360|Flex - Improve your programming by reading the Flex source code

I am speaking at 360|Flex San Jose in August and you should come! 360|Flex is a great conference that really supports the Flex community. It's a great place to meet other developers (and even some designers), to learn, and to have a great time. I'll be talking about the Flex SDK source code and how to improve your development by reading it (and understanding it).

I'll be discussing the class hierarchy, the internal compositional classes, and the importance of interfaces. I will tear apart some components and offer suggestions on using them and better ways to design similar components. I will touch on the Flex component lifecycle, skinning, inheritance, custom components, list classes, and containers.

Lastly, I will discuss the Flex SDK API, how it is written today, how it will be evolving in Flex 4/Gumbo and what else Adobe needs to change! I will explain ways to use more DRY (don't repeat yourself) development practices using better componentization and compositional classes.

I plan to post some more teasers on my blog (http://jonathanbranam.net) so people who don't know who I am or what I'm talking about can get a better sense of the session and why they should (or shouldn't) come.