RE: [flexcoders] Flex Training Experiences/Suggestions?
On the same subject, anyone done the Highlander Flex 2 training here in the UK? Any comments? Will _ From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chad Gray Sent: 14 March 2007 21:03 To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Flex Training Experiences/Suggestions? I think Ray Camden does training on flex and spry. http://ray.camdenfa http://ray.camdenfamily.com/ mily.com/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com ups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com ups.com] On Behalf Of michael_p_levine Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 2:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com ups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Flex Training Experiences/Suggestions? The company I'm working for is preparing to shift it's web development from ASP.NET to Flex and is interested in bringing in a good Flex instructor on-site to provide training to a small group of developers. The company is located in Chicago, but we're willing to fly someone in from anywhere in the U.S. and provide accommodations for the week. If we go with the Adobe courses (are there alternatives?) we would target the 3-day Flex 2: Developing Rich Client Applications followed by the 2-day Flex 2: Data and Communications. I am very interested in hearing other people's experiences with any type of instructor-lead Flex training courses and any suggestions on training providers and/or specific instructors. - What company provided the training? - How was the instructor? - How was the training material? - Any other suggestions or feedback? My thanks in advance to everyone for the assistance! Michael Levine -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail- http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links
[flexcoders] Flex Training Experiences/Suggestions?
The company I'm working for is preparing to shift it's web development from ASP.NET to Flex and is interested in bringing in a good Flex instructor on-site to provide training to a small group of developers. The company is located in Chicago, but we're willing to fly someone in from anywhere in the U.S. and provide accommodations for the week. If we go with the Adobe courses (are there alternatives?) we would target the 3-day Flex 2: Developing Rich Client Applications followed by the 2-day Flex 2: Data and Communications. I am very interested in hearing other people's experiences with any type of instructor-lead Flex training courses and any suggestions on training providers and/or specific instructors. - What company provided the training? - How was the instructor? - How was the training material? - Any other suggestions or feedback? My thanks in advance to everyone for the assistance! Michael Levine
Re: [flexcoders] Flex Training Experiences/Suggestions?
Check into Fig Leaf (http://www.figleaf.com) and Echo Eleven ( http://www.echoeleven.com/). DK On 3/14/07, michael_p_levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The company I'm working for is preparing to shift it's web development from ASP.NET to Flex and is interested in bringing in a good Flex instructor on-site to provide training to a small group of developers. The company is located in Chicago, but we're willing to fly someone in from anywhere in the U.S. and provide accommodations for the week. If we go with the Adobe courses (are there alternatives?) we would target the 3-day Flex 2: Developing Rich Client Applications followed by the 2-day Flex 2: Data and Communications. I am very interested in hearing other people's experiences with any type of instructor-lead Flex training courses and any suggestions on training providers and/or specific instructors. - What company provided the training? - How was the instructor? - How was the training material? - Any other suggestions or feedback? My thanks in advance to everyone for the assistance! Michael Levine -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links -- Douglas Knudsen http://www.cubicleman.com this is my signature, like it?
Re: [flexcoders] Flex Training Experiences/Suggestions?
If I can throw my ha'penny in as a longtime macromedia/adobe trainer - (uk based so not in the frame for this!) the courses themselves are good, but if I were you I would go for a higher level of customisation - try and get the trainer to come up with a tailored programme that suits your people. The problem I have found with those courses is that there is so much to pack in that there isn't room to really explore things as fully as one might like . Some of the early stuff (like adding controls etc) is stuff that is pretty intuitive for existing developers and is often best sealt with in granular detail later on when the controls themselves are being used a lot more to load data . Also, there is the Creating visual ah can't recall and don't have details to hand but iss something like creating visual experience' in Flex which is a great little course for learning about really c§ustomisisng the app - developers and designers alike work well together on this and it helps developers understand the structure of components vis a vis skinning etc. good luck ! Matt Wicks On 14 Mar 2007, at 18:46, michael_p_levine wrote: The company I'm working for is preparing to shift it's web development from ASP.NET to Flex and is interested in bringing in a good Flex instructor on-site to provide training to a small group of developers. The company is located in Chicago, but we're willing to fly someone in from anywhere in the U.S. and provide accommodations for the week. If we go with the Adobe courses (are there alternatives?) we would target the 3-day Flex 2: Developing Rich Client Applications followed by the 2-day Flex 2: Data and Communications. I am very interested in hearing other people's experiences with any type of instructor-lead Flex training courses and any suggestions on training providers and/or specific instructors. - What company provided the training? - How was the instructor? - How was the training material? - Any other suggestions or feedback? My thanks in advance to everyone for the assistance! Michael Levine
RE: [flexcoders] Flex Training Experiences/Suggestions?
Two of my coworkers and I took those 2 particular classes through Figleaf Training in Washington DC. The instructor was very knowledgable and the training materials were pretty much your run-of-the-mill book w/ accompanying CD. Overall we were very pleased with the courses. The 3 of us are all previous Flash/ColdFusion developers - I'd say the courses definitely ramped us up much more quickly than we could have ever done on our own (which was our intention - we wanted a solid foundation that would allow us to get quickly out of the gates). -Original Message- From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of michael_p_levine Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 2:42 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Flex Training Experiences/Suggestions? The company I'm working for is preparing to shift it's web development from ASP.NET to Flex and is interested in bringing in a good Flex instructor on-site to provide training to a small group of developers. The company is located in Chicago, but we're willing to fly someone in from anywhere in the U.S. and provide accommodations for the week. If we go with the Adobe courses (are there alternatives?) we would target the 3-day Flex 2: Developing Rich Client Applications followed by the 2-day Flex 2: Data and Communications. I am very interested in hearing other people's experiences with any type of instructor-lead Flex training courses and any suggestions on training providers and/or specific instructors. - What company provided the training? - How was the instructor? - How was the training material? - Any other suggestions or feedback? My thanks in advance to everyone for the assistance! Michael Levine
RE: [flexcoders] Flex Training Experiences/Suggestions?
Thanks for the props, guys! Also, don't forget about our Flexmaniacs conference in June -- http://flex2conference.figleaf.com http://flex2conference.figleaf.com ! Regards, Steve Drucker CEO Fig Leaf Software www.figleaf.com http://www.figleaf.com _ From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Chyko Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 4:05 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Flex Training Experiences/Suggestions? Two of my coworkers and I took those 2 particular classes through Figleaf Training in Washington DC. The instructor was very knowledgable and the training materials were pretty much your run-of-the-mill book w/ accompanying CD. Overall we were very pleased with the courses. The 3 of us are all previous Flash/ColdFusion developers - I'd say the courses definitely ramped us up much more quickly than we could have ever done on our own (which was our intention - we wanted a solid foundation that would allow us to get quickly out of the gates). -Original Message- From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of michael_p_levine Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 2:42 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Flex Training Experiences/Suggestions? The company I'm working for is preparing to shift it's web development from ASP.NET to Flex and is interested in bringing in a good Flex instructor on-site to provide training to a small group of developers. The company is located in Chicago, but we're willing to fly someone in from anywhere in the U.S. and provide accommodations for the week. If we go with the Adobe courses (are there alternatives?) we would target the 3-day Flex 2: Developing Rich Client Applications followed by the 2-day Flex 2: Data and Communications. I am very interested in hearing other people's experiences with any type of instructor-lead Flex training courses and any suggestions on training providers and/or specific instructors. - What company provided the training? - How was the instructor? - How was the training material? - Any other suggestions or feedback? My thanks in advance to everyone for the assistance! Michael Levine This email has been processed by SmoothZap - www.smoothwall.net
