David Coletta

Buzzword is a new word processor built in Flex, marrying exquisite print fidelity with powerful collaboration and sharing features. This talk is one part Buzzword internals, and one part how to approach some problems that are common to any large-scale app built in Flex.  We'll cover some of the following topics: the basics of getting text on the page, skinning a scroll bar, a framework for asynchronous completion handling, using modularization to improve load time and build time, a built-in automated testing framework, and how to get rich text into and out of the system clipboard. Plus Q&A. 

Bio
David Coletta is a developer and co-founder at Virtual Ubiquity, Inc., where he works on Buzzword, the first real word processor for the web. His career in software development has focused on collaborative applications as they have evolved over the last two decades -- email, groupware, online services, and rich internet applications. Since the beta 1 release of Flex 2 in January 2006, David has been digging Flex more than all other technologies combined. David holds a B.A. in Music from Amherst College.