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*Extending Flex 3 Components* Presented by Matt Boles Start your learning of how to customize both functionality and appearance of built-in components through this session. You will see now to manually add objects to the display list, as well as how to override built in methods to alter component functionality. *Concurrency Approaches in Flex and Air* Presented by Charlie Hubbard As the Flex platform matures, our ability to write more complex programs increases. As complexity increases, so does the need for long running computations. Technologies like Air force us to solve these problems without the aid of a server. While Flash, on the surface, seems to be missing things like threads to solve running concurrent jobs there are techniques for handling this. In this talk we'll explore those techniques for handling long running computations on the Flash platform. We'll look at classic computational problems such as fractals, and more common place problems like parsing large XML and JSON data in Actionscript. We'll also talk about the future possibilities for Actionscript in this area. *About the Speakers:* Matt Boles is the Technical Lead for the Adobe Partner Enablement group and has been developing and teaching courses on Flex since the 1.0 release. Matt has a diverse background in web development, computer networking, and teaching in both professional computer classes and the public schools. He coauthored the Flex Training from the Source books for both Flex 2 and Flex 3, and was also a coauthor on the Certified ColdFusion Developer Study Guide. He has also developed official Allaire/Macromedia/Adobe curricula in the Flex, ColdFusion and Flash development content areas. Charlie Hubbard is a 10+ year veteran of the software industry, blogger, open source project contributor and project creator. His days are filled as a Senior Software Engineer at Nexidia working on a grid based approach for searching audio. In his free time he enjoys working with Ruby, Java, Flex, Javascript, and has been known to make a film every once in a while. Charlie and his wife live and work in Atlanta. Douglas Knudsen http://www.cubicleman.com this is my signature, like it?
