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Aug
Introduction to Flex -- Presentation at Web on the Piste
This morning I gave a presentation on "Introduction to Flex" at Web on the Piste at Queenstown, New Zealand. It went off quite well -- at least that is what I hear from the response to the presentation. I realized that for an hour-long presentation about 20 slides is the maximum, especially when one is going to show code as well. I'm attaching a PDF of the presentation with this blog entry.
Also, I demoed a small RSS reader application based on Flex docs. Here is the code for that.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml" layout="absolute">
<mx:HTTPService id="blogService" url="{blogURI.text}" />
<mx:Panel x="10" y="10" width="624" height="441" layout="absolute" id="blogPanel" title="{blogService.lastResult.rss.channel.title}">
<mx:DataGrid x="10" y="40" id="blogDatagrid" width="584" dataProvider="{blogService.lastResult.rss.channel.item}" fontSize="14" height="174">
<mx:columns>
<mx:DataGridColumn headerText="Title" dataField="title"/>
<mx:DataGridColumn headerText="Date" dataField="pubDate"/>
</mx:columns>
</mx:DataGrid>
<mx:TextArea x="10" y="225" width="584" height="176" id="blogTextarea" fontSize="14" htmlText="{blogDatagrid.selectedItem.description}"/>
<mx:TextInput x="10" y="10" width="466" id="blogURI">
<mx:text>http://syndication.apn.co.nz/rss/nzhrsscid_000000002.xml</mx:text>
</mx:TextInput>
<mx:Button x="492" y="10" label="Get RSS Feed" click="blogService.send()"/>
</mx:Panel>
</mx:Application>
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August 23, 2007 1:14 AM
Great intro on Flex
I've recently started learning Flex
ur presentation summarize alot of stuff
August 23, 2007 9:39 AM
I didn't know about the conference in Queenstown until too late :(
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August 23, 2007 9:59 AM
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August 24, 2007 8:18 AM