A quick overview of some of the sessions from 360|Flex San Jose 2010. Presented at the St. Louis Flex User Group.

1. 360|FLEX RECAP

2. 360|FLEX ROCKS

3. 360|FLEX ROCKS
• Conference Overview

4. 360|FLEX ROCKS
• Conference Overview
• Stuff You Can Use Today

5. 360|FLEX ROCKS
• Conference Overview
• Stuff You Can Use Today
• Stuff You Could Use Today, but Will Be
Better Tomorrow

6. OVERVIEW

12. • http://www.flickr.com/groups/360flex/

13. • http://www.flickr.com/groups/360flex/
• 4 Days

14. • http://www.flickr.com/groups/360flex/
• 4 Days
• 360ish attendees

15. • http://www.flickr.com/groups/360flex/
• 4 Days
• 360ish attendees
• Approx 50 Sessions

16. Session Topics

17. Session Topics
• Intro to Flex • Designer Developer Workflow
• Hands on Hardware • Brightcove
• Mate • RIA Advertising
• RobotLegs • OSMF
• PayPal • Hamcrest
• Flex Components • LiveCycle
• Omniture Analytics • Hiring and Keeping Devs
• Agile Practices • Phidgets

18. cont.

19. cont.
• APIs, Libs, Modules, Components • New in Flex 4
• Gaia • P2P
• Poo • Reflex
• Contracts • Automation: Build and Deploy
• Greenthreading • TDD
• Text Layout Framework • GPS
• Principles of RIA Design • Performance
• Building iPhone Apps in Flash • Business

20. cont.

21. cont.
• Ouch • Push Button Engine
• Git • Flash Platform Relevance
• Pee
• Optimization
• Continuous Integration
• Adobe/Microsoft App Dev
• UX
• Multitouch

22. STUFF YOU
CAN USE TODAY

23. RobotLegs Framework
• Joel Hooks, @jhooks
• Automated Dependency Injection is the
new fad in Actionscript development
• AS3 and Flex. Emphasis on MVCS with
Mediator and Command Patterns.
• RobotLegs & Gaia preso a week later at
the Vegas FUG
http://experts.na3.acrobat.com/p16739385/

25. RobotLegs In The Wild
• http://www.dogooderchallenge.com/
HandbagDesignContest/BagBuilder/
• http://www.clubtreasureworld.com/
• http://hbopunchzone.com/
• http://www.robotlegs.org/community/

26. PushButton Engine
• Nate Beck, @jnbeck
• AS3 Game Engine created by Game Vets
• Adobe Support
• Open Source
• Active Community (1018 registered)
• http://pushbuttonengine.com/

27. OSMF
• David Hassoun
• OSMF (Open Source Media Framework)
• http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/
osmf/Open+Source+Media+Framework
• http://david.realeyes.com/?p=137

28. Flex Typography
• Matt Guest, @mguest
• Flash Text Engine and the Text Layout
Framework

29. Flex Typography
• Vastly improved OpenType
• Real Kerning
• Improved antialiasing and pixel snapping
• Baseline snapping
• Digit case and width
• Ligatures

30. Greenthreading
• Huyen Tue Dao, @queencodemonkey
• While you cannot access other threads in
FP, you can emulate threads in code.
• http://queencodemonkey.com/
2010/03/08/360flex-presentation-slides-
and-code/
• http://code.google.com/p/greenthreads/

31. TDD with FlexUnit 4
• Elad Elrom, @eladelrom
• http://elromdesign.com/blog/2010/03/10/
test-driven-development-tdd-with-
flexunit-4-complete-tutorial/

32. UX PRINCIPLES
• Andrew Powell, @umandy
• http://www.slideshare.net/ivanhoe/andrew-
powell-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-
and-love-ux
• Features are dead. Focus on solutions and
features will follow.

33. STUFF YOU
COULD USE TODAY,
BUT WILL BE BETTER
TOMORROW.

34. REFLEX
• An AS3 component framework relying
more on composition than inheritance
• Jacob (@jac_) and Tyler Wright (@xtyler)
and Ben Stucki (@benstucki)
• http://jacwright.com
• http://www.xtyler.com/
• http://github.com/reflex/
• http://groups.google.com/group/reflex-platform

35. REFLEX
• Demo: http://www.xtyler.com/code/
310#more-310
• Demos and Slides: http://jacwright.com/
blog/394/reflex-demos/

36. iPhone and Mobile Dev
• Paul Robertson's (@probertson) Session:
http://probertson.com/articles/2010/03/16/
slides-and-examples-developing-iphone-
apps-flash-platform/
• Renaun Erickson's (@renaun) Session on
optimization for mobile: http://renaun.com/
blog/2010/03/10/304/

37. one more thing...

40. GO TO 360|FLEX
http://360flex.com
@360flex