360Flex Free Sunday Training Highlight: Yahoo!

This week, we're highlighting all your options for free preconference Training. These hands-on sessions will take place on Sunday, August 17th, the day before the show officially starts. They are 100% free to all registered guests, so be sure to stop by on Sunday and getcha learn on. All the descriptions can also be found in the eProgram Guide.

To register, simply send an RSVP to info@360flex.com and let us know you're coming.  We've now added checkboxes for your Free Sunday training selection to the registration process.  If you checked that off, there's no need to send an additional RSVP.

Yahoo! API Hands on - Sponsored by Yahoo! Developer Network

Yahoo! Workshop: Flex@Yahoo! - A Deep-Dive Look at How We Build Flex Components and Applications

Since its inception over two years ago, Yahoo!'s Flash Platform team has produced a large collection of Flash an Flex components and libraries, nearly all open-sourced and available to the developer community for free . In this session, we'll look at some of our popular Flex components, and deep-dive under the hood of the source code to see how they were built.
The topics discussed will include:

• The very popular Yahoo! AS3 Maps component: We will talk about the efficient tile engine and the techniques of combining a component with rich data APIs.
• The novel AutoComplete manager: Though not a visible component on its own, the AutoComplete manager can turn any text input in Flex into an AutoCompleteone. We'll demo how to do this.
• The ColorPicker: How one universal component can replace twenty different ones.

During the workshop, the best questions and comments will receive unique Yahoo! prizes. Additionally, a raffle at the end of the workshop will determine a few winners of Alaric Cole's new book "Flex 3 for Beginners" (O'Reilly)