Greg Wilson's Ramblings

I’ve attended and presented at two 360Flex events, Atlanta and Milan. Due to scheduling conflicts, I was unable to attend the latest one in San Jose but thankfully, the sessions were recorded in high resolution!

Below is a list of 21 360Flex sessions with links to the videos (UPDATE 9/12/2008 – now 25 videos).  You can also view the same videos using Adobe Media Player (AMP).   If you use the install badge below, it will automatically add these videos to your favorites list. AMP has the advantage of allowing you to view the videos offline.

Each video is approximately one hour long. Be sure to watch Matt Ander’s keynote (I blogged this one before). Also, check out the Ticketmaster Kiosk video – VERY good stuff.

Session List

• Filthy Rich Flex Clients by Chet Haase – One of the great things about the Flex platform is that you can get up and running with good-looking GUIs quickly.
• Exploring the Open Source Flex SDK by Matt Chotin – Adobe has told you to “file a bug” so many times you want to throw things at them. Wouldn’t it be better if you could just fix the thing yourself and show the rest of the world how brilliant you are?
• Diving in the Data Binding Waters with Michael Labriola – Just about everyone who uses Flex uses data binding. Now come learn what you are actually doing when you add those curly brackets to your application.
• See the Data, Be the Data by Tony Hillerson & Juan Sanchez – Numbers, statistics, search results and focused information mean nothing without a sound way for immersing a user in exploration.
• Humor: Deepa’s Skinning Screencast – 360Flex San Jose keynote video.
• Day 1 Keynote by Mark Anders – Mark Anders tells us about Flex, Thermo, etc.
• High Definition Video & Flex Hands On by Christopher Keeler – This session covers the tools and workflows you need to produce and stream great HD video in the Flash player and Flex.
• PlexiGlass (OpenFlux 3D Components) by Ryan Campbell – PlexiGlass is a sub-project of OpenFlux using the same reusable MVC based components but replaces the view with a 3D renderer.
• Introduction to the Swiz Framework for Flex by Chris Scott – In this session Chris Scott will introduce, Swiz, a framework for Adobe Flex that aims to bring complete simplicity to RIA development. Swiz provides Inversion of Control, event handing, and simple life cycle for asynchronous remote methods.
• Mate Flex Framework by Laura Arguello – Using Mate Framework to build decoupled Flex applications by Laura Arguello. Join Laura as she walks you through how to build an application using Mate framework.
• Flex on Rails with RubyAMF by Tony Hillerson – Using RubyAMF to build AMF services in Rails and how to use these services in Flex.
• How to Build a Framework by Ben Stucki – In this talk, Stucki will cover all the various aspects of what goes into a framework.
• Case Study of An Internal Flex App At Yahoo! – Case Study of An Internal Flex Application At Yahoo! by Hien Luu & Subhadeep Chatterjee
• Advanced ActionScript APIs by Jacob Wright – Learn how to craft ActionScript libraries using advanced techniques. Use custom metadata to make your code easier to read and provide greater code-reuse. And harness the power of the Proxy class to give subclasses an easier way to access data.
• E4X by Marc Bir – What is E4X? How do I use it? Why would I use it? When should I use it?
• Flex and ColdFusion Using VO’s and CFC’s by Kevin Schmidt – Flex and ColdFusion Using VO’s and CFC’s
• Flex and Accessibility by Giorgio Natili – Create accessible custom component and make existing components like ILOG elixir accessible.
• Project Workflow by Axel Jensen – How to put together a team, and ways to communicate with free tools that are in the community.
• Reading the Flex source code by Jonathan Branam – Learn how to use the open source Flex SDK to improve your programming and solve problems. Introduction to the Flex source code explaining the class hierarchy, compositional classes, and the importance of interfaces.
• Creating Reusable Components by Ben Clinkinbeard – This session will talk about what to keep in mind when creating components that go beyond a single use.
• Ticketmaster Kiosk by Kevin Fauth – A high-level overview of the new Ticketmaster Kiosk. Covers items ranging from internationalization, security and other items.

ADDED 09/12/2008:

• Advanced State management by Troy Gardner – Cogs is a heirarchical statemachine library for use with AS3.0 projects.
• Reflective Programming by Eric Ko – This is not only a session to introduce Reflection in Flex, but also will provide the technical details how to implement it.
• Using the Flex Builder 3 Profiler by Jun Heider – During the session the functionality of the Flex Builder 3 Profiler will be explored through both background lecture, and most importantly various Flex Builder projects tuned to highlight key features of the Profiler.
• Polishing Components for the Unwashed Masses by Josh Tynjala – You built a custom Flex component! Now, you want to sell it, or you might want to release it open source.

ADDED 09/29/2008

• Flash Player 10 (Astro) Preview by Justin Everett-Church – This demo-oriented session will showcase the new features that are coming in Flash Player 10, code-named “Astro.”
• Diving Deep w/ the Flex Component Lifecycle by Owen & Umbaug – RJ Owen & Brad Umbaugh:  In this session, Senior Developers RJ Owen and Brad Umbaugh will explore in depth exactly what happens every time a component is created and rendered in Flex.
• Building Red5 Applications by Chris Allen – Take your Flex applications to the next level.

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A big THANK YOU to Ted Patrick for putting this video project together!