Through My Lense

I had heard about these conferences for quite some time but this is the first one that I have attended. It definitely lived up to everything I’ve heard and will definitely be back! I like that it rotates and can’t wait for which town I will attend in next!
I took numerous [...]

The why?!?
CF request/response applications
Flex RIA
persisted data is not refreshed automatically
stateful approach to managing data – no more sessions
refreshed through manual client interactions or AS
Flex Real-time Apps
persisted data is refreshed via interactions w/ server
stateful approach w/ server side sync
refreshed through polling, long polling, or RTMP
data management service – life cycle service – provides data sync between [...]

History
Rehabilitation Act – 1973
you can’t discriminate based on disability
Section 508 – 1998
required federal agencies to make their technology accessible to people with disabilities
any group that gets money from the federal government also falls under this
ie. universities, benefits,
http://section508.gov/
Principles of accessibility (developed by WCAG)
perceivable
operable
understandable
robust
Compliance
How do you know? test, find impaired user, combination of automated tools/best judgement
Is the [...]

What is skinning?
graphical – quick and easy files from Creative Suite. nice for distribution (Scale Nine)
programmatic – not style-able with CSS, animation limited to component itself, inflexible when acting as a generic skin
stateful – not really a skinning style
programmatic skinning provides the power to create a skin that is just as flexible, if not more, [...]

Release of Axiis as open source Data Visualization Framework
Caution: Alpha level code. Beta coming in a few months
What?
more than just a set of charting components
lightweight framework used to assemble and development charting functions
way to describe patterns in data
Why?
Client needs are normally quite specific leaving the developers feeling like they need “one more feature” to fully [...]