360Flex – Be a movie star! Win a pass!

October 30, 2009 By

If you were at 360|Flex San Jose, or followed the conference, you’ll remember these videos. We had several submissions and they’re all hilarious! Ribbit and Ben Stucki rocked it, and of course, Jeremy getting his flow on as the Flex Gangsta!

These and the rest of the great submissions were played to kick off the keynote, they were a hit!

We’re getting our love of video on again for 360|Flex San Jose 2010.

The rules are simple.

  1. Keep it short. We’ll be showing these before the keynotes, no small movies!
  2. Explain why you think 360|Flex is the best Flex conference out there, what makes you attend, what makes Flex the best RIA platform? etc.
  3. post it to youtube with “360flexSJ2010″ in the title (we want to make sure it doesn’t get cluttered after all)

That’s it.

The prize?

  • Free pass to 360|Flex San Jose? Already registered? Good for you! You rock! We’ll give you a full refund.
  • Copy of FlashBuilder Pro
  • CS4
  • More to come!

How do you win?

Once we’ve cut off the submissions, we’ll pick the best, most funny video. The one that just screams, “This is 360|Flex” :)

So start recording! Get your time on the big screen!

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PayPal X Innovate 2009 is next week!

October 28, 2009 By

Sadly Tom and I won’t be at Innovate 2009. Not for lack of interest either. With Tom consulting now, and me being swamped with Conference work, well, our travel budget has temporarily shrunk. Why should you go? PayPal is opening up its platform to developers. For any developer who has needed a flexible, global payments solution, this is a very big deal. It will simply life for many developers who have struggled with integrating payments. As well, it opens up the doors for finally making money from doing what you are passionate about, something we both encourage.

I can’t even tell you how many times as a developer, AND a consumer I’ve wished for better integration with payment solutions. Not to mention, now that micro-payments are becoming the norm, it just makes sense to make collecting money easier for everyone involved.

And, because PayPal likes us, we can offer 10 free passes to the first 10 people who see this :)

Once you check out the event details, hit up the following special URL to redeem your FREE pass and register. On this page you will find a link in orange “Enter Discount Code”, please enter PP360CON. This should bring the price of the ticket to “$0” for you. Please register as soon as possible to receive your free pass.

The PayPal team has a great speaker lineup, including Tim O’Reilly as one of the keynotes. Attending will be some of the most innovative developers in the world of mobile, consumer electronics and financial services. Early adopters will demonstrate how they’re already building businesses on the PayPal platform.

All conference attendees will receive exclusive access to not-yet-released PayPal APIs. You’ll also get the chance to work directly with PayPal engineers and other developers during hands-on labs and code-and-build sessions and interact with PayPal’s leadership team.

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360Flexpress training, coming up fast, Great line up!

October 27, 2009 By

Tom posted some details for day one, over on the 360|Flexpress site, it’s really shaping up nicely. If you’re in the valley, or nearby and are looking for somehing to boost your game, or even break into Flex development, this training is for you.

You’ll come away at the end with so much incredible knowledge, it’ll take days to process it all. Ok maybe not days, but hours for sure!

Tom Ortega, and Thomas Burleson are both great instructors, and crazy smart developers. Oh yeah and Keith Sutton of SilVaFUG will be doing some hands-on intro to PureMVC at the end of the day saturday.

We’re also working on lining someone up to do some Mate Hands-On.

If you’re looking to level up your skills, don’t miss 360|Flexpress in San Jose. Hands-On training, by pros.

Oh yeah, and Apress is sponsoring the training, we’ll have some great Apress/Friends of Ed Flex books to give away each day! Don’t miss it!

Register now! You won’t find a better price on 2 days of Hands-On training anywhere!

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Ribbit Spawning Voice Rich RIA’s in San Francisco

October 23, 2009 By

Ribbit has been a friend of 360|Flex since way back when.  Not to mention the fact that we have a ton of personal friends working at the company.  With that in mind, we’d like to let you all know about an exciting event they’re having.  Please read below for all the details given to us by Ribbit.

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Please join Ribbit in San Francisco November 5, 2009 for a deep dive into our open telephony APIs.

We’re excited to formally launch our RESTful API, and we’re looking for early adopters like you!

In the network of the future:

• Voice will simply be another data object – and will be carrier, network, device and protocol agnostic
• Legacy carrier networks will be merged with open networks / the internet
• Innovation will be developer driven, not constrained by existing carrier / telco business models

Ribbit is revolutionizing the communications paradigm by providing an open and fully programmable global communications platform. This platform allows any developer to integrate voice, messaging, and rich communications into any application, on Web experience.

Join us for a day of innovation and learning and an evening of coding and cocktails.

Ribbit + REST = Open Programmable Communications

Rebuilding the Ribbit Platform on top of a RESTful framework allows developers to interact with Ribbit at the server level, enabling new forms of application-to-person and application-to-application services.  REST treats users, devices, calls, messages, and other elements as resources with which developers can easily interact — and exposes Ribbit’s core communications services in a platform-agnostic format using simple and secure HTTP calls.

Space is limited, Register by Oct. 28! http://developer.ribbit.com/blog/spawn/

If you cannot attend in person, please join us via webcast. Register by 11/3 at:  http://developer.ribbit.com/blog/spawn-webcast/

Agenda

8:00  –  9:00  Registration and continental breakfast

9:00 – 10:00  Ribbit Platform Overview — New Features, Platform Roadmap & Pricing

10:00 – 11:00  Integrating Ribbit into Any Application, Workflow, Site or Online Campaign

11:00 – 11:30  New APIs and application showcase

11:30 – 12:00  Platform opportunities

12:00  -   1:00  Lunch

1:00 – 2:45 Afternoon Breakout Sessions

•  Flash
•  Java
•  .NET
•  PHP

3:00 – 4:45  Afternoon Breakout Sessions

• Building Client-and Server-Side Apps
• JavaScript
• Silverlight
• REST

5:00 – 9:00  Hands-On Coding with Ribbit’s API/Programming Language Experts

• Coding for Flash, Silverlight
• Coding for Java, JS, PHP, REST, .NET

Ribbit is an open, cloud-based platform for communications innovation. By exposing our carrier-grade SmartSwitch™ though popular programming APIs, Ribbit enables the development of next generation “voiceware” applications, such as our white-labeled Ribbit for Salesforce® and Ribbit Mobile™ applications.

Filed Under: Announcements, Community, Ribbit

RIAdventure Cruise. Wanna go? Need a roommate?

October 6, 2009 By

Thinking about going on the RIAdventure cruise? Don’t have anyone to go with? We’ve got an attendee that’s looking for a roommate for the cruise.

As you may or may not know, the cruise rate is based on Double Occupancy, so if you’re traveling alone you need a roomie, or pay for the extra space. If not having a roomie is what’s keeping you from registering for the cruise, hesitate no longer!

So let us know, we can hook you up! It’ll be worth it!! Don’t forget, registration for the cruise includes a complimentary pass to 360|Flex San Jose 2010!!! Register now!

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