Notes and Links from my quick presentation last night at the St. Louis Flex and Fuse the Arch User Group meeting.

STUFF YOU CAN USE TODAY

RobotLegs Framework

• Joel Hooks, @jhooks
• Automated Dependency Injection is the new “thing” in Actionscript development
• AS3 and Flex. Emphasis on MVCS with Mediator and Command Patterns.
• http://www.robotlegs.org
• RobotLegs & Gaia preso a week later at the Vegas FUG 
http://experts.na3.acrobat.com/p16739385/
• In The Wild
  • http://www.dogooderchallenge.com/HandbagDesignContest/BagBuilder/
  • http://www.clubtreasureworld.com/
  • http://hbopunchzone.com/
  • http://www.robotlegs.org/community/

PushButton Engine

• Nate Beck, @jnbeck
• AS3 Game Engine created by Game Veterans
• Adobe Support
• Open Source
• Active Community (1018 registered)
• http://pushbuttonengine.com/

OSMF

• David Hassoun
• OSMF (Open Source Media Framework)
• http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/osmf/Open+Source+Media+Framework
• http://david.realeyes.com/?p=137

Flex Typography

• Matt Guest, @mguest
• Flash Text Engine and the Text Layout Framework
• Vastly improved OpenType
• Real Kerning
• Improved anti-aliasing and pixel snapping
• Baseline snapping
• Digit case and width
• Ligatures

Greenthreading

• Huyen Tue Dao, @queencodemonkey
• While you cannot access other threads in FP, you can emulate threads in code.
• http://queencodemonkey.com/2010/03/08/360flex-presentation-slides-and-code/
• http://code.google.com/p/greenthreads/

TDD with FlexUnit 4

• Elad Elrom, @eladelrom
• http://elromdesign.com/blog/2010/03/10/test-driven-development-tdd-with-flexunit-4-complete-tutorial/

UX PRINCIPLES

• Andrew Powell, @umandy
• http://www.slideshare.net/ivanhoe/andrew-powell-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-ux
• Features are dead. Focus on solutions and features will follow.

STUFF YOU COULD USE TODAY, BUT WILL BE BETTER TOMORROW.

REFLEX

• An AS3 component framework relying more on composition than inheritance
• Jacob (@jac_) and Tyler Wright (@xtyler) and Ben Stucki (@benstucki)
• http://jacwright.com
• http://www.xtyler.com/
• http://github.com/reflex/
• http://groups.google.com/group/reflex-platform
• Demo: http://www.xtyler.com/code/310#more-310
• Demos and Slides: http://jacwright.com/blog/394/reflex-demos/

iPhone and Mobile Dev

Paul Robertson’s (@probertson) Session: http://probertson.com/articles/2010/03/16/slides-and-examples-developing-iphone-apps-flash-platform/

Renaun Erickson’s (@renaun) Session on optimization for mobile: http://renaun.com/blog/2010/03/10/304/