June 09, 2008

Scotch on the Rocks, day 3

My second presentation at Scotch On the Rocks was Flex Client Architecture & Best Practices. The one topic in the presentation which gained most attention was probably PresentationModels. I would say there is not really any magic to how to use PresentationModels, but it is more down to what kind of logic you put there and how it relates to your services. The PresentationModel pattern is also independent of any framework you would put on top of Flex.

If you have an interest in presentation patterns, I would recommend to look at Paul Williams great presentation pattern blog series. He also has a series covering how to unit test the different patterns, which most developers should find interesting.

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June 05, 2008

Scotch on the Rocks, day 2

Today I had the first of two presentations I will have at Scotch on the Rocks 2008, todays topic was Modularizing Flex applications - Cairngorm & Modules. It was good to see so many Coldfusion ( and Flex ) developers being interested in how to use Flex modules and Cairngorm.

Tomorrow I will present "Flex Client Architecture & Best Practices", where topics like PresentationModel and unit testing will be covered.

As I also announced on 360|Flex Europe in Milan, Adobe Consulting will over the next few months share some of our best practices in a series of articles. A topic could be for example "Cairngorm and Modules". Steven Webster has posted a call for topics blog post

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April 11, 2008

Cairngorm Deepdive

On Wednesday I had the pleasure of presenting "Cairngorm Deepdive" at 360|Flex Europe. Thanks to
Tom and John for organizing the first 360|Flex in Europe :)

Presentation Cairngorm Deepdive

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March 27, 2008

360|Flex Europe - Cairngorm deepdive

It is now less than 2 weeks left till 360|Flex Europe kicks off in Milan, Italy. And looking at the list of topics being presented, it's going to be a great conference!

In my presentation - Cairngorm deepdive, I'll be covering some of the history behind the Cairngorm Microarhitecture, how to use it on large scale projects, how to handle security, and also shed some light on the future of the framework.

There is also a second presentation covering Cairngorm, Neil Webb will present Cairngorm for beginners.

If you haven't already signed up for the conference, you can do so here

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September 17, 2007

"Using Adobe Flex with Rails" tutorial at RailsConf Europe

Today I'm presenting at RailsConf Europe in Berlin together with Aslak Hellesøy from Bekk Consulting. Todays tutorial is "Using Adobe Flex with Rails", the tutorial is all about how to combine two great tools to quickly develop nice looking and compelling applications. It is really interesting to see what the Rails community is doing with BDD (Behavior-Driven Development), Aslaks second tutorial of the day, and rapid prototyping.

Both Rails and Flex are considered "best in class" when it comes to rapid development, and during todays 3.5 hour session we will show how Flex can integrate with Rails using a REST based back-end.

The presentation can be found here, and the code is on google code

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September 13, 2007

Presenting "Eliminate Waste in Java Development with Adobe Flex" at JavaZone

JavaZone in Oslo, Norway, is the starting point of my little conference "tour".

Today I presented Eliminate Waste in Java Development with Adobe Flex together with Espen Dalløkken from Ezmo at JavaZone in Oslo, Norway. A short outline of the presentation on how to eliminate waste in Rich Internet Applications:

• Remove your Java MVC; Spring MCV, WebFlow, Struts 2...
• No MVC, less configuration and no flow configuration on server, your application is data driven, why should the server care about the flow on the client!
• LCDS, LiveCycle Data Services on top of your existing application, Integrating with Spring, Hibernate, EJB, using one of the LCDS adapters, or using a custom adapter.
• Streamline handover between design and development teams using Flex/Flash Component kit.

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September 12, 2007

About me

Some information about me, my name is Børre Wessel, aka Borre Wessel. I'm working as a Senior Consultant in the RIA team in Edinburgh Scotland.

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