Using Mate, tag-based event-driven Flex framework

Laura Arguello is CTO and co-founder of AsFusion, a company specialized in the development of Rich Internet Applications. Laura is better known for her contributions to the Adobe developer community made through her blog at asfusion.com. She has also written articles about Flex and ColdFusion for the Adobe Developer Center, the WebDJ and the CFDJ. She holds a degree in Information and Computer Science with specialization in Software Systems from the University of California, Irvine and her main interests are usability, software architecture and finding or creating tools that make the developer?s life easier.

What's New with Flex 3

Charlton Barreto, Ph.D., has developed web and distributed product architectures for Lawrence Livermore National Labs, UnifAce, Illustra/Informix, the BBC, Visigenic/Borland, webMethods and Adobe, and has done related work in OASIS, W3C, the Java Community Process, OMG, and the IEEE. Charlton gained a Ph.D. from Columbia University. As a Senior Computer Scientist and Architect at Adobe, he concentrates on the Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR), Flex and LiveCycle, Adobe's Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) platform. He is a coauthor of the WS-BPEL, WS-Choreography, WSDL 2 and Java Enterprise Edition, and has been a contributor to the SOA Reference Model, WS-Transaction, WS-ReliableMessaging, and WS-Policy specifications. He writes and presents regularly on Web and SOA technologies.

Build your first Flex 3 Application!
Flex Messaging and Data Mgmt

Dan Blackman is a Senior Web Consultant, Project Manager, and Adobe Certified Instructor with 10+ years experience in software development using Adobe products. His experience includes implementing application solutions for several large clients (Macromedia, Verizon,?) and prominent universities nationwide. He also holds training certifications in tools such as Adobe Flex, ColdFusion, Flash 8 and has been teaching since 2003. Dan contributed chapters in the highly touted book "Dynamic Publishing with ColdFusion MX" covering the features of XML, security mechanisms in ColdFusion, and the theory behind building workflow into content management applications. Along with presenting at past Macromedia Conferences, he is an active member/presenter in the Dallas ColdFusion User's Group.

Building Custom Components with Flex

Matthew Boles is the Technical Lead for the Adobe Customer Training group and has been developing and teaching courses on Flex since the 1.0 release. Matthew has a diverse background in web development, computer networking, and teaching in both professional computer classes and the public schools. Matthew is the co-author of the book Adobe Flex 2: Training from the Source and also developed Allaire/Macromedia/Adobe curricula in both the ColdFusion and Flash development content areas. He has also been a speaker at Allaire/Macromedia/Adobe conferences dating back to the first Allaire developers' conference.

Using Design Patterns and the PureMVC Framework

Laurent joined INM nearly 10 years ago as a software developer. Since then, his role has evolved and he now holds the position of Director of Research & Development, overseeing the company?s operations, technical development and resource management functions. He has an engineering degree in Computer Science from the Université de Technologie de Compiègne in France (equivalent to a Masters Degree) as well as fourteen years of experience in software research and development. He has worked for a number of organizations, including CERN (European fundamental particles research center), FIRST (integrator and trainers of software for the disabled) and INM. Laurent is an expert in object based methods and technologies, and was the pioneer of RIA adoption at INM. Laurent is a frequent presenter at local interest group and private business events as well as a recent speaker at AJAX World West.

Understanding Flex Automation

Jim Cheng is a Senior Software Engineer at EffectiveUI, a leading RIA design and development firm based in Denver, Colorado. He has extensive experience in software development and has been building web-based applications since the late 1990s. Jim is an active contributor to the open-source Degrafa project.

Sorting, Filtering and Paginating Data in Flex

Scot Clausing is an Agile Developer at Rich Applications Consulting - a global leader in the rich internet applications industry. He specializes in application architecture and data modeling. Scot has worked as a software developer and consultant for five years and, with the introduction of Adobe Flex and AIR, has been heavily involved in developing applications with Adobe technologies. You may read more about Scot at http://blog.tsclausing.com.

