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Intro to Flex Charting Talk – Weds Oct 28

Doug — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:11:40 +0000

I’ll be giving a talk on Flex Charting next week at NEIA. Please attend.

Here’s the description…

Intro to Flex Charting

Flex Charting is a pain in the ass to use. It’s very easy to create a simple chart but gets more and more difficult the more you want to customize. During this talk, we will start with a simple chart and add more and more features and functionality. By the end you should have a basic understanding of the Flex charting classes. Time permitting, we will discuss some other Flex data visualization libraries and some tips and tricks for making complex charts. Our sample data set will be Michael Jackson’s Number 1 hits, so if nothing else, you will learn something about the King of Pop.

Wednesday, October 28
7:15 – 9:00
Room 1001-1002 on Center Campus The New England Institute of Art 10 Brookline Place West Brookline, MA 02445 Brookline Village Stop on the MBTA D Greenline

Freelancing Panel

Doug — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 03:23:57 +0000

Michelle over at New England Institute of Art asked me to be part of a class that was covering freelancing. So, Dale Cruse and I talked for a while about our experience. Here’s the presentation which served as talking points for me and Dale.

Five Minute Design Patterns Presentation Files

Doug — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 18:33:41 +0000

Amazingly, made it through ten patterns in an hour – even w/ my long winded intro.

Presentation here: keynote, pdf, ppt.

Code is here. Right-click, view source. There is a different application file for each of the patterns. So, only the first example (the non-patterns example) is viewable on-line.

Thanks to everyone who attended the talk. It was a great turnout and I had a blast.

Kudos to Chris and Rebecca for putting on such a great conference. Flash on Tap definitely rocked. Can’t wait for next year.

Tap Into America!

Doug — Thu, 07 May 2009 14:30:05 +0000

No, not the tour to support Smell the Glove. But, Flash on Tap! Which takes a sophisticated view of sex and puts in on a farm. Excuse me, I mean, takes a sophisticated view of Flash puts it on a beer festival.

Beer! Flash! Talking! Beer (including Haverill, Lagunitas, Smuttynose, and Stone – some of my favorites)! May 28 – 30th at the castle in Boston. It will be fun. You should go.

Speaking at BFPUG tomorrow March 25

Doug — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:33:11 +0000

This just came up. I’ll be giving my mashup talk again (twice in one week – really getting some good value), this time to BFPUG.

Info here…

Wednesday, March 25
7:15PM
The New England Institute of Art
Center Campus (Brookline Village) http://www.artinstitutes.edu/boston/AboutUs/MapsDirections.aspx
Room 1001-1002

Source Files from Mashup Talk

Doug — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 02:57:19 +0000

Here’s a link to a pdf of the mashup talk I just gave to the Harvard Flash User Group.

A special thank you to Oscar Cortes. I shamelessly stole content from the mashup talk he gave to both the Design Patterns group and the excellent Flex Camp Boston.

Speaking at Harvard Flash Group Thursday

Doug — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 19:00:17 +0000

I’ll be speaking at the Harvard Flash Group this Thursday. It’s open to the public (kind of), you need to be let in by Nick. So, if you have any interest in going, send me an email. You’d just have to meet at Lamont Library before the talk. I’ll talk about using Flex for creating mashups and the wonder that is Web 2.0. I’ll also walk through some code I will have written by the time of the talk.Harvard University Flash User Group March 19, 2009, 12:15 – 1:45 Lamont Library
Web 2.0 and Mashups w/ Flex

Observer Pattern Files

Doug — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:43:52 +0000

Here it is. Right-click, view source. I spent less time on this presentation than I ever have. And it was the first presentation written entirely at Characters. Enjoy.

The image above was taken from ActionScript 3.0 Design Patterns. The code was also kind of taken from there. Well, the interfaces were anyway.

Observer Pattern

Doug — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 21:49:42 +0000

Design Patterns group tonight at Brightcove. 7pm 12th floor. We’ll be talking about the Observer pattern.

Flash on Tap

Doug — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:27:47 +0000

UPDATE: Flash on Tap has been postponed to May 2009. It will now be even more awesome!

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.