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Hands-on PureMVC in Hawaii

Thursday, April 29th, 2010

Aloha! Last night I gave a session on PureMVC to the Hawaii Flash User Group. I really appreciate everyone who showed up (online and onsite). You can grab a copy of the code and slides from here:

http://steven.diomampo.com/presentations/HandsOnPureMVC.zip

You can also check out the slides below. I apologize if some of the slides are a little cluttered, this was my first community presentation so I have plenty learn and fix before my next presentation.

At any rate, I’ll be out here in Hawaii until Sunday, so if anyone wants to do any surfing or something, hit me up! Mahalo!!!

360|Flex San Jose – Day 2

Wednesday, March 24th, 2010

Paul Robertson – Building iPhone apps using the Flash Platform

Jacob and Tyler Wright – Reflex: Rethinking Component Design

Elad Elrom – Building Applications using Test Driven Development (TDD)

Anthony Franco – Panel – How to Speak To Executives To Get What You Want

Pics below:

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360|Flex San Jose – Day 1

Wednesday, March 24th, 2010

Keynote

Deepa announces that all Flex Data Viz components are now packed within the Flex open source SDK. Meaning, no more watermark for open sourcers.

Michael Labriola – Apocalypse Soon? The remaking of Flex Components

Drew McClean & RJ Owen – Obey: Building a Rules Engine with AS3 and the Hamcrest API

Huyen Tue Dao – Greenthreading in Flex

Pics below

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360|Flex San Jose – Hands on Sessions

Wednesday, March 24th, 2010

Fortunately enough I sat down to eat dinner next to Justin Mclean the night before. So I also got the inside scoop on what he was going to discuss (Flex + Hardware), as well as an open seat to join in since I wasn’t signed up. During the break I jumped into the Robotlegs session with Joel Hooks. Both sessions were great, but because Justin was giving away free Arduino kits, I felt indebted to him and spent most of the day in there.

Here are some photos from the sessions. To say the least, it was awesome, I also got a free Arduino kit, enough said…and thanks Justin!

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360|Flex San Jose – Arrival

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

If this is any indication for the rest of the year, things are looking really good…

I flew in early Saturday to get a head start on things and upon arrival I was in fear I had jumped the gun by a day. Thankfully Amy and Steve were here as well, so we grabbed some lunch at Gordon Beirsch (I highly recommend their burgers). This gave us an opportunity to pick back up where RIAdventure left off, back in December. Following lunch we parted ways and I decided to have a look at what the area had to offer.

Like any other downtown city, there are a lot of buildings, but it’s a bit different to look out and see the Adobe logo. Adobe is literally a few blocks away from the Marriott that we are staying at, you can see it out the window of the room. This is the kinda stuff that can be pretty inspiring for simple Dallasite like myself. The Tech Museum is also right across the street and judging from all of the costume wearing folk, I’m guessing they are still pushing the Star Trek exhibit. Aside from the nerdy stuff, there are plenty of bars, restaurants and shops I peaked into before heading back to the hotel for a nap to dream about the next few days.

I’ll be sure to update this will all the cool stuff I experienced once I head back to Dallas and get a minute to gather my thoughts. Just want to say thanks to John and Tom for the free ticket, and I’m looking forward to everything!!!

Updated Pics:

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Obsessed with LEARNING!!!

Saturday, May 10th, 2008

My wife might say that this post is long overdue…

At any rate, if you haven’t realized it by now, I am going to rant a bit about how obsessed I have become over the last year with learning various technologies. Someone out there might say, “I’m more obsessed than that…”, and it may be true, but don’t spoil this post, because I rarely have anything to write on here as it is (because I’m learning ALL THE TIME!!!…[snicker]).

So I’ve got a ton of books (Visual Web Programming in VB.NET, JavaScript in 24 Hours, XML, Prototype and script.aculo.us, Visual Basic 2005, PHP/MySQL, Flash Programming, yada yada yada…the list really does go on), I just completed another semester of 2 courses (one on VB.NET and the other was advanced Web Programming), and my IPOD is stacked with audio on similar subjects. Additionally there is an overwhelming amount of knowledge (some not worth a dime) on the Web that I enjoy referencing.

Hopefully it’s clear that I have surrendered myself to the “Power of Learning”. In doing so I have recently found that I need even more ways of gaining/storing all of this knowledge to feed my addiction…

Recently at work I was helping a colleague learn a bit of Flash and some ActionScript 3.0. I’m not an ActionScript “guru”, that said, I also won’t claim to be a “guru” of any other sort. Back to the point…I was teaching him all these things, but in the process teaching and reinforcing my own knowledge of the subjects. It was amazing and gave me sort of a “Rainman” type moment.

After that, I explained to my colleague that in helping him grasp these concepts, I also helped myself…
He agreed and said that it was one of the best ways he knew how to learn(he had previously studied for tests in this way).

The point is, I AM MISSING OUT on a key ingredient to successful learning…

SCHOOL works to some degree as I have recently built a small network of friends who I contact through email, but let’s be real, we’ve all got full time jobs to juggle as well.

BOOKS and lesson tutorials can only carry you so far. Especially with programming/tech books…

The WEB…Admittedly it is probably the number 1 source of information for Tech Professionals while on the job…”No, I don’t have stats to prove it, let’s just call it a wild guess”.

By leveraging all three of these tools a person is truly able to gain essential knowledge. That’s where I currently stand…but there’s always room for improvement!!!

To break out and get great at something you need to actively engage in shared thought of the subject on a regular basis. At least that’s what I think would work best for me right now…Unfortunately at my current position I am the only one looking at things in a developer-oriented direction. This alone makes it hard for me to constantly give and take the type of information I need to accelerate my learning in this fashion. That might be my greatest (maybe my only?) concern at my current workplace. I haven’t been there too long, but do not want to become stagnant within my field. Which brings me back to the first line of this entire post…

“My wife might say that this post is long overdue…”

She knows better than anyone, that most of my time outside of work is spent keeping up with the technology curve. With all that off my chest, it’s time to go…

My First Official Post!!!

Saturday, April 12th, 2008

Hello all, and welcome to my new blog! For starters my name is Steven Diomampo. Currently I am a Web Developer/Flash Programmer at a post-production company in the Dallas Area. I would like for this blog to appeal to the everyone, but obviously it won’t, so check out the other blogs I’ve listed if this one doesn’t tickle your fancy.

At any rate, I will try my best (no guarantees) to provide a variety of content that I am involved in or interested in. As for a few categories off the top of my head, maybe … Programming, Poker, Traveling, Family, Money and Goals. That’s not the “be all, end all” list, but it’s a start that’s hopefully moving in an interesting direction.

That about sums it up for my first official post.

-Steven Diomampo