How Not To Code

Pledge drive: Help me help 360|Flex who is helping me

The 360|Flex conference is coming up soon - March 8-10 in San Jose. It seems that John and Tom - the organizers - have everything ready to go except for one little item: getting a sponsor for the USB Thumbdrive that comes in the swag-bag. They offered it to me but it's a little out of my marketing budget for RunPee.com - which is zero dollars. But they are on the hook either way so we worked out a deal. I'll start a pledge drive and try to raise as much money as I can to cover the cost of sponsoring the thumbdrive - $1,300 target. In exchange they will put RunPee.com on it. I'm not on the hook for anything except trying to raise money to cover their costs so that they don't take a loss.

We would all appreciate it if you chipped in a few bucks. I will give every dollar donated to my Paypal account to 360|Flex up until the conference is over. Let me know if you would like for your donation to be public or not because I'll keep a running tab on this page of who donated and how much.

Paypal donations to: Dan@polyGeek.com

Thanks for your support,
Dan Florio, John Wilker, Tom Ortega.

Dan Florio ( that's me )-$100, Lee Button-$100, Randy Troppmann-$100, David Ortinau-$50, Faisal Abid Founder-$55, Pintley.com-$50, Douglas Reynolds Consulting-$50, Nick Kwiatkowski-$25, Patrick McDonald-$10, Jeremy Saenz-$25, Ivan Alvarez-$25, Jen Floyd-$10, Matt LeGrand-$25, Jens Brynildsen-$25, Gates M Stoner-$20, Emerson Tyler Wright-$50, John Daily-$10, Jason Fincanon-$25, Evan Zeimet-$20 Here is a complete list of the people who have donated

February 26th, 2008 . by polyGeek

My wife is a huge fan of the show What not to wear on TLC. ( It’s essentially about showing women how to dress better. )

I think we – the Flash/Flex community – could use a show How not to code. I know that I’d watch it. And SeanTheFlexGuy is game. So lets do this thing.

I’ll help out with doing the encoding, video player stuff. But I don’t know squat about shooting or editing video.

The perfect hosts would be McCune and Deepa. But they are probably busy with their book. Maybe Ryan Stewart and Ted Patrick could do it in their copious spare time. They already travel all over the world for Adobe so they could just do one show per trip and we’d be set.

Unfortunately HowNotToCode.com is being squatted on. But HowNotToCode.org and .net are available.

By the way, I volunteer to be the first dweeb who gets lambasted for his coding practices, or lack thereof. I can see it now: the host would be banging his/her head against the wall saying, “I can’t believe you use the Flash Authoring tool to write code.”

If something here has proved valuable to you then feel free to drop a couple of bucks in the tip-jar.