My speaking schedule at MAX 2008
Monday November 17th is the official start date for Adobe MAX. I will speaking at several sessions throughout the conference.
On Monday I will be speaking with Juan Sanchez about Degrafa at the 360|MAX unconference. The presentation will be from 4:00pm to 5:30pm.
Then Monday night at 9:30 I will be doing a Birds of a Feather session with Juan, speaking again about Degrafa.
Wednesday at 3:30pm I will be doing my Flex Data Visualization presentation. Adobe asked me to do this preso and to try and serve as wide an audience as possible from Flex rookie to advanced Flex developers. 60 minutes is not a lot of time so I will be moving quickly and I have put together 4 new code demos where I walk through code from simple to advanced examples that cover off on Data Structures, Working with Chart Series, Styling Charts, and Chart Interactivity. Pretty much everything is focused on Flex charting, versus other components. I will also be covering off on some of the open source components I have previously released like the DataSet Component, as well as one or two new components I have created that make it easier to customize Flex Charts.
I hope to see you there, and please don’t be shy about introducing yourself if you have read this blog. MAX is a really fun conference and I am looking forward to it.
UPDATE 11/14/2008: According to the MAX scheduler it says my session is SOLD OUT, but don’t worry if it is like any other MAX event it is first come, first serve – so just be there early. I also realized the session description is slightly different than the content. It is hard in 60 minutes to get too in depth about anything, my session will show different techniques for dealing with data, chart appearance and styling, and user interaction within Flex charting.
19. November 2008 at 22:11
[...] Data Visualization with Flex, Tom Gonzalez – This session really was split up and well organized to cover the different aspects of charting: reformatting data, styling, drill downs, etc. Advanced charting in Flex was a bit of a black box to me until I attended this session, so it is one of my picks for favorite session of the week. One thing with the session that could have been better is to have a lab instead of just a speaking presentation. I think the way Tom organized the presentation/code was set up perfectly for a lab and would have been much more engaging if I could play around with the code Tom was showing. In general with the conference, I would like to have seen more labs with advanced topics. [...]