Jim Robson to Speak at FlexManiacs 2008

Jim RobsonJim Robson is a Software Engineer and Adobe Certified Flex Developer at Eye Street Software. Jim has been working with Flash Platform technologies since the days of Macromedia Generator, and with Flex specifically since the public alpha of Flex 2. Together with the team at Eye Street, Jim has developed RIAs with Flex and / or Ajax UIs and a variety of middle-tier and back-end technologies (FDS, Java, Hibernate, Rails, etc). He will be speaking on the following topics at the FlexManiacs Conference, May 21-23, 2008:

Making Large Applications Manageable with Modules
The advent of Modules in Flex 2.1 helped to ease the delivery of large applications over the Web. Support for Modules has improved significantly with Flex 3, particularly with regard to the tool set in Flex Builder 3. This session will show you how to leverage Flex Builder 3 and Modules to make large applications that can be delivered quickly and smoothly over the network.

Building Accessible Applications with Flex 3
The importance of accessibility continues to grow as public and private sector organizations become more attuned to the needs of people with different abilities. Not surprisingly, the Flex SDK includes a solid tool set to help developers make their applications accessible. In this session you will learn how to leverage the Flex tool set to build applications that are accessible to users with a wide range of abilities.

Introduction to ECMAScript for XML (E4X)
Traditionally, handling XML data in ActionScript or JavaScript has been tedious and cumbersome, which is particularly painful in light of the prevalence of XML as a medium for sending structured data over the Web. With the advent of E4X, the ActionScript developer has gained the ability to handle XML data quickly and easily, using familiar syntax and idioms. In addition to the productivity boost, E4X also enables looser coupling between the ActionScript code and the XML data. In these sessions, the student will learn how to use E4X to create, interpret, filter, search, manipulate, and modify XML data. -- Both a hands-on lab and a lecture are scheduled on this topic.