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Arijit Chatterjee
Program Manager at Adobe Systems
Twitter: http://twitter.com/arijitc
Arijit is the Program Manager for Flex projects in Adobe India. In addition to project management at Adobe, he is currently focused on evangelizing the Adobe Flash Platform. Arijit has a B.E. in Computer Science from R.V College of Engineering, Bangalore and a business degree from Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. In the past Arijit has worked in various aspects of engineering system software including compiler backend optimizations, debuggers and virtual machines.
Session
Get on the RIA fast lane with Flash Builder
If developing RIA’s using Flex Builder 3 was easy, Adobe Flash Builder 4 along with the new Flex 4 SDK will take you to the next level of productivity and experience. In this session you will see some of the fascinating new Flex 4 features including the all new Spark component architecture and how Adobe Flash Builder 4 will catapult your development process to the higher orbits with features like data centric development, support for themes, network monitoring, unit testing, and a whole slew of developer IDE goodness that will turn you into the ultimate Flex rock star.
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Harish Sivaramakrishnan
Computer Scientist & Evangelist at Adobe Systems
Blog: http://blog.flexgeek.in/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/hsivaram
Harish’s association with Adobe Flash started in 1998 and he has been a part of its evolution to its glorious present. Immensely passionate about anything pertaining to Adobe Flash, Harish has donned multiple roles ranging from application development, quality engineering and product engineering at Macromedia / Adobe for the past 5 years. As a platform evangelist at adobe, he works with the developer community helping them appreciate, adopt and excel in Adobe Flash Platform. Harish spends his free time building flex apps, composing music and singing. Harish holds a bachelors degree in chemical engineering from BITS, Pilani.
Sessions
Adobe Flash Catalyst - The user experience design of tomorrow, today.
Building user experiences just got better, thanks to Adobe Flash Catalyst. With this game-changing interaction design tool, you can build the user experiences of tomorrow, today. In this session you will see the power of Adobe Flash Catalyst and how it revolutionizes interaction design - the way you do wire-frame prototyping, integrate with Creative Suite tools and build interactive applications starting out from a static graphic asset like an Adobe Illustrator comp.
Learn by doing – Part 1: Build the user experience
Building rich Internet applications with Adobe Flex is very easy. In this interactive tutorial session you can learn how to build the client side Flex application starting from a design. We will demonstrate how you can use Adobe Flash Catalyst to import a graphic design from Adobe Illustrator and convert it into a UI prototype by adding interactions to it. We will also import the Catalyst project into FlashBuilder4 and completely build the Flex application.
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Hemadri Seelamsetty
Brief bio : I am RIA enthusiast, Blogger, Passionate Flex Developer....
Blog : http://hemadri.com
Hemadri is a founder and director of Ahinjay, which focuses on RIA with Adobe tools. He is passionate on research with RIA technologies and next generation user experiences with multi touch screens & augmenting reality.
Hemadri is an Adobe trained instructor, in Flex with LCDS/BlazeDS, and has helped many professionals in understanding the core of Adobe Flex Framework and Flash platform. He conducts regular training sessions on Adobe Flex.
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Rich Character User Interfaces (Deep Dive)
• How to write Bidirectional text, vertical text and over 30 writing systems including Arabic, Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Lao, the major writing systems of India, and others – with example coding
• How to make Selection, editing and flowing text across multiple columns and linked containers, and around
inline images – with example coding.
• How to make Vertical text, Tate-Chu-Yoko (horizontal within vertical text) and justifier for East Asian
typography – with example coding.
• Rich typographical controls, including kerning, ligatures, typographic case, digit case, digit width and
discretionary hyphens – with example coding.
• Cut, copy, paste, undo and standard keyboard and mouse gestures for editing – with example coding.
• Rich developer APIs to manipulate text content, layout, markup and create custom text components – with
example coding.
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Mrinal Wadhwa
Blog: http://www.mrinalwadhwa.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/mrinal
Mrinal Wadhwa, is the Founder of Blu, a stealth mode startup that is taking a user centered approach and rethinking various business process applications used within enterprises. He is involved with some of the latest software User Interface development technologies like Adobe Flex/Flash, Microsoft Silverlight/WPF and HTML5 and is regarded as an expert in the Rich Internet Applications community. He has also been recognized as an SAP Mentor and an Adobe Community Champion.
