In relation to what happened this weekend I met up with Ramesh Srinivasaraghavan from the evangelism team at Adobe India. While we did not talk much about the elephant in the room, we did talk about other things that really matter.
I was very happy that Ramesh reached out to have this discussion, here is some of my take away … read more
Flex 4 does not have an EllipticalArc primitive yet, but I needed one today .. thankfully Degrafa already has an EllipticalArc Class, I translated that to work with Flex 4.
EllipticalArc is a FilledElement so it can have a Fill and a Stroke just like other FilledElements Rect, Ellipse etc.
I haven’t yet implemented some of the layout related functionality that other primitives like Rect, Ellipse etc implement … but it seems to work fine with basic layouts, which is what I needed for now. The class is hosted on Google code under the Apache 2.0 License, just in case someone wants to improve it.
Thank you to the Degrafa team for sharing their amazing work that saves me loads of time every now and then.
I sent an email to the Adobe India Community Champions mailing list about the direction of Adobe’s evangelism efforts in India, the email was originally intended for the 10 or so Community Champions, but since people from Adobe have started reacting in public without reacting on the list first, I feel its better to post my thoughts in public as well.
Here is how Adobe evangelist Harish Sivaramakrish chose to react to my thoughts on twitter, I feel that its unfortunate that this is Adobe’s reaction to genuine critique … read more
FlexMania is a Brazilian online event organized by Igor Costa. The event is focused on the Flash Platform and has a great collection of Flash/Flex/AIR related talks.
Although, most of the talks are in portuguese, there are some interesting english sessions as well like Laura Arguello on Mate Framework, Stephen Downs (a.k.a Tink) on Efflex and Iiley Chen on AsWing
I will also be presenting in english, my talk is “A Flex 4 Component’s Lifecycle” on Monday, July 6th at 15:30 GMT.
I gave a talk this Friday on the lifecycle of a component in Flex 4. The talk went into the details of how the flash player works, why a component needs a lifecycle and the various stages of a components life.