Vancouver

Ceili’s Irish Pub and Restaurant / July 11

670 Smithe Street
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V63 1E3
lat 49.280041, lon -123.121183
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] Using JavaScript Frameworks in AIR Applications (Andre Charland)

Learn how to leverage JavaScript libraries and Frameworks to build HTML and JavaScript-based AIR applications.

[9:00] Break

[9:10] Creating Custom Chrome for AIR Applications (Doug Schmidt)

Join Doug Schmidt, as he shows how he created a completly customized UI for his DryerFox AIR application.

[9:40] Web 2020: Architecture, Patterns and Models of the new Internet (Duane Nickull)

Architects views of common design patterns in Web 2.0 including a metamodel for web 2.0 applications and an abstract Reference Architecture for developers to use when architecting RIA's. The session examines the core axioms and lexicons universally shared by most RIA's while linking it back to specific technologies.

[10:00] 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