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#cfunited Notes – “Digging Through the Flex Framework”

Important skill
Why?

Everything isn’t always out of the box
open source
times are rough (set yourself apart)

Real world examples
Tips

become familiar with class hierarchy
FB keyboard shortcuts
source location (including default CSS)
finding component that best fits needs
preserve compiler generated code

Class Hierarchy

important to know wehre you are so you know whats available
UIComponent is base case for all visual components
ref docs contain inheritance [...]

#cfunited Notes: “Practical Refactoring: Making Bad Code Good”

Walked in and heard: “if you get nothing else from this session. it should be USE VERSION CONTROL” Well then. Nice to hear it again.
CompareNoCase – leads to comparing two things. worse CF function ever. “if something is true, then its false. that will blow your mind.”
Breaking down if’s into multiple rather than [...]

#cfunited Keynote

Liz/Stellr:
Encouraged people to get out there and provide for the community in any way that they can (twitter/blog/C4FF)
Rules (highlights):

no Ben Nadel eating photos
belly flops are the only way to enter the pool
don’t ask any Adobe employees about release dates

Ben Forta/Adobe:
Update on the Open Initiative and Language Advisory Committee. Everything is flowing but more to [...]