360Flex Camp New Jersey Unit Testing your apps.

Unit testing is important. I know it, you know it, I think even my mom knows it, though she probably just heard about it at a Jafra meeting.

That said, if you're not using Unit Testing, in your Flex apps, you should be. Jeff Tapper of Digital Primates, will be presenting on Fluint, formerly known (like Prince was, ya know) as dpUnit.

Based loosely on the concepts of FlexUnit and its ancestor JUnit, fluint provides enhanced asynchronous support, a graphical test runner, integration with continuous build systems and an optional Adobe AIR client for directory watching.
It adds support for:

• Multiple simultaneous asynchronous operations
• Asynchronous setup and teardown
• Asynchronous returns before method body completion
• Support for UIComponent testing
• Support for test sequences
• Support for testing Cairngorm commands and controllers
• XML output of testing results
• Support for externalizing tests in modules 

Wanna hear more about Fuint, and the other great topics we're going to have on Saturday? Register now! It's not too late!

360Flex Camp New Jersey session: Farata Systems cool productivity components

Victor Rasputnis will be with us in New Jersey to talk about the cool Flex components that Farata Systems has been working on. I had the opportunity to talk to Yakov from Farata for the Flex Show, so I know exactly how cool and useful these components are.

Did I mention that they're free? Yeah free. If you plan to OEM them, there's a charge, of course. but if you're just baking these great components into your app, you're free to do so.


Wondering why I haven't mentioned what the compenents are? Duh! That'd spoil the surprise, you're just gonna have to join us on Saturday to hear all about them!


Register now, times's running out!

360Flex Camp - 11 sessions, 2 lunches, 1 Full Day Training and a party for only $150!

For those of you on the East Coast, we just wanted to post another reminder about the new 360|Flex Camp. If you're in New York City, the camp is but a mere cab ride away. If you're in Boston, Philly, or DC, just hop a train and get there. Or if you're one of Tony's boys in Jersey (and he ain't got you on a job), then you know how to get yerself there.

For only $150, you get a full day of Training by Farata Systems (which by itself is worth $150) and a second day of 11 sessions by some great speakers (Jeff Tapper, Christophe Conraets, Yakov Fain, Simon Horwith, Jeff Houser, just to name a few). Not to mention lunch both days and a little social hour on Saturday night.

There's only room for 150 people. Register now so you don't miss out on this great opportunity!  If you're strapped for time or cash, you can even buy just one day tickets at $75 a piece.  We're accommodating like that. :)

360Flex Camp New Jersey Ten days left, register to win a CRUISE

You heard me right folks!!! If you Register for 360|Flex Camp - NJ within the next 48hrs, then you too will be eligible to win a Cruise! Not only do you get to spend 2-educationally fun days with us learning Flex, you will also be entered in this exciting new contest.

The winner will get their choice of Tom, Penelope, or if you can't decide, we've also thrown in the very hard-to-find photo of Tom and Penelope's secret love child...

Pick your favorite today:

360MAX still room for speakers! Not many though!

Got something to say? Wanna say it at MAX?

Email us your topic description. Our goal is to bump up the advanced level topics at MAX this year, so bring your crazy deep dive, first 20 milliseconds of an app, SDK reading goodness! And let's really raise the bar this year!

We've got a few spots left, and then we're publishing the schedule. We hope to have that done ASAP, we've been keeping everyone in suspense long enough.

360|MAX is gonna be awesome! We're lining up our own sessions, we're looking into our own SWAG, it should be a really kick ass time! Don't miss out!

The only guidelines for submission are, you must be registered to attend MAX. We can't comp registration :(

If you're attending MAX and think you'll drop by to hang with us, let us know, register here (It's free, just for accounting for Tom and I)

360Flex Camp New Jersey Day one Training outline!

We got the outline for Day one Flex 101 hands on training, from Farata Systems yesterday, and damn! Everyone is in for some really good deep dive 101 learnin'! Yakov and company ain't kidding when they say, 'Advanced Intro to Flex'

Course Outline

Flex 3 Basics
Data Binding
View States
Processing XML with E4X
Designing Loosely Coupled Custom Components with Events
DataGrid, renderes and editors
Intro to BlazeDS

Putting it all Together
 -Designing a Portfolio Application
 - Adding an RSS Feed From Yahoo
-  Adding Java Data Feed With Flex Remoting

It's not too late, register now! to take part in this awesome event; all of the above, plus a FlexCamp on Saturday! Don't miss out!

360Flex Camp New Jersey Session: Flex and Drupal!

We've got a great line up for everyone at 360|Flex Camp New Jersey, and among the great sessions, we're going to have Michael Caudy talk about integrating Flex with Drupal. "Drupal is a free software package that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website." That's from the site :)

Integrating Drupal and Flex, seems to be a pretty common topic these days, as more and more people see the benefits of using Drupal.

Michael will be presenting Saturday the 27th along with our other great speakers (more on them in other posts!)

Don't miss out, on the first 360|Flex goodness to hit the eastern sea board! Register now, time's running out!

360Flex Camp New Jersey

 

360|Flex Camp New Jersey is well underway! We've locked in the schedule and are pleased to announce it this morning!

The line up is sweet I'm really excited by the great group of people we've got in store for everyone!

