I’m John C Bland II

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Founder of Katapult Media, and full-stack polyglot developer.
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Adobe Flex Development Primer – Recording URL

https://experts.na3.acrobat.com/p35104921/

The session ended up covering Flash Builder 4 (briefly just to explain what we were looking at), mxml vs AS differences (ie – how to do the same thing either way), a brief on custom components, event architecture, data binding, and we started to go into custom events but decided to roll with a part 2. I will update the my schedule with a date/time for part 2. It’ll most likely be next Monday at the same bat time.

Take a look at it and let me know what you want to see in part 2.

Thanks to all who attended!

Join me for “Adobe Flex Development Primer” Session

My good buddy Guillermo (gman) asked me about some Flex info. He’s a solid PHP’er and said he wanted to get into Flex so I hit him back with some info on where to get started. I also, as I typically do, jumped on the opportunity to do a Connect session to help him ramp up. Last time I did this for a friend it was one on one. This time…I’m opening it up to the public.

Session Description
The Flex Dev Primer is a pure development session (don’t expect theory and graphics although you might get some) focused on helping non-flex developers ramp up to become comfortable with Flex in a short period of time. We will focus on Flex 3/Halo but will spend the last while discussing the shift in Flex 4/Spark.

This session will be recorded.

Connect URL
https://experts.na3.acrobat.com/flexdevprimer/

Session Details
Date: 7/13/2009
Time: 8-9 PM CST

I’ve updated my speaking calendar with the details. I will keep it updated regularly with any and all of my engagements as well as any changes to this session.

Flex 3: Setting List component itemRenderer

In MXML you can easily set the itemRenderer to the string of your class, including dot syntax classpath, but in ActionScript it is different.

_list = new List();
_list.itemRenderer = new ClassFactory(IndexRenderer);
addChild(_list);

As you see the ClassFactory class is used because itemRenderer expects an IFactory implementation.

Just a quick tip.