360 Flex at San Jose: Day 3
The Wednesday morning keynote started with a presentation from the XD team at Adobe. They are responsible for the Amben Tour of California site which is a mashup of live data (maps, location, video, commentary and other data) which is amazing. 3 people spent 6 weeks building this site using a concept of “Experience Design” where a “process of exploring means having an idea and testing it by building it”.
Ted Patrick also spoke at the keynote showing off some upcoming features of Flex 3 “Moxie”. It looks like Fireworks has found a home as a layout tool for Flex applications. Examples were shown: 1) ESRI map component for FLEX; 2) Farata Systems: FlexBI – flex business intelligence; 3) Flexlib; 4) Yahoo! as3 apis
Mike Chambers introduced Apollo in a session. Showed the basic api and built a Hello World app. Christian Cantrell talked more in depth about Apollo APIs. Ok I admit that I want to have his job. But he is far smarter than me … so how about a cubical beside him. Ely Greenfield gave what I thought was the best presentation of the conference with “Flex Custom Components”. Ely spent the session showing how he built a “cover flow” type graphic effect in Flex. He had the audience in the palm of his hand as he brought it all home with some stunning examples of a page flip concept at the end of the session.
