Dallas

Angelika Film Center / July 18

5321 E. Mockingbird Lane, Suite 230
Dallas TX 75206
lat 32.836832, lon -96.77717
venue

Who?

Anyone interested in learning more about the Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR).

What?

A one night conference on Adobe AIR with technical sessions, showcases and discussion.

How Much?

Free and open to the public (registration required).

What to Bring

Yourself, laptop, any Flex, HTML and JavaScript apps you want to get running on Adobe AIR. We will provide the beer, Red Bull, coffee, food, XBoxes, schwag, knowledge, venue and bits.

Q & A Room

Stop by the Q & A room at any time throughout the evening to get answers to your questions and any help you may need with your AIR applications.

Tentative Agenda

[5:15] Doors Open

Registration, meet and greet, discussion and Q & A. Grab a drink and a bite to eat, and chat with speakers and other developers interested in developing with the Adobe Integrated Runtime.

[6:00] Keynote (Mike Downey)

Mike Downey, a Senior Product Manager for the Flash Platform at Adobe, provides an introduction to the Adobe Integrated Runtime and how it fits into the Flash Platform, and the larger RIA landscape.

[6:30] Building your first AIR application with Adobe Flex (Mike Chambers)

Learn how to setup your development environment and build your first AIR application using Flex 3 and Flex Builder 3 (code named Moxie).

[6:50] Building your first AIR application with HTML and JavaScript (Kevin Hoyt)

After this session you will know how to setup the Adobe AIR SDK to allow you to develop and package AIR applications from the command line. You will also be able to leverage the Adobe AIR command line tools to enable development of HTML and JavaScript based applications. Finally, the session will demonstrate built in support for AIR development from Adobe Dreamweaver and the Eclipse based Aptana.

[7:15] Leveraging HTML and JavaScript within Adobe AIR (Kevin Hoyt)

Gain a better understanding of the HTML and JavaScript environments within the Adobe Integrated Runtime, and explore how these technologies can be leveraged in both Flash / Flex and HTML / JavaScript-based applications. JavaScript and ActionScript script bridging will be covered, as well as how to use AIR, Flash Player and ActionScript Library APIs directly from JavaScript.

[7:45] Break

[8:00] Adobe AIR API Overview (Daniel Dura)

Receive an overview of the new APIs that the Adobe Integrated Runtime makes available to applications. Both ActionScript and JavaScript examples will be shown.

[8:30] Client / Server Applications with Adobe AIR and .NET (Mark Piller)

Receive an understanding of AIR and .NET integration techniques. Discover how to perform .NET method invocations using Flex remoting or SOAP web services, retrieve data with ADO.NET and create a data-driven Flex/.NET application in less than 5 minutes.

[9:00] Break

[9:10] Transitioning to the Desktop with Adobe AIR (Lee Brimelow)

Join Lee Brimelow as he shares his experiences developing a wide range of AIR projects, from simple widgets to larger applications that enable users to interact with software on a more intimate level on the desktop. Lots of prototypes and code will be shown to help get you up to speed with AIR development.

[9:40] Question and Answer Session (Adobe AIR Team)

After an evening full of code and demos, this is your opportunity to openly ask questions of the members of the Adobe AIR team.

[10:15] Doors Close