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We had a pretty good turnout yesterday, it was great to see (and meet) a lot of new faces! I naturally started the event by going to the wrong SISA building, but fortunately the ‘real’ one was just a few minutes away.

Here are some of the highlights:

James Ward went over some of the new tags, namespace changes and general updates in Gumbo. Amongst other things, he covered the new 3d implementation, pixelbender integration, FXG, skins and new text features.

Chet Haase talked about his recent work in the frameworks animation capabilities. The Tween class is now replaced by a lower level ‘Animator’ (or was it Animation?) Class, and the implementation was like music to my ears! He also went on the explain the higher level implementations of Effects… very cool…

Peter Elst delivered an interesting overview of the SQLite Features in Air1.5 in his typically coherent and well organized manner, always a pleasure

Mr. Spring ActionScript : Christophe Herreman discussed a bit of Inversion Of Control Theory, then went on to showcase his current project, how Spring ActionScript was is implemented in it and what the benefits are. I have to admit that although each time I read about the topic I understand a little bit more, yet, parts of it still flew way over my head. It’s a fascinating framework, and I have a great deal of respect for Christophe! He posted a very comprehensive summary of his presentation this morning on his blog.

Finally, my own presentation. Again, I’m not sure what Koen was thinking when he put me on as the last speaker… Talking about Invalidation Routines at 21:45 in the evening was, well, challenging Having said that, the presentation went smoothly, generated some laughs and I received positive feedback at the end, including the “If only you could have told me this one year ago”

Here be the slides:

…and probably more interesting, you can download the Flex project with all the source code here

Thanks again, and see you all at the next user group event!

Tags: flex, flexcamp, invalidation

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