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.

One thing I’ve never liked about a lot of training out there is that while you build pieces of an app, you don’t build the whole thing.  There’s always things skipped, code prewritten for you, so you never get that continuous feel of going from nothing to finished product.  That will not be the case here.

We will be building a simple survey app that asks questions and displays the results.  Since it is November, I thought it would be fun to incorporate that in to app.  Here’s the splash screen:

Splash Screen

There’s no styling in the screen shot.  (Hey, I don’t want to give it all away before you show up!)  But you will learn how to not only build the app, but then add styling and cool animation effects that we know and love Flex for.

The core concepts that will be taught are ones you will (or should be) using every day in your Flex development job.  You will learn how to layout applications, break it up in to components, reuse those components to speed up development.

I’m very excited and am probably creating far too many labs for us to work through, but better to have too much than not enough.  Don’t worry, the labs work will be staggered.  We’ll touch an area, leave room for improvement, then move to the next.  This way we’re guaranteed to get a working app that we can then go back later and add some more finishing touches.

On Sunday, we’ll then take this app and recreate it in 3 different frameworks: Cairngorm, PureMVC and Mate.  You’ll learn how not only to build an app, but then also how to add a framework to help ease further development.

For those of you already registered, it’s gonna be a blast!  For those not registered, hurry up there’s still time!  Register now for the low price of $149 for both days.

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!

Register now! $149 for 2 solid days of Flex hands-on training! You won’t find a better deal!

I’ve worked on many different kinds of projects from small to large.  I’ve seen where the pain points are and have gone through some tough moments in the dev cycle that could have been avoided. My goal with the Day 1 training is to not only teach you Flex skills, but also the non-Flex skills that are going to help make you succeed.

The world at large still has a void of Flex developers.  There are many positions that I know of that stay unfulfilled because there are no qualified devs to fill them.  The goal of this training weekend is to help get the local bay area developers up to speed and filling those roles.

For those that have a Flex job or just a passing interest in Flex as a future role, there will be just as much information for you.  You will see what to expect in your new role and learn if Flex really is something you want to spend your waking hours doing.

Mind you, this is just Day 1.  Thomas Burleson, a world renowned expert in Cairngorm, will be sharing his expertise on Day 2.  It’s just $149 for both days or $99 for each day separately if you can only do one. Register now and get prepared to get your Flex on.

Stay tuned, the next post will have more info on what to expect when you arrive for day one!

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.

Register now! Seats aren’t going to last long!

On Saturday, Tom’s gonna walk folks through the basics of building Flex apps.  He’ll very quickly cover the basics of building Flex apps, then spend most of the day on topics such as custom component building and using events.

On Sunday, you’ll learn how to take a simple application and write it from scratch in both Cairngorm and PureMVC.  This will help you understand the similarities and differences between these two frameworks.

The pricing for this event is pretty straight forward. If you only want/need 1 day (Saturday or Sunday), it’s $99. Pick your day, show up and get your learn on.

If you want both days,  it’s $149 for both days. You’re not gonna get 2 days of hands-on training for a better price anywhere. These are going to be hands-on sessions, not simple overviews.  You can expect labs that will require you to write code, so you’ll not only learn the principles but how to apply them.

By the end of Sunday night, you’ll be ready to sit in on the 300+ level sessions at 360|Flex San Jose!

Oh and if (as we hope) you’re doing the Hands-On to ramp up for 360|Flex, you’ll be happy to know each attendee of 360|Flexpress will get a discount on the big show!