Mrinal spends a lot of his time thinking about the evolution of software User Interfaces and has more recently been researching and thinking about various techniques of visualizing large data sets. He likes to blog and studies various aspects of Rich Internet Application development on his blog at http://www.mrinalwadhwa.com
Sessions
Custom Components in Flex 4 (Deep Dive)
• Introduction to the component life cycle
• Halo and Spark
• Implementing life cycle methods
• Defining Properties (default property, bindables)
• Defining Events (throwing events, binding related events)
• Defining States, handling state change
• Defining SkinParts (dynamic, static, optional & required parts)
• Defining Styles (Initialization, styleChanged)
• Optimizing component performance
Keyboard productivity in Flash Builder (Lightning Talk)
Some helpful keyboard shortcuts, productive eclipse customizations, some eclipse plugins that can help code writing speed and productivity.
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N S Devaraj
Blog: http://www.linkedin.com/in/nsdevaraj
Devaraj is an RIA Architect, specialized in ActionScript and Java. Passionate in user interfaces in general. He is particularly interested in pushing the ActionScript boundaries, with AIR.
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Integration of Spring with Blaze DS and Cairngorm UM (Deep Dive)
• A deep dive into "Spring BlazeDS Integration"
• Advantages of using Cairngorm with UM extensions over Cairngorm
• How-to guide for integration of these in a single platform
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Peter Elst
Blog: http://www.peterelst.com/
Peter Elst is a Belgian freelance Flash Platform consultant and Founding Partner of Project Cocoon based in Pondicherry, South India. As a respected member of the online community, Peter has spoken at various international industry events and has had his work published in leading journals. Most recently Peter was the lead author of "Object-Oriented ActionScript 3.0" (Friends of ED).
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RIA meets Desktop (Deep Dive)
This session looks at Adobe's AIR runtime and discusses how you can best develop applications that run seamlessly in both an online and desktop environment. You'll learn all about leveraging the Filesystem API, create multi-window applications, work with local SQLite databases, use drag 'n drop functionality and much more.
Introduction to SQLite in Adobe AIR (Lightning Talk)
Learn all about local database support with SQLite in Adobe AIR, how the use the available API's and build a complete data driven application from scratch. This session will help you get started with several tips and tricks on how to work with data in your desktop RIA's.
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Prashant is a technical evangelist working for Adobe on the Adobe flash platform. He holds a bachelors degree in Computer Science from IIIT-Hyderabad. Prashant honored in Computer vision, having worked under Prof. CV Jawahar (IIIT-H) and Prof. Andrew Zisserman (Oxford University). Before dabbling in flex he has worked mostly on object detection and tracking. When not working, Prashant spends his time playing Basketball, reading a book or going for long runs.
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Learn by doing – Part 2: Integrate with server
This tutorial session builds upon the application we developed in the previous tutorial. Learn how to connect your Flex application to servers for retrieving/storing data; and also deploy your application. We will demonstrate how you can connect to various server technologies like Java, .NET and PHP using Remoting and web services. You will also learn how to use the Data-Centric development feature in Adobe Flash Builder 4 to develop Flex applications that connect with various server technologies. |
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Ramesh Srinivasaraghavan
Sr. Computer Scientist and Evangelist at Adobe Systems
Twitter: http://twitter.com/sriragam
Ramesh has worked on a variety of technologies over 17+ years. He holds an M. Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Mumbai. Ramesh has led R&D initiatives at top technology companies and has a wealth of experience working with several product and web 2.0 companies. As an evangelist & senior computer scientist at Adobe, Ramesh leads the evangelism initiatives of Adobe in India. He works closely with the developer community, helping them understand and adopt the power of Adobe's RIA technologies to build the next generation rich internet applications. Ramesh is immensely passionate about computational linguistics and artificial intelligence.
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Keynote- Adobe Flash Platform - The ultimate experience platform |
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Saurabh Narula
Applications Architect,
Blu
Blog:
http://blog.saurabhnarula.com/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/saurabhnarula
Saurabh works as an Applications
Architect at a startup called Blu, in the past he has worked with Honeywell Technology
Solutions and NetScout System at Bangalore. Saurabh specializes in building enterprise
applications with keen interest in the areas of Business Intelligence, Analytics
and Data Visualizations. He is passionate about Rich Internet Applications, and
has spent most of his time focusing on different RIA Technologies and frameworks.
He has much experience with Microsoft Database and BI Technologies, Web technologies
like .NET, PHP and RIA frameworks like Adobe Flex. He is also an active member of Adobe Flash and Flex community in India.
When he is away from work, he likes listening to music, interacting at technology
forums, reading news and reviews about latest technological innovations.
