jun :: realeyes

The 360|Flex crew is preppin’ to throw down the premiere Adobe Flex conference this May.  360|Flex will take place in Indy. Draft 1 of the speaker schedule has been announced, and I’m pleased to announce two things:

1. The schedule’s tight!  It’s full of many interesting talks and some of the best speakers in the industry.  The other cool thing is that this time around they had the community help decide which 50 sessions would grace the schedule.

2. I’m excited to be speaking on Day 3 right after lunch in the integration track room.

My topic is a 200 level topic titled “Flex Application Profiling by Example”. Here’s the the abstract:

“This session will be light on slides and heavy on demonstration.  The session will start with a brief explanation of the concepts that will be discussed and then kick into high gear with demonstrations and live profiling with the Flex Builder Profiler.  During the session the features of the Flex Builder Profiler will be illustrated and light will be shed on how to analyze the data collected by the Profiler.  The goal of this session will be to arm the attendee with the ability to use the Flex Builder Profiler to help increase the responsiveness and decrease the memory consumed by their applications.”

If you know me, you know I’ve been talking about debugging and profiling for a while now.  This time around I’ve taken a queue from the 360 crew and will be structuring this session in a manner consistent with the feedback requests I’ve received from the community over the years.  That being said, take the abstract above as meaning several things:

1. I have 80 minutes, “light on slides” means that I’m gonna shoot for 20 minutes or so of slides and spend the rest of the time using the Profiler in real life!

2. What I mean by “the session will start with a brief explanation of the concepts that will be discussed and then kick into high gear with demonstrations and live profiling” is that I’m not going to spend too much time explaining memory management or profiling theory, heck, I’m not even going to spend too much time discussing the Profiler itself.  Instead I’m going to SHOW you.  Explaination will occur while we’re in the trenches running the Profiler against the sample applications.

3. The most important piece of the abstract is “arm the attendee with the ability to use the Flex Builder Profiler”.  One of the things that I’ve observed throughout my life as a speaker is that many people either know the theory or know that the tool exists.  However, the missing piece is to apply the theory while using the tool. The other thing specific to the Profiler tool is knowing how to analyze what is displayed.  The goal of the session will be to have the attendees walk out the door when it’s over and be able to use the Flex Builder 3/ Gumbo Profiler effectively.

Anyway…that’s what I’m thinking, feel free to comment if you’re planning to attend and want to see anything special.  Other than that, make sure to get yourselves registered up…don’t be that lamo that tries to register after all the tickets are sold out:

http://360flex.eventbrite.com/

See you all in May!