360Flex teaches top Flex skills desired in the workplace
Today and tomorrow we'll be making posts on potential hands-on sessions for 360|Flex Atlanta. As you know, we're never content with staying the same. There is always room for improvement. Therefore, in that vein, we give the following for your consideration.
We are thinking of a hands-on session entitled "Top Flex skills desired in the workplace". The purpose of this session is helping grow developers in their worth.
You've all seen the job postings listing "Experience with Cairngorm" or "Master of OOP concepts". Others have helped the new hire get up to speed while muttering, "Gosh, why doesn't (s)he know this already?"
Therefore, let's spend a day helping one another get up to speed on these things. Whether you a senior developer who knows what needs to be taught or a junior that's tired of seeing job postings with skills you don't have, this session could benefit from your help.
Go ahead and start listing things in the comments. The more topics we get submitted, the better for us to choose from. Topics that get listed often will more likely be covered. Even if you don't have items to add to the list, voice whether you think this is a good idea or not. Let us know if you want to participate and teach a portion of the session, i.e. "This is ASDoc tags and here's how to use them."
And if you really think it's great, remember there's only 1 way to experience it: by attending the show. Hands-on sessions do not get recorded for later playback.
We are thinking of a hands-on session entitled "Top Flex skills desired in the workplace". The purpose of this session is helping grow developers in their worth.
You've all seen the job postings listing "Experience with Cairngorm" or "Master of OOP concepts". Others have helped the new hire get up to speed while muttering, "Gosh, why doesn't (s)he know this already?"
Therefore, let's spend a day helping one another get up to speed on these things. Whether you a senior developer who knows what needs to be taught or a junior that's tired of seeing job postings with skills you don't have, this session could benefit from your help.
Go ahead and start listing things in the comments. The more topics we get submitted, the better for us to choose from. Topics that get listed often will more likely be covered. Even if you don't have items to add to the list, voice whether you think this is a good idea or not. Let us know if you want to participate and teach a portion of the session, i.e. "This is ASDoc tags and here's how to use them."
And if you really think it's great, remember there's only 1 way to experience it: by attending the show. Hands-on sessions do not get recorded for later playback.
posted by Tom Ortega
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12:02 PM
5 Comments :
This is a great idea! Can we have these throughout the entire conference?
Some suggestions:
OOP for noobs
Caringorm Framework
Actionscript Physics Engine
Papervision 3D
Mapping API's
MVC best practices
Definitely OOP concepts like encapsulation / separation of concerns not only in theory but how those applied in practical and how those concepts will save you over the longterm.
Developing in Flex means, developing components. So component lifecycle & creating component from scratch or extending current one would be a great addition.
Also, hand on about how event broadcasting and binding would work internally would be useful additions.
I think if they have experience on that, they should feel the power of Flex and they will be drawn upon to continue their journey.
* authentication and authorisation, session hijacking.
* data integrity and data collisions
@keeler and myo: Gotcha and know whatcha mean.
@barry.b: Do you mean those topics in a general context? Or how they relate specifically to Flex? I think those are not Flex specific, but more generic web app questions, no?
Based on my research people are interested in "Application Architecture" topics. "Interface Design" is a close second.
Turning those "ideas" into specific sessions is open to interpretation, though.
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