Joe Berkovitz at BFPUG Wednesday

The Boston Flash Platform User Group is starting 2007 off with a bang. Our first speaker is Joe Berkovitz of Allurent, Inc. here in Boston.

The subject will be, “A Reusable Blueprint for Remote Flex and Flash Applications”

Here’s Joe’s description of the presentation:

This talk will present a set of real-world architectural approaches and patterns for building ActionScript-based client/server applications. We’ll look at ways to organize apps that have both complex user interfaces and complex communications demands; these ideas make it easier and more predictable to prototype, build out, test and evolve such applications. The presentation will be firmly rooted in real-world source code, using the presenter’s Flex/Ruby-on-Rails mashup ReviewTube as a prop for demonstration and discussion.

And, if you want to prepare yourself beforehand, Joe also authored an article on Adobe.com on the same subject. You can find it here:

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/articles/blueprint.html

There will be free Adobe giveaways, including some of those neat (and huge) Flex 2 / AS3 posters.

See everyone there, Wednesday, January 24, 2007, 7pm at NeIA.

Directions can be found at:

http://www.artinstitutes.edu/boston/aboutus_directions.asp

Speaker Bio:

Joe Berkovitz is Chief Architect of Allurent, Inc., a company offering a suite of Flex-based online shopping applications. He has spent 28 years in the software profession as an architect, interface designer, and engineer. He was Chief Architect at startups Ruckus Network and Unveil Technologies. Before that he spent eight years at ATG developing many of the core components of that company’s products, originating a number of key ideas with patents granted or pending. Prior to ATG, Joe worked at various employers and clients including Houghton Mifflin, Stratus Computer, Harvard Business School, Sony, and BMG Music Club.