Day 1: Flex Hands On training, courtesy of Farata Systems. They're a leader in Flex Training in the North East, don't miss out on this incredible training opportunity!

Day 2: The Camp! Saturday, we'll be all together, hanging out, gettin' our learn on! The speakers scheduled below are some true industry heavyweights. If you've been to any of our 360|Flex 3 day events, you know we don't do lightweight fluff content, only the best and brightest from 360|Flex! This event is no different! Check out the schedule!

10:00a - 10:20a    Introduction to the show
10:20 - 11:00a    Jeff Houser - Intro to Components
11:00a - 11:40a    Victor Rasputnis - Farata System's Flex Productivity Tool
11:40a - 12:20p    Simon Horwith - Object Oriented Actionscript
12:20p - 1:00p    Jeff Tapper - Testing with Fluint (formerly known as dpUnit)
1:00p - 2:00p    Lunch
2:00p - 2:40p    Simon Free - Intro to Air
2:40p - 3:20p    Suketu Vyas - Working with FLEX and JAVA
3:20p - 4:00p    Michael Caudy - Flex with Drupal
4:00p - 4:30p    break
4:30p - 5:10p    Jesse Freeman - Flash Camo AS3 Framework
5:10p - 5:50p    Tom Frauenhofer - Unleash the Power of Flex Builder
5:50p - 6:30p    Christophe Conraets - Adobe goodness and Question / Answers


You're not registered? Are you waiting for something in particular? Remember 360|Flex San Jose '08 sold out! Don't miss the bus! Register now!!

360Flex San Jose 2008, wrap up.

So my thoughts on 360|Flex... Frakkin' great! Beyond selling out, we ended up with 442 registrations! w00t!

Day 0:
We had record (a common theme for us this time around) Sunday turnout for the FREE (for registered attendees) pre-conference training. Yahoo!, Ribbit, RIAone, Lynda.com, and OpenFlux training all rocked the eBay Hizzy!

The speaker/sponsor dinner as well as the welcome reception were huge successes. Great turnouts for both!

Day 1:
Registration went smoother than normal, though still slower than we'd like. My wife was with us to help and it would have SUCKED had she not been there, so thanks honey! The keynote went well, Mark Anders talked about Flex 4 and some cool Degrafa stuff. I unfortunately wasn't in there, but it sounds like it was a bit confusing as to exactly what 'Flex 4 and Degrafa' really means. I'm sure it'll be more clear as time goes by and we get closer to Flex 4 release. It was nice that Tom and I got to actually speak at this keynote. I think Tom did in Atlanta, but it's hard for us to stop welcoming people on Monday morning.

The sessions, of course, were killer. We heard nothing but great things from attendees walking past us.

Lunch was a bit of trouble. Food didn't come out fast enough, or in great enough quantities, but that's always a problem that plagues us. It's easy if you're big, you just toss what doesn't get eaten, but we try to walk a fine line; not ordering too much or too little.

The party was fun! Tons of great conversations, Guitar Hero, BoFs, BBQ and Root Beer Floats. What else is there!?

Day 2:
Day 2 is always, kinda easy peasy. There's no keynote so it's mainly just keeping things running, making sure everything is working well, and such. It's probably the most relaxing day of the 4. Food went a bit smoother, that's always nice. It's great to be able to adjust on the fly like that!

The party was rockin'! Cynergy and Adobe rocked the house, open bar, great food, more Guitar Hero (of course!) and even more great conversations, especially during the Flex and Adobe Developer Connection teams' BoFs.

Day 3:
The sad day. As much fun as I have doing our Wednesday keynote, and I really do love doing it, it's sad that everyone I've been chillin' with for the last 3-4 days will be heading home. The keynote went well. We had Workday try again since their Monday keynote didn't pan out. Sadly we realized that it was a bit unfair to other sponsors. Oops, sorry guys. We won't make that slip again.

The video's were absolutely hilarious!!! Stucki FTW! Polygeek and Jeremy you rock! The Ribbit video was AWESOME, 'You know Doug won't be there?' OMG!

We also had the pleasure of not only announcing that we made a profit, but that we were able to give $7,000 to Second Harvest Food bank, plus $1,000 in gifts for those that participated in our second ever Charity Flex Code Jam, organized by Ali Daniali. We speak more on giving back on the company blog.

We announced the winners of our newly introduced MVP program. Details for the MVP program as well as the winners can be found in an upcoming post to the company blog.

Michael Labriola, an MVP winner, sent this to us to be shown Wednesday morning since he had to leave early. It was just a bit too late, but it's too funny to not be seen!

We announced our next two events also, 360|Flex Camp New Jersey and 360|MAX.

The east coast folks have been asking for a showing. While it's not a full fledged 3 day 360|Flex conference, 360|Flex Camp is a 1 day single track Flex Camp on top of a 1 day training with the 360|Vibe :)

We're really happy to be involved in bringing a more community vibe to MAX. 360|MAX will be a single track event running the length of MAX North America. We've got a nice little area all to ourselves, our own schedule, our own sessions and everything. Come prepared to participate! Drop a note to info@360flex.com if you're interested in sharing something to the MAX audience. Note: You must already be registered at MAX to participate in our event.