Danny Dura | Twitter

"Currently based in Dallas, Texas, I am a Platform Evangelist at Adobe focusing on the Flash Platform. I have given presentations on Flash, AIR, and Flex all over the world at user group meetings, conferences, and pretty much anywhere someone is willing to give a listening ear. Outside of my day job I enjoy general aviation, gaming, and most recently wood working (it gets me away from the pixels)."

James Ward | Twitter

James Ward is a Technical Evangelist for Flex at Adobe and Adobe’s JCP representative to JSR 286, 299, and 301. Much like his love for climbing mountains he enjoys programming because it provides endless new discoveries, elegant workarounds, summits and valleys. His adventures in climbing have taken him many places. Likewise, technology has brought him many adventures, including: Pascal and Assembly back in the early 90’s; Perl, HTML, and JavaScript in the mid 90’s; then Java and many of it’s frameworks beginning in the late 90’s. Today he primarily uses Flex to build beautiful front-ends for Java based back-ends. Prior to Adobe, James built a rich marketing and customer service portal for Pillar Data Systems.

Mike Wilcox | Twitter

Dan Blackman | Twitter

Mudd Brick is a Premiere Adobe Training partner focused on software design, development and training of internet applications. At Mudd Brick we bring experience to every aspect of what we do. For the past 12 years, we have partnered with Adobe to provide solutions from ColdFusion applications to Rich Internet Applications using Flex and Flash software.

Jonathan Campos | Twitter

Jonathan Campos has been specifically building web applications since 2000 using a variety of tools and languages for many different clients. The technologies include: PHP, MYSQL, POSTGRES, Flash, Flex, AIR, Actionscript, Javascript, and Ruby. Jonathan is currently a Principal Architect at Miller and Associates in Dallas Texas and Co-Owner of UnitedMindset with friend Dimi Arhontidis. Jonathan leads various development teams and advises for multiple companies around the world along with being an active trainer in Flex development.

Matt Bugbee | Twitter

Matt Bugbee is an Interactive Developer currently doing Flex based Multitouch Research & Development at Miller and Associates in Dallas, Tx.

Mike Nimer | Twitter

Mike has spent over a decade building web applications, the servers that run web applications, as well as providing consulting and mentoring help for development teams around the world. Currently Mike Nimer is the Director of Engineering and Architect of the nomee.com application. Before joining nomee, Mike was a founding partner of Digital Primates IT Consulting Group; providing mentoring and development support on the Adobe RIA and ColdFusion platforms. Prior to founding Digital Primates, Mike was a member of the Adobe ColdFusion engineering team where he was involved with a number of key features including PDF generation and the integration of Flex 2 with the ColdFusion Server.

Jason Fincanon | Twitter

Flash and Flex developer with over 10 years of experience, has done development on a wide range of projects including large scale websites, AIR applications and games. He has been in the interactive advertising field since 2003, authored a book on the subject in 2007 and is currently in the process of writing the 2nd edition.

Christopher Long | Twitter

Christopher Long has been a multimedia developer for over 10 years. He loves music and video and has worked with both of them extensively throughout his career. Using the Flash Platform, Christopher has developed microsites, rich media ads, and web based applications for a multitude of clients including some of the largest brands in the United States. In 2008 he founded Ovrflo Media, Inc., a web production house.

Dimi Arhontidis | Twitter

Dimi is a designer specializing in front-end UI design for web, and web apps.

Dimi has been designing for about 14 years now, started his design career in print and corporate branding, and moved to web and application design.

Carter Bradford

Carter Bradford has been working as an IT Consultant for the past 10 years with an emphasis on IT strategy and large-scale systems integration.  Much of this time was spent working on international assignments including projects in Finland, Brazil and Japan.  Prior to this, he was a research engineer working on various projects for the Department of Defense.  Carter has been working with Flex since the 1.0 days and has a keen interest in the web and browser as a platform for enterprise applications.