Storing Data Locally with SQLLite
Using FlexUnit and Test Driven Development

Anthony DeBonis is a Senior Technologist and Adobe Certified Instructor with Troy Web Consulting in Troy, New York. Anthony is responsible for designing, developing, managing and deploying RIA/web applications in Flex, ColdFusion and Java Platforms for both government and corporate entities. Anthony is currently working on Flex / Coldfusion Applications for several New York State and Federal Agencies including highly secure, mission critical dashboard systems. An avid developer community member, Anthony manages the Java Developer's Network in Albany NY and presents at many other user groups. He has been involved in beta program for both 1.5 and 2.0 as well as doing many presentations on Flex.

Building Multi-Lingual Flex and AIR Apps

O?uz Demirkap? is a Senior Software Architect at NicheClick Media. He started developing CGI web applications in 1994 and has been developing ColdFusion since 1997. He has either been CTOs or Senior Developer of many well known commercial and blue chip companies both in Turkey and Germany. He ran the CFTR ? ColdFusion Turkey User Group for six years before moving to the US. He is a well known ColdFusion evangelist and has spoken at many user group meetings in Europe. His main areas of interest lie in ColdFusion, Flex, Frameworks technologies and i18N & L10N, CMS, portal, e-commerce solutions.

Sorting, Filtering and Paginating Data in Flex

Adventures in Binding
Introduction to Cairngorm

Jerry Ela is a Senior Developer with Troy Web Consulting in New York's Tech Valley (Albany area). He has more than 20 years experience with Information Technologies, including more than 10 as an IT manager. He has developed web applications for government agencies, Fortune 500 companies, and small startups. Jerry is an Adobe Certified Instructor in Flex and ColdFusion.

Jerry founded and manages developer groups for both Flex and XML, and is also an active member of the local ColdFusion and Java groups.

Architecting a Socket Application with Cairngorm
Implementing AIR and Web Apps from a single trunk

Kevin Ewoldt is a Senior Software Engineer for XIF Communications, Inc. in Washington, DC. Kevin led a team of three developers in building Pronto!, a unified messaging interface for CommuniGate systems, which was demoed at the General Sessions of MAX the last 2 years. Having several certifications in Java, Kevin moved over to Flex development in version Flex 1.5 and has built several applications in Flex 2/AIR. Kevin is also involved in the Adobe pre-release programs for Flex 2/3 and Apollo/AIR.

Advanced Skinning and Component Development
Design Patterns and Architecture Frameworks
Flex Open Source Projects
The Merapi Open Source Project

Adam Flater is a Software Architect at Universal Mind. His background is in working with java and Microsoft technologies, building both web and desktop applications. He has been working in Flex user interface and server development since the beta release of Flex 2.0. Adam was the lead developer on the ActionScript SDK for eBay's Web Services used in the eBay Desktop application. In 2007 Adam presented at Fig Leaf's Flex Maniacs in D.C., The eBay Developer's conference in Boston, 360Flex in Seattle, Adobe's OnAir Bus Tour in D.C., and Adobe's MAX Conference in Chicago. Adam is also co-creator of Artemis, a java bridge to flash at the desktop.

Blog : adamflater.net Twitter : adamflater

Actionscript and Object Orientation

Flex w/ColdFusion

Dave Gallerizzo is the vice president of the Consulting Services Division at Fig Leaf Software. As a vice president, senior developer and technical director, Dave oversees the growth and development of the company's consulting services, Web application development, and systems integration capabilities. As an Adobe and Google Certified Instructor, Dave brings a deep understanding of Web application development to the leadership team. Prior to joining Fig Leaf Software in 1997, Dave designed and implemented custom client-server software for several Washington D.C.-based trade associations. Dave has also spent 20 years in the Marine reserves, including two combat tours in Iraq. Dave holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of Maryland, College Park.

