Workshop #4: Rich Internet Applications with Flex
This workshop is hands-on coding where you will learn how to build Rich Internet Applications for the web and for the Desktop. Attendees should bring their laptops loaded with the Flex Builder 3 Beta from labs.adobe.com.
Topics which will be covered: - Basics of Flex and Flex Builder - Basics of MXML and ActionScript - Communicating with the back-end - Skinning and Styling - Effects and Transitions - Custom Components - Advanced Architecture
About James Ward
James Ward is a Technical Evangelist for Flex at Adobe. Much like his love for climbing mountains he enjoys programming because it provides endless new discoveries, elegant workarounds, summits and valleys. His adventures in climbing have taken him many places. Likewise, technology has brought him many adventures, including: Pascal and Assembly back in the early 90's; Perl, HTML, and JavaScript in the mid 90's; then Java and many of it's frameworks beginning in the late 90's. Today he primarily uses Flex to build beautiful front ends for Java based back ends. Prior to Adobe, James built a rich marketing and customer service portal for Pillar Data Systems.
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