The Adobe User Group flex-developers.org invite you at Flex camp Milan, a free one day gathering with food, drinks, coding and time with the Flex and Apollo engineers covering everything you need to know about the upcoming release of Flex 3 and Adobe AIR.
If you are worried about the language take it easy, most of the speakers currently speak Italian and English so communication will be not a challenge during this camp!
Milan 30 November 2008 - 10:00 AM
The meeting will take place at the Max Milan - Fiera Milano Congressi easy reachable from the the railway station.
Speakers:
As a camp everybody can join us as a speaker, today we have a great group of speakers already confirmed:
Jaco Pixeldump (pixeldump.org)
Piergiorgio Niero (aka pigiuz wave9 and actionscript.it)
Eros Marcon (actionscript.it)
Matteo Lanzi (aka Gallo_Teo flex-developers.org)
Giorgio Natili (flex-developers.org)
Michele Velastri (www.smeet.com)
Michael Plank (www.powerflasher.de)
Daniele Ugoletti (www.blumerstudio.com)
Cesare Rocchi (http://spreadingfunkyness.com/)
Tomislav Pokrajcic (www.svemir.net)
and others will be announced soon.
Registration
Event capacity is set at 120 people, so register early! Registration is open to the public from here.
Agenda
ILOG Elixir – advanced data visualization in Flex (Eros Marcon):
Introducing ILOG Elixir
Building a little Dashboard application with Elixir components
Using 3D Charts
Using Map displays
Using Gauges and dials
Using Organization Charts and Gantt Charts
Interaction between Elixir components
Design Pattern – apply the design pattern in Flex (Giorgio Natili):
Introducing design patterns
Application Controller Pattern
Model View Presenter
Command Pattern
Facade Pattern
Cairngorm vs Pure MVC - the war of frameworks (Matteo Lanzi)
Exploring Cairngorm with practical examples
Working with servers - Value Object mapping with red5
Exploring pureMvc and how to migrate from Cairngorm
Notification vs Binding
Practical examples
Tips & Tricks
advantages and disadvantages of each architecture
PureMVC - steps for build your first application (Daniele Ugoletti)
-Presentation of AppSkeleton Builder a tool for make your live with PureMVC more easy
The UX compromise - can development satisfy users and marketing (Michele Velastri)
When the virtual changes the real experience. Social web and co
Plan the UX effort within software development company
Documenting the user experience
Class in a mirror - tricks to build your own AS3 de/serializer (Tomislav Pokrajcic)
Fun with reflection
Working with custom metatags
Creating objects back from text
Sticking all together: asx3m project example
The Bitten Bit - understanding bitmap in flex (Piergiorgio Niero)
BitmapData Class overview
BitmapData manipulation best practices
First Steps with PixelBender
Flex and sound - fun with flex/as3 and sound (jaco pixeldump)
Sound capabilities overview in flex as/3
Generating sound from flashplayer via actionscript - examples
Server side sound generation (soundfonts) via php - examples
FDT – A whole new Coding Workflow (Michael Plank)
What is FDT?
Super fast coding with FDT’s Quick Fix, Auto Completion and Code Generation Features.
Don’t touch the mouse – full screen coding with FDT’s Navigation Features.
Roadmap
Posty - Building a microblogging mashup and preventing memory leaks (Cesare Rocchi)
Intro to microblogging services
What’s a mashup?
What’s an API?
Loading data via API services.
What’s a memory leak? Live demo.
How to detect a memory leak.
Some technique to prevent memory leaks in Flex.
Ruffle
Durnig the event Adobe’s gadget and O’Reilly books will be ruffled between the attendees, two licenses of ILOG Elixir, an enterprise license of FDT and two licenses of Flex Builder 3.0.
Make your own proposal
