The 360|flex conference featured around 360 attendees and approximately 50 sessions covering various topics related to Flex development, mobile app creation, and best practices in software development. Key highlights included discussions on frameworks like Robotlegs and PushButton Engine, as well as improvements in Flex typography and new approaches to development such as Test-Driven Development. Additionally, presenters emphasized the importance of user experience and explored emerging technologies and practices that developers could leverage for future projects.

1. 360|FLEX RECAP

2. 360|FLEX ROCKS

3. 360|FLEX ROCKS
• Conference Overview

4. 360|FLEX ROCKS
• Conference Overview
• Stuff You Can Use Today

5. 360|FLEX ROCKS
• Conference Overview
• Stuff You Can Use Today
• Stuff You Could Use Today, but Will Be
Better Tomorrow

6. OVERVIEW

12. • http://www.flickr.com/groups/360flex/

13. • http://www.flickr.com/groups/360flex/
• 4 Days

14. • http://www.flickr.com/groups/360flex/
• 4 Days
• 360ish attendees

15. • http://www.flickr.com/groups/360flex/
• 4 Days
• 360ish attendees
• Approx 50 Sessions

16. Session Topics

17. Session Topics
• Intro to Flex • Designer Developer Workflow
• Hands on Hardware • Brightcove
• Mate • RIA Advertising
• RobotLegs • OSMF
• PayPal • Hamcrest
• Flex Components • LiveCycle
• Omniture Analytics • Hiring and Keeping Devs
• Agile Practices • Phidgets

18. cont.

19. cont.
• APIs, Libs, Modules, Components • New in Flex 4
• Gaia • P2P
• Poo • Reflex
• Contracts • Automation: Build and Deploy
• Greenthreading • TDD
• Text Layout Framework • GPS
• Principles of RIA Design • Performance
• Building iPhone Apps in Flash • Business

20. cont.

21. cont.
• Ouch • Push Button Engine
• Git • Flash Platform Relevance
• Pee
• Optimization
• Continuous Integration
• Adobe/Microsoft App Dev
• UX
• Multitouch

22. STUFF YOU
CAN USE TODAY

23. RobotLegs Framework
• Joel Hooks, @jhooks
• Automated Dependency Injection is the
new fad in Actionscript development
• AS3 and Flex. Emphasis on MVCS with
Mediator and Command Patterns.
• RobotLegs & Gaia preso a week later at
the Vegas FUG
http://experts.na3.acrobat.com/p16739385/

25. RobotLegs In The Wild
• http://www.dogooderchallenge.com/
HandbagDesignContest/BagBuilder/
• http://www.clubtreasureworld.com/
• http://hbopunchzone.com/
• http://www.robotlegs.org/community/

26. PushButton Engine
• Nate Beck, @jnbeck
• AS3 Game Engine created by Game Vets
• Adobe Support
• Open Source
• Active Community (1018 registered)
• http://pushbuttonengine.com/

27. OSMF
• David Hassoun
• OSMF (Open Source Media Framework)
• http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/
osmf/Open+Source+Media+Framework
• http://david.realeyes.com/?p=137

28. Flex Typography
• Matt Guest, @mguest
• Flash Text Engine and the Text Layout
Framework

29. Flex Typography
• Vastly improved OpenType
• Real Kerning
• Improved antialiasing and pixel snapping
• Baseline snapping
• Digit case and width
• Ligatures

30. Greenthreading
• Huyen Tue Dao, @queencodemonkey
• While you cannot access other threads in
FP, you can emulate threads in code.
• http://queencodemonkey.com/
2010/03/08/360flex-presentation-slides-
and-code/
• http://code.google.com/p/greenthreads/

31. TDD with FlexUnit 4
• Elad Elrom, @eladelrom
• http://elromdesign.com/blog/2010/03/10/
test-driven-development-tdd-with-
flexunit-4-complete-tutorial/

32. UX PRINCIPLES
• Andrew Powell, @umandy
• http://www.slideshare.net/ivanhoe/andrew-
powell-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-
and-love-ux
• Features are dead. Focus on solutions and
features will follow.

33. STUFF YOU
COULD USE TODAY,
BUT WILL BE BETTER
TOMORROW.

34. REFLEX
• An AS3 component framework relying
more on composition than inheritance
• Jacob (@jac_) and Tyler Wright (@xtyler)
and Ben Stucki (@benstucki)
• http://jacwright.com
• http://www.xtyler.com/
• http://github.com/reflex/
• http://groups.google.com/group/reflex-platform

35. REFLEX
• Demo: http://www.xtyler.com/code/
310#more-310
• Demos and Slides: http://jacwright.com/
blog/394/reflex-demos/

36. iPhone and Mobile Dev
• Paul Robertson's (@probertson) Session:
http://probertson.com/articles/2010/03/16/
slides-and-examples-developing-iphone-
apps-flash-platform/
• Renaun Erickson's (@renaun) Session on
optimization for mobile: http://renaun.com/
blog/2010/03/10/304/

37. one more thing...

40. GO TO 360|FLEX
http://360flex.com
@360flex