I was please to be invited to speak at eLearning Devcon 2009 in Salt Lake City, Utah. My session on Adobe Flex went very well. I was happy to see the session was well attended and the two hours allotted went very quickly. We covered the basics of the Adobe Flex platform and built three very small applications using Flex Builder.

The audience was mostly non-programmers, however they seemed to adapt to the basic concepts used in the MXML and Actioncscript 3.0 well. I have posted the exercises done during the session here. If you use the exercise files you must use the import command in Flex to import the entire project folder. You will then be able to open the source file which contains the MXML and the Actionscript code.

For the music example, you will have to add an MP3 file to the source folder called music.mp3.

Good luck with these exercises, and look for further free Flex tutorials from LearnToProgram.tv soon!

Also, I am please to be invited to another great conference in Salt Lake City in October. BYOL eLearning 2009 is a conference geared toward eLearning developers. The conference is all Bring Your Own Laptop sessions that will be very hands-on and production oriented. I will be presenting a beginning and advanced Actionscript session as well as a session on Flex. For more information see the BYOL web site.