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360Flex 2012 – Adobe in the house

February 16, 2012 By John

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?

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360Flex 2012 hands on training for a steal!

January 23, 2012 By John

If you’ve been to 360|Flex before you know we offer hands-on training the day before the conference (Sunday) at no charge. We’re mixing things up a bit this year. We’re offering a full day of Robotlegs 2 hands-on, plus a full day of FMS 4.5 with Flex apps. Learn how to leverage the power of the Flash Media Server in your apps.

Both of those are free of charge. Just show up on Sunday and grab a seat, the classes are first come first served.

In addition to those two full day classes we’ve got

“Mobile development with Flash Builder 4.6” where you’ll learn to build iOS, and android apps in Flex and compile them to their native platforms. This class is only $100 and seating is limited.

We’ve also go the hugely popular (packed room last year) “Arduino Hands On” which is only $145 and includes an awesome Sparkfun inventor kit (A $100 value) for everyone in the class. Seating for this class is also limited.

We decided to offer these classes for a small fee because we wanted to offer a smaller more in depth class that offered a huge benefit to those in the room. By limiting the size we can insure that the instructors aren’t tied up answering questions that slow down the learning. Both of these courses are structured like more traditional hands-on training that you’d normally pay much much more for.

When we decided to try the paid pre-conference training we wanted to make sure to stay true to our roots of not charging too much to attendees, and making it more than just a simple money grab like most conferences. To start we priced the training pretty cheap, which is how we price everything :) and we’re splitting the proceeds from sunday training with the instructors.

Seats are selling pretty quick but there’s still room left. Act fast. Get your 360|Flex 2012 ticket and your hands-on training seat now before both are sold out!

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Adobe Flex User Group Tour – Denver

January 19, 2012 By John

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.

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360Flex 2012 – web banners show your love

January 17, 2012 By John

So we whipped up two banners for those who might (and you should, come on!) show their support of 360|Flex 2012.

You can get two sizes (138×138, or 728×90) just right click and save the linked file.

We appreciate everyone who puts a banner on their site to show their support of the conference. Every site is a huge help in our grassroots marketing efforts!

Thanks! See you April! Register now before we sell out.

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360Flex 2012 – Angry Birds

January 5, 2012 By John

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.

See you in Denver.

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