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On Monday, Max gave a presentation at Adogo on creating custom UI components. As usual with his talks, it was informative and interesting without being very boring. He essentially did all of the hard work required to learn how to create custom components, then shared it with the rest of us. It got me really motivated and excited to start developing the UI of version two of my Audioscrobbler application.

I’ve played around a little bit with custom UIs, and generally understood the mechanics and how it should be done, but I feel like with the perspective I gained from this talk, I’m ready to focus my efforts a bit harder and buckle down and start making a slick interface.

So thanks, Max. At the last Adogo meeting, I asked if we could go over this, and I certainly plan on putting it to good work very soon.

Brian has posted the June Meeting Wrap-up to the adogo site. I gave a presentation on the first iteration of my last.fm AudioScrobbler Flex App. The meeting was a success; the code camp went well, and I think generally everyone was very pleased.

I’m putting the source code from my app up on a public svn repository, located at http://svn.assembla.com/svn/audioscrobblerflex/. The code is available by hitting that url in a web browser, or using an svn client. Assembla also has a nifty little code browser (powered by Trac) if you’re viewing it through a browser. It’s a public repository, so the code is read-only. If you’d like to make changes and commit them back to the repository, you’ll have to sign up for an Assembla account and be added to the project. The code is licensed under the GNU General Public License.

If you don’t know about Assembla, check it out. They offer free svn repositories, great setup options, and bug tracking with Trac. It’s all free, and it’s all very easy and very well done in the web 2.0 style.