Thanks to Adobe, we've got some free passes for the Flex Developer Certification Exam to give away. Value? $150!!

We'll be raffling off 6 exam discount (The discount is 100%, the exam is FREE!) certificates during our Wednesday keynote (Which by the way, is where we'll be announcing the location of the next 360|Flex). These discounts will enable you to take the certification exam free of charge!

If you clicked the link, you're probably thinking, "Flex 2?? Where's Flex 3?" Having taken the ColdFusion exam, back in the day, I'm guessing the Flex 3 exam is being worked on. You have the option of taking the Flex 2 exam now or waiting for the Flex 3 exam.

Since the raffle will be during our Wednesday keynote, that means it's for registered attendees only. For those of you attending the Free Monday only, sorry!

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Thanks to our sponsors, we're very happy to announce that day one of 360|Flex Europe will be free to all. Yup, you read correctly: Monday, 7 April, of 360Flex will be open to the general public.

If you've already registered, we'll be issuing refunds via your payment method over the next couple of months. We're also adjusting the registration price to €240 (2/3 of the original price). If you attend day one and like what you see, you can register for the remaining two days and keep the learning and Flex 101 momentum going.

Attendees to day one will have full access to the Flex 101 hands on training, the expo area, all of the tracks, every thing. They'll be able to register at the registration desk for days two and three or even online at home.

Attendees who are registered for days two and three will get the Conference USB drive and an opportunity to win some great giveaways.

Not registered yet for the 3 day event? It's not too late! Register now! Those coming just for Monday only need not register, merely show up at the event.

The US has Ryan, Ben, Kevin, Ted, and others. Who's the European team? Easy; Enrique, Andrew, Greg, and team!

Better yet, we'll have the EMEA Platform team at 360|Flex Europe doing a few sessions on all sorts of topics, and even delivering the Monday Keynote talking about all the cool stuff that Adobe has in store for the EMEA market, Flex, AIR, etc. Good stuff!

This is a great opportunity to meet the Platform Evangelism team for your region! The Platform Evangelists are an incredible resource for the community, so meeting the, trading cards, etc will be worth it!

Haven't registered? It's not too late! Register now!

Adobe MAX Europe will be in Milan, later this year (december 1st). 360|Flex Europe will be in Milan in April, just over two weeks away.

Both events are great conferences, and in talking to Ted Patrick, the MAX evangelist, we all agreed; it's great to send a team member to MAX. That's where the entire Adobe Roadmap is laid out and explained. If your company is interested in where Adobe and their products are going, MAX is 100% the conference to attend. Tom and I even attend for that very reason.

Other events, like 360|Flex Europe, FITC Amsterdam, Flash on the Beach, etc are where you want to send your team for concentrated single focus information. At 360|Flex Europe, there's nothing else on the three day agenda but Flex, AIR, and ActionScript. If you're serious about Flex, AIR, and ActionScript and want to come away with untold new knowledge and skills, 360|Flex Europe is the event to attend. Our attendees constantly tell us that our events are the most technically focused, developer oriented events they've attended.

Don't miss out. Register now.

With only 20 days left until the conference, make sure to head over and vote. If you haven't entered, it's not too late to do that either!

The contest runs up until April 7th. We'll announce the winner of each Category during our Wednesday keynote!

Haven't registered for the premiere Flex/AIR conference in Europe? (the world even!) It's not too late! Register now!

Radview is just coming into the Flex scene. Yet they bring an incredibly important aspect of development - load testing. In the aptly entitled, "Great looking app – but how does it perform under load?" session, Radview's own Itzik Kubi will will introduce key performance testing principals and show how they relate to the Flex world.

As Flex is being adopted by more and more leading enterprises – application performance has become critical for the success of Flex implementations. RadView has worked closely with Adobe to develop an Add-On for load and performance testing of Flex applications.

Here's an offer from RadView:

Do you have a cool Flex app, but are not sure how it would respond if 3 million people a day tried to use it? (ok - even 100,000 a day). RadView will be presenting its Flex add-on for WebLOAD at 360|Flex and we thought it would be cool to demo the solution on a couple of the apps that have been developed by other 360|Flex attendees. If you have an app that you would like Load Tested - contact Itzik (Itzik@radview.com) and let's arrange a load test prior to Milan. Then during the conference we can present findings. Ideally we are looking for applications that use the AMF (or the secure AMF) messaging channel and communicate with LiveCycle Data Services.

