360Flex Sunday Training: Flex@Yahoo! - A Deep-Dive Look at How We Build Flex Components and Applications

Ever wanted to implement any of the Yahoo! AS3 APIs? Ever wanted to see how Yahoo! Maps can take your applicationto the next level? Yahoo! will be presenting a half day training session on their APIs on Sunday, as part of our FREE pre-conference training.

Since its inception over two years ago, Yahoo!'s Flash Platform team has produced a large collection of Flash/Flex components and libraries. Nearly all of which are open-sourced and available to the developer community for free (http://developer.yahoo.com/flash/). In this session, we'll look at some of their popular Flex components, plus 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 AutoComplete one - we'll demo how to do this.
• The ColorPicker:
  How one universal component can replace twenty different ones.

During the training session, 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).

Don't miss this great opportunity for hands on instruction on implementing sweet APIa from Yahoo!. Register now, and let us know you'd like to attend the training session by emailing us at info@360flex.com.