Quietly Scheming

The full video of my session at MAX this year — “What’s new in Flex 4″ — is now available on adobe tv. Watch it here.

I’ve also posted the slides for you browse in bed with a warm cup of hot chocolate.

The source I used for some of the demos in the “What’s new in Flex 4″ talk at the Adobe Max conference in L.A. are now available for download here. If you have a moment, add a comment below with any feedback about the examples, the talk, the project, or just to say hi…I’m always curious to hear from people who are learning about Flex 4.

These samples should work with the beta that was released a few weeks ago. Let me know if you have any problems with it.

Thanks to everyone who attended the talk and the conference overall. It’s always a great learning experience to meet so many developers who make their living off of flex and hear about the amazing things you all do with it (not to mention the pain it causes you).

You would think, after working on Flex for more then five years, that I know most of the sordid details regarding my Flex teammates’ lives. Well…no. In this morning’s status meeting, I was privy to some new information. Deepa Subramaniam, developer extraordinaire for Flex, is a big dork. Because the first thing she thought of when she heard that Matt Chotin’s middle name was ‘Helm’ was:

“It’s like Helm’s Deep!”

Oh, Deepa…

[demo]: http://www.quietlyscheming.com/blog/components/a-couple-of-samples-from-max-no-not-that-one/

The demo I posted yesterday on using custom metadata has been fixed. Thanks to those who pointed out the bug.

[See it here][demo]

[samples]: http://www.quietlyscheming.com/blog/components/a-couple-of-samples-from-max-no-not-that-one/

Last week at MAX Barcelona, I did a couple of off-the-cuff presentations and samples for the Flex Boot Camp session on Wednesday afternoon. I promised a few people I would post those samples on my blog. If you saw my presentation at Max, this is not the demo from the presentation, But you still might find these interesting, so check them out. They are:

### Sample 1: Building a custom component
### Sample 2: redefining what the children of an MXML component means
### Sample 3: metaprogramming with custom actionscript metadata

Read more, see demos, and download source here:

Then come back and leave any comments or feedback here.

[MAX 2007 Samples][samples]

A big thanks to everyone who came to MAX this year, both in Chicago and Barcelona. It’s tremendously helpful to us to talk to so many people who are living and breathing by the decisions we make in the SDK, and I really enjoyed meeting a whole new crop of flex developers (as well as saying hi to the old ones).