James Ward
Technical Evangelist, Adobe

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James Ward is a Technical Evangelist for Flex at Adobe and Adobe’s JCP representative to JSR 286, 299, and 301. Much like his love for climbing mountains he enjoys programming because it provides endless new discoveries, elegant workarounds, summits and valleys. His adventures in climbing have taken him many places. Likewise, technology has brought him many adventures, including: Pascal and Assembly back in the early 90’s; Perl, HTML, and JavaScript in the mid 90’s; then Java and many of it’s frameworks beginning in the late 90’s. Today he primarily uses Flex to build beautiful front-ends for Java based back-ends. Prior to Adobe, James built a rich marketing and customer service portal for Pillar Data Systems.

Sessions

James Ward (Adobe)
This is a 3 hour, hands on course for attendees wanting to learn the basics of communications from Flash, Flex and AIR based systems to Java app servers, REST style XML over HTTP, Restful SOA, Web Services (SOAP), connecting to PHP using HTTP, AMF binary format and more. Every attendee will complete a minimum of 8 different code projects and be able to take their work home on their laptop. Read more.
Development
Location: 1A14
Josh Holmes (Microsoft), James Ward (Adobe)
Come listen to leading RIA experts from Microsoft and Adobe discuss many of the best and worst practices in building a RIA (Rich Internet Application) covering topics like state management, fault tolerance, service composition, communications protocols, message formats and much more. Read more.
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