These road shows are great opportunities to meet Adobeans who don’t usually make the User Group Circuit and really get a feel for the community. Adobe chips in some money for beer and food, so these meetings are usually a bit bigger and more of a “Thing” than your average user group meeting. You’ll have a chance to talk one-on-one with Adobe engineers and evangelists. Something that doesn’t happen often outside of conferences.

They’re always fun. Always a great learning experience. Get the latest details on the open sourcing of Adobe into the Apache foundation, and probably some good tidbits on the next Flash builder… just a guess :)

We’re happy to be providing two tickets to 360|Flex 2012 to be raffled off during the meeting as well, so if you’re still on the fence (really we can’t fathom that, but you never know) about attending the most awesome event in the Flex/AIR/ActionScript space, you’ll have two chances to win a free ticket.

Make sure you RSVP so that the organizers know how much food and beer to get. And if you don’t want to take your chances on winning a free ticket, register now for 360|Flex 2012 before it sells out. It did last year.

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1. the Xoom doesn’t run Flash (thanks to Jesse and Brian. My bad it runs a beta of 10.2 and apparently not that well. it IS still retardedly expensive)

2. the Viewsonic gTablet does :) and you can win one at 360|Flex 2011

The gTab is also a mean powerhouse of a machine, that will (officially or not) support honeycomb. Just look at the specs. It’s also completely unlocked and rooted, so you can load whatever you like on it!

So how can you win this bad boy? Easy. Just show up.

We’ve teased a few photos, and I’ll let the cat out of the bag just for this. Every attendee get’s a cute little android figure :)

They’re green and cute and all that :)

14 people will randomly get an artsier version of Andy…

We ordered a few of these little guys too, there’s 12 different designs. We’re going to put a note in one of them letting that person know that they’ve won the gTab. Andy’s will be placed in goodie bags before the conference and no one but me will know which box has the winning note. To be extra sure it’s not easy to tell for our (above suspicion) volunteer bag stuffers. All 14 artsy Andys will be opened so that the winner won’t stick out and be obvious.

Every attendee get’s a bag, and every attendee will get an Andy, but only one will also get the gTab.

See you next week! Oh and it’s not too late to register, but it’s almost too late. Only about 10 tickets left! Register now!

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You can get the full details here, as well RSVP.

Don’t be shy, bring your a-game and your coding chops! It’s an all out code battle competition!

See you there! Register now!

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Jeffry Houser of Flextras (Flextras is a sponsor as well, so make sure you stop by their booth!) Fame has agreed to do a little promotion with us. As 360|Flex DC gets near we’re trying to see how many Fence Sitters we can push off. Starting now (the moment the post went live) until tomorrow at noon Mountain Time, everyone who registers for 360|Flex DC gets a free Flextras Autocomplete Component license.

So go register and then take this awesome component for a spin!

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Congrat to David Jumeau for making the case why he deserves to join us in DC!

Special thanks to the InsideRIA team for spreading the word, and to Deril, Jack, Vitor, Lionel, Curtis,  and Josh Grauer for submitting entries! They each get a special discount code to 360|Flex, hopefully we’ll see them there!!

Don’t miss out! 360|Flex DC is 2 weeks away! Register now!

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Just leave a comment telling us why you want to go to 360|Flex, and why InsideRIA is the best source of RIA information out there, and we’ll select 1 person to get a free pass to 360|Flex DC

That’s it, it’s that easy!

See you in DC!!

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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.

Or just register here!

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It’s really easy. Maybe you’ve been laid off, maybe you’re a java guy thinking about Flex. in either case, just fill out this form.

That’s it. Jeffry and I will pick 5 people and each one will get a free pass to 360|Flex DC ($599 value) AND a $200 honorarium from Flextras to use as you like. The honorarium more than covers a night at the Hilton, reducing your expenses considerably.

This is a great opportunity if you’re short on money, or your company won’t invest in you learning Flex. You’ll come away from 360|Flex more than prepared to jump into Flex. If you’re unemployed, well you might not be by Wednesday night!

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We give back to the community as much as we possibly can, free passes to User Groups, etc. and now we have one more way to give a little something back.

Announcing the Flextras, help a brotha out (not an official name) contest.

This contest is for those in the community or looking to get into the community that are out of work. The economy is getting back on it’s feet, but it’s not there yet, and there’s plenty of developers looking for work, and plenty more looking to make a change. This contest is for them.

Please tell everyone you know that might be interested in it.

Here’s how it works.

Anyone who wishes to enter, just needs to go fill out this entry form. It’s a few questions, and that’s it!

Jeff and I, and maybe a special community judge, will pick the winning entries. We’ll select 5 winners. Each will get a free pass to 360|Flex ($599 value), and a $200 honorarium (which more than covers 1 night at the Hilton, further reducing the expense!)

It’s that easy!

Spread the word, get the contest going, let’s help some folks out!!

Not out of work? then go register! Why miss out on the best Flex/AIR conference in the world!

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Why?

10 copies of anything you want from Adobe.

3 licenses for ElementRiver Source Mate

Tons for books from O’Reilly, and Apress

Copies of Techsmith Software

4 unlimited Domain licenses for Flextras Components

2 Timbuk2 Messenger bags from Apress

If you don’t have the survey app you can download it here. Make sure you have your attendee ID. If you need it, stop by the Registration desk.

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