{"id":681,"date":"2008-10-13T10:20:31","date_gmt":"2008-10-13T15:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/?p=681"},"modified":"2009-08-15T19:41:38","modified_gmt":"2009-08-16T00:41:38","slug":"joey-lott-fails-to-disappoint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/13\/joey-lott-fails-to-disappoint\/","title":{"rendered":"Joey Lott Fails to Disappoint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I attended Flash and Flex author Joey Lott&#8217;s seminar &#8220;How To Architect Flex Applications&#8221; (hosted by <a title=\"Central Pennsylvania Adobe User Group\" href=\"http:\/\/cenpennaug.blogspot.com\/\">CPAUG<\/a> and <a title=\"Central Pennsylvania Flash User Group\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cpfug.blogspot.com\/\">CPFUG<\/a>) last Friday and I must admit I wasn&#8217;t as disappointed as Mr. Lott promised I would be.  Joey Lott assured us that we&#8217;d be horribly bored and bewildered by his dry technical presentation and even recommended a brief nap as a sound alternative.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately I managed to stay awake long enough to learn about the &#8220;<a title=\"Agile Software Development\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Agile_software_development\">Agile<\/a>&#8221; software development method.  Although this technique is best suited for large projects with a team of developers, some of its principles can still be applied to smaller projects<!--more-->.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Break the project into discrete periods of time.<\/li>\n<li>Set an easy to understand goal at the outset of each time period.<\/li>\n<li>Do your best to meet that goal.<\/li>\n<li>When the time period arrives, you must provide a functioning piece of software that the user can test and criticize.<\/li>\n<li>Listen to the criticism and set new goals for the next time period.<\/li>\n<li>Repeat until the client is satisfied (or out of money \ud83d\ude09 )<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>After talking about Agile for a while, our intrepid presenter noticed a few glazed eyes in the audience so he scrapped his planned itinerary and improvised a new presentation covering topics more appropriate for a less experienced Flex crowd.  Although it may not have been the best utilization of his talent, it was quite gratifying to learn the basics from someone with such a deep knowledge of Flex.  Joey answered all questions thoroughly and effectively while somehow managing to keep the tone light and conversational.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t read <a title=\"Books with Joey Lott\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s?ie=UTF8&#038;search-type=ss&#038;index=books&#038;field-author=Joey%20Lott&#038;page=1\">his books<\/a> but I hope they&#8217;re as interesting as his presentation was.  Thanks for stopping by Mr. Lott, your presentation was informative and enlightening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Review and recap of Joey Lott&#8217;s seminar &#8220;How To Architect Flex Applications&#8221; presented at a CPAUG meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[28,51],"class_list":["post-681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flash","tag-adobe","tag-flex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}