For the past nine years Aaron West has been heavily involved in the Web development space building enterprise-level, database-driven Web applications and leading technology teams. He is incredibly passionate about what he does and attempts to inject his enthusiasm and love for technology in all those around him.

Aaron leads high performance, technical teams. Enterprise architecture design.  He has an intimate knowledge of and real-world experience in the following languages/technologies: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, ActionScript, Flash Remoting, CFML, Flex/AIR, SQL, SQL Server, MySQL, Web Services, XML, object-oriented design, CVS, Subversion, Eclipse, Apache, IIS.

Check out more from Aaron West at http://www.trajiklyhip.com/

Aaron’s session will start at 11:10pm – 12:10 – AIR Messaging: Integrating AIR, BlazeDS, and ColdFusion

In this session Aaron will show you how to integrate AIR, BlazeDS, and ColdFusion 8 to create a real-world messaging service. He will demonstrate how to install BlazeDS and “hook” it to ColdFusion 8 and will walk through building a Flex-based AIR application that communicates with the ColdFusion and BlazeDS server to consume a one-way messaging service.

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Mike is a Senior Flex/AS3 Consultant & Music Industry veteran.  Early in his career, he started his own record label and worked with Grammy award-winning artists.  During the rise of the digital age, he quickly went from creating artist websites to creating cutting-edge interactive music applications.  Mike now leads development teams around the globe and has authored code published in the Flex 3 Cookbook. Combining his creative talent and extensive RIA knowledge, Mike specializes in overall application design, architecture, user interaction, and other awesome buzzwords.

Mike’s session will start at 12:15pm -1:15pm- Flash Builder 4 and Flex skinning

Skinning has radically changed with the addition of FXG, the new Spark components, Stateful Skins, and more CSS support.  Explore some of the new visual changes in the Flex 4 SDK.

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Lunch brake – 1:15 – 2:15

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Deke Smith started his career as an art director and graphic designer within the print world. He became enamored with the possibilities of electronic media and began a user interface design company in the early years of the Internet. That company later merged with another and he got bought out. His love of exploring how electronic media can be exploited to communicate has continued. With Flash, and later Flex, he saw the first tool that fulfilled the mission that Java and HTML never solved convincingly: to give developers the power to mesh the user’s desktop and the power and data of servers together as one application. Flash, as a tool, had the advantages of the Web without many of the user interface restrictions. Today he focuses on programming user experiences in Flash and Flex.

Deke’s session will start at 2:20pm – 3:10pm – A Few Common Pitfalls in Flex.
The power of Flex is that it makes so many complex tasks easy. But problems can arise if the man behind the curtain is ignored. This session is about what Flex does to make a developer’s easier and how what goes on in the background can cause very hard to debug problems in that developer’s code.

Scot Clausing is a local Flex & Java developer with sincere interest in mobile development and 3D interactive design.  While he has daily exposure to all areas of the development process, his true passions are application architecture, UI design and teaching.  Since the introduction of Adobe Flex 2, RIA development has been an obsession and has provided a truly enjoyable and fulfilling career path.  After three years, Flex & Flash Builder 4 re-ignite that obsession.

This is the session to see if you’re interested in getting started with the Flash Builder 4 beta, now available on http://labs.adobe.com.  The presentation will highlight some cool new features of the IDE, and then jump right into the goods.  I may include such topics as: The Flash Player 10 Text Engine (which is awesome), Skinning components with FXG, Creating custom components, and the wonderful new syntax for States.  If you have a topic you are especially interested in, please send me an email or drop me a line at http://blog.tsclausing.com.

Ben Stucki is an independent software developer in Nashville, TN. He might have had an average, every-day job selling retail electronics or installing cable, but he doesn’t. He designs and develops bleeding edge web applications using Flex, ActionScript 3, Java, HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Apparently he’s pretty good at it. He speaks at events just to rub it in.

Flex Tour Doors: 6:00pm – Start:   7:00pm

Where: Nashville, TN http://www.anthonybillups.com/

Speakers: Greg Wilson

Greg is an Adobe Enterprise Platform Evangelist – Flex, AIR, LiveCycle, ColdFusion, Acrobat. Photographer, Pilot and the combination of both http://www.tigeraerial.com

Greg will be speaking about some of the changes coming to the Flash and Flex Frameworks.

Beer and food will be provided before and after the Adobe event.

Prizes will be awarded during the evening. Currently some of the prizes consist of Adobe Flex and CS4 product licenses. We are also hopeful to have some sponsored swag.

Following the event will be a mixer with a live DJ. This will be an opportunity for you to get to know some of your colleagues and just hang. We will try to wrap up around 10:00pm.