tomorrow, I’ll be presenting my Unit Testing with Fluint session. You can find the code and preso for this session here

CFUnited Europe, AJAXWorld, and more conference stuff…

tapper — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 02:03:00 +0000

Next week I'm off to London to speak at CFUnited Europe, and the following week, I'll be speaking at AJAX World East. In both places, I'll be speaking about the joy that is Flex 3 in all its forms. The CFUnited talk is more focused on how Flex can improve the lives of CF Developers, while the AJAX World one is more focused on how Flex can help RIA developers increase their real world Retursn On Investment from RIA's. On another note, CFUnited has just released the session schedule for their Washington DC Conference in June, and rumor is that the session schedule for WebManiacs should be available shortly.

My Speaking Engagements for the first half of 2008

tapper — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 07:01:00 +0000

1/18 – Flex Camp Chicago

1/24 – Flex Camp Omaha

2/24-2/27 – Flex 360 Atlanta

3/12-3/13 – CFUnited Europe

5/1-5/4 – CF.Objective()

5/19-5/23 – WebManiacs

6/25-6/28 – CFUnited