I’ve gone to the last two 360|Flex events in the US, and they’ve been fantastic! Now I’m going to get to do a talk at the 360|Flex Camp in on September 26-27, 2008 at Montclair State University in New Jersey.
My talk is called title: Unleash the Power of Flex Builder. The description:
Flex Builder is the tool of choice for developing, debugging, and testing Flex and Air Applications. Flex builder is actually a series of plugins to the Eclipse open-source tool framework. While there’s a lot that you get out of the box when you install Flex Builder, Eclipse and the Eclipse community bring a lot of additional power to improve your Flex development experience. In this session we’ll discuss some of the more advanced topics in Flex Builder and Eclipse, such as refactoring, tying into a source control or source configuration management system like CVS or Subversion, and integration with other tools like Aptana and Rational Jazz. We’ll also discuss some of the potential gotchas that you might run into (such as refactoring gotcha’s) and how to manage them.
I am very excited about this opportunity to reach out to the greater Flex community. I’m hoping to get my slides in shape over the next two weeks – if you have any suggestions for what you’d like to see in this talk please let me know.
Oh, and if you’re on the fence about going – if Tom Ortega and John Wilker do the kind of job they’ve done at past 360|Flex events, then this is going to be a great conference! The first day is an all-day workshop entitled “Advanced intro into Flex”. The second is the conference itself. Excluding myself, they’ve put together a stellar line-up of speakers – including the following:
- I met Michael Caudy at AjaxWorld last spring in NYC – he’s doing some interesting stuff using Flex and Drupal to process genomics data. This should be a really interesting talk from both a user and a developer perspective.
- I’m an active listener to Jeff Houser and John Wilker on The Flex Show. Jeff gave a great talk at the last 360|Flex in San Jose.
- I saw Jeff Tapper speak at AjaxWorld, he’s a really good speaker and is very sharp.
- Yakov Fain and Victor Rasputnis are co-authors on a fantastic book on developing rich Internet applications (RIA’s) – (title: Rich Internet Applications with Adobe Flex & Java). I saw them both at Flex Camp Wall Street in April, 2008, and I’m really looking forward to their presentations here.
- Suketu Vyas gave a presentation called Creating Cool Front-end Apps: Using Flex and Javascript at 360|Flex in Atlanta, which was excellent.
It should be a very good day. I’m psyched to be a part of this event!