Custom Formatter, Validator, and Effect Components

Coding Jigs - Work smarter, not harder

AIR Windows, Menus, and the SystemTray
Skinning with Photoshop, Fireworks, Illustrator

David Hassoun is the founder RealEyes Media, LLC - a Colorado based digital media firm focused on interactive motion media and advanced Flash/Flex platform applications. David has always had a passion for motion media, the power of video, and the challenges of usability and interactivity. David is a Adobe Certified Master Instructor, teaches advanced RIA classes at the University of Denver, the Rocky Mountain Adobe User Group Manager, and has taught and developed many successful advanced Flash/Flex application courses. As a consultant or while employed with other firms Hassoun has done work for a wide range of companies such as American Express, Chase Manhattan, Qwest, Boeing, Macromedia, Adobe, US Air Force, Bechtel/Bettis, Mitsubishi Electronics, and many more. David has performed many advanced code, technical, best practices reviews, and provided directional advice for international industry leaders over the past years including many technical, courseware, and application reviews for Macromedia/Adobe and their clients as an industry expert.

Flex Debugging Techniques

Jun Heider is a Web Application Developer and Adobe Certified Flex instructor for RealEyes Media, LLC in sunny Denver, CO. RealEyes Media specializes in RIA development (Flex & Flash), advanced web application training and product resale for Adobe Systems.

During his time at RealEyes, Jun has been critically involved in bringing Flex/FDS/Cairngorm-enabled RIA applications to Fortune 500 financial corporations as well as government research projects. Jun is also an active member of the Flex community, attends, and presents at his local user group regularly, and loves his Xbox 360.

Flex w/Ruby on Rails

Tony Hillerson is a Software Architect for EffectiveUI. He graduated from Ambassador University with a BA in MIS. On any given day he may be working with Flex, Java, Rails, Maven, Ant, Ruby, or shell scripts. Tony is has contributed to and developed on many community projects, such as RubyAMF. He's written whitepapers, including an O'Reilly shortcut on Flex and Live Cycle Data Services called 'Enterprise Application Development with Flex' , and is currently co- authoring a book on Flex and Rails. Tony has spoken at 360|Flex and Adobe MAX, as well as local user groups.

Tony is interested in all levels of usability and experience design, from the database to the server to the glass.

In his free time Tony enjoys playing the bass, playing World of Warcraft, making electronic music, making beer, learning Latin, and studying philosophy. Tony lives outside Denver, CO with his wife and son Titus.

Building Custom Components for Flex with Flash CS3
Flash CS3 on AIR
Flex w/PHP

Michael is a Flash Designer/Developer and in Hagerstown, Maryland. Michael has been working with the flash platform for the last 7 years and has worked for a wide range or clients. In addition to his professional experience Michael also has spoken at several user groups, workshops and conferences.

Advanced Skinning and Component Development

Michael Labriola is a Founding Partner and Senior Consultant at Digital Primates IT Consulting Group. He has been developing Internet applications since 1995 and has been working with Flex since its 1.0 beta program. He specializes in developing application with high business impact using emerging technologies.

Michael worked as an author and technical editor on the Flex 2:Training from the Source book and has published a series of articles on Adobe's Developer Center teaching others to integrate Flex client and server technologies. As an international speaker on Flex topics, Adobe Community Expert and contributor to Flex Mailing Lists, Michael is known throughout the developer community.

Working with ILOG Elixir

Eros Marcon works for IdeaWeb.IT, a small italian Internet company and is staff member in Actionscript.it (Italian Adobe User Group). He has been working with Dreamweaver, Fireworks and Flash since early product?s versions. He is a certified Dreamweaver and Flash developer and designer and he has 10 years experience as instructor and consultant. Eros also has spoken at several seminars, workshops and conferences about Macromedia/Adobe technologies. Actually his projects are focused on developing Flex Applications with Cold Fusion and Flash Media Server.

Introducing Flex Templates
Overview of Themes and CSS with Flex

Brice Mason is a husband and father from Albany, New York. He is also a developer, writer, and speaker who frequently starts sentences with Wouldn't it be cool if ... When not spending time with his family, he may be found writing code and writing about code. Brice maintains a web presence at http://developer.stegoworks.com

Using CVS and ANT

Nick Matelli is a consultant with Amentra, a company specializing in enterprise solutions. Nick is a recognized thought leader with his extensive understanding of Web 2.0 technologies, and has incorporated Adobe technologies into a variety of architectures for mission-critical enterprise systems across Fortune 2000 companies.

