With a little less than a month until 360|Flex I thought I would sit down and write a long over due post about the conference.  360|Flex is known in the community as one of those “hard core” conferences where the expectation is to leave sessions with your Flex and Flash IQ increased by a couple digits.

Unfortunately until now, James and I have had to experience the conference through other people’s stories.  For some reason or another the last few years have been pretty hectic, but we made it a mission in 2010 to attend and speak at more events, with 360|Flex being the first on the list.

Session
In our session “Flex 4 Component LifeCycle Best Practices” our goal is to walk folks through the three stages of the Flex lifecycle (birth, mature, death) and discuss what methods can be used to help build efficient and high performance Flex applications following that Flex component design methodology. With the reengineering of the skinning architecture in Flex 4, a few methods have been introduced and others have been more or less deprecated in importance. We will discuss these changes in detail and how you will want to change your development practices. We are extremely excited to share our year long research that began with our widely popular white paper on the Flex 3 lifecycle. Soon after the conference and session, we plan on updating the paper to Flex 4 and will share it with the community.

Attending
As much of an honor it is to speak at 360|Flex what is really exciting us is attending some of the other session and diving deeper into topics we have not had the time to investigate. James and I have been debating our schedule for a few weeks now so far we have compiled a “must-see” list that we have listed below to share with everyone.

Aaron & James’ Must See!

Going deep w/OSMF - OMG!
Level 300
By David Hassoun

RobotLegs on Top of Gaia Flash Framework
Level 100
By Jesse Warden

Building Applications using Test Driven Development (TDD)
By Elad Elrom Dramatic

Effect of Flex Library Linkage
Level 300 By
Yakov Fain

Reflex: Rethinking Component Design 
Level 300 By Jacob and Tyler Wright

Social Activity
We will be both tweeting as much as we can from the conference and sessions. Hit us up if you would like to discuss our session or any other session in more details. We love meeting new techies!

Aaron Pedersen - @aaronpedersen
James Polanco - @jamespolanco

Also don’t forget to follow 360|Flex for news and updates as we approach the and throughout the conference.

360|Flex - @360flex

Wrap Up
If you are thinking about attending 360|Flex you should book your tickets soon. Last time the conference was held in San Jose it was sold out. This year the conference has parties every night giving you a chance to mingle with the community at large. There are over 40 sessions, 2 panels, and your ticket includes hands on training sessions for all levels on the Sunday before the conference begins. Also, if you are new to Flex, you can take an all day Flex 101 course (one of the hands on training sessions) and be ready for regular sessions on Monday. Speakers include a wide assortment of Adobe engineers and communities leaders. For a full list check out the following site http://www.360flex.com/blog/category/the-speakers.

Register here. We hope to see you there!