Hands-On

360Flex 2012 Schedule

November 18, 2011 By John

This was one of the hardest schedules to put together. They’re always hard, with more than 100 submissions and less than 40 spots to fill, it’s a tough process. Add to that the recent changes around Flex and Flash, and the job of making sure 360|Flex 2012 is relevant got much harder.

This time around, I enlisted the help of a few folks whom I trust a great deal; Ben Clinkinbeard, Jeffry Houser and Sim Bateman. We balanced providing what you’d expect from us (awesome cutting edge concepts around Flex and AIR), with some new stuff to make sure the community knows what the Adobe stack is all about, what options are out there for doing HTML stuff, and mobile stuff, etc.. It was a tough balancing act for sure. I think we did a pretty good job of creating a rock star line up. Highlighting what’s awesome kick ass with Flex and AIR, while also talking about mobile options, HTML a little, and more.

You’ll notice two things on the schedule that are kind of new.

Paid sunday training. There’s still free training on Sunday don’t worry. However we also want to try something new. Offering 2 full day hands on training classes, in addition to two free Sunday classes. Each paid class is 8 hours of hands-on learning. Space is limited in each one, so if you’re interested in getting some awesome hands-on training for a 360|Flex style price (hint: 1 class is $100 the other is $145 but you get an arduino kit) then you should register for those as well. You have to be a 360|Flex attendee to take part in the training. There’s registration links on the schedule.
An empty column. That column is for sponsored sessions and late additions. Once we start filling in that column, we’ll move the content so it’s not all in one room, but we intentionally left space for late additions to the line up. Normally I pack the schedule, then have to juggle sessions, etc. Getting a little smarter :) We’ll be adding a bunch of content between now and April, so stay tuned.

So with that said, take a peak at the schedule.

See you in April. Register now!

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360Flex – Get in on the First full day of litl hands-on training

September 3, 2010 By John

It’s been on the schedule for a while, but we wanted to make sure that it was known. This will be the first ever all day hands-on training for the litl device(s). This is gonna be an excellent opportunity to get hands-on with this awesome new device that’s bringing the Flash Platform out of the browser!

Litl is such and interesting company and device, I’m really excited to see what they’ve got going on and see what awesome things everyone creates during the lab.

Expect to be routinely wow’ed by litl and the powerhouse dev/API team they’ve assembled!! Don’t miss this awesome sunday training session!
Register now! Sunday Hands-On training is completely free to attendees, it’s included in the reg price. Don’t miss out!

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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 – In pictures

February 10, 2010 By John

I posted about what you do and don’t get, and we’ve done more posts than I can count on the overall vibe, and the parties etc. So I wanted to take a minute to just post some pictures. I grabbed these off of flickr.

That’s just a few. Some 1200 pics are on flickr right now for 360|Flex. We’ll get that number higher :)

Hopefully that shows you a little bit of what we’re talking about when we talk about the people, the parties, and everything else that makes people say “Here’s what I love about the 360Flex conferences: even if you didn’t attend a single session it’s worth the time and money to attend. The conversations with other developers in the hallways, at lunch/dinner, at the bars in the evenings is just as educational and of course more fun” Dan Florio

Imagine if you attended some sessions ;)

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What you won’t see or get at 360Flex

February 5, 2010 By John

I was talking to someone (i know who it was but am keeping it to myself) the other day and the person jokingly said, you could say “You won’t see Railo at 360|Flex”, and while Railo won’t be at 360|Flex, because it wouldn’t make sense, the point was, 360|Flex isn’t like other events that dilute their offering with things that aren’t the core interest of the audience.

And it occurred to me, that it might be a good idea to make it clear what does/doesn’t happen at 360|Flex for those who might not know.

There are little to no marketing sessions. When we have sponsored sessions, we try to make that as clear as possible, so you know what you’re getting.
There is not a speaker green room. You’ll have the same access to speakers as anyone else. They’re hanging out, attending sessions etc. No Pre modonnas here, and if there are, they still can’t hide.
There are speakers who want to be there. Our speakers aren’t paid to be there (well, we do cover hotel room, but that’s it). We don’t invite celebrities or treat one speaker better than the rest, etc. If they’re on the schedule it’s because their topic was awesome, and they wanted to present it.
There is not such a large group of people that you feel like a tiny fish in a big massive pond.
There is no Silverlight, or JavaFX. I’m sure they’re great, we don’t hate those technologies, but they have no place at a conference for Flex Developers (UPDATE: We actually do have a Silverlight session, Jun Heider is talking about Silverlight from a Flex developer perspective. No diss intended, I think that sessions that examine other techs make a ton of sense! Know thy enemy, and all)
There are no semi related technologies in their own tracks. CF and PHP are both great and we have 1 session on each, there are other events for both, and no reason to water down the crazy deep Flex content with peripheral technologies. I’d say if you want a CF conference go to CFUnited or CF.Objective(), but sadly neither of those is focused only on CF any more.
There are 40 sessions focusing on Flex/ActionScript/AIR and Flash platform.
There are no extra fees to attend. Sunday Hands-on Training – Free to all attendees. Parties at night – included in the price