cf.Objective() review -- Introduction to Flex

May 26, 2009

Finally, a few minutes to start posting my notes/reviews of the various cf.Objective() presos! I'll do these more or less in the order that I attended the talks. Hopefully the info will be useful to some of you... Introduction to Flex 3
Theo Rushin Theo gave a very clear, well put together introduction to Flex. He went over some basic code, building a sample app for the audience, and gave a good first-look at the Flex Builder environment. Theo showed how easy it is to drag and drop components into a Flex app ala Visual Basic, wrote a little code, and poof...he was up and running (as expected). My only critique would be for a more real-world sample application, as I find that helps the light bulbs click for the audience at times. However, I know how hard it can be to come up with a good real-world example that's not too complex for a beginner audience. Something already prepared so things like "setting a break point" can be demo'd quickly might be nice next time. If you're new to Flex, this was a great introduction. Hopefully Theo's slides are available on the web (apparently I didn't write down the URL for his blog). -nolan