Adobe team invites you to join us at Flex Camp, a free one night gathering with food, drinks, coding, & time with the Flex & Adobe AIR engineers covering everything you need to know about the upcoming release of Flex 3 & Adobe AIR.

Bring your laptop, we'll provide the food, drinks, & swag.

Registration

Registration required

Visit http://flexcamp.eventbrite.com/ to register (its free, but we need to know you're coming)

Where

When

July 27th, 2007

Agenda

Doors open for Flex 101 at 3:30 PM

4:00 PM - 5:00 - Optional - Flex 101 by Ted Patrick - Only for developers new to Flex

Doors open for Flex Camp at 5:00 PM

5:00 PM - 6:00 - Welcome - Food, drinks, registration.

6:00 PM - 6:30 - Keynote - The vision for Flex, the Flash Platform, & open source initiatives

6:30 PM - 7:15 - Introduction to Flex Builder 3 - What's new in Flex 3

7:15 PM - 7:30 - Break

7:30 PM - 8:15 - Flex 3 & CS 3 Integration - Improving the workflow between designers & developers

8:15 PM - 9:00 - Getting started with Adobe AIR & Flex 3 - Building your first AIR application

9:00 PM - 9:10 - Break

9:10 PM - 9:40 - Camp Session 1 - See below

9:40 PM - 9:50 - Break

9:50 PM - 10:20 - Camp Session 2 - See below

10:20 PM - 10:30 - Break

10:30 PM - 11:00 - Camp Session 3 - See below

11:00 PM - 11:30 - Open Q & A

You will determine content for the Camp Sessions. There will be 3 separate areas setup where you can get together for specific topics.

Camp Session Ideas

Have an idea for something that you'd like to see?

Format:

Title - Name - Description

Attendees

Mike Potter, Interested? Add your name here.

Flex & PHP - Mike Potter - I'd like to see a session on Flex & PHP

Andrew Laffoon - but lets talk about rails too! :)

Sam Nichols - What exactly would be discussed? Socket servers, serialized data?

Randy Fong - Yes, looking forward to it. Will the other sessions be recorded?

Chris Charlton - Mapping PHP Classes to AS Objects/Classes is a neat topic many haven't seen yet. (DTO/VO/etc.)

Shawn White

Bob Breckenridge - would like to see QuickTest Pro demo which is able to recognize Flex objects on HTML pages, so we can automate testing. Also any tips about setup & installation.

Ted Patrick - MXML vs AS3 (Apples vs Apples) - Explain the difference in MXML & AS3 classes & show how they are the same thing.

Anthony Raj - Would be awesome to see Python aswell :).

Universal Runtime Debugging: REDbug Testing Suite - David Hassoun (Adobe Certified Master Instructor & chief architect of RealEyes Media) & Jun Heider (Adobe Certified Instructor & senior Flex Developer of RealEyes Media) - Creating & using a universal Flash & Flex debugging & testing suite made with Flex 3 & Adobe AIR. This presentation would show the hows, why's, & uses of Flex & AIR based debugging tools for enterprise application development & testing based on a set of tools RealEyes Media has developed with Flex 3 & AIR for Flash (7,8,9+) & Flex development.

→ Add your name here: Lisa Wilson, Lance Linder, Tom Burnett, Steven Boynes, David Hassoun, Jun Heider

Flex & Illustrator - Sam Nichols - I'd like to learn more about skinning Flex apps with Illustrator, including exporting component skins from Flex & what exactly to do in Illustrator to make things work. Maybe expand on this

→ Add your name here: Lance Linder, Brian Ghidinelli, Gavin Harvey, Robert DiMarco, Sam Nichols,

Flex & Java - James Ward - Don't know what we will focus on yet... depends on what the attendees want.

→ Add your name here:

Flex & Salesforce - James Ward - Flex & AIR in the enterprise

→ Add your name here:

Mike Goelzer

Coding Sprint - James Ward - Bring your laptop & lets build something neat - this one could go all night :)

→ Add your name here: Chris Charlton

Flex & .NET - Andy Webb - I would love to present on Flex & .NET/MONO integration (via web services) & show a preview of one of our current projects using this technology if anyone is interested.

→ Add your name here: Chris Charlton (got a .Net client soon)

Flex for SAP Enterprise Applications - Matthias Zeller - I could show some sample applications & share some customer use cases. We can also discuss the different integration options to connect Flex apps to SAP.

→ Add you name here

Flex & Real Time Dashboards - Phil Heinz - Explore the data acquisition & distribution methods of InteliSea using industrial equipment, .NET & Flex.

→ Add your name here: Lance Linder

Flex on Facebook - Michael Galpin - Facebook applications are extremely popular. However, developing an app can be very restrictive, very awkward, or both. Using Flex can remove these restrictions & make it easy to build your Facebook application.

Here's a link to my blog that includes the slides from last night and the code.

