Poll: What’s the best thing about 360Flex conferences?
I’m counting down the days until 360Flex. No, really, I have a Firefox extension that displays the number of days left until 360Flex - San Jose, August 18-20, 2008 - down in the lower-right of my browser. ( Currently at T-25 days. )
There are many great reasons to go to 360Flex. I can hardly cover them in this poll here, which isn’t really a serious poll anyway. But if I had to say what the best reason is for going to 360Flex I’d say it’s the amazing lineup of session topics/speakers. There are so many must see sessions that many of them overlap. I’ve even talked to some of the speakers who said that they would skip their own session to go see another one at the same time, if they could.
Here are my must see sessions:
- Ben Clinkinbeard - Strategies for Creating Reusable Components
- Jacob Wright - Advanced ActionScript APIs
- Jeff Houser - How to Build Flex Components
- Josh Tynjala - Polishing Components for the Masses or Mike Potter - Promoting your Flex and AIR applications
- Ben Stucki - How to build a Framework
- Jim Cheng - Advanced Analytics for Flex and Flash RIAs
- Tony Hillerson/Juan Sanchez - See the Data, Be the Data
- Jun Heider - Using the Flex Builder 3 Profiler
There are lots of sessions that cover Flex and name your AMF backend integration. Fortunately I’m pretty much engaged to AMFPHP for database integration so I’ll probably blow off all the BlazeDS/ColdFusion/RubyAMF sessions, probably.
I’m looking forward to seeing everyone there. And don’t forget to ask me about RunPee.com. I’ll be giving out beta invites.
The food. :)
Once y’all see my gut, you’ll understand!
I’m flattered I’d be on your list. ;)
I agree with the above poll…and Tom’s gut. :)
@Jeffry, Dude, your the Houser! I’m flattered that your flattered but without you it would be more like 260Flex. :-)
Why anyone would want to see me speak is beyond me.
@Josh, your brilliance is surpassed only by your modesty. :-)
Woah, that’s some serious pressure! :)
Seriously though, I’m flattered as well, be sure to come up and say hi.
All the love…
Really, what amazes me about 360Flex is that it is so unlike so much of the open-source community.
Typical ‘nix open source community - it’s so easy anyone but an idiot can do it. “Um gee, thanks, at least now I know I’m an idiot.”
360Flex exemplifies the “Love” in the Flex community. You bounce ideas off of one another. The skilled uber-Flexers are down-to-earth and kind to the newbs. And everyone’s human.
From conference organizers who let the attendees families mooch on the food. To random strangers who decide to pay for the whole table’s meal at the top of Seattle’s World Space Needle.
I am just amazed by the community.
You know, this blog post is getting me depressed.
I won’t be going to this 360Flex (must be something about ‘San Jose’, I always miss those ones). But I am finding myself missing the conference more than I would expect to.
I mean, the conferences are always fun and exciting. But I really like the community, the people.
:-)
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