Turn Good Ideas Into Great Projects!

AGENDA: RMC’s principal Samuel Asher Rivello will bring an exclusive night of training to San Diego, California.

Rivello Multimedia Consulting (RMC) focuses on four services for Adobe Flash CS4 and Flex 3; software architecture, consulting, development, and training.

RMC will offer one premium night of training. Send an email to reserve for the night and bring payment to the event with your reservation confirmation.

Countdown: Only Weeks To Go!

Reserve your seats now! (Below)

DATES: 7PM START
**Wednesday July 15th, 2009 (Premium Night)

DURATION:
**Approx. 3.5 – 4 Hours.

PRICE:
**$99 USD Per Person

LOCATION:
**Broadway & 6th Avenue, San Diego, CA, USA (Directions & parking info will be emailed to confirmed attendees)

THANKS
**This session is brought to you with the assistance of Demian Borba of San Diego’s EFM- http://www.efactormedia.com

Wednesday, July 15th, 2009 – Premium Night: Intro to PureMVC for Flash & Flex (4 Hours)

Superpower your Flash and Flex Development Skills!

AGENDA: Architect new projects of all sizes in a more scalable and maintainable way with the free & powerful PureMVC Framework. Revisit projects and easily add new features. Collaborate on teams with confidence.

PureMVC is a light framework for creating applications based on the class Model-View-Controller meta design pattern. It has a very narrow goal, to provide design patterns AND development patterns to help you separate your programming into three distinct areas; data, user interface, and the application logic. It is approachable and powerful with minimal tedium and repetition in development. While the examples shown will be specific to Adobe Flex 3 for deployment to the browser, this session is equally relevant for application developers of other technologies including Adobe Flex 3 for Adobe AIR desktop deployment.

AUDIENCE: Intermediate to advanced Adobe Flash CS4 and Adobe Flex 3 developers with equivalent ActionScript 3.0 knowledge. This is not for beginner developers or for designers; its pretty technical. Laptops are not required. Attendees will have another tool in their belt for organizing readable, efficient, maintainable projects. All source code and documentation will be available to attendees.

OUTLINE:

• Section 1: Background of and Benefits of PureMVC
  • What is a framework?
  • What is PureMVC?
• Section 2: PureMVC Applied
  • Setting up a new PureMVC project
  • Implementing all features of PureMVC
  • Extending an application with new features
• Section 3: PureMVC Next Steps
  • PureMVC vs. Other Frameworks
  • 10 Tips for PureMVC
  • What’s next?

RESERVE 1 TICKET PER EMAIL ADDRESS: Seats are first come first serve. Sorry but no refunds available after July 14th.

• Please RSVP Me: Premium RMC Training, San Diego, CA on July 15th

DESCRIPTION: I wrote a new article for the latest Adobe EDGE magazine. Augmented reality (AR) is a field of computer science that involves combining the physical world and an interactive, three-dimensional virtual world. Let’s take a look at augmented reality, its current uses, and its future potential. Then we’ll dig in and see how to apply this exciting technology using Adobe Flash CS4 Professional, Adobe Flash Player 10, and a webcam.

AUDIENCE: Intermediate to advanced Adobe Flash CS3 and Adobe Flex 4 developers or anyone interested in cool new technology.

LINKS

• More Info On Computer Arts Projects Issue #125
• Fine Computer Arts Projects #125 on your local magazine stand (UK, USA, etc…)
• …Or Now You Can View the AR article online!

Turn Good Ideas Into Great Projects!

AGENDA: RMC’s principal Samuel Asher Rivello will bring an exclusive night of training to Venice, California.

Rivello Multimedia Consulting (RMC) focuses on four services for Adobe Flash CS4 and Flex 3; software architecture, consulting, development, and training.

RMC will offer one premium night of training. Send an email to reserve for the night and bring payment to the event with your reservation confirmation.

Countdown: Only Weeks To Go!

Reserve your seats now!

DATES: 7PM START
**Wednesday July 1st, 2009 (Premium Night)

DURATION:
**Approx. 3.5 – 4 Hours.

