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MAX :: Design Patterns in ActionScript 3

Posted by: Ali Mills Tue, 10 Oct 2006 16:39:00 GMT

In two weeks, Luke and I will be at MAX where we’ll be giving two sessions on Design Patterns in ActionScript 3. The first session is on Wednesday, October 25 from 1:45pm – 2:45pm in rooms 4201 – 4202 of the Lando space. The second is on Thursday, October 26 from 3:00pm – 4:00pm in rooms 4105 – 4106 of the Delfino space. Both Lando and Delfino are on the fourth floor. If you have a Google Calendar account, you can add our session to it by clicking the following buttons:


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If you’re registered for MAX, use the MAX Session Scheduler to add our session to your schedule. Lists of all Wednesday and Thursday sessions are posted here and here. If you want something more portable than the MAX Session Scheduler, Bill Perry is soliciting MAX conference guides in Flash Lite that he’ll be uploading to his site as he gets them.

If you haven’t already registered for MAX, you still can! Go to https://www.adobemax06.com/ and do it.

Finally, if you can’t register but are planning to be in Vegas and want to attend something Adobe related, consider attending Ted Patrick’s unconference MAXUP. I’ll be there demonstrating a mobile iCalendar reader project I’m working on. Many other people will be there, too. To sign up for MAXUP, just follow Ted’s instructions.

San Francisco Design Patterns Study Group meeting tonight

Posted by: Ali Mills Wed, 14 Jun 2006 17:09:00 GMT

The San Francisco Design Patterns Study Group is meeting at 6:00PM tonight at Frog Design. Frog is located at 420 Bryant St. in San Francisco. Tonight’s pattern is the Strategy Pattern.

Luke and I started the group a couple years ago to motivate us to work through Addison-Wesley’s original Design Patterns book, but we’re not leading the group right now. Ben Honda Rottler is. Essentially, Ben has activated the group from its dormant state. I believe that Ben – like us – is working through the book in the order and fashion suggested by Joshua Kerievsky’s A Learning Guide To Design Patterns which is good because the order worked really well for us.

If you’re interested in design patterns and live in San Francisco, you should consider attending the group.

If you’re interested but live in Boston, you should consider attending the Boston Flash Platform User Group. Since April they’ve been hosting a design patterns sub-group.

Besides the groups in San Franciso and Boston, I don’t know of any other design patterns study groups that focus on ActionScript. I know that when Paul Spitzer (Flair and SWFObject Publish Profile Extension author) lived in Santa Cruz, he started a group. But, since Paul lives in San Francisco now (and was a core attendee to the San Francisco Design Patterns Study group when Luke and I were working through the book for the first two times), that group’s now gone.

If you know of other design pattern study groups, please post the group’s information in the comments section.

Thanks!