→ Add your name here: Andrew Laffoon (I'm definitely interested in this). Bill Katz. Daryn Nakhuda, Forrest Oliphant, Ali Mills, Robert DiMarco, Paul Rangel, Dave Held, Jeremy Giovannetti

Introduction to Flex & Sprouts - Luke Bayes - You could find out the answers to many important questions like, "What the H#%& are Sprouts?", "What should they mean to me?" & "Do they REALLY work on Mac, DOS, Cygwin & Linux?" Here's a demo of the original incarnation

→ Add your name here: Chris Charlton (I'm interested in seeing stuff with this), Ali Mills, Shawn White, Daniel Spirn

ColdFusion + Flex Integration - needs leader - ColdFusion has built-in flex hooks in 7 & 8 providing rapid application development features. Drink the full Adobe stack kool-aid!

→ Add your name here: Brian Ghidinelli, Tom Burnett, Mark Altenbernd, Steven Boynes.

Flex Community Libraries - Doug Mc Cune - If you're lazy & want to make cool apps then just take advantage of the work that other people have done. Let's talk about FlexLib, PaperVision3D, Actionscript Physics Engine, FZip, Tweener, Ely's components, all the api libs out there (flickr, youtube, facebook, amazon s3, etc etc), & all the other open source libraries that people have made. With so much good code already written you shouldn't have to work very hard.

→ Add your name here: Lance Linder, Brian Ghidinelli, Bill Katz, Tom Burnett, Steven Boynes, Gavin Harvey, Forrest Oliphant, Chris Charlton, Ali Mills, Shawn White, Daniel Spirn(Show Us Doug)

Scion.com & Flex 2 - James Polanco (Flex Architect / Lead Developer) & Doug Winnie (Process Architect / Group Manager) - We will present an overview of the core system & process that allowed us to develop & launch the new Flex 2 / AS3 Scion website.

→ Add your name here:

Flex & JBoss Seam - Felipe Albertao (Boulevard R) - JBoss Seam is a new Java EJB3 lightweight web framework that provides an excellent ajax-based remote interface, which turned out to be a great back-end solution for Flex. Depending on what attendees want, we can give an overview of JBoss Seam, how it fits together with Flex, & also show off a real-world application using this architecture.

→ Add your name here:

Flex & Drupal - Chris Charlton (LA Air user group) - Flex shows off data from a database, but how much do you really want to slave over SQL code & database structures if you don't always have to?! I'm willing to introduce my favorite PHP CMS framework, Drupal, & show how some folks are wiring Flex to it.

→ Add your name here: Shawn White, Paul Rangel, Dave Held, Jeremy Giovannetti, Rob Knight

Comparing & Contrasting Flex Architectures - Group Discussion - This session is a group discussion where we will compare & contrast different ways to architect a Flex project. The goal of this session is finding the answer to the question, "What is the right way to architect a Flex application?". Ideally, we will discuss some well defined architectures like Cairngorm & PureMVC & in the process compare & contrast their strengths & weaknesses with one another.

Resources: Flex Developer Center, Cairngorm, PureMVC

→ Add your name here: Luke Bayes, Ali Mills, Paul Rangel, Steven Boynes

Flex with Ruby on Rails - NEEDS PRESENTER - Flex is hot! Ruby on Rails is Hot! How can we get these two technologies to work together? Come to this session to find out.

Resources: RubyOnRails (1.1) & Flex (2.0): Pt 1, RubyOnRails (1.1) & Flex (2.0): Pt 2, Integrating Flex 2 & Ruby on Rails, The Ruby on Rails RIA SDK by Adobe, WebORB (Flex & Flash Remoting clients & Ruby on Rails applications), RubyAMF (Flash Remoting with Ruby), Ruby on Rails,

Flexible Rails the Book by Peter Armstrong Great Read, excellent resource Peter are you going to Present?

→ Add your name here:

Open Source Flex - NEEDS PRESENTER - On April 26, Adobe announced that it would be moving Flex to an open source model. What does this mean? In this session, we will try to clarify what it means. We will discuss how to participate in the development of Flex 3 - where to download the source, how to file bugs, how to fix bugs. In general, we will discuss how to contribute to the future of Flex.

Resources: Flex 3 complete spec, daily builds of Flex 2.0.1, Flex Wiki, public Flex bug & issue manager, open source Flex on Adobe Labs, opensource.adobe.com, Open at Adobe

→ Add your name here:

Hotel

If you require a hotel room for the event, we have worked with the Fairmont San Francisco to secure rooms at a discounted rate. To access this room block, please call 1-800-441-1414 & refer to the "Adobe Flex Launch" rate for the Fairmont San Francisco. Discounted rooms are available for both July 26th & July 27th, with rates starting at $209.00 for a queen size bed.

Adobe AIR Derby

FlexCamp will provide you all the knowledge you need to enter the Adobe AIR derby, where you can win a trip of a lifetime. Get details of the derby, including rules & all the prizes.