Jun is not just a kick ass developer, he’s also a great musician!
When you attend 360|Flex DC not only will you have three chances to see jun present (“Large scale apps using RTMFP & Flash Platform” & “Advanced RTMFP” as well as a tech session at lunch on Tuesday about musicians using technology) but you’ll also get to see him perform Monday night at 360|Flex-a-palooza!!
Q: How long have you been working with Flex?
A: I’ve been working regularly with Flex a little over four years now.
It’s amazing how far we’ve come how fast!
Q: What do you like most about Flex?
A: Flex was a way for me to get into building Flash applications without having to learn the timeline and all the designery aspects of Flash. Not that I didn’t want to, I’m just a coder vs. a designer and Flex makes much more sense to me.
Ha! ditto. I tried my hand at Flash and never could get the timeline and library! Flex was my way to build awesome apps and user experiences beyond HTML/CF.
Q: What 1 session are you most excited about seeing at 360|Flex DC?
A: 250-Michael Labriola-Flex 4 Components from the Firehose
Mike always delivers! His sessions are routinely highly rated, and the room is packed! We’ve watched people leave with a glazed over look in their eyes, minds blown.
Q: What about 360|Flex DC are you most excited about?
A: Hanging with all the cool peeps in the Flex community, chillin’ in DC, and all the rockin’ Flex knowledge that’ll be at the conference.
All good reasons! I know I’m looking forward to the exact same things!! I can’t wait!
Q: Do you prefer ninjas or robots?
A: Since I’m descended from a Samurai clan, I would have to say I prefer robots…unless of course it’s a ninja robot.
Robot Ninjas are banned by international treaty i believe.
Q: What is one thing you’d like to see improved in the Flex Framework?
A: I would say my gripe is with the Builder more than the framework. It’s gotten slow and memory intensive over the last year and not only that it seems Adobe is spending way too much time building n00b features into the IDE vs. improving/enhancing the developer productivity tools that an experienced Flex developer would care about.
Yeah they did that with Dreamweaver too, early on. Form builders, and CRUD tools, etc. They spend a lot of time making these widgets that sound cool and look great at User Group meetings, but don’t really help anyone, LOL.
Q: Is there someone you’re hoping to see at 360|Flex DC?
A: Indiana Jones
Well you might just be surprised, probably not, but you never know. Though I wouldn’t get my hopes up :)
Q: Lastly, what would you tell someone who was on the fence or hadn’t heard (I know, they’re out there though) of 360|Flex to get them to come?
A: If you’re a Flex developer and you can afford to come to 360 but you don’t…then you suck and you will be forever banished to building Flex 1.5 applications using the pre-eclipse version of Flex Builder.
I don’t think I could have said it better myself, but shoot, even if you can’t afford to come, we’ve got two great ways to come for damn near free. You can Volunteer, or enter our unemployed contest.