webdu: How to navigate and extend the Flex infrastructure

How to navigate and extend the Flex infrastructure

90% of the contractors and experts that we bring on board have no idea how to navigate the flex source code to find what they need. Very few have any idea about the component creation life cycle, and even more stare at us strangely when we suggest they simply extend one of the flex components in actionscript to override the default behavior. Teaching the ins and outs of the source, conventions followed, file locations and the basics of creating and overriding would go a long way for the developer that wants to be a step ahead.

  • Difficulty: Experienced
  • Prerequisites:
  • Session Track: RIA

Session Detail

Well, I am back from webDU and doing my best to adjust to the new time zone. 

webDU was a fantastic event. Geoff Bowers and the team at Daemon go all out to make this a brilliant conference and they succeed. The conference accomplishes their goal of having one of the best speaker to attendee ratios. It allows time to interact with everyone and ample time to enjoy Sydney.

In addition to watching other sessions and talking to the other speakers, I actually had time to sit down and do some impromptu code debugging with a couple of attendees that had questions. It was a fantastic way to gain some new friends and provide some insight to a couple of developers before a race condition drove them insane.

For anyone looking, the code for my session is enclosed (even the really useless code).

Hope to see you all next year, and, for those that can make the trip, I look forward to seeing you at Max 07 - Chicago.

http://blogs.digitalprimates.net/codeSlinger/index.cfm/2007/3/28/webDU

Speakers

Michael Labriola (USA)

Michael Labriola is a Founding Partner and Senior Consultant at Digital Primates IT Consulting Group. He has been developing Internet applications since 1995 and has been working with Flex since its 1.0 beta program. Michael is an Adobe Certified Instructor, Community Expert, Flex Developer Champion, co-author of the Flex 2 & 3 Training from the Source books, and international speaker on Flex and AIR topics who has consulted for three of the world's ten most recognized brands. More...