Rocky Mountain Software Symposium

November 20 - 22, 2009 - Denver, CO


Denver Marriott South @ Park Meadows
10345 Park Meadows Drive
Denver, CO   80124
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Shashank Tiwari

Managing Partner & CTO at Treasury of Ideas

Shashank Tiwari is a Managing Partner & CTO at Treasury of Ideas(http://www.treasuryofideas.com), a technology driven innovation and value optimization company. As an experienced software developer and architect, he is adept in a multitude of technologies. He is an internationally recognized speaker, author and mentor. As an expert group member on a number of JCP (Java Community Process) specifications he has been actively participating in shaping the future of Java. He is also an Adobe Flex Champion and a common voice in the RIA community. Currently, he passionately builds rich high performance scalable applications and advises many on RIA and SOA adoption. His clients range from large financial service corporations to brilliant startups, whom he helps translate cutting edge ideas into reality. He is also actively engaged in training and mentoring developers and architects in leading edge technology. He is the author of a number of books and articles, including Advanced Flex 3 (Apress, 2008) and Professional BlazeDS (Wiley, 2009). He lives with his wife and two sons in New York. More information about him can be accessed at his website(http://www.shanky.org).



Presentations

Flex and Java integration

Flex is a leading rich internet application development framework and Java is the most pervasive of enterprise computing envirnments. In this session you will learn to combine the two effectively and leverage a robust server side with a highly interactive user interface.

The session will cover all aspects of integration, incuding loose service based integration, remoting and message based data push. Exchange formats ranging from XML to objects, gzipped transmissions over binary protocols and support for custom extensions will be discussed. A very hands-on and detailed session.

Flex and Hibernate

A complete journey into the challenges and solutions for effective integration of Flex and Hibernate.

Covers everything from Lazy loading, custom serialization to client side entity managers.

Collaborative real-time RIA

In this session, learn to craft and create collaborative rich internet applications, that are responsive and updated in real-time for streamlined decision making and business intelligence harnessing. Understand how in-time communication can smoothen information exchange, reduce errors and increase productivity.

The session includes examples of collaborative real-time RIA applications. It could involve 2 types of RIAs, built using Flex and Ajax, multiple server side endpoints, multiple push technologies including Comet, RTMP and Sockets and Event Stream Processing engines.

Books

by Shashank Tiwari, Elad Elrom, and Charlie Schulze

AdvancED Flex 4 Buy from Amazon
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  • Flex 4 is the new update from Adobe on their highly successful Flex product and this book takes a generation of Flex developers to the advanced and professional best practices in the industry. Flex is becoming more and more important to Adobe, and a lot of Web developers will be migrating their skills from Flash to Flex, and looking to learn some advanced techniques.

    As the size of the Flex market continues to expand and gain experience, so does the need for a book that covers all the capabilities and advanced concepts. Adobe Flex is the tool of choice for developers of rich internet applications with Web 2.0 interactivity. Version 4 brings advanced new tools and concepts to an already capable product.


by Shashank Tiwari

Professional BlazeDS: Creating Rich Internet Applications with Flex and Java (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) Buy from Amazon
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Price: $36.84
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  • A hands-on guide to creating Rich Internet Applications (RIA) using BlazeDS

    BlazeDS enables you to easily connect to back-end distributed data and push data in real time to Adobe Flex and Adobe AIR applications in order to garner more responsive Rich Internet Application (RIA) experiences. It is a scalable option for Flex and Java integration and allows you to create excellent RIAs with both Flex and Java.

    This informative resource provides you with detailed examples and walkthroughs that explain the best practices for creating RIAs using BlazeDS. You'll begin with the essentials of BlazeDS and then more on to more advanced topics. Along the way, you'll learn the real-world concerns that surround enterprise-based Java and Flex applications.

    • BlazeDS enables you to connect to back-end distributed data in order to garner more responsive Rich Internet Application (RIA) experiences
    • Begins with an introduction to BlazeDS, and explains the necessary features for integrating new and existing Java data sources and applications with Flex-based RIAs
    • Provides hands-on examples and addresses real-world concerns surrounding enterprise-based Java and Flex applications
    • Serves as a comprehensive walk through for creating RIAs using BlazeDS

    If you're looking to create rich, productive, and engaging applications, then this book is for you.

    Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.


by Shashank Tiwari and Elad Elrom

AdvancED Flex 3 (Friends of Ed Abobe Learning Library) Buy from Amazon
List Price: $54.99
Price: $40.14
You Save: $14.85 (27%)
  • Flex 3 is the new update from Adobe on their highly successful Flex product and this book takes a generation of Flex developers to the advanced and professional best practices in the industry.

    As the size of the Flex market continues to expand and gain experience, so does the need for a book that covers all the capabilities and advanced concepts. Adobe Flex is the tool of choice for developers of rich internet applications with Web 2.0 interactivity. Version 3 brings advanced new tools and concepts to an already capable product.