Next Meeting: Date - Thursday, November 20, 2008. Time - 5:30pm
Location: EdFinancial Services, 150 N Seven Oaks Dr, Knoxville, TN
Presenter: Kyle Guerry, Software Engineer/Flex Architect, Affiliated Computer Services in Dallas Texas
Food: Pizza will be provided by TEKsystems

(Special Emphasis on MVC with Cairngorm and Prana)

Adobe Flex and Rich Internet Applications are gaining tremendous momentum. Whether you already know a little (or a lot) about the Flash Platform and Adobe Flex, or are a seasoned Java, .Net, or other type of software engineer, you won’t want to miss our presentation as Kyle Guerry demonstrates:

1. Flex Fundamentals – building with MXML and ActionScript 3
2. Connecting to external data via Blaze DS, Remoting, and Web Services
3. Cairngorm – an MVC framework for Flex applications
4. Prana – Spring-like inversion of control for Cairngorm
5. Run-time Shared Libraries – share the Flex framework and assets across multiple Flex applications
6. Modular Flex Applications – load only what you need, when you need it
7. Flex Unit Testing

There will be special emphasis on utilizing Cairngorm hand-in-hand with Prana. Though many in the community feel that Cairngorm is the leading framework for building Flex applications, the main argument against it is that it does not promote loosely coupled applications because of a heavy reliance on Singletons. I will show you how to utilize Prana to de-couple your applications and give you more control at run-time, as well as the ability to easily swap out the main pieces of your applications in order to perform unit tests, change data sources, etc.