IPSA March Meeting: The Power of Flex in Rich Internet Applications March 9, 2007

The Power of Flex in Rich Internet Applications
Harris Reynolds
Friday, March 9, 2007, 11:30am - 1pm
St. Vincent's Bruno Conference Center
Free to attend
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The Web is no longer a simple system used for exchanging hypertext-based documents. Today the Web is a plaform for delivering sophisticated applications as well as rich media including video and instant messaging. While building rich web-based applications with traditional HTML/Javascript is possible, there are many challenges to using this toolset; however, with the relatively recent release of Flex by Adobe Systems, it is now easier than ever to build both beautiful and robust web-applications that take full advantage of rich media as well as the ability to push data to clients for real-time updates. Using Adobe Flex also obviates many of the cross-browser compatability issues faced by many developers by providing a uniform interface to application layout etc. This presentation will discuss the benefits of building software using this paradigm and demostrate some examples of its use.

Harris Reynolds is a software architect with The Midnight Coders (TMC) and specializes in client/server integration between Flex-clients and server-based applications. At TMC he's been responsible for delivering both the initial .Net version of WebORB as well as the port to Ruby on Rails. WebORB is a presentation server that simplifies the development of Rich Internet Applications by providing infrastructure software to integrate Flex clients with custom server applications.

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