Flash on Tap
I’ll be speaking at Flash on Tap this October 7-9 in Boston. This should be a great conference: Flash + Beer = Nothing to Fear? Or something. Anyway, the speaker line up is top notch. I’m pretty psyched to be included in such an impressive group. My topic is Five Minute Design Patterns. Description below…
Screw eight minute abbs. We’ll be learning a new design pattern every five minutes in this high-impact non-aerobic session. That’s ten whole patterns: Adapter, Template, Singleton, Factory, Strategy, Facade, Iterator, Command, Bridge, and Composite. Why so many in so little time? Because patterns are used for many things, but, mostly they are used to impress other developers. So volume counts. “Composite your tree structure!”; “Facade those classes!”; “UML your bridge!”; and “Iterate this!” are just some things you might say after you’ve paid a little bit of attention during this session. Feel the burn!
We’ll see if the preso works (I think it will be fun), but, hey, if it doesn’t, what do you care? You get to drink beer.
Bridge Pattern Talk Files
Here is the swf - right-click to view source. And here’s the preso. The source has very little commenting and the preso doesn’t have any notes. But, it still might make sense. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions. Presentation is in OpenOffice. Here’s a PDF version as well.
Bridge Pattern
I’ll be giving a talk on the Bridge Pattern at the BFPUG Design Patterns Group(I really need to update that page) this Wednesday (May 7, 2008). As always, it’ll take place at Brightcove and will start at 7pm. And as always, we will get together for beers afterwards at Characters (which is located beneath Brightcove). Please stop by. These are really fun nights. Map here.
Memento - Todd Yard
Design Patterns
Begins: Wed, 05 Sep 2007 at 7:00 PM
Ends: Wed, 05 Sep 2007 at 8:00 PM
Location:
Brightcove 1 Kendall Sq. Cambridge, MA 02142 USA
Link: Todd Yard
Link: Brightcove
Design Patterns Page
I put together a page listing all the design patterns meetings and presentations we’ve had so far. Here it is. As you will see, many of the presenters are not sending me their presentations. Keith Peters even claims to have lost his. Unfortunately, I missed the last meeting so I couldn’t bug everyone. Anyway, hopefully soon, this list will be more complete.
Also, credit for the group goes to Sam Robbins for starting the group. Although, even he hasn’t emailed me his presentations.
Practical Patterns in Flex
Practical Patterns in Flex
Begins: Wed, 01 Aug 2007 at 7:00 PM
Ends: Wed, 01 Aug 2007 at 8:00 PM
Location:
Brightcove One Cambridge Center Cambridge, MA
At this month’s Design Patterns group, Jim Echmalia will give a run-through of his talk for the 360 Flex Conference, Practical Patterns in Flex. Jim is a software developer at Allurent. The abstract for his talk is here. Looks like it should be a good one.
As always, first Weds of the month, 12 floor of Brightcove. Bring your own food and drink. And afterwards, we all go to the bar downstairs and play foosball.
Map
Big building to the right of the Marriot if you come up from the Kendall Square T Station. Come up to the 12th floor and ring the bell.
Flyweight Pattern
Flywieght Pattern
Begins: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 at 7:00 PM
Ends: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 at 8:00 PM
Location:
Brightcove 1 Kendall Sq. Cambridge, MA
Tags: designPatterns flash code
Adapter and Facade Patterns Talk
I posted the files from the Adapter and Facade patterns talk I gave Wednesday. The swfs are totally amazing and there would be no way to create them w/o using design patterns.
Adapter Pattern
Adapter Pattern Talk
Begins: Wed, 09 May 2007 at 7:00 PM
Ends: Wed, 09 May 2007 at 8:00 PM
Location:
Brightcove One Cambridge Ctr Cambridge, MA 02142 US
Link: map to Brightcove
Tags: flash designPatterns
State Pattern, Tonight!
Keith Peters is presenting on the State Pattern tonight at Brightcove. If you haven’t made it to a patterns meeting yet, this will be a good one. Plus, as always, Brightcove supplies pizza, beers afterward, and you can watch me beat James at foosball. Or watch Sam beat me.