1. Getting on the Flex Highway - How to get up to speed with Flex Raghunath Rao Engineer, Flex Team Bangalore, India http://raghuonflex.wordpress.com/

2. Introduction to Flex

3. Experience evolution: Building the new frontier CLIENT/SERVER MAINFRAME WEB APPLICATIONS REACH Local Global RICH Text UIIntegrated media GUI 1992 1998 2004 RICH INTERNET APPLICATIONS HTML Deficiencies Page metaphor Only 6 UI controls Browser inconsistencies Press n’ pray printing Request-only data No offline operation Bitmaps from the server A/V plug-in hell HTML Deficiencies Page metaphor Only 6 UI controls Browser inconsistencies Press n’ pray printing Request-only data No offline operation Bitmaps from the server A/V plug-in hell Client/Server Benefits Screen metaphor Extensible UI libraries Online/offline + synch WYSIWYG printing Data visualization Live data connectivity Bitmap/vector graphics Integrated A/V Client/Server Benefits Screen metaphor Extensible UI libraries Online/offline + synch WYSIWYG printing Data visualization Live data connectivity Bitmap/vector graphics Integrated A/V

4. Why RIA? “In Web1.0 Data was Dictator, In Web2.0 User is King and Data is Queen”

5. Anatomy of a Rich Internet Application Data Visualization & Collaboration Real Time Data Push & Alerting Chat Offline Data Synchronization & Conflict Resolution Bi-Directional Audio & Video Rich Data Entry Menus & NavigationControls Resizable Views/Effects/ Transitions Mapping, Geo-Coding, Annotations & White boarding

6. Where Flex is Used Product Configuration Rich Media Applications Data Visualization Complex, Multi-Step Processes Product Selection Line of Business Applications

7. How Flex works… Browser Flash Player Web Server Flex Builder IDE Flex SDK MXML ActionScript Flex Class Library.swf Compile.swf

8. Flex SDK Flex/Ajax Bridge What Do I need? FREE Flash Player 9 FREE Flex Builder Design View Code Hinting Debugging Component Skinning Flex Data Services Messaging Service Data Management Service RPC Services

9. Demos Dashboard Application Flex Store Home Locator FlexBook Demo 1 Demo 2

10. Getting on the Flex Highway - How to get up to speed with Flex

11. flex.org One stop shop! Run by the community http://flex.org Online Compiler - http://try.flex.orghttp://try.flex.org Test Drives for Developers from other technologies Many More…

12. Adobe -Flex Developer Center http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/ Run by Adobe Quick Starts What to look out for? Quick starts Tutorials Flex CookBook (common coding problems) Flex CookBook

13. Handy Apps Flex Component Explorer Flex Style Explorer

14. Video Tutorials http://video.onflex.org/

15. Flex Training Online http://www.totaltraining.com/ http://www.lynda.com/

16. Custom Components Flex Exchange Run by Adobe Contribution from both Adobe and the Community Commercial, Free & Open Source components 3dChart Component Auto Complete

17. Custom Components as3corelib (on Google Code) as3corelib Hashing Encryption JSON conversion Image Encoders Etc… Doug’s Snapshot Creator

18. Custom Components Others Flexlib (on Google Code) Flexlib FlexBox (by Mrinal) FlexBox RIAForge (Open source projects built on Adobe technologies) RIAForge as3crypto library

19. Where do I go with my problems and get them solved? Public Bugbase Flex Coders on Yahoo Groups Flex Coders Regional Flex Groups Flex-India on Google Groups Flex-India Regional FUGs (Flex User Groups)

20. Blogs to Bookmark Ely Greenfield Doug Mccune Alex Harui scalenine.com

21. Q&A