Flex Builder/Eclipse Secrets and Techniques
Understanding AIR Security

Advanced Skinning and Component Development
Custom Formatter, Validator, and Effect Components
History Management and the Back Button
Tweens, Behaviors, View States, and Transitions
Working with Binary Data

Giorgio Natili is Adobe community expert, a W3C member and a Forum Nokia Champion. He is head of his own company GNStudio, which has been operating in the web development filed for the past 6 years. His field of expertise focus on Adobe Flash, Fireworks, Dreamweaver, Coldfusion Flash Media Server, Flex and their integration, as well as accessibility both in html and Flash. More recently his interests have broadened to include developing mobile applications and e-learning tools. He also works on various education initiatives to spread awareness on accessibility issues, especially to flash developers.

He strongly believes in the need to spread new web-technologies by ?evangelizing? in the Italian development communities. As a result he has been an active member of the Igenium community (Macromedia Users Group), taking part as an invited speaker, in the 2003, 2004 and 2005 webb.it events where he held numerous seminars on Flash and related technologies. In 2005 and 2006 he participated in SMAU in Milan, again holding seminaries and training sessions. He also spoke at the Adobe Max in Chicago and Barcelona in 2007.

In 2003 he received the award ?Sito Protagonista" from Macromedia Italy for the website www.alessandracellini.com.

Among his many successful projects the on-line version of the TV game show ?Quiz show? for Einstein Multimedia, subsequently published in the portal www.libero.it, along with the implementation of a Rich Internet Application for visualizing in real time Italian soccer championship games results, for the principal Italian media group, Gruppo Espresso.

In 2005 he founded the Flash community Actionscript.it that he is still leading and animating.

Throughout 2005 he has been Mobile and Technological innovation consultant for Saatchi & Saatchi Italia where he developed the J2me version on the mobile application D&G for Interpreting.it.

Throughout 2006 his Studio has established close partnerships with the mobile content provider Jamba, developing mobile applications for the Jamba development team, and MTV Italia, for whom he developed a chat environment driven by flash media server.

In the first half of 2007 he develops Intelligere SCS, a powerful web based synchronous collaboration system, entirely developed in Flex, and releases it under an open source license. The passion for community work continues with the founding of Flexdevelopers.org.

SOA and BPM, a practical approach to automation
Web 2.0 patterns, models and architecture

As Senior Technical Evangelist for Adobe Systems, Duane Nickull is responsible for Adobe?s messaging around enterprise solutions in the SOA and Web Services spaces plus other forward looking aspects such as the Web 2.0. Previously Mr. Nickull co-founded Yellow Dragon Software Corporation, a privately held developer of XML messaging and metadata management software, acquired by Adobe in 2003. He previously served as CTO and President of XML Global Technologies, a publicly traded company acquired by Xenos Group in early 2003. Mr. Nickull has written or participated in most of the larger SOA standards work in the past decade. He currently chairs the OASIS Service Oriented Architecture Reference Model Technical Committee (SOA-RM TC) which has just delivered a Reference Model for Service Oriented Architecture as a full OASIS standard. He served as a Vice Chair of the United Nations Centre for Facilitation of Commerce and Trade (UN/CEFACT) between 2003 and 2006. Within the United Nations, he oversaw the UN?s Electronic Business strategy and Service Oriented Architecture and modeling efforts. He has served as the project team lead of the United Nations (UN/CEFACT) Electronic Business Architecture Group (SOA) and a specially appointed liaison between the W3C, UN and OASIS standards consortiums. Additionally, Duane has served as the chair and lead system architect for the United Nation?s Electronic Business Working Group, a direct sub-group of CEFACT TMG and on the CEFACT TMG Steering Committee. He also has served as the Co-chair of the ebXML Technical Architecture group as well as co-editor of that specification starting in 1999, largely recognized as the first post-internet and post XML SOA. He has participated in writing many of the recent large Service Oriented Architectures that permeate the IT landscape today such as the W3C Web Services Architecture and also co wrote the Mackenzie-Nickull Meta-model for Architectural Patterns. Mr. Nickull has written and contributed many technical articles and books on these subjects Mr. Nickull has been called Mr. SOA by his peers during introductions to speak on the subject due to his overwhelming experience writing and contributing to the major Service Oriented Architectures (SOA?s). Between 1995 and 2006, he spoke at over 500 venues in various countries around the world Duane has recently renewed his work in the theoretical field of computational intelligence and has recently spoken several times to various audiences via the Ontolog Forum on eventcausality aware inference engines coupled to a query-able ontology. Such mechanisms may one day bestow true cognitive and reasoning capabilities upon applications. In the field of semantic reconciliation, Duane was a co-inventor of the first Context-sensitive XML Search Engine (www.goxml.com) and the first web based XML E-Commerce ASP. He is named on pending patents pertaining to XML indexing and retrieval covering 51 unique points. He also served as Technical Director for XSLT.com during the 1990?s until as recently as 2002.

