Okay, so since the last time I managed to blog, I had an excellent time presenting 'Dense and Hot' in Milan Italy for 360 Flex. It was a great time with a great bunch of presenters. I am looking forward to what Tom and John manage to do with their next conference. Cheers Guys.

I presented at a few events for Adobe and BEA, Flex Camp Wall Street, the Boston Flex Incubator group and the new Chicago Flex User Group. This week I am out in San Jose for the Adobe Community Summit and learning about the amazing things Adobe has in the pipeline. All I can say, is the next year is going to be exciting.

Next week I am presenting a hands-on lesson in advanced component development and skinning at WebManiacs. Followed closely by 'Dense and Hot' at webDU in Sydney Australia.

And just to bring things back around to the beginning, I will be presenting a brand new presentation at 360 Flex San Jose in August. It's an hour and twenty minutes on the internals of data binding, which will, in my professional opinion, be absolutely awesome.

Attached to this post are all of the slides I have been promising. Next week I will post the WebManiacs slides.

To all those that made these past events great, thanks, each of these events was fantastic in its own way. I hope to see the rest of you at WebManiacs and 360 Flex.

Labriola

The last few weeks have been rough. Serious client projects, exploring unexplored territory in the Flex/FMS and Flex/Java realms, way to many hours in front of computers that seem to get slower with every key I type. The weather sucks in Chicago and simply refuses to become spring.

But a shipment from Peachpit on Wednesday helped bring me out of my manic death spiral. The Flex 3 Training from the Source Books arrived. Less than a month after the release of Flex 3, the new book (another collaboration between Tapper, Boles, Talbot and I on the authoring side. Berling and Thomas on the editing) managed to make its way to the shelves.

We started working on this book at the last FlexManiacs (now WebManiacs) conference, so almost a year ago. Books take an impossibly long time to do well, and I am hoping this one works for those that choose to buy it. There are new lessons on modularizing Flex apps, AIR basics and using the profiler as well as countless small reworks and additions throughout the remaining lessons.

Right now Tapper and I are actually working diligently on our AIR book and trying to stay in front of an 'aggressive' schedule for completion. The timing is actually really good as I leave for 360 Flex Milan in a week and this will give me plenty to do on the plane.

So, for those of you who are in, or might make it to Europe, I look forward to seeing you soon. I plan on lugging a handful of these books over the Atlantic to give away to those who ask. For those of you on the fence about going to 360 Flex, just register already. They just announced that day one is actually free for everyone, now you have no excuse. It is going to be another great Flex conference and I am anxious to see it play out.

Labriola

First, Flex Camp Chicago is coming up on January 18th. There are a handful of seats left so if you want to come learn some flex, eat food and geek out with us then sign up fast.

Second, Adobe Evangelists will be crisscrossing the world showing off new features and demos while giving away schwag and raffling off Flex Builder 3 and CS3 versions. If you are using Flex now or plan to in the near future, don't miss these events.

Find out when they are coming to your city and plan on seeing us at the Chicago tour stop on February 5th.

Labriola

On January 18th, Mike Nimer, Jeff Tapper, Josh Berling, Shashank Tiwari and I will be presenting at Flex Camp Chicago. After a morning keynote from Bob Tierney, we will begin a full day of flex sessions.

You can read more at http://www.flexcampchicago.com/, but don't wait too long to register. We only have room for about 100 attendees and the spots are going very quickly.

Labriola

Tapper, Nimer Associates and Digital Primates have merged. Yep, it's true and I am pretty damn excited about it.

It brings together two groups with the immense experience in the flex, coldfusion and flash arena, but more importantly, it is brings together a group of people who are committed to these communities.

The merger is going to provide us all further opportunities to blog, speak at conferences and user groups, open source additional code to the community and continue our work on books for the Flex, AIR and actionscript world.

Our plans for world domination are yet unwritten, but that has never stopped us before.

Labriola

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