Flex - Testing and Run-time Optimization w/ Mark Piller

This month please welcome Mark Piller of Midnight Coders fame!

Topic:
Session will provide an overview of various techniques and approaches developers can use in day-to-day activities for Flex and Flash application development, testing and runtime optimization. You will learn about ActionScript code generator for remoting and data management use-cases, learn how to create real-time messaging applications, see a demo of remoting invocation debugger and AMF traffic visualizer. Finally, you will see a demonstration of user behavior tracking and analytics in a Flex application. The session provides a lot of coding samples and API reviews. It is targeted at a wide range of developers ranging from beginner level to very advanced. Parts of the presentation will be useful for management folks and they are welcome to attend as well.

Bio:
Mark Piller is the founder and Chief Architect of Midnight Coders, an innovative and forward-thinking company specializing in products for RIA development, testing, integration and analytics. Mark has over 15 years of software development experience. For the past six years he has been specializing in building software infrastructure products designed to integrate Flex, Flash, and AJAX applications with a variety of backend systems, including .NET, Java, PHP, and Ruby on Rails. Mark is very passionate about ease-of-use of software and prides himself in creating technologies that clearly demonstrate that quality.

Past presenting experience:
Adobe MAX 2007
Adobe AIR Bus Tour
WebManiacs 2007
Dallas Flex User group
Denver Flex User group
Silicon Valley Flex User group
Seattle Flex User Group
New York Flex User Group
Dallas TexFlex 2008

Publications:
Flex Developers Journal
.NET Developers Journal
Adobe Developer Network

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