So after a very welcomed summer lull in travel, I am gearing up for the fall speaking season. A good portion of my time this fall will be spent discussing, encouraging the use of, and getting Feedback on the FlexUnit 4 project. The rest will be spent teaching about the early architecture and internals of the future Flex 4 product.

If you have tried either of these and want to discuss, or if you haven't had the time and want to learn more first, please come and support one of the following great events where I will be presenting.

September 5th, Rimini, Italy at Flash Camp on the Beach

Testing with Flex and Flash Builder

5th - Test Driven Development with Flash Builder
5th - Creating Custom Components in Flex 4
5th - Book Signing and Meet the Authors Event

6th - Creating Custom Components in Flex 4
6th - Battle of the Flex Frameworks Panel

7th - Creating Custom Components in Flex 4- Twice

Also, in the next couple of days we will be announcing the details of a special event on the 6th and 7th in coordination with the 360|Max unconference for individuals interested in becoming contributors to the FlexUnit 4 project.

15th - From Concept to Concrete: Programming a Designer's Vision
16th - Reanimating Dead Data with Flex

Next Generation Testing

I hope you have the opportunity to participate and engage with the Flex community at some of these community events.

Cheers,
Mike

Okay, so I haven't managed to post anything of value in a while but I am hoping that is about to change. Over the coming weeks and months, I plan to start posting ad hoc classes I have found useful or just little snippets that might save you some time. Hopefully, that will give you a reason to come back and visit.
In the meantime though, voting has opened up for 360 Flex Indy. Votes are being tallied for each session and, as I understand it. The top ones get presented. So, for any of you that enjoyed 'Dense and Hot' and 'The Ties that Bind Us' (aka Diving in the Data Binding Waters) you may want to log in and vote for my latest session 'Any Which Array but Loose'. Continuing the trend of ridiculous deep dives on Flex topics, I decided to tackle the various array types available with Flash Player 10. I am at a bit of a disadvantage though. Since I updated my description after the site launched, I seem to have lost any initial votes on my topic. If you vote, I do promise that there will be much more information presented then you could possibly want.

Also, Thursday and Friday, I will be at Flex Camp Chicago. A sold out event in Chicago with a lot of great speakers. For anyone who is attending, I will be hanging around for the balance of the days, so feel free to come up, introduce yourself and talk Flex. I will be happy to answer any questions I can or help you around a problem in code.
Cheers,
Labriola

I had a blast at the Michigan Flex User Group last night. Great bunch of folks with good questions and an honest desire to learn about Flex.

We spent a fair amount of time on just object oriented concepts, so I think I might put together a set of slides on those topics soon. In the meantime, here are my slides from last night.

Navigating and Extending the Flex Framework

I am also going to try to make it back to at the end of this month to speak at the <michigan:FlexCamp>, which is shaping up to be a great event. If you are even remotely close to the Lansing, Michigan area, you need to check this out. They are offering 1.5 days of beginner/intermediate Flex training for $40. There is even a networking event after day one. Seriously where could you ever get two days of training for that much?

Hope to see you all there,
Labriola

On Wednesday the 23rd, I filled in remotely for Kevin Hoyt during Flex Camp Omaha. While I wasn't able to meet any of you in person, I hope the remote presentation at least conveyed some of the excitement I feel about BlazeDS.

You can find the slides below or download them here.

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Labriola

Flex Camp Chicago

On Friday the 18th, I had the honor of presenting to a great group of folks at Flex Camp Chicago about component creation in the Flex world. There were some great questions both in session and afterwards and we managed to cover a lot of ground.

For those interested, the slides from that presentation are available here. It was great meeting all of you and I look forward to seeing you at future camps and presentations,

Labriola