PRICE:
**$99 USD Per Person

LOCATION:
**Venice, Ca, USA (Directions/parking will be emailed to confirmed attendees)

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009 – Premium Night: Intro to PureMVC for Flash & Flex (4 Hours)

Superpower your Flash and Flex Development Skills!

AGENDA: Architect new projects of all sizes in a more scalable and maintainable way with the free & powerful PureMVC Framework. Revisit projects and easily add new features. Collaborate on teams with confidence.

PureMVC is a light framework for creating applications based on the class Model-View-Controller meta design pattern. It has a very narrow goal, to provide design patterns AND development patterns to help you separate your programming into three distinct areas; data, user interface, and the application logic. It is approachable and powerful with minimal tedium and repetition in development. While the examples shown will be specific to Adobe Flex 3 for deployment to the browser, this session is equally relevant for application developers of other technologies including Adobe Flex 3 for Adobe AIR desktop deployment.

AUDIENCE: Intermediate to advanced Adobe Flash CS4 and Adobe Flex 3 developers with equivalent ActionScript 3.0 knowledge. This is not for beginner developers or for designers; its pretty technical. Laptops are not required. Attendees will have another tool in their belt for organizing readable, efficient, maintainable projects. All source code and documentation will be available to attendees.

OUTLINE:

• Section 1: Background of and Benefits of PureMVC
  • What is a framework?
  • What is PureMVC?
• Section 2: PureMVC Applied
  • Setting up a new PureMVC project
  • Implementing all features of PureMVC
  • Extending an application with new features
• Section 3: PureMVC Next Steps
  • PureMVC vs. Other Frameworks
  • 10 Tips for PureMVC
  • What’s next?

RESERVE 1 TICKET PER EMAIL ADDRESS: Seats are first come first serve. Sorry but no refunds available after June 9th.

• Please RSVP Me: Premium RMC Training on June 10th

TARGET FORMAT (Duration):  Conference Presentation (1-4 Hours),

AGENDA:  This course is a sequel to the Adobe Flex 4 Microarchitectures: The PureMVC Framework course (also available). Microarchitectures are groups of design patterns prepared to work together in concert. PureMVC represents a leading alternative to the well-known Cairngorm framework. PureMVC is a light framework for creating applications based on the class Model-View-Controller meta design pattern. It has a very narrow goal, to provide design patterns AND development patterns to help you separate your programming into three distinct areas; data, user interface, and the application logic. It is approachable and powerful with minimal tedium and repetition in development.

In this ADVANCED PureMVC session we will overview some high powered add-on utilities for PureMVC and discuss weakpoints to the framework and solutions to get around those potential problems.

While the examples shown will be specific to Adobe Flex 4 for deployment to the browser, this session is equally relevant for application developers of other technologies including Adobe Flex 4 for Adobe AIR desktop deployment.

AUDIENCE: Intermediate to advanced Adobe Flash CS5 and Adobe Flex 4 developers with equivalent basic PureMVC knowledge and ActionScript 3.0 knowledge.

LAPTOP REQUIREMENT FOR ATTENDEES: [Optional ]

TAKE-AWAY: Attendees will sharpen their skills with PureMVC and accelerate project development with advanced techniques. All source code and documentation will be available to attendees.

SECTIONS:

• Section 1: Accelerated Review of PureMVC
• What?
• Why?
• How?
• Section 2: PureMVC’s Top Utilities Applied
  • Pipes – Elegant multi-SWF application development
  • State Machine – Hierarchical state-management done right
  • Startup Manager – Load configurations, utilities, and assets smoothly
• Section 3: Weakpoints of PureMVC and Work-arounds
  • WTF, no binding allowed?
  • What to do about document-based apps
  • More…

  DATE

  • Not yet confirmed for any event.
  • Leave a comment to request I speak at your event.
  • Available as early as Q1 2010.

Here a a few links on this new feature in Flash Builder 4 / Flex Builder 4. This feature and 9 others new features are featured in this course Adobe Flex 4 (BETA) – Top 10 Features In Depth. Follow the link to find out more, register for the course, or request the course be available in your area.

