360Flex – The Speakers – Sid Maestre
I was in San Francisco a little bit ago, hiding cameras in the Yerba Buena Cultural center, when I ran into Sid Meastre at the Starbucks next to Moscone Center.
I was testing the video feeds, with my Grande Mocha Frapaccino, when Sid walked in.
Sid: Oh, hey John! What’re you doing here?
Me: (Closing the video feeds) Hey Sid, not much was just wandering around the city a bit. You?
(He sits down)
Sid: Hiding video cameras for the Apple event this week. I’m really excited about 360|Flex San Jose. I remember the the first one in San Jose. For $100, if felt like you were paying ME to attend.
Me: Yeah that was a crazy three days. We sold out in 55 days! Hard not to at $100. What do you think people who attend your session will be most surprised by/about?
(They call Sid’s drink order so he gets up to get it. While he’s gone I check the rest of the video feeds, I’ll be watching from some crazy angles. I’ll see the Apple magic-unicorn-Tablet before anyone else! Side comes back)
360Flex – Speaker Chat – Michael Labriola
If you haven’t been joining us for the Speaker Chats, you’re missing out on some great stuff! We’ve had two so far, and our third is this week, with Michael Labriola of Digital Primates.
If you missed last week’s chat, you’re in luck, we’re recording them now (Sorry Dan, forgot to hit record on yours). Check out James Polanco, and see how much great knowledge gets dropped in this chats, before this weeks chat. Thursday at 11am MST.
360Flex – The Speakers – Huyen Tue Dao
We get so few female speakers at 360|Flex, we’re always eager to talk to those that do want join us for the best Flex/ActionScript/AIR conference around.
I was at Office Depot picking up some supplies for 360|Flex when I ran into Huyen Tue Dao (she explained it’s pronounced kind of like “Hwin” and my middle name more like “Tweh.” I feel bad when someone feels like they have to do that avoiding-saying-your-name-because-they-don’t-want-to-offend-you thing. But I’m totally cool either way.)
(We stop to chat in the portable hard drive aisle)
Me: so are you excited? this is your first 360|Flex right?
Huyen: This one is going to be my first actually. I didn’t get a chance to go before so I thought I’d sneak in by going through the “Speaker” door.
(I pick up some sort of external hard drive leather holster. who buys this?)
Me: What do you think people who attend your session will be most surprised by/about?
Huyen: I think that people will be surprised about how even the simplest code can lead applications to beachball/freeze sometimes. Also I think people will be happy to see how little the solutions to the problems can cost in terms of runtime and effort. I know I was.
Me: Nice use of the ‘beachball’ (I sit down the stupid leather holster, and pick up a 128mb flash drive. Really?)
What session are you most excited about, besides your own of course :)
Huyen: (She picks up a 1tb portable, damn they’re getting small) I’ll have to say Jeff Tapper. I think that he has a straightforward and humorous way of getting his point across, and his topics always seem to be ones that are need-to-see’s on top of being cool-to-see’s. They’re always things that you can apply as a developer right when you get back to the keyboard.
(A sales man comes over, and asks if we need help, we both decline. We’re quite capable of reading the specs on portable hard drives)
Huyen: What’re you looking for anyway?
Me: I need a new hard drive to store my ‘Smurfs’ and ‘Punky Brewster’ episodes on. My current one is getting a bit crowded with the full series of ‘Eight is Enough’
What are you most looking forward to at 360|Flex San Jose?
(after looking at me like I had opened a third eye or something.)
Huyen: I’m really looking forward to getting to meet and get to know more Flash/Flex/AIR developers. I only just started really getting out into the community over a year ago, and I’m already crazy about all the talented and intelligent and geeky folks we have in it. It’s really cool to come up to someone in person and tell them that their blog post saved my butt or that I’ve been following them for a long time (on Twitter, not in a crazy psychotic way).
(I laugh. Yeah that’s a fine line, but developers understand it better than most I think)
(We walk over to the pen aisle. An aisle of nothing but pens. Not pencils, highlighters and pens. Just pens. If I were some sort of pen using assassin, I’d be in hog heaven.)
Me: What would you tell someone that was on the fence about attending 360|Flex, to convince them to come?
Huyen: (Picking up a Pen described as the “last pen you’ll ever buy”) I would tell them that if they go to 360|Flex they’ll get the opportunity to tap into a really cool network of people, that they will know the harmony of the hive mind that is the Flex community, and that their uniqueness will be added to our own. And that resistance is futile. Okay, maybe that’s a little too aggressive.
Me: Nothing is too aggressive when it comes to helping developers learn about 360|Flex (I laugh). There really is an awesome hive mind within the Flex community, We argue over things, but eventually everyone gets on the same page, and cool shit comes forth!
I gotta run (sitting down a freakishly large pen, maybe it’s for giants) but wanted to ask you who would win in a fight, Lion or Vehicle Voltron?
Huyen: Definitely Lion Voltron. I actually had a set of robot lion magnets when I was little. Unfortunately, they were just clay/ceramic magnets so I couldn’t actually put them together into Voltron. I think I did try a few times.
Me: I know I woulda tried, I mean, that’s what scotch tape and super glue are for aren’t they?
Don’t miss out on the best Flex conference in the world, seriously, I’m not making that up. You won’t get this many sessions devoted to making Flex/AIR/AS developers better, anywhere else. Register now, don’t miss out.
360Flex Speaker Chat – James Polanco
Join us for our second Speaker chat, today at 11am MST.
James Polanco will be with us, feel free to ask him anything; about making music, Flex 4 Component LifeCycle, whatever you like.
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