MAX 2007 in Barcelona: Talk Materials Online
October 18, 2007 on 10:45 pm | In Flex, Programming |I just got back tonight from a very pleasant 4 day stay in Barcelona, where I spoke at the MAX Europe conference. I’ll be posting soon on some of the touristic and cultural aspects of Barcelona (with several observations on the Barcelona Metro’s user interface); this is just a quick note to let attendees and other interested parties know that the materials from my talks are available.
The sessions I gave this time were:
- The Euro-edition of an interactive panel on Flex Best Practices featuring myself, Steven Webster, Sascha Wolter and Dirk Eismann. This one was considerably less formal than the American version and had a lot more give and take; I feel I was able to apply some good lessons and feedback from the first one. I don’t have notes on the panel, since I was moderating it — you just had to be there!
- A presentation called Practical Patterns in Flex, which I adapted from Jim Echmalian’s talk at 360Flex earlier this year. This features a brand new take on the Model-View-Controller-Service architecture, and highlights the use of specific design patterns to remedy problems of encapsulating responsibility, dealing with asynchronous operations, and gaining access to the “right” controller without using messy singletons. I put together a working sample application in source code form that accompanies the talk.
- Another talk entitled Continuous Integration for Flex with Ant and FlexUnit, originally assembled by Daniel Rinehart for MAX North America.
I don’t have a lot of news about the conference that’s any different from my earlier observations on MAX North America. The food was better at MAX Europe (when there was some), and the sessions were smaller which made them more intimate. However, as a number of speakers noticed, people ask many fewer questions during the session in Europe — but more of them come up afterwards to talk.
Like the Chicago MAX, this conference was situated in a part of town where there are basically no amenities or activities besides hotels and the conference center. And unlike Chicago, there was a distinctly seedy feeling to the neighborhood once outside the immediate neighborhood of the conference. But… it was really easy to get into town on the Metro and see the sights. Barcelona is a truly wonderful city: more on that later!
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Your practical patterns talk was probably the best session I’ve attended at a conference in the last couple of years in terms of the real, current value I got out of it. I wrote my first decent-sized Flex app on the plane ride home because of it - and I finally understand why Cairngorm is the way it is (but I still don’t like it)!
I actually thought the food was much better in Chicago and found the Barcelona neighborhood far more friendly and less threatening than Chicago so I guess it depends on where you’re from :)
Thanx!
Comment by Sean Corfield — October 20, 2007 #
[…] Since 360|Flex 2007, the “Practical Patterns in Flex” talk has received creative attention from none other than Joe Berkovitz, who sharpened many of the key points and built out the sample application. He presented the improved talk at MAX 2007 in Barcelona, to a mob of eager application architecture mavens! You can download the materials from Joe’s blog post here. […]
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[…] no server component currentlty) is not the point. Much like Joe Berkovitz and James Echmalian do here, my goal was to provide readable source code showing the MVC pattern in Flex, without using […]
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