If you're Flex app is going to be huge AND dependably up, then you'll definitely not want to miss this session.

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Borre Wessel, from the Cairngorm team, will be giving a session at 360|Flex Europe. His session will offer a peek into the roadmap of Cairngorm and the evolution of the framework up to this point.

There seems to be a love/hate relationship with Caingorm in the Flex community. Many seem to be heavily for it, while others can't seem to distance themselves enough from it. Regardless of your feelings, Cairngorm is here to stay. What better opportunity than this to get an idea of what they were thinking when things got put into Cairngorm, as well as what we can expect to find coming down the road.

In addition to Borre's advanced Cairngorm session, Neil Webb will also be delivering a "Cairngorm for Beginners" session at the conference as well. This means you're covered regardless of your level of expertise with this popular framework.

Using Cairngorm in your project? Need to get your new developers up to speed on Cairngorm? There's only one place in Europe to get that done. Register now!

Props to Luca for whipping up a really kick ass 360|Flex Europe schedule viewer in Flash Lite.

While I can only enjoy it in Adobe Device Central, it's available for Download here, for your lucky folks sporting Flash Lite capable phones.

Make sure to check back for a later version, we need to hook Luca up with the most up to date schedule.

Thanks Luca, this should make it way easier for everyone to stay on top of what session they want to see and when/where it is.

Man I wish Crackberries did Flash Lite!

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360|Flex Europe is THE place to be for Flex developers!

Were you jealous of the on AIR tour that cruised around the United States last year? Wishing it were on your side of the pond? You're in luck!


The on AIR tour Europe is here!


Adobe on AIR Tour Europe

Adobe is taking Adobe® AIR™ on the rails. Join Adobe at one of 12 upcoming events in Europe to learn how you can use your web development skills - including HTML, JavaScript, Ajax, Adobe Flex®, and Flash® - to bring your web applications to the desktop with Adobe AIR. Learn more and sign up at http://onair.adobe.com

You can get full details at the site, but here's the map, so you can see where they'll be!

While the AIR tour will get you introduced to these technologies, nothing is better than a 3 day conference on Flex and AIR. If you're serious about RIAs, Flex and/or AIR, you need to come to 360|Flex Europe. At €360, it's a bargain! Register now!

Download the Sponsor Packet

One of the great things about doing these shows is working with the sponsors. These are people who care very deeply about the Flex and AIR community. It is always a pleasure to work with them, side-by-side to put these shows on.

For those of you wondering whether or not to sponsor, here's something to think of. The nice thing about Europe is that besides the corporations that are coming, we have people coming from multiple countries: Finland, Norway, Romania, Spain, Portugal, Great Britain, France, Belgium, Ireland and of course Italy. Therefore you can get a non-scientific pulse/vibe on which countries would be open to your product or services. Check out the sponsorship opportunities then contact us.

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We created a linkedIn group for all attendees, speakers, sponsors of 360|Flex events. We're only going to 'ok' people who have attended, so the group should be the same great group you met, drank with, hung out with in San Jose, Seattle, Atlanta, Milan, etc.

Honestly, we're not sure what we'll see from this, but it'll be an interesting experiment. I can see the connections made at mixers, and during sessions blossoming into even more networking opportunities for attendees.

Hit up this URL to request membership.

I'm thinking this might be a great way to keep the community vibe at the event going afterward, certainly a great group of people to be connected with.

Let us know what you think.

Who are we?

Tom and I spoke with our sponsors prior to 360|Flex Atlanta, and decided that while their own contests would end when planned, we'd extend our contest to allow for the European community to enter. We wanted to make sure that each sponsor's API was exposed to the widest range of community.

Therefore, you can still choose to use the Ribbit API, the eBay API, or Degrafa. We've got the prizes, the contest is worldwide, so make sure you do your best. The competition is very good!

For details check out this blog post on the US site, and the entry form with some shorter rules, here.

You've got just over a month to enter. Make sure to blog about your entries too. The voting is open so the US entries have a lead on the Euro dev community! Better get started, get the word out!

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