360Flex – 10 awesome facts – Flash Platform Shirt!

I’m not gonna write a bunch about this, because well there’s a video.

So yeah that’s it. There’s three false facts. one per tweet with the hashtag #360flexfacts. First person to get each fact, gets a shirt!

Oh and feel free to join in on the fun and make your own video with 360|Flex Facts, it’s fun!!

360Flex – 360Flex-a-palooza (minus 22nd Century)

In case you hadn’t heard, Duane ‘Chaos’ was taken super duper ill recently!

As a result 22nd Century ain’t gonna be able to make it to DC :(

360|Flex-a-palooza is still on like Voltron, but just one awesome band fewer!!

You can’t see this awesome one of a kind musical show anywhere else! No other event has these great developers and musicians together under one roof!

This is truly a great opportunity to see crazy smart developers showing off their musical skills!

Don’t miss out! Register now!

360Flex – Speaker Aaron Boushley

Aaron Boushley will be joining Ben Garney talking about the Push Button Engine. Gaming is (as you may or may not know) huge. Flash gaming has been around since the dinosaurs, and Flex is getting more and more prevalent in the space.
There’s a few sessions for those looking to explore game creation and theory, don’t miss out if you’re interest in this.
Q: How long have you been working with Flex?
A: 1 year
Q: What do you like most about Flex?
A: The cross-platform cross-browser compatability
Hard to argue with that. HTML has a ton of promise, but with so many browsers, we’re still very far from ubiquity in the way an app works from one browser to the next. Flex/Flash is still the best way to ensure a uniform experience across browsers!
Q: What 1 session are you most excited about seeing at 360|Flex DC?
A: Doug McCune’s Keynote should be funny ;) … I hope the content is good too.
LOL I can promise that the content will overshadow whatever comes out of Doug’s keynote no matter how awesome it is. And it WILL be awesome I can promise!
Q: What about 360|Flex DC are you most excited about?
A: Seeing everyone again!
Seeing everyone is a huge plus!! It’s great to be able to bring together the best and brightest as well as all the people we know online, etc.
Q: Do you prefer ninjas or robots?
A: Ninjas
Ninjas rock.
Q: What is one thing you’d like to see improved in the Flex Framework?
A: More transparency with what the Flex team is doing on the Framework.
That’d be nice. We’d love to see the openness that Flex deserves.
Q: Is there someone you’re hoping to see at 360|Flex DC?
A: Nate Beck… its a family thing.
mmm Inteerresting. :)
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: It is by far the best conference surrounding Flex.  You learn more from the few days at this conference than I’ve learned in the last 3 years of my Computer Science degree.
Well there you go. If you’ve been reading any of these speaker posts, you’ve picked up on a theme. 360|Flex is the literally the best (only IMO) source for this type of content!!

360Flex – Speaker Leonard Souza

Leonard Souza has spoken at several 360|Flex about several things, and we’re really happy to have him back in DC speaking about “Flexerific Visual effects” on Tuesday.

Whether you’re a developer at a company with designers or not, this session is a great place to get an idea of how to build out visual effects in Flex, and exactly what is and isn’t possible to do.

Q: How long have you been working with Flex?

A: Since the early days of Flex 2, which was about 4 years ago. I had been a heavy user of flash for years and really needed a stronger development platform.

That seems fairly common, those in the community that were more developer than designer, flocked to Flex from the Flash IDE.

Q: What do you like most about Flex?

A: Its ability to integrate extremely rich visual interactions with enterprise conventions. I have never seen a better tool for this. It has been engineered from the ground up to empower developers and designers in any vertical.

My first experiences with Flex were building rich front ends to enterprise (very NOT rich) systems. Flex really is in a class of it’s own in that space!

Q: What 1 session are you most excited about seeing at 360|Flex DC?

A: Doug McCune’s keynote, which will be worth the price of admission alone (no pressure Doug, just sayin’). Ben Stucki never disappoints as well.

