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Australia finally catches up with the world (well Apple does anyway)

Finally Apple launched the iTunes music store in Australia today.  About time guys ...

Matt & Todd from the Flex team go down under

Check out Matt & Todd at the sneak peek sessions at MAX getting into the whole Aussie croc hunter thing.  Possibly a little Scott Barnes influence going on ...

On Google Video

Flex Enterprise Services

I just sat in on  Christophe's "Flex Enterprise Services" presentation at MAX, this technology is going to change the face of RIAs as we know it today.  It's such an elegant & simple way to build real time collaborative applications.  Seeing this sort of technology coupled with Flex Builder 2 I think 2006 is going to be an exciting year for RIAs

Incidently I'm going to be giving a similar presentation on Flex Enterprise Services @ the Asia Pacific MAX events in November and in Australia online using Breeze, again in November.

AS3 - Custom Namespaces

I'm sitting in Gary Grossman's session on "Next Generation ActionScript".  He just mentioned something interesting about having the ability to create custom namespaces for encapsulation of method calls in classes and packages.

So I'm used to having public, private and protected modifiers but AS 3.0 introduces the ability to create custom modifiers, I didn't get chance to take down the entire syntax but the resulting methods would look like this ...

myPrivateLibrary addWidget ( )
{

}

Interesting stuff ...

Flex Frameworks = Cairngorm

MAX kicked off for me this morning with Stephen & Alistair (formally of Iteration Two, now part of Macromeida Consulting in Europe) presenting on Flex Frameworks (in other words Cairngorm)

It was a great presentation in which Stephen discussed the fact frameworks are a much over used term and tried to position the different uses of the word, which I found very useful.

They went on to describe the Cairngorm framework using the Cairngorm Flex Store as an example.

The room was full and Stephen asked how many folks were using Flex in the room, almost all hands were raised, he then asked how many people were using Cairngorm, and about half the room raised their hands ... great news for Flex and Cairngorm.

Blog Revival

Decided to make some blog posts this week from MAX, not sure if I'll keep posting afterwards.  But thought I'd share my views on MAX as it unfolds this week