My Review on Spring-Roo

So I gave a presentation about Spring Roo recently. Hopefully this means I'll get a kangaroo.  I felt it went pretty well. I decided to share some of my remarks as I think I learned more by presenting than by trying it. As I can not put a presentation on my document (yet), I'll show the text of my slides and will explain some of the things I discussed while presenting.

Lessons learned at 360Flex

It's time to reflect a bit about the latest 360Flex. This was a good time to learn about Hardware integration with the Flash Platform. Here we have integration with Arduino boards (via as3glue or merapi).  Also, I learned a bit about JComm as well as how these sensors can send Event objects whereby one can react and listen (think credit card readers, robots, etc). Nice possibilities that make so much sense for thick client applications using Adobe Air... Very exciting.

Monkey Patching in Flex

I recently attended 360Flex. It was an excellent conference. I thought I knew some Flex, but I was certainly not aware of how much others are doing with Flex, Actionscript and the Flash Platform in general. Very interesting concepts. One of the nice concepts I recently learned while at San Jose was "Monkey-Patching".  Fortunately, I had the chance to practice how to use it after the conference and learned so much about the internals of some Flex components.  Here is what I did.