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Michael Labriola (USA)

Michael Labriola is a 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, and co-author of the both the Flex 2 & 3 Training from the Source books and Breaking out of the Browser with Adobe AIR. Michael is an international speaker on Flex and AIR topics who has consulted for three of the world's ten most recognized brands.

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.

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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...

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. More...

The Ties that Bind us

Just about everyone who uses Flex uses data binding. Now come learn what you are actually doing when you add those curly brackets to your application. Learn what the compiler is doing on your behalf when the [Bindable] tag is added to a property or class, how to optimize and abuse binding for your own purpose and finally understand some of the performance related issues that can occur with the over/misuse of this essential Flex Tool. More...