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.

Dense and Hot. An introduction to your applications big bang

What exactly happens inside of Flex when it is loading your application? For that matter what is so special about the Application tag itself? How does it lay out its children? What does the creationComplete really mean? The answer to these and other exciting questions are contained in this session. We will dive deep into the Flex framework and piece together a forensic-quality timeline of the first few seconds of your application's life. You will never look at the Application tag the same way again. More...

Speaker Details

As a consultant, he mentors software development teams using emerging technologies and architects enterprise applications with high business impact. His free time is spent escaping from technology through wine and food.