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Sorry to everyone who’s been asking about a copy of my presentation from FlexCamp Miami. I’ve just posted the source and slides for my presentation @ http://svn.adogo.us/200903-FlexCampMiami/ along with Max, who had his stuff up pretty quickly after the conference. I wanted to take some time to add a better example of an integration test which is now available in the RestaurantGrid component project. What delayed me was finding an easy way to explain how to test the DataGrid embedded within the RestaurantGrid; I tried to provide the most basic of examples with and without the help of the Flex Automation API.

Hope this helps those who were interested; sorry again about the delay. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact me via comments or email me @ me at brianlegros dot com. Also, if you find yourself in the Orlando area, always feel free to drop by an Adogo meeting. This month we’ve got a great JavaScript topic being presented by Adam as well as Max giving his FlexCamp Miami presentation with, if we’re lucky, working AOP in AS3 via Loom! Check out the Adogo blog for more information on time and location. Hope you can make it!

For a one day event, FlexCamp Miami had tons of information packed into its 8 sessions. Greg Wilson started us out with a great intro to some of the new features coming in Gumbo (Flex 4) followed by David Tucker digging down into the persistence side of AIR, along with some new 1.5 features. After the break, Max blew away the crowd with loom and some AS3 internals followed by Andrew Powell and some awesome examples of using Merapi to bring some deeper OS interaction to AIR. We broke for lunch and then Christian Saylor gave a really motivating presentation on the importance of UX for developers. I had to follow him with my CI presentation, which didn’t even compare and ran long, but then Jeremy Grelle swooped back in and kept everyone’s attention with Milestone 2 of the new Spring/BlazeDS integration (released this last Wednesday). Laura Arguello finished out the day with a cool introduction to Mate. Universal Mind did a great job with the event, lunch was good, and my brain is full.

I should have my code available on the Adogo SVN server this week, I’d just like to add an integration testing example before I commit it. Look for Max and my code/presentations there soon. Hopefully we can convince UM to have another one of these a little further North … say Orlando? I think I know a few Central Florida user groups that could help promote it.

NOTE: If you ever make your way down to Coral Gables, give Titanic Restaurant and Brewery a try. They’ve got some really tasty microbrews and even more delicious food. I recommend the Captain Smith’s Rye Ale, super great. For food, I had the Shrimp Po-boy which came with 6 huge tailed shrimp and a nice remoulade. Thanks to Greg for the great meal!

FlexCamp Miami is tomorrow, 03/06/09. If you find yourself without something to do tomorrow, jump in the car and join us in the Hurricane Room at the Bank United Center on the UM Campus. We’ll be starting around 8:00 AM and should finish up around 5:00 PM; lunch is included. If you’d like to attend, just hop over to their EventBrite page and register. We’ve got some great speakers including Greg Wilson, David Tucker, Andrew Powell, Laura Arguello, Christian Saylor, Jeremy Grelle, along with Max and myself from the Adogo.

Hope you can make it!