Flex w/ColdFusion

Mike Nimer has recently joined forces with fellow guru Jeff Tapper to form Tapper, Nimer and Associates to provide expert guidance on Rich Internet Application (RIA) development and mentoring. Mike is a formerly a member of the Adobe ColdFusion engineering team, responsible for the Flex2 integration with ColdFusion and a number of other features in ColdFusion. Before joining the Adobe engineering team he spent three years working as a senior consultant with the Macromedia consulting group, where he provided on-site assistance to customers around the world with their architecture planning, code reviews, performance tuning, and general code issues.

Build your first Flex 3 Application!
Flex and the Drawing API
Highly Coordinated Visualizations using Charting
Intro to Flash Media Server 3
Introduction to AIR
What Blaze DS Means for you

Jason Perry is the Director of Training for Fig Leaf Software and a certified Adobe Flex instructor.

Flex w/JAVA

Design Patterns and Architecture Frameworks
Highly Coordinated Visualizations using Charting

Harris Reynolds works for Nimble Labs as a software architect specializing in Flex based Rich Internet Applications. He has worked in software development and systems integration for the past ten years and has non-trivial experience with Flash/AS2, Flex, AS3, Java/J2EE, .Net/C#, and Ruby on Rails. He has held leadership positions with both Object Systems Group and webMethods and has completed projects for UniversalMind, Fannie Mae, Amkor Technology, BASF, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and Bank of America.

AIR Windows, Menus, and the SystemTray

H. Paul Robertson is a Sr. ActionScript developer/writer for the Platform Developer Documentation team at Adobe Systems. Previously he worked as a web applications developer and co-authored Macromedia Flash 8 Advanced: Visual QuickPro Guide (Peachpit Press, 2005) with Russell Chun. Paul is a Certified Flash Developer and holds a Masters degree in Instructional Systems Technology from Indiana University. When he's not programming web applications, writing about web applications, teaching about web applications, or updating his blog, Paul spends his time collecting gadgets and trying to achieve his three children's level of mastery of Legos, Star Wars trivia, and other equally important subjects.

Building Accessibile Applications with Flex 3
Introduction to ECMAScript for XML (E4X)
Making Large Applications Manageable with Modules

Jim Robson is a Software Engineer at Eye Street Software, a DC area firm that engineers advanced software solutions for public and private sector clients. Jim has been working with Flex 2 since the public alpha, and together with the team at Eye Street has developed several RIAs using Flex.

Before Flex 2 came on the scene, Jim had been developing applications with Flash and ColdFusion for four years. Prior to that, he built websites with interactive Flash components for five years.

Ten tips for managing successful Flex projects

The following Flex project managers discuss their experiences in a moderated panel discussion:

• Ashley King

Ben Elmore

Super Light-Weight AS3 Applications

Jonathan Rowny has been developing web applications for 7 years and making website for 10. He's currently a developer at AboutWeb LLC. and continues to tinker with every web technology he can get his hands on.

