Meeting Date: January 27, 2010 from 8:00pm-9:00p,
Meet us at UAT (http://www.gotoandstop.org/?page_id=9) from 7:30 to 7:55 in time for seating and networking.
Meeting Summary
Dependency Injection is the new hawtness in the AS3 world. Everybody is doing it and talking about it and getting it tattooed onto their bodies. But if you have no idea what “DI” means to you or how it could make you a better coder and a better lover then you should come and see how it is done.
Two popular and wonderful frameworks will be discussed that offer DI tools;
RobotLegs and
Swiz. And once it has been explained that DI can add years to your life (or at least make your code easier to write and test) then some of the OTHER fine patterns and benefits that these two frameworks offer will be discussed.
You know what DI is you say and you use it every day? Good for you! But you don’t know what the difference is between SwizzleLegs and RobotSticks? Wondering why you shouldn’t just keep on using SomeOtherFramework to build every application that you ever work on? If these questions intrigue you then you will benefit from the talk as well!
Bring your thinking caps, laptops and your favorite mxmlc build tool. This is gonna be part presentation and part lab. The best way to learn is to do, screw up, and then fix it. You will leave with the power of Dependency Injection and maybe a little bit of Mediation up your sleeve.
Presenter: Jason Crist – RIA Consultant
About the Presenter:
Jason Crist is a Sr. Awesomeness Engineer for Tickets.com (the maker of the grooviest ticket sales software in the world). He likes to dabble in woodworking and photography and plays the guitar badly. He has been building, breaking and fixing Flash Applications since they decided to allow hacks to stick code in those Flash Movies and has been writing ActionScript in Eclipse longer than any of you. He’s bad at PHP, horrible with .NET and has just enough Java experience to get himself into trouble. He knows the Flash Platform better than your mamma does though.