Code Behind

Last night I had an opportunity to do a presentation at BAADUG about Code Behind techniques and a basic introduction to Cairngorm and MVC.

Good news no one ran away screaming, it was after all, my speaking debut at BAADUG, and elsewhere for that matter. I'm a coder not a polished speaker, so I have no regets for any lack of powerpoint slides in my presentation. We'll leave the ppt for the Adobe guys... What I had hoped for was a way to introduce our members to some of the basic concepts in flex programming that I personally use day in and day out.

Feel free to comment publicly or privately, be kind (I am human) if you attended last night's presentation, as I'd like to hear some feedback.

Also would help to know found the information useful and what you'd like hear in a future talk.

As I mentioned last night, I started out as a TV news editor, not an engineer, I'm just a quick study, and willing try anything and spend hours hacking away. For me it's always been about the end result, but recently I've learned that how to get there is just as important. Techniques and design patterns are useful means to that end.

Networking, is the primary main reason I show up for BAADUG meetings. I hope that showing members an insight of my own practices, will help open up future meeting discussions for all.

The flex community offers programmers of all levels fantastic resources for development ideas and solutions. Also as Mark mentioned, our group can always benefit from members doing such presentations, so step and show us what you got.

As promised, I said I'd provide some links to some of the great articles I've read on the subject.

Code-Behind (Facade) Design Patterns:

Ted Patrick's Article:
http://www.onflex.org/ted/2007/02/code-behind-in-flex-2.php

Adobe Dev Net Article:
http://www.onflex.org/ted/2007/02/code-behind-in-flex-2.php

Cairngorm:
David Tucker's Video Series: (IMHO:Winner Best intro to Cairngorm series) Parts 1-5
http://www.davidtucker.net/category/cairngorm/

AS3 Libraries Demo'd:
Yahoo Maps:
http://developer.yahoo.com/flash/maps/index.html

Degrafa:
http://www.degrafa.com/

Finally last night's raffle prize sponsor:
Premium Port Wines.
http://www.premiumport.com/