WSU Tenor Line

• Set programming conventions up-front explicitly and code to them (casing, whitespace, etc.)
  
• Program to interfaces
• Memory and Performance Considerations
• Only load in or instaantiate what you need
• Remove listeners or object references when you're done with them
• Remove debug code - trace() statements - before production release
• global scope = bad
• mxmlc, make sure to set the optimize compiler option to true
• Evaluate array length and assign to a variable to be used in the loop condition
  var len:Number = collection.length;
  for(var i:Number = 0; i < len; i++)
  {
  // Loop
  }
• Use weak reference event listeners unless you know you don't want to
  addEventListener(Event.CLICK, myHandler, false, 0, true);
  (it is false by default)
  

Adobe Thermo looks very handy. It's basically a way to do rapid layout and skinning of your flex app without ever going into Flex Builder. While you can look at the code, it's mainly focused on look/feel. You can take a well-structured app comp psd and import it into Thermo, then select layers and objects and convert them to Flex components. You can then use dialogs to manage movement, animation, transparency, etc. You can create design-time sample data sets and actually run the compiled flex app to test - again, without ever opening Flex Builder. Select a set of images and turn them into a list. Take a picture of a slider and turn it into one, then bind it to the list component's onscreen position properties. Pretty sweet.

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M followed by 1-14 to vote for the 2007 MAX Awards

Hands On: Deploying Flex and HTML/JavaScript Applications to Adobe Integrated Runtime

ADT - AIR Dev Tool


<script src="lib/air/servicemonitor.swf" type="application/z-shockwave-flash">
part of the AIR SDK that gives you access to the library in the swf which will allow you to detect whether the AIR app is online or offline (connected/not)

I figure if I go to a conference hosted by a major tech company I really should live blog it, or what good is going?

Some pics here in a sec, if the wireless will pick up a bit. It was a bit slow but working at least... but now it's a bit dead.

Ah, here we go:





A few notes, as well:

The bottom line is keeping the customer engaged and happy.

Less is (still) More

Create Experiences, not UI