Speaking at MAX on Flex and .NET Interoperability

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Next week MAX will be held in Vegas and will be under the Adobe name for the first time. I’ll be there and will be speaking as well on Flex and .NET Interoperability. I’m looking forward to be giving this session as I believe there is a lot to be said about Flex and .NET, and there doesn’t seem to be enough resources on the topic. Actually I’m always amazed at how little the .NET development community knows about Flex/Flash. On my team, we have had great success with .NET as our back-end system and Flex as our rich client technology, and am a strong believer that they are very complimentary platforms.

In the session I plan to cover

  • Different communication mechanisms (AMF/Flash Remoting, XML, Sockets)
  • Debugging
  • Tips from experience

If you missed this session when you initially setup your schedule that is because there was a change only a few weeks ago on the session topic, but it should be available now in the MAX scheduling system. If you are attending MAX, make sure to say hello. I always enjoy meeting fellow developers. If you aren’t attending MAX, I don’t think it is too late to show up :)

Flash and Flex can Hold Hands Slides Posted

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Just in case people missed it on Ben’s blog. The session notes to the presentation we gave at FITC Hollywood on Flash and Flex working together to help build better Flex applications, and how a Flash designer/developer have a lot to offer the Flex platform has been posted on Ben’s blog. I really enjoyed giving this session and it seemed people found it very useful in helping reduce their fears of Flex.
Oh, and FITC was great too, great to hang out with everyone :)

FITC Next Week – Giving a Full Day Workshop and Sessions, a Special Discount Too

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FITC is always an amazingly fun and energetic conference and next week it will be held in Hollywood for the first time. I’ll be at there next week giving a full day workshop, a mini-workshop, and a session with Ben.

Stuff I’ll be presenting

  • Flex 2 full day workshop: A full day workshop introducing Flex 2 with discussion of MXML, Actionscript 3, Components, Layout, and the basics needed to build your first application. (more details)
  • Mini-Workshop on Flex 2: A short workshop introducing Flex 2, the bigger picture, and a solid introduction (more details).
  • Flash and Flex can hold hands: A session I am giving with Ben on how Flash and Flex can work together. Our goal with this session is to show how Flex can be your friend, and in some cases how Flex can improve the workflow for existing Flash work. (more details).

See everyone there. If you’re still considering going, you can get a 10% discount off the price of a ticket by entering “Chafic55″ during the signup process!

Component Development In The Flex World Session Notes and Source

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Just finished cleaning up my session notes for my session at FlashForward Austin on Component Development In The Flex World. I had a lot of fun giving this session, as many know I have a big interest in component based development and component development, and Flex has a solid platform for both. There are two main concepts that are important to walk away with. The concept of developing Application Component to help promote Component Based Development and developing Custom Components. Both are explained in the slides and an example component is provided for each.

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FlashForward Austin 2006 next week, will be presenting on Component Development in the Flex World

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Next week FlashForward will be held in Austin, TX and I’ll be there giving a session on Component Development in the Flex World on Tuesday, September 12, 2006 3:00-4:15 in Salons D/E.

The FlashForward crew have been working hard with every event to grow, making great changes, and listening to suggestions. One thing that I’m especially looking forward to (other than visiting Austin for the first time and hanging out with friends) is that the length of the sessions have been extended by 15 minutes. I know in the past I’ve found it difficult to finish on time when trying to dig into more details on a topic. I’m sure I wasn’t the only one that asked for this and am looking forward to seeing how it works out.

My session will be an introductory session on developing components in Flex. I will cover when you might want to build an MXML vs Pure ActionScript component, setting up the structure of a component, implementing styles, events, databinding, and packaging a component. There’s no way I could cover everything about components even with the extra 15 minutes but this session should help Flash and Flex Developers get a good understanding of component development in the Flex world.

One thing to note, this session won’t be focused purely on advanced component development like previous sessions that I have given. I will also touch upon Component Based Development principals, as Flex Framework and MXML are an ideal platform for such a development process which has many benefits to UI programming.

See you all in Austin, and if you will be there pass by and say hi!