I’m actually really excited to watch Doug keynote! His presentation at RIAdventure really inspired me, and I knew then that he’d be an awesome keynoter, and just what 360|Flex needed to galvanize the crowd and send them out into sessions ready to kick ass and take names.

Q: What about 360|Flex DC are you most excited about?

A: The people. I have so much fun at this event it’s practically a vacation. The D.C. area is one of my favorites as well.

Awesome! I think so too! Once the planning is done, and we’re all together, it’s time to relax, learn and enjoy the best of the community!

Q: Do you prefer ninjas or robots?

A: Well that all depends on the context. Am I in command them? Or battling them? If there are pirates involved, then I have no comment.

Pirates are a major wildcard, more so if they’re ICE PIRATES!

Q: What is one thing you’d like to see improved in the Flex Framework?

A: Hardware acceleration and multi-threading (couldn’t keep it to one). This angers me so that I dare say I cannot speak further of it. It makes me want to unleash a legion of ninjas and robots.

HA HA

Q: Is there someone you’re hoping to see at 360|Flex DC?

A: Honestly, if my liver lasts long enough to have a conversation with one or two people all of my hopes will be met.

When it comes to 360|Flex and Livers, it’s like Robots and Ninjas!

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: This is a great conference for those who want to take their programming/interaction skills to the next level. You also get to hang with amazing people. It is frustrating when you have no one around to talk to about what you do (which may be the case for those in more remote positions, etc.). This is a conference where everyone is dying to talk all night about it. It is very inspiring and rejuvenates those creative urges that have been forcibly shoved aside from God knows what.

For a lot of people 360|Flex is their chance to meet folks they’ve only met online, and re-connect with friends from around the globe! It’s a great time and the chance to learn from the best in the community… well sometimes we think we charge too little :) Go register before we change our minds!!

360Flex – Speaker – Michael Labriola

Michael Labriola is a long time (like from the start!!) supporter of 360|Flex and this time around he’s pulling double duty doing a solo talk (Flex 4 Components from the Firehose) as well as one with his partner in crime Jeff Tapper (Writing Testable code.)
Michael helped us out a ton during 360|Flex Europe too, keeping us from international incident, and shepherding us towards awesome meals. He’s a great guy and you shouldn’t miss his sessions!
Q: How long have you been working with Flex?
A: 1.0 Alpha and Betas
I remember the Flex 1.x days and the crappy Dreamweaver port called Flex Builder.
Q: What do you like most about Flex?
A: That I can do whatever I want… With some effort.
So true. Love that the hard stuff is easy, and sometimes a few easy things are hard, but not too often!
Q: What 1 session are you most excited about seeing at 360|Flex DC?
A: Anything with Doug gets a vote. Keynote or not.
I can’t wait to see the Monday keynote. Between Christophe talking Mobile AIR, and Doug, talking about well… I don’t know yet, but it’ll be epic.
Q: What about 360|Flex DC are you most excited about?
A: Trying to make John laugh.
LOL, that’s not hard
Q: Do you prefer ninjas or robots?
A: Ninjas (Bionic ones++)
That’s a scary thought! They’d be stronger, better and faster. HOWEVER they’d make weird noises when they jump, probly give them away.
Q: What is one thing you’d like to see improved in the Flex Framework?
A: Tests. Interfaces. Decoupled dependencies…. It’s all one thing: architecture.
Fair enough. :) Here’s hoping Flex 5 answers some of that LOL
Q: Is there someone you’re hoping to see at 360|Flex DC?
A: Jessica Biel. She’s coming right?
Damn straight! Just saw her registration come through this morning even.
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: Seriously. If you are committed to learning Flex, there isn’t a better chance. Come. Learn. Get better at what you do. Become a rock star.
Couldn’t agree more!! Whether you’re getting started with Flex, or you’ve been at it for years, you’ll leave DC with more than you came with, we promise! Register now! Don’t forget to book your room at the hotel! It’s gonna be grand!