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TexFlex – Dallas Flex Camp (Reminder)

Just a quick reminder that TexFlex is coming up this weekend and tomorrow (Oct. 15) is the last day to register.

What:
TexFlex – Dallas Flex Camp
Miller & Associates and Adobe invite you to join us at Flex Camp, a one day gathering with food, drinks, and coding covering everything you need to know about Flex 3 and Adobe AIR.

When:
October 17 from 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM

Where:
The Marriott at Legacy Town Center in Plano (MAP)

Agenda:
Doors open for Flex Camp at 9:00 AM
9:00 AM – 10:00- Registration, Food, & Drinks
10:00 AM – 10:30- Keynote / Introduction: Bob Tierney *Provided by Adobe
10:30 AM – 11:00- Welcome: Mark Miller
11:15 AM – 11:45- Breakout Sessions

BUSINESS
11:45 AM – 12:30- Camp Session 1: Michael Smith- Rich Internet Enterprise Application
12:30 PM – 2:00- Lunch Break
2:00 PM – 2:45- Camp Session 2: Bob Tierney- Flex and LiveCycle Data Services
2:45 PM – 3:00- Break
3:00 PM – 3:45- Camp Session 3: Jonathan Campos- The Hidden ROI of a Flex RIA
3:45 PM – 4:00- Break
4:00 PM – 4:45- Camp Session 4: Carter Bradford- Comparing Flex with other RIA Technologies
4:45 PM – 5:00- Combine Groups

DEVELOPERS
11:45 AM – 12:30- Camp Session 1: Mark Piller- Cross Platform Client/Server Flex Development
12:30 PM – 2:00- Lunch Break
2:00 PM – 2:45- Camp Session 2: Jonathan Campos- Flex Libraries: Making Reusable Code Reusable
2:45 PM – 3:00- Break
3:00 PM – 3:45- Camp Session 3: Michael Smith- Building Components with Adobe Flex
3:45 PM – 4:00- Break
4:00 PM – 4:45- Camp Session 4: Andrew Longley- Making Flex Events Work for You
4:45 PM – 5:00- Combine Groups
5:00 PM – 6:00- Closing Q&A (All presenters as a panel)

Presenters
*Bob Tierney has been with Adobe for 4 1/2 years, having started with Macromedia during the Flex 1.0 days. He is currently a Senior Product Specialist for Flex / LiveCycle Data Services in the North American Sales organization. Prior to Adobe, he was the Evangelist for SilverStream Software, one of the very first Java Application Server vendors. Before SilverStream, he was the PowerBuilder Technology Evangelist for Powersoft Inc, a very successful GUI based client server development tool. That accounts for the second half of his career. In his previous career, Bob was an Electical Engineer specializing in the area Digital Simulation and Fault Analysis for VLSI Devices – which explains the jump into IT software development.

Mark Piller is the founder and Chief Architect of Midnight Coders, an innovative and forward-thinking company specializing in the RIA integration technologies. Mark has over 15 years of software development experience. For the past 5 years he has been specializing in building software infrastructure products designed to integrate Flex, Flash and AJAX applications with a variety of backend systems including .NET, Java, PHP and Ruby on Rails. Mark is very passionate about ease-of-use of software and prides himself in creating technologies that clearly demonstrate that quality.

Jonathan Campos, user group manager of D-Flex.org, is an enthusiastic Flex user that has worked with the Adobe’s Flex technology for a variety of small to mid-sized companies. Having worked on an array of different Flex projects Jonathan has had to learn Flex “in the field” as he created a diverse portfolio of Flex based programs for both the web and AIR applications.
Jonathan’s experience lies in application planning and development, programming, and the integration of Flex with multiple different server side technologies.

Carter Bradford has been working as an IT Consultant for the past 10 years with an emphasis on IT strategy and large-scale systems integration. Much of this time was spent working on international assignments including projects in Finland, Brazil, and Japan. Prior to this, he was a research engineer working on various projects for the Department of Defense. Carter has been working with Flex since the 1.0 days and has a keen interest in the web and browser as a platform for enterprise applications.

Andrew Longley has been with Miller & Associates for less than a year but has been using Adobe Flex for almost four years. Longley is currently supporting one of Miller & Associates oldest clients building custom Flex and Air applications. Prior to that, he supported a Flex UI for a company in the telemetry services business, initially converting the application from Flex version 1.5 to Flex version 2.0, and then building upon the large collection of drag-and-drop widgets used to represent readings on remote devices. Longley initially used Flex in 2004 and 2005 to build a threat response system while on contract with Lockheed Martin. Each of these applications make heavy use of the Flex event framework.

Sponsors:
Miller & Associates
Adobe

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