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Flex Best Practices Melee at MAX

At MAX North America and MAX Europe this fall, I’m very pleased and excited to be moderating a discussion panel titled “Flex Best Practices”. A bunch of interesting folks will be on the panel, none of them lacking when it comes to having an opinion: Steven Webster (Adobe Consulting), Dave Coletta (Virtual Ubiquity/Buzzword), Dave Wolf (Cynergy), and Anatole Tartakovsky (Farata Systems).

I can promise a few things about this panel:

- No Canned Dog Food. There will be no PowerPoint slides or videos shown in this panel, just unfettered, spontaneous discussion. Some of it could involve you, if you’re in the audience.

- Concrete, Topical Questions. I’m canvassing the Flex developers around me (including readers of this blog) for the issues that are bothering them as they work right now. We’re not going to discuss how many MXML tags can fit on the head of a pin. We’ll probably talk about ways that we’ve seen Flex projects run off the rails and self-destruct, though.

- Contradictory Answers. In discussions of practice, we should cherish contradictions — they are a sign that we’re talking about something that is actually interesting, on which there are multiple points of view. I don’t think we’ll have to worry about everyone on this panel agreeing on everything! And the disagreements may help us all get closer to our own answers.

We’ll certainly be touching on frameworks, coding standards, multidisciplinary workflow, team structure, software modelling. What else? Please post a comment with your ideas, if you have some!

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