Sessions
• Introduction to Flex 4 Skinning architecture
• SkinParts
• SkinStates
• FXG (inside skins and in .fxg files)
• Examples of writing various skins
Debugging: Tips and Tricks (Lightning Talk)
• Debugging In Flex Builder
• Some code snippets to help with debugging
• Conditional Debugs - Monster debugger
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Shreyas Tonse
Blog: http://flex.tekyt.info
Shreyas is a final Year Student of Information Technology at National Institute of Technology, Karnataka - Surathkal. He is a Web2.0 enthusiast and has been developing applications using Flex with PHP.
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Flex with AMFPHP (Lightning Talk)
Using Flex with PHP, using AMFPHP with Flex to design a basic CRUD Application. PHP is very popular with the student community, and many developers would want to learn to use Flex with PHP, and the best way to do so is by using AMFPHP. |
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Shyamprasad P
Technical Evangelist at Adobe Systems
Blog: http://flexedup.wordpress.com/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/_shyamp_
Shyam P is a technical evangelist at Adobe. He can typically be found totally immersed in ActionScript code, with his headphones blaring of metal music. Apart from being a flex fanatic, Shyam’s interests also lie in the fields of number theory and graph theory. He holds a B. Tech in computer science and engineering from NIT Calicut.
Session
Learn by doing – Part 1: Build the user experience
Building rich Internet applications with Adobe Flex is very easy. In this interactive tutorial session you can learn how to build the client side Flex application starting from a design. We will demonstrate how you can use Adobe Flash Catalyst to import a graphic design from Adobe Illustrator and convert it into a UI prototype by adding interactions to it. We will also import the Catalyst project into Flash Builder
4 and completely build the Flex application. |
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Sujit Reddy G
Technical Evangelist at Adobe Systems
Blog: http://sujitreddyg.wordpress.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/sujitg
Sujit Reddy G is a Technical Evangelist for Flash Platform at Adobe. Combining expertise in Flex, J2EE, and PHP, he specializes in building enterprise applications on the Adobe Flash Platform and has a blog focusing on the integration of Adobe Flex with Adobe LiveCycle Data Services ES and BlazeDS at
http://sujitreddyg.wordpress.com. Sujit holds a bachelors degree in civil engineering and masters degree in economics from BITS, Pilani.
Sessions
Data centric development on Adobe Flash Platform
See how to build an engaging Flex application for any server side technology productively. While applications created with Flex and Flash already have the ability to communicate with various back ends, see how data services can add power to a back end. This session starts with showing how to use Data-Centric Development feature in Adobe Flash Builder 4 to productively create Flex applications connecting to various server technologies. Next, see how the brand new model-driven development feature of LiveCycle Data Services ES allows you to build and maintain data-driven Flex applications with an unprecedented level of productivity and flexibility.
Learn by doing – Part 2: Integrate with server
This tutorial session builds upon the application we developed in the previous tutorial. Learn how to connect your Flex application to servers for retrieving/storing data; and also deploy your application. We will demonstrate how you can connect to various server technologies like Java, .NET and PHP using Remoting and web services. You will also learn how to use the Data-Centric development feature in Adobe Flash Builder 4 to develop Flex applications that connect with various server technologies.
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Uday M. Shankar
Principal Engineer, Prototyping at Yahoo! R&D
Blog: http://udayms.wordpress.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/udayms
Uday M. Shankar is a Principal Engineer, Prototyping with Yahoo! R&D - Bangalore. He is currently working on Mobile and Web User Experience Prototyping. Before Yahoo!, he was with Nokia's Service Experience team working on Ovi.com and related services. He has an overall UX background of around ten years in the space of UI design/ development, Wireframes and Prototyping. Prior to Nokia, he was leading the UX team in Extreme Networks. Having learnt his basics in HCI from IIT-B and HFI, he has extensive experience in RIA technologies and Mobile/Web User Interfaces.
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Prototyping User Experiences
• A session on Prototyping covering
• Why it's important?
• Prototyping for different medias (web, desktop, mobile)
• Where does one start?
• Ground rules of prototyping
• Different techniques of prototyping |
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Yash Mody
CTO, Tekno Point Multimedia
Blog: http://teknopoint.wordpress.com
Yash started his IT career as a Java Programmer coding in Java Swing and switched to Adobe Flash Platform about 3 years ago. He has been a Trainer and Architect for Adobe Flash Platform based applications and has been a UI consultant for various organizations. He and his team primarily focus on technologies like Flash, Flex and ColdFusion in the Flash Platform paradigm.
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Flex and ColdFusion 9 (Deep Dive)
• Introduction to CF9
• Overview of Adobe Flex Data Communication Techniques
• An example Flex - CF application created while explaining the concepts
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