Aral Balkan

Here are my slides from the one-day Flex workshop I taught at FlashForward Austin 2006.

The slides don't cover the demonstration sections, which are shown in outline form. The presentation is released under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 UK: England & Wales license except for two slides that use Flickr pictures released under the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 2.0 license. I've got a link to the Keynote source, below, so you can use specific slides if you want to in your own presentations (with attribution, of course, as per the terms of the Creative Commons license.)

• Flash format (coming soon) - 5.5MB (doesn't include the fancy 3D transitions)
• PDF format - 6.4MB (just the slides)
• Quicktime format - 34.1MB (the whole enchilada; all effects, etc., but heavy)
• Keynote - 10.2MB (source, .zip)

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• [...] Flex Workshop — Aral Balkan http://aralbalkan.com/732 [...]

  by » Blog Archive » FF Austin Session Note Links! on 2006-09-21 02:31:11

• [...] 1. Head Start: Flex 2 Workshop - Aral Balkan Oy! If you want to know about Flex, get your ass to one of Aral’s classes! He’s a great presenter and gave a really vivid high-level intro to Flex 2. He’s also written a lot of Flex 2 “Quick Starts” on the Adobe site, which are really worth checking out. He started out with a tour of the Flex Builder 2/Eclipse environment and gave a summary of the most useful keystrokes and customization tips. He ran through many of the new language features: regular expressions, E4X XML parser, the MXML framework, and the differences from AS2. Too much info to really cover in a post, I have so many notes from this session… Useful tips: a. Did you know that with FlexBuilder 2 you can publish your files so that the source is automatically available to a user via the right-mouse menu? Just like view source in an HTML browser! How cool is that? b. Aral talked about the -keep compiler option which allows you to see all the AS3 code that’s actually generated by your MXML and AS3 classes. c. He recommended using the RegExBuddy utility to tune your regular expressions in AS3. Maybe you’re a PERL geek and can do this stuff while trying not to sneeze, but my regular expressions always seem to need a few tries, so this will be really useful to me. d. If you’ve played with MXML you’ve seen that all examples are an ugly ASP-like soup of MXML tags with AS3 code contained within CDATA tags. But, you don’t have to live in that world. Brian Weisenthal discussed his approach to this issue at a meeting a few weeks back. Aral also introduced his remedy for the ugliness, using “code behind”: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/quickstart/building_components_using_code_behind/. The world’s already so ugly, don’t mix your script with your MXML! e. Aral also strongly recommended another Quick Start lesson on best practices for validation, which I haven’t looked at yet but I’m sure is great: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/quickstart/validating_data/ [...]

  by » Blog Archive » Another perspective on FlashForward Austin (lengthy, techy) on 2006-09-22 13:42:42

• Thanks Aral....

  by Savvas on 2006-09-22 14:42:43

• [...] 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 14:12:47

• Nice work.. thanks for the Quicktime version.

  by Chris B on 2006-09-25 13:13:30