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Mash my Flex up at d.construct 2006

I had a great time presenting at this year's d.construct conference in Brighton. This year's theme was APIs and web applications and my session was titled Mash my Flex up.

I've exported my slides in a number of formats from Keynote (Oh Keynote, how I love thee, let me count the ways...) and release them here under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 license for you to download or view online. (I would have released it under Creative Commons Attribution -- which is a much more liberal license -- but I used two photographs that are under the more restrictive Creative Commons license so I'm forced to release it under those terms.)

Flash format - 2.4MB (doesn't include the fancy 3D transitions)
PDF format - 6.8MB (just the slides)
Quicktime format - 42.3MB (the whole enchilada; all effects, etc., but heavy)

I saw that a number of people have posted about the event. Here are a couple of links:

Andy, Jeremy and Richard from ClearLeft have pulled off yet another great conference and I'm honored to have been part of it. Although there were more people at the event this year, it still had the intimate feel of the initial one last year and had a wonderful time meeting and hanging out with some great people. I did miss the morning sessions but got to catch the ones in the afternoon, including most of Derek Featherstone's talk on Accessible Web Applications in a Post Web 1.0 World, Thomas Vander Wal's talk on Understanding Folksonomy (Tagging that Works), and Jeffrey Veen's hugely enjoyable performance in Designing the Complete User Experience.

Comments

[...] Lots of people have commented on the day as a whole, so I’ll save repeating what they have said. To read them check out Technorati or Aral Balkan has made a list. [...]
by All d.Constructed out. | Tom Anthony on 2006-09-10 12:26:22
The conference was a lot of fun, and I really did enjoy your presentation a lot. It was fantastic to get an overall view of Flex then see some of the technical side of it too. I will definitely being reading some more about it and experimenting with it a bit. Now, if you could only overcome that urge to switch to Windows mid-presentation... ;)
by Tom Anthony on 2006-09-10 12:30:05
Yes, it was quite fun seeing you show off Flex once again. I also reviewed the lot and can't wait to come back from Munich to dive deeper into the Flash and accessibility and Flex and recognition thing.
by Chris Heilmann on 2006-09-11 10:30:11
hey look ma! it's me! i'm glad someone is showing off onyx, sweetness. A new version will be out this weekend -- if you want I'll post a url if you want to display that instead. Dan
by Daniel Hai on 2006-09-12 05:32:39
Hooray for Onyx!
by LEE on 2006-09-12 13:45:41
[...] Knowing what I like to get out of sessions, I try to give my audiences the same things when I present. Sometimes I succeed, sometimes I fail. Recently, I’ve been experimenting with the Lessig method of presentation in both non-technical and technical presentations. It’s definitely better suited to non-technical presentations but I believe I’m developing a bastardized version which should work for presentations that have some technical matter. Recently, I felt it worked really well at d.construct for my Mash my Flex Up talk and for the introduction of my Flex workshop at FlashForward but that it didn’t work as well for my Supercharging Flash 8 talk at FlashForward. [...]
by Conferences: necessary? at Aral Balkan on 2006-09-24 14:03:07