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Last weekend, a police officer showed up at my house and told me a large tree had fallen on my car. My roommates and I ran out of the house, a look of amusement on our face, to see what the hell mother nature did to my car. It was quite a spectacle … Take a look at the Flickr Photoset I created to see for yourself. Just glad no one was in the car!

I am watching Ted Patrick demo new features in Flex 3 (aka “Moxie”). So far, here is what I am seeing that is cool:

• Refactoring! – Ted displays renaming methods and variables. Assuming that we have rename class and add getters and setters, life will be getting a lot better.
• Enhanced List and DataGrid Components – Apparently these components are slated for some significant enhancments in capabilities. (not demo’d)
• Better Integration – A pretty cool demo of laying out Flex components in Fireworks, and then exporting the results via MXML. I had checked these out before and they are very cool.
• Yahoo AS3 API’s Yes! Some amazing AS3 API’s are finally here. Time to get off this post and starting building some Mapping applications!

Next up was some cool demos of components and apps …

• ESRI Vector Map Components – Demo of a very cool Vector map component rendered natively in Flash with alternate projections. Not as smooth as Google maps, but definitely providing more functionality typical of a GIS system.
• Data Mining App – Pretty neat data mining and reporting app bult with a Flex UI. Kind of seems like its reinventing the wheel, but I suppose there isn’t anything like that for the Flash platform.
• <flexlib /> – A very cool collection of components curated by Doug McCune.
• Yahoo AS3 API’s – Finally … Mapping API’s for AS3 and Flex 2. Yes! Time to get off this blog and starting building some mapping apps!

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So I attended 360Flex, the first Flex-only development conference hosted by eBay down in San Jose. So far it has been an educational conference. In particular, Christian Cantrell gave a great presentation on the Apollo API’s, and Ben Stucki’s presentation on the ByteArray 101 was quite good as well. Its really great to get an experience to flock with other Flex developers, and learn a few things on the way!

Welcome to the new beginning of wabysabi.com. My name is Daniel Wabyick. I am a veteran Flash/Flex geek who has recently started a new venture as an independent developer. I plan to use this site to host my portfolio and playground site. In any case, welcome to a new start!