• Vectors
• Dynamic Sound Generation
• 3D (Postcards in space)
• Custom Filters w/ Pixel Bender
• MORE… http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/features/

• Flash 10 coming to a non-Apple smartphone near you in 2010 – Ars Technica
• Cool Flash Tip of the Week #3 | kreativeKING – Interactive Developer
• AH: Sound in Flash 10 (beta). Generating Waveforms, Timbre and Pitch.
• Adobe Edge: August 2008 – Under the hood with Adobe Flash Player 10 beta

Here a a few links on this new feature in Flash Builder 4 / Flex Builder 4. This feature and 9 others new features are featured in this course Adobe Flex 4 (BETA) – Top 10 Features In Depth. Follow the link to find out more, register for the course, or request the course be available in your area.

• Package Explorer
• File Templates
• Refactoring
  * ‘Move Class’ with updated references
• Class Code Hints
• Code Generation
  * GenerateEventHandler
  * Generate Getter/Setter
• Code Formatting
  * Correct Indentation
• Intellisense
  *AsDoc Popups
• Data Wizards
• New Debugging
  * Breakpoints (only break on 3rd time reached or only break if x=7)
• Flex Unit Testing
• More…)

Here a a few links on this new feature in Flash Builder 4 / Flex Builder 4. This feature and 9 others new features are featured in this course Adobe Flex 4 (BETA) – Top 10 Features In Depth. Follow the link to find out more, register for the course, or request the course be available in your area.

Great the New Text Layout Flash 10 stuff is in there! What’s more, the CSS finally doesn’t suck in Flex. Woohoo… No more Degrapha crutches needed!

• CSS Advanced Selectors – Functional and Design Specification
• Importing a text flow from an XML object in Flex 4
• Kicking The Tires of Gumbo’s Text Controls
• New CSS Selectors are supported in the Flex 4 trunk
• Gumbo CSS Advanced Selectors Are Wicked!!!

TOPIC: Adobe Flex 4 (BETA) – Top 10 Features In Depth

Here a a few links on this new feature in Flash Builder 4 / Flex Builder 4. This feature and 9 others new features are featured in this course Adobe Flex 4 (BETA) – Top 10 Features In Depth. Follow the link to find out more, register for the course, or request the course be available in your area.

FXG means two things that matter in life; you can draw with Flex (well Woop-Dee-Doo…..), and you can import (and export?) graphics with 100% fidelity from Adobe CS4 (insert non-sarcastic noise of excitement!)

• Using FXG with Google Maps API in Flex
• Adobe Edge: August 2009 – FXG and MXML Graphics: Adobe’s new graphical description languages
• AH: Custom Component in Flex 4 (Gumbo). A Knob Button – part 1.
• FXG (Flex Graphics) – The Missing Link (PhilterBlog)
• Adobe FXG 1.0 Specification

TOPIC: Adobe Flex 4 (BETA) – Top 10 Features In Depth

Here a a few links on this new feature in Flash Builder 4 / Flex Builder 4. This feature and 9 others new features are featured in this course Adobe Flex 4 (BETA) – Top 10 Features In Depth. Follow the link to find out more, register for the course, or request the course be available in your area.

Spark Means you can now be 100% confident that reskinning an existing component will take less time and effort than recoding your own component. (Well… 73% confident…)

• Adobe’s Party-line on the Gumbo Spark Architecture
• http://www.adobe.com/newsletters/edge/february2009/articles/article6/index.html?trackingid=EJJRI
• http://www.adobe.com/newsletters/edge/february2009/articles/article6/index.html
• http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/Gumbo+Skinning
• https://xd.adobe.com/#/videos/video/165
• http://www.philterdesign.com/blog/2008/09/10_reasons_to_dig_skinning_in_1.html

Namespaces are seldom used by AS3 development teams. They are useful in many cases. In this demo I define two classes which access the same subclass “Mediator.” When using the autocomplete/intellisense from Flex Builder to introspect the methods within Mediator we see a unique list depending on what custom namespace is used. Imagine helping your developers to see which public methods they should be using depending on what class they are coding in.

Next Steps

• Don’t understand me? Don’t blame you. It is crazy! You really need to see the example (See ‘Member Resources’ below).

Member Resources

[private_Free member]Enjoy this members-only content!

• Download and Import this quick Flex Project Demo to learn about Namespaces

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