Looking ahead to FlexManiacs 08

If you haven’t been to the FlexManiacs conference website, you should check it out. The conference is much bigger than last year, plus they’ve added ColdFusion and AIR sessions.

I’m particularly glad that Harris Reynolds will be speaking this year, and he has some pretty sweet topics: “Design Patterns and Architecture Frameworks” and “Highly Coordinated Visualizations using Charting.” I didn’t get to see him at 360Flex last year, so I’m really glad that his FlexManiacs sessions don’t conflict with mine.

What’s that you say? You detect an ulterior motive in this post? Well, OK, I’m excited to be speaking again this year, and I’m happy with my topics, too. Here’s what I’ll be doing…

Making Large Applications Manageable with Modules: Modules were pretty cool in Flex 2.0.1, but they’re even cooler in 3.0.

Introduction to ECMAScript for XML (E4X): There will be two versions of this - a lecture and a hands-on. E4X is amazing.

Building Accessibile Applications with Flex 3: This is important for everyone, but especially developers in the D.C. area.

I noticed that the abstracts haven’t been posted on the conference site yet, but you can see them by clicking here.

Come to the conference if you can make it. It looks like it will be a great use of your time - not to mention a lot of fun. Take a look at the conference site and I think you’ll agree. And you might want to think about registering soon, because the prices go up on Friday.

**UPDATE (02/01/08):

• The early-bird pricing has been extended two weeks, to February 15. The price difference is significant, so if you’re reasonably sure that you’re going to attend it’s worth registering now.