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I get back from snowboarding to find out this post just disappeared?! Did I save an edit and delete the contents? wtf? No wonder there were no comments

Here is what I remember of it… oh, and while I’m at it, how is it that comments are blocked in the 360 flex post?!!!! :swear:

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THE FLEX ANTHEM… Have patience till about 30 seconds or so into the song for the MAGICAL chorus to :buttrock: KICK IN :buttrock:

(safe for work unless you work at the vatican)

:pirate: I have heard (and prolly will for a while), this every time I spark up flex lately

I’ve been listed on the homepage for a while now, I finally penned the “blurb” to my presentation which is :

Invalidation Routines, Pounded into your cranium once and for all!

The Flex Framework Invalidation Routines are a core tool in a visual component authors kit. This is a relatively small topic, yet, one often skimmed through, frequently misunderstood, or worse, entirely ignored. This presentation will go through the basics in a comprehensive manner, then dig deeper into the details and follow up with several real world examples, with an underlying emphasis on the common battles between designers and developers. The goals are to appreciate the mechanism, how and when to use it, and furthermore to understand where things can go wrong. “Invalidation Routines, Pounded into your cranium once and for all!” is targeted at developers dealing with visual components, from entry to mid level, but will hopefully also contain some gems for the seasoned veteran.

I have to say I’m really looking forwards to this! The topic might sound a little dry (what flex topics don’t? ), but I’ve already got a bunch of ideas to liven it up and hopefully produce a memorable presentation. The reason I picked the topic is simple: Flex has people coming from the developer world and from the flash world, the invalidation routines are alien to both It’s not rocket science, but a ‘must know’.

See you there

Technorati Profile

Meh, all the cool kids are doing it. :pirate:

ok, if you feel ripped off by this post, here’s one of the two seafood trays consumed at my place on new years:

:buttrock: Happy belated new year! :buttrock:

Ice Cube, How… How could you?

I’ve always liked you. Even after Anaconda, and your last attempts I heard on the radio, I still remember… Jumping on my bed, memorizing lyrics and blasting ‘Straight Outta Compton’ :buttrock:

“Flash is outta here”… It’s not so much the message, it’s the messenger. I don’t care what Ice Cube thinks about flash, it’s just so damn surreal to hear him say it?! He might as well have said, “Singleton pattern is for Suckas!”. People outside working hours just don’t say things like that. Period. It’s wrong. It’s like seeing your teacher outside school. Or your grandpa talking about sex. Ice cube?! wtf? oh:

Will Adobe respond? Too bad Eazy-E is dead? Maybe Snoop Dogg could churn out some dope ass AIR apps… East Coast West Coast? Puff Daddy? Browser wars are so passe, puhleaze, I for one welcome our new MTV Gangsta driven RIA Platform warring Overlords!!!!11

Last week I started preparing an “Example Cairngorm app” that I could train the new nascom flash team with. Last night, I modified it :

Click to placate your Ice Cube Hate

There’s an HttpService which points to a php script, which in turn returns insults scraped from some online “insult generator” pages. These are displayed over randomly rotating screen shots from the offending video . If the Cairngorm training does happen, I may continue work on this masterpiece!. “AddInsult” (yeah baby, web2.0). “Viewed insults” screen with a datagrid (so sexy ) . Maybe some HOTT text effects, tomato cannon, even some Fire?!! As usual, you can right click for source, prolly not worth it though. Some original code, some source from here and there…

If you’re new to Cairngorm, David Tucker has some well written tutorial style articles. Not to stray from the topic of Ice Cube, but I’ve been weighing PureMVC and Cairngorm… I lean more towards Cairngorm, but am not crazy about it. There’s a funny (but makes a point) posting at the bottom of this blog entry concerning these two frameworks. But that’s another topic.

Go insult Ice Cube! :pirate:

For shizzle, ice cube is more this than this

:pirate: . :pirate: . :pirate: YAARRRRRR….. AIRRRRRSOME…. :pirate: . :pirate: . :pirate:

nascom logo:

Brand Spanking New AIR logo Released yesterday (Mnemonic Square Icon Version) (stolen from Ryan Stewart) :

Coincidence? I think not?!

Nascom was DESTINED to be the numba one like super Greg

yo!

:buttrock: . :buttrock: . :buttrock: . :buttrock: . :buttrock:

Boulevart and all you other sucker agencies might as well start looking at Silverlight