360Flex 2012 More than “Just Flex”

Whether you’re bullish on Flex or not, 360|Flex 2012 is the event you need to be at.

Why? Sponsors like Sencha, Appcelerator and more (we’re signing up new sponsors all that time!).

With Spoon and the Apache Flex project, Flex has a bright and promising future, but maybe you’re interested in other technologies? Maybe things to add to your bag of tricks alongside Flex? Thats where these awesome companies come in. 360|Flex has never been “just” a Flex conference, but now more than ever we’re becoming a developer stack conference. Whether your stack is HTML5 technologies, mobile technologies or flash based technologies it’s more about the stack than a single “tool”

More than ever 360|Flex is an event for developers doing cutting edge, super awesome things. Best of all, regardless of the technology, it’ still very much about the community that exists. As people migrate to and from the Flex community they bring the community with them, spreading what makes our community awesome, to others.

If you haven’t bought your ticket, if you’re sitting on the fence. I wouldn’t do it too long. When it sells out, it sells out, no amount of crying is gonna change our capacity. Just sayin’

Register now! See you in April.

360Flex 2012 – Adobe in the house

It’s taken a while, but I’ve finally got MOST of the Adobe line up locked in. Check out the schedule and see the types of awesome sessions Adobeans are coming to present. This isn’t a final line up by any stretch. I’m expecting a few more Adobe names to come in shortly, but wanted to share the ones I have now.

 

I’m updating the sessions detail doc, and the speakers page as well, but wanted to get an updated schedule up for everyone to look at. The exact placement might change as we work out who’s best where, etc, but man I’m excited by the speakers and topics I’ve gotten from Adobe so far.

 

Tickets are moving pretty fast, remember… last year we sold out the week before… do you want to risk it this year?

Adobe Flex User Group Tour – Denver

We’re happy to be a part of the Adobe User Group Roadshow this year. If you’re not sure what we’re talking about, Adobe announced the dates and locations (US only so far) of their international User Group Road Show. We’re stoked that Denver is on the list and that the RMAUG and RIA 5280 are co-hosting, you can RSVP here. This will be a great pre-curser to 360|Flex (also in Denver) in April.

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.

360Flex 2012 – Angry Birds

Wanna save $150 bucks on your ticket to 360|Flex 2012? Get it before this friday at 10am. We don’t call it early bird, we call it the Faithful ticket, but it’s pretty much the same thing as far as the price goes.

 

And when it’s over it’s over. We don’t extend early bird, we don’t have early early bird, followed by early bird, followed by slightly late bird. We have the Faithful ticket, and the regular price ticket. That’s it.

We don’t extend the Faithful ticket because it’s not fair to those who bought it early. When conference extend early bird pricing it’s a ploy. They need more sales, and are trying to lure you in. Usually it’s because their conference costs too much, and they sell mostly early bird tickets :)

If you buy a Faithful ticket, you’re using your wallet to show us your love, to make sure we know we have the communities support early on, it’s a big help in getting the conference planned, etc. After that the regular (and still way affordable) ticket price kicks in.

We also don’t extend the Faithful ticket price because the regular price isn’t so bad as to need it. We don’t charge $1000 or $1500. it’s $599 if you buy your ticket right before the conference (assuming we don’t sell out, which I think we will again).  The Faithful ticket was created to help out our indie dev friends who are super budget conscious. They don’t have expense accounts and even though their company might be paying for the ticket, their company is them. We realize many of our attendees come to 360|Flex on their own dime and the Faithful ticket was a way to help them out.

While making a profit is important to us, our community being able to afford to attend the conference is a big deal.

So all that was said to really emphasize the point that if you want to save some money on your ticket to 360|Flex 2012, buy your ticket today. Tomorrow at 10am the price goes up to the regular price, and that’s that. No amount of crying will bring back the Faithful price.

Register now!

See you in Denver.

360Flex 2012 – Register before January and get Envision ADPT Pro

Our friend and long time speaker Giorgio Natili has offered an awesome bonus for those attendees who register before the end of the year.

A Pro License to Envision ADPT Pro Eclipse Plugin. ($49 value)

“Speed up transition from planning phase to implementation generating Actionscript, Java, JavaScript, PHP and Pseudocode. Widen your collaboration with options to import diagrams from other Envision APDT products. Easily organize your common diagram snippet, export and share them with your team. Discuss ideas and break down the gap between technical guys and not technical guys with the simple an intuituve pseudocode output. Speed up the overall design process.”

We’ll send an email at the end of the year to everyone who has registered so far with the discount code for your free license.

Giorgio ROCKS!

Better register fast!