San Jose

360flex – Session Video Bundles

December 29, 2010 By John

In case you hadn’t noticed, we’ve figured out to how to bundle session videos.

It’s still a work in progress but here’s what you need to know.

As we render each session and add it to the store page, we also add it to the Bundle (By the way, the bundle is per conference, there’s an DC Bundle and a San Jose Bundle). If you’ve already purchased the DC bundle please know it’s still growing, we’ve got a few more sessions to render. You should be able to click on the download link you got in email and come back to you purchase page, it should be updated with the new videos we’ve added to the bundle since you initially bought it. Don’t worry, you don’t pay again, and you’re not aced out of future additions to the bundle. You just have to come back and get the new content.

We’re working as fast as we can to get more and more session videos rendered, so keep an eye on the store page.

That’s it! Happy new year!

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360Flex – Winner Winner Chicken Dinner!

April 22, 2010 By John

We closed the post conference survey last night, hope you took a few minutes to participate.

Those surveys are super huge for us. They give our attendees a chance to tell us what they think of the event. Often times people are brutally honest, and we want that. If you had a terrible time, we want to know about it and make the next conference better. If you had an awesome time, we want to know that too.

Besides that type of feedback, the survey gives us some insight into our attendee demographic. That helps us with sponsorships (Adobe likes to see how many new Flex developers we help bring to the community, etc), and with stuff like food ordering (we heard you guys loud and clear on that one) and even shirts and other swag. The survey also helps us plan for the future; locations, sizes, etc.

As a way to say thanks for doing one last small thing to help make 360|Flex better, we pick two surveys at random (using Random.org to select a row number) to give prizes to.

Hopefully next time we’ll get better than 1/3 participation in the survey, I mean, come on guys :)

Anyhoo! The winners are selected, and each has an email in their inbox, so we’ll announce them here too!

Leif Wells and Andrew Blair!

We teased in the email about getting an iPad, and we’re leaving it up to each winner to select their prize (within our budget, come on we’re not made of money, LOL)

Thanks so much to everyone who submitted a survey, we truly truly appreciate it, and to those that didn’t, shame on you :)

See you guys in about 6 months!

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This is why you shouldn’t miss 360Flex

March 15, 2010 By John

Things like this don’t happen at other conferences. If they do, no one ever seems to talk about it.

Last year in Indianapolis, Doug McCune got pelted with bouncy balls during his preso, he was also half naked, but the two things aren’t related, LOL.

Almost a year later in San Jose, Doug got his revenge. Nate Beck was presenting on Wednesday (his birthday) and Doug arranged for a special visit during his session.

We actually have better video of that, but it’s being processed. This was captured by my iPhone.

There’s a lot that makes 360|Flex special, but I have to say, this type of thing, really is icing on the cake. That our speakers and attendees, are capable to having so much fun, WHILE learning a ton, is incredible.

Despite the interruption, Nate’s session got lots of love on twitter, as mind blowing. No one complained afterward, no one bitched on twitter, etc.

It was said shortly after “You won’t see that at MAX” I completely agree!

MAX is great, but this kind of camaraderie, doesn’t happen there, or at any other event that I’m aware of, certainly not at any I’ve been to.

Filed Under: 360flex, Adobe MAX, Community, Reasons to Attend, San Jose, The Speakers Tagged With: 360flex, Adobe MAX, Community, Flash Platform, Reasons to Come, speakers

360Flex Sunday Hands-On sessions

March 3, 2010 By John

If you’ve elected to participate in our Sunday Hands-On training sessions, please take a look below, to see if your instructor has left any special instructions!

Justin Mclean – Flex and hardware

Thanks for wanting to come along to my Flex and Hardware hands on course. On the day you learn about the Arduino hardware and software open source platform, create your own electronic circuits and control those circuits and the Arduino from Flex. Sounds exciting doesn’t it!

As a large number of people are expected to show up at the course I’ll be putting people in groups of two and the course will be limited to 40 people. Everyone will get a kit of electronic components and an Arduino to take home with them (if you promise it will only be used for good). Yes that right you get to keep a piece of hardware that’s faster than your old TRS-80 or Commodore 64.

You will to need to bring along:
- A laptop (preferably OSX or Windows)
- A standard USB A to B cable (rectangular one end and square the other end – commonly used for printers)

You don’t need to have any knowledge of electronics and there’s no soldering involved. You do need to have a programming background and it would be an advantage (but not essential) to know some Flex basics.

You will also need to set up the software that used in the course. Download the Arduino 0018 IDE from here:http://www.arduino.cc/playground/Learning/Linux

Install the Arduino IDE. To do so follow the guides here ignoring the steps about plugging in the Arduino:http://arduino.cc/en/Guide/Windows
http://arduino.cc/en/Guide/MacOSX
http://www.arduino.cc/playground/Learning/Linux

Have Flex builder* installed. If you don’t have FlexBuilder you can download a trial a trail version here:

I will have a few spare USB cables on the day but not enough for everyone so please don’t forget bring those cables along. If for any reason you can’t install the IDE or FlexBuilder before the course I will have the software available on the day.

If you have any questions before the course please email me at justin@classsoftware.com

Garth Braithwaite – Flex 101

Flash Builder Beta 2 Installed(Available from Adobe Labs.)

Also the Latest Flex SDK

Joel Hooks – Hands-on Development with the Robotlegs AS3 Framework

Flash Builder Beta 2 Installed (Available from Adobe Labs.)

Also the Latest Flex SDK

Sid Maestre – Beginner Workshop with the Mate Framework

FlexBuilder 3 and a debugger version of the player installed.

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360Flex – Speaker Chat – Elad Elrom

March 1, 2010 By John

We’re down to the last week before 360|Flex San Jose. Join us for the final Speaker Chat with Elad Elrom!

Bookmark this link, and join us Tuesday at 12pm MST.

Elad will be answering your questions, about development, design, running a successful consulting business, and more.

This is the last speaker chat before 360|Flex! Don’t miss out!

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