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Day 2. Session 3. Luke Bayes and Ali Mills talk about what they describe as the most powerful design pattern: the Composite Pattern. While I believe Flex incorporates most if not all of the facets of this design pattern, these 2 gentlemen have set up their own framework to satisfy their needs.
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Day 2. Session 1. Alistair McLeod introduced us to FlexUnit testing and test automation using Mercury Quick Test Pro (9.1). Unit testing in Flex works pretty much like its Java counterpart, JUnit. For each ActionScript class, you build a FlexUnit class that asserts certain result cases for the functions in you application code.
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Day 2. General Session. Everything mobile - Adobe wants you to build mobile apps for Verizon and BREW. And they have 3 providers that will sell your mobile game/app for you. Only thing is, do they get a reseller fee? Yeah, probably. At least we got to see a cool mobile game called Poolside Air […]

Day 1. Session 5. Ethan Malasky and Brent Rosenquist discuss the upcoming Apollo platform, and how we can build cross-platform desktop applications using Flex. Applications can be installed via a seamless browser install, or directly from an AIR package.
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Day 1. Session 4. Christophe Coenraets discussed the capabilities and differences between Flex Data Services and Flash Media Server. To set up real-time communication, you define consumers and producers, and a common “destination” on the server.
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Day 1. Session 3. Mike Morearty showcased all the debugging features of Flex Builder, which ties into the core debugging in Eclipse. Points of note:
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Day 1. Session 2. Jason Delmore talks about using Java in ColdFusion and vice versa. There are 3 ways to combine the two areas, made much easier since ColdFusion 6 due to CF running as a J2EE application:
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Day 1. Session 1. David Zuckerman from Adobe discusses using PHP as a back-end for Flex data integration.
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So this is the welcome reception, or “orgy” as Dave calls it. Party time! Especially since Courtney just showed up. He says Dave needs to talk to that girl over there. She knows all about Flash Lite! Sweet…

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