Building Multi-language Flex RIAs

Building support for multiple languages within your RIA is a non-trivial effort requiring translators, developers, and designers to address changes to text, graphics, skins, dates, validations, data, and [possibly] layout. In this session, you will learn about (a) best practices for localization [l10n] and (b) important considerations when enhancing your custom RIA to support multiple languages and international cultures. Learn why the standard Flash and Flex approaches are solutions best avoided since they introduce maintenance and scalability issues.

Learn about an open-source framework called "BabelFx" which centralizes all localization considerations and easily injects localized resources into your application at run time. When using BabelFx your application source code remains unchanged and maintainable... and adding another language to your application becomes fun and easy.


About Thomas Burleson

Thomas Burleson

In 2009, Thomas created an open-source localization framework "BabelFx" to revolutionize the process for adding multiple language features to RIAs. Thomas also formed Thunderbay Software and created the SaaS product "Insertables" that allows anyone to easily create rich smart-forms that can be inserted into any website or web page. Thomas is a founder of the Cairngorm Extensions and a course ware author for the Adobe Cairngorm training series. As a certified Adobe instructor, Thomas also provides Flex training to selected clients desiring project-related, interactive training and best-practices. Thomas is an evangelist and significant contributor to the Swiz framework for Flex and Flash.

Thomas Burleson has been building consumer and e-Commerce software solutions for more than two decades. During the last 8 years, Thomas has provided product development skills and senior leadership for Universal Mind, RoundArch, and other consulting firms. Thomas has significant, real-world architecture-level experience in Flex, Flash, Java, Groovy, and ColdFusion. Past work includes efforts for firms such SAP, Oracle, Adobe, Sherwin-Williams, AmberAlert, NASDAQ, Ustrive2, Straker Interactive, JibJab, and Oppeneheimer Funds.

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