AdvancED Flex 4

Part 1: Harnessing the power of Flex3.
1. Flash 10 enhancements in Flex 4
2. Leveraging architectural & design patterns.
3. Workflow enhancements with Flash Catalyst.
4. Constructing advanced components.
5. Turbo-charging data binding.
6. Tuning applications for superior performance.
7. Test Driven Development.
8. Flex and AIR: taking applications to the desktop with AIR 1.5.
9. Customizing AIR 1.5 Applications.

Part 2: Integrating with client & server side technologies Integrating with Java.
10. Integrating with Java using services.
11. Integrating via data and media services.
12. PHP and Flex.
13. Talking with JavaScript and HTML: Web Page Integration.

Part 3: Gaining real advantage in the new web.
14. Flex Mashups.
15. Migrating web1.0 interfaces to RIA.
16. Sculpting interactive Business Intelligence interfaces.
17. Working with Web 2.0 APIs.
18. Facilitating audio and video streaming.
19. Using 3D in Flex.
20. Creating Applications on Mobile Devices with Flash 10
21. Flex in a PDF.

Shashank Tiwari, Chief Technologist, Saven Technologies (http://www.saventech.com), a technology-driven business solutions company headquartered in Chicago, IL. As an experienced software developer and architect, he is adept in a multitude of technologies, an expert group member on a number of JCP (Java Community Process) specifications, JSRs 274, 283, 299, 301 & 312, and is an Adobe Flex Champion. Currently, he passionately builds rich high-performance applications and advises many on RIA and SOA adoption. He helps his clients in banking, money management, and financial services build robust, quantitative, data-intensive, highly interactive, and scalable applications. He writes regularly in many technical magazines, presents in seminars, mentors developers and architects, and maintains a popular blog (http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/2799). He is an ardent supporter of and contributor to open source software.

He lives with his wife and two sons in New York. More information about him can be accessed at his website (http://www.shanky.org).

Elad Elrom Elad Elrom is the CEO of Elrom LLC, a Rich Internet Application firm. He has been managing and developing Internet based applications since the year 2000 and has consulted for sophisticated clients including MTV Networks, Vitamin Water, Weight Watchers, Davidoff and many more. He has been developing Flash application since the early Flash 5 and has been developing Flex applications since the release of Flex 2. His deep understanding of the full project cycle, as well as development in numerous programming languages, contributes to his understanding of the "big picture". In the past, Elad Elrom served in the Israeli Navy Defense Forces as part of an elite group of engineers assisting the Israeli Navy Seals. He is currently in the process of writing an advanced Flex 3.0 book called "Developing Enterprise Architect Applications."