November 15, 2010

  1. 9 - 9.45am : Keynote -- Christophe Coenraets A view into what's new and what's coming!

  2. 9.50 - 10.30am : AIR on Android -- Christophe Coenraets Get hands-on and learn to build AIR apps on Android.

  3. 10.35 - 11.25am : Making Flex-BlazeDS Networking Reliable -- Yakov Fain Wall Street applications must be reliable. Loosing a trade order is not an option. But using free and open source BlazeDS for Flex/Java communications doesn’t guarantee 100% of all your clients’ orders will reach the destinations. This talk is an overview of networking problems of Flex-BlazeDS enterprise applications with the demo of the error-emulating protocol, which concludes with introducing of reliable AMF channels.

  4. 11.30 - 12.20pm : Essential Eclipse plug-ins and tools for Flash Builder developers -- Elad Elrom Explore essential plug-ins and tools that Flash Builder users should be aware of and add these to your arsenal. You will learn how to set them up, when required, as well as use them as part of your workflow for rapid development of Flex/ActionScript applications, which will save you development time as well as increase your productivity.

  5. 12.30 - 1.30pm : Lunch Pizza.

  6. 1.30 - 2.20pm : Simple Expressions at Play -- Shashank Tiwari Learn about gestural interfaces and their relevance to Flash application. Will include a brief note on the upcoming BlackBerry PlayBook SDK.

  7. 2.30 - 3.20pm : Using Fiber without robbing the bank -- Victor Rasputnis In this session you will learn how to generate complete Company/Associates CRUD Flex/BlazeDS applications based on Hibernate on the Java server side. Clear DataBuilder Eclipse plugin will assist us in annotating Java interface and no more Java coding will be required. You will see remote lazy loading of the collections, server-less transactions controlled from the client and, of course, integration with Adobe Fiber - a model-driven development environment of Adobe LCDS.

  8. 3.30 - 4.20pm : Designing With States & Transitions in Flex 4 -- Jesse Warden See how to take a visual design and put it into Flex. Jesse will show how to utilize states and transitions in Flash Catalyst, Flash Builder, and the Flex SDK. He'll also briefly show you how integrate these View's with common Presenter design patterns in popular frameworks.

  9. 6.30pm : After session Happy Hours! -- Thanks to Jesse Freeman Whiskey Town, 29 E 3rd St, New York, NY 10003 phone: 212-505-734

November 16, 2010

  1. 10 - 10.50am : Automating Functional Testing With FlexMonkey -- Stu Stern FlexMonkey is a free and open source tool that records and plays back user interactions with Flex applications, making it easy to automate functional testing of Flex, AIR, and hybird HTML/Flex applications. In this session we will explore the capabilties of FlexMonkey for recording, editing, playing back, and verifying the results of automation scripts. We'll also see how FlexMonkey generates ActionScript-based scripts that can be extended to handle even the most complex usage scenarios, and how we can easily integrate FlexMonkey tests into unit test suites and continuous integration builds. Finally, we'll see how FlexMonkium, the FlexMonkey plugin for Selenium can be used to add Flex automation capabilities to the popular Selenium open source web testing tool.

  2. 11 - 11.50am : Meet LoaderMax -- Rich Shupe The white zone is no longer for loading and unloading only. These days we need to pause, resume, prioritize, queue up, and more. But why stop there? Why not delegate some of the responsibilities and make your life easier?
    What if your loader set up the work for you, monitored the progress of other loaders, and even automatically handled display and playback of some of those tasty bits you're loading? Meet LoaderMax--the ultimate AS3 loader/preloader/bulkloader, and brought to you by GreenSock, maker of the animation tweening packages TweenLite/Max and TimelineLite/Max.
    This session will cover a lorry load of features offered by this tiny giant (only 7-19k!), with plenty of examples and source code. From the basic (loading a single item) to the advanced (nested loaders, integrated subloading, and more), attendees of every skill level, and users of both pure AS3 and mxml will benefit.

  3. 11.55 - 12.45pm : Halo vs Spark; Flex Component Architecture Showdown -- Jeffry Houser Flex 4 is out and with it comes a whole new approach to building Flex components. Why’d they do it? What does it offer you as a Flex Developer? How does it relate to the old way of doing things? This session will answer those questions. It’ll will dissect the Flex 3 component architecture (Halo) and explain how the Flex 4 component architecture (Spark) changes things. Along the way we’ll compare and contrast with some samples.

  4. 12.45 - 1.15pm : Lunch Pizza

  5. 1.15 - 2pm : Raffle, Giveaways and Ask the experts! 45 minutes of live Q & A with a panel of experts. Bring your questions along. Many giveaways including a free ticket to 360 Flex next spring, a few APress books, copies of Flex Authority magazine, and some software licenses.