2009-10-20T09:36:05-04:00 James 11 Ward image/jpeg james_cowboy-150x150.jpg 9499 2009-10-20T09:37:54-04:00 Technical Evangelist for Flex, Adobe 2009-10-20T10:19:32-04:00 James Ward /system/pictures/11/thumb/james_cowboy-150x150.jpg?1256045874 3 2010-01-15T08:06:19-05:00 16 3 Building Client/Server 2.0 Apps with Flex 16 11 4 2010-02-11T22:03:23-05:00 Frameworks Ballroom B <p>If Web 2.0 is really just a more mature manifestation of the original concepts of the Web then perhaps the recent buzz around rich Internet applications and <span class="caps">SOA</span> is really just a more mature manifestation of the Client / Server architecture. This session focuses on how to use Flex to build next generation user interfaces on top of Service Oriented Architectures and Cloud systems.</p> <p>James Ward is a Technical Evangelist for Flex at <a href="http://adobe.com/">Adobe</a>. 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&#8217;s; Perl, <span class="caps">HTML</span>, and JavaScript in the mid 90&#8217;s; then Java and many of it&#8217;s frameworks beginning in the late 90&#8217;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.</p>