Joel Hooks | Twitter

Joel Hooks is a Flash Platform developer with experience in Actionscript 3, Flex, and Python. Joel spent the first 13 years of his professional career as a 3d animator and graphic designer working on computer based training applications from that perspective. His interest in programming goes as far back as "TELL TURTLE" and he has always been interested in the technological challenges related to developing software making work a little bit easier. With the introduction of Actionscript 3, Joel finally found a platform that allows him to architect useful tools while fully leveraging his experience as a visual artist. Joel is passionate about technology and enjoys exploring the landscape of frameworks, libraries, and tools that make his work constantly fun and challenging.

Mike Smith

Michael Smith is a Senior Flex Architect who has spent more than 12 years enhancing user experiences for software and web-based applications through highly interactive interfaces using technologies such as Flex, Flash, HTML, AJAX, CSS, and PHP. Michael is an Adobe Certified Expert in Flex 3 and Air and serves as an Adjunct Professor of Interactive Design at The Art Institute of Dallas and The University of Texas at Dallas.

Nate Beck | Twitter

Miller & Associates is doing it again! 2008 was a great introduction to the sophisticated representation Miller & Associates contributes to the world of technology in the Dallas Metroplex.

This year we are taking it to a whole new level. Within the past year Miller & Associates began to experiment using Flex in some refreshing ways that we are excited to share with you!

Student and group discounts available by contacting Rebecca Shaw at 972.378.1030x101 / Rebecca.Shaw@MMillerAssociates.com.

Follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/TexFlex09

Agenda
7:30am - 8:30am: Sunrise Training

• Make sure your system is read for Flex development. This early morning session is set up just for people new to Flex that are wanting helping getting going with Flex and the Flex IDE.

8am - 8:45am: Breakfast / Registration

8:45am - 9am: Miller Introduction

9am-10:15am: Keynote by Adobe

10:15am - 10:30am: Break

10:30am - 11:45am: Session 1

• Nate Beck - Flexible Games... game development with stuff you already know.
• Mike Wilcox - Flash and the DOM
• Mike Nimer - Unit Testing within Flex
• Mike Smith - Hands on Training - Bring Your Own Laptop

11:45am - 12:45pm: Lunch

12:45pm - 2pm: Session 2

• Mike Smith - Extending Components through Actionscript
• Jonathan Campos - Ruby on Rails with Flex
• Dimi Arhontidis - Dealing with Designers
• Miller and Associate Employee - Hands on Training - Bring Your Own Laptop

2pm - 2:15pm: Break

2:15pm - 3:30pm: Session 3

• Matt Bugbee - Multi-Touch and the Flash Platform
• James Ward -Flex and the Cloud
• Jason Fincanon & Christopher Long - Spark Skinning
• Mike Smith - Hands on Training - Bring Your Own Laptop

3:30pm - 3:45pm: Break

3:45pm - 5pm: Session 4

• Carter Bradford - The Business of Flex
• Joel Hooks - Robotlegs Framework
• Danny Dura - Flash and the iPhone
• Mike Smith - Hands on Training - Bring Your Own Laptop

5pm - 5:15pm: Break

5:15 - 5:30/45pm: Panel and Closing

• Open Discussion with all speakers

Sponsored By:

Manning Publications

O'Reily Media

Apress Inc.

Apress Inc., part of Springer Science+Business Media, is a technical publisher devoted to meeting the needs of IT professionals, software developers, and programmers, with more than 700 books in print and a continually expanding portfolio of publications. Appress provides high-quality, no-fluff content in print and electronic formats that help serious technology professionals build a comprehensive pathway to career success.

Apress is proud to be a sponsor of the TexFlex conference. We want our User Group members to know that Apress supports User Group education and training efforts and are more than happy to provide books and learning material to support your event.

Video Recording By:

DigitalRetro Productions

Abstracts:

Using RobotLegs to Develop Testable Applications Quickly and Easily
Presented by Joel Hooks, Senior Systems Developer at Data Driven Software Corporation

This presentation will provide intermediate and advanced Flash Platform developers an introduction to the Robotlegs Actionscript 3 Micro-Architecture. Using metadata, dependency injection and Flash's native Event model, RobotLegs makes it easy to create applications and components that are loosely-coupled, simple to test, safe to refactor, and more likely to be reused.

Flexible Games... game development with stuff you already know.
Presented by Nate Beck

In this session Nate Beck will take you through the basics of game development using the Flex SDK you know and love