I learned a lot over the past year and a half since I started working with Adobe Flex/AIR, and I really want to give the talk that I wish someone had given me at Adobe MAX 2008. It would basically be a, “Here is what to look out for when you’re writing your first large Flex/AIR application, and here is a repository of source code to save yourself a few hundred hours of work”.
- Cross platform gotchas
- Localizing/Globalizing (how to cheaply include every currency and date format in the world)
- Adding license key protection
- Team workflow (source control and build system gotchas)
- Smooth badge-based deployment
- Adding crash reporting to your app (even in pre AIR 2.0 code)
- Quickly adding a help system to your app
- How to improve the built-in AIR auto-update mechanism
- Custom component gotchas
- Large scale QA/testing on a shoestring budget
- Elegantly adapting code to the single threaded environment
- Emulating type-safe containers
- Reducing compile times
It would be more of a “wide dive” instead of the “deep dive” talks that are all of the rage, but the source code supplement would hopefully fill in the gaps. Whether I am accepted or not, I’ll put this talk together for my local Austin Flex user group, and I’ll post the source code and materials here.
That sounds like an excellent talk Taylor. Make sure to post when you will give this talk on AFUG. Good luck getting accepted to talk at Adobe MAX.