Extreme Makeover: Flex/AIR Edition
History Management and the Back Button
Introduction to AIR

Rob Rusher is the Chief User at Xspear Inc. With an extensive background in software engineering, professional services and training, Rob has worked with many of the Fortune 500 organizations. Rob is a published author and has contributed to several books, website articles and magazine articles.

Rob is actively involved in the Adobe instructor and developer community, and contributes to developer certification exams as well as organizing and speaking at user groups and conferences. Rob is passionate about rich clients across devices and platforms and believes that they will change the way we create and live.

Rob Rusher maintains a weblog devoted to Flex, AIR and other Internet technologies at http://www.robrusher.com

Tweens, Behaviors, View States, and Transitions
Using Custom Events

Theo is currently a Senior Web Developer and Instructor of technologies such as; ColdFusion, Flex, Flash, AIR, and SQL. He has been programming and teaching for over 20 years and started developing in ColdFusion and Flash back in 1999. Since the pre-release of Flex 2.0 he has begun to spread the ?Good News? about Flex and Flex development ... and now AIR. Since then, he has never looked back.

Degrafa: Declarative Graphics Framework for Flex

Juan Sanchez is an Experience Architect at EffectiveUI, a leading provider of rich interactive applications, based in Denver, Colorado. Equipped with a creative eye and logical mind, Juan walks the line between designer and developer. He also manages ScaleNine.com, a website dedicated to compiling skins and themes for Flex, and is currently co-authoring a book on creating visual experiences in Flex. As a member of the Degrafa team, Juan brings a designer's perspective to the evolving framework.

Securing your Flex Applications

Stress Testing your Flex Application

Guy Spigelman is the VP of Sales and Business Development at RadView Software, the makers of the performance testing tool WebLOAD. RadView was the first tool vendor to release a module for testing Flex applications and Guy has managed the deployment of numerous Flex test environments in Europe, India the US. Prior to RadView, Guy was part of the founding team of XMPie, that developed a cross media dynamic publishing platform.

AIR: A Bit About Bytes
Creating 3D interfaces in Flex

Ben Stucki is a Software Engineer at Atellis , a Washington, D.C. based firm that specializes in developing Rich Internet Applications and products. As part of the core development team at Atellis, Ben mixes his knowledge of back-end application development and interactive user interfaces to engineer next generation Flex applications and components.

Ben is also an active member of the Flex community, has contributed to published works, and maintains a weblog devoted to Flash and Flex application development at http://blog.benstucki.net/.

Client/server data access architecture patterns

Prayank Swaroop is a technical evangelist for Adobe, where he supports user communities in adopting Flex and AIR. He actively supports usergroups in South East Asia, and is based out of Singapore. He is currently co-authoring a book on Flex along with Ben Forta. With a deep interest in rich internet applications and web technologies, Prayank has spent last couple of years as a member of the ColdFusion engineering team at Adobe - where he was in-charge of charting, imaging and multi-server monitoring features.

Introduction to AIR

Jeff has over a decade of experience developing Internet applications for a myriad of clients, including Conde Nast, Harley Davidson, Toys 'R Us, IBM, Dow Jones, American Express, and Morgan Stanley. As an instructor, he is certified to teach all of Adobe's courses on Flex, ColdFusion, and Flash development. He has been working with Flex since the earliest alphas of Flex 1.0. Jeff has worked as author and technical editor for several books, including Adobe Flex 3: Training from the Source and Object-Oriented Programming with ActionScript 2.0, and sits on the editorial board of Web Developers & Designers Journal. Jeff is a senior consultant at Digital Primates IT Consulting Group.

Flex / Flash Player Memory Management

Flex w/JAVA

Modular Development with Flex + LiveCycle ES
Thermo Preview

Using Custom Events
What Blaze DS Means for you

Matt Woodward is Principal IT Specialist for the Office of the Sergeant at Arms at the United States Senate. Matt is a long-time ColdFusion Developer, an Adobe Community Expert for ColdFusion, manager of the Capitol Hill User Group (http://www.capitolhillusergroup.org), and co-host of the ColdFusion Weekly Podcast (http://www.coldfusionweekly.com).