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The event will be held in the ATS Training Room at Adobe's San Francisco office located at 601 Townsend St. The current agenda is: 9:30am Doors Open 10:00am Introduction to FlexJS - Alex Harui 11:00am Writing JavaScript in ActionScript - Omprakash Muppirala 12:00pm - 5:00pm (or later) Hackathon/Hands-on Training/Open Discussion There will be lunch as part of the afternoon session. Impromptu presentations on other aspects of FlexJS may be put together and presented in the afternoon as discussion topics arise. At the end of the morning sessions, you will have seen how FlexJS works and how you can use MXML and ActionScript to write applications that run in browser and as desktop and mobile apps with or without the Flash/AIR runtime. And you will have an understanding of how ActionScript is being used to write JavaScript with greater developer productivity. Did you know: there are no longer any .js files in the FlexJS code base. All JavaScript we need is written in ActionScript and cross-compiled. No more forgetting to type 'this.' or mis-typing a property name and finding out at run-time. At the end of the afternoon session, you will have installed the FlexJS SDK and written (at least) a simple application and, if interested, set up the FlexJS development environment so you can contribute to the future of Flex. Hope to see you there. -Alex PS: If this event proves to be successful, we might stage other events in other regions during the year. Seattle is certainly a possibility.
