360Flexpress Hands-On Training » Cairngorm

360Flexpress – Saturday Wrap up and Sunday Agenda

John — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:13:18 +0000

Day one of the training was loads of fun. We accomplished a lot. For those of you that missed out, it’s a shame. We learned some great skills to apply to our Flex dev work. Here’s a link to a zip file. It contains the “backup” of our original POC mxml file as well as the version where we broke off components.

Sunday looks to be even better than Saturday. Take a peek at the schedule below:

8 am to noon – AM Session

noon to 12:30 pm – Lunch

12:30 to 4:30 – PM Session

Both the AM Session and PM Session blocks are repeats of the same content: one room for Mate, one for Cairngorm and one for PureMVC. This allows each attendee to learn about 2 different frameworks.

The speaker breakdown is as follows:

Harry Garland – Mate

Tom Ortega – Cairngorm – Session Files: CGFramework Source Sample App

Keith Sutton – PureMVC

See you there! It’s not too late too register either. Come down to register in person or register online. Today is only $99.

Great goodies from Apress and great content!

John — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:38:26 +0000

We’re hard at work making the two days of 360|Flexpress the best hands-on Training you’re gonna find… anywhere.

I know, as if there was ever any question, HOWEVER we want to make sure everyone knows it.

Whether you’re new to Flex, or have a little experience and want to “Level Up”, Saturday is the day for you. Tom has been working with Flex since Flex 1.5, I know I was there working with him. We’ve got stories, oh yes, we do.

Saturday is all Flex 101, Hands-On. Bring your laptop, a power cord, and be ready to learn.

Sunday we’re offering some choices. Tom, Keith and Harry will be each holding talks on some of the major frameworks in the Flex developer world, Mate, Cairngorm, and PureMVC.

We’ve got a room for each, so once you’ve spent the day Saturday learning the in’s and outs of Flex, you’ll be able to learn about the most common frameworks in use by Flex developers.

After all, part of this training’s goal is to get folks the Flex skills they need to get a job, or a better job!

360Flexpress – Sunday Adv Training!

John — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:27:04 +0000

Thomas Burleson from Thunderbay software has signed on to cover the Sunday hands-on training for 360|FlexPress. Thomas’ list of credentials is as long as my arm, and I have long arms!

For example:

the primary author for the Adobe Cairngorm courseware (available on Adobe labs). In fact, I presented first the Cairngorm courseware in Rotterdam, NE with Matt Boles, Leo Schumann, and James Talbot
the original architect and founder of the Cairngorm Extensions [CGX]; which provide amazing extensions that vastly simplify the real-world uses of Cairngorm. The CGX is now open-sourced on Google and used in 100s of RIAs worldwide
the primary trainer for Cairngorm dev teams at SAP (Palo Alto), Oracle, Oppenheimer Funds, UniversalMind, and many more.
a major contributor to the Mate MVC framework
an industry expert of il8n and RIA localizations (best practices, integration, deployment, etc)

Thomas will be spending the entire day Sunday going over advanced MVC topics, including

Explore the FlexStore code with pre- and post-MVC usages.
Present best practices and “danger” areas when using Cairngorm,
and (if time allows)… explore the CGX add-ons for event scheduling, custom events, callbacks, delegate factories, etc.

Don’t worry, if you’re not sure if Cairngorm is for you, or even if you’re sure it IS NOT for you. Thomas’ session will be worth it. You’ll elevate your game no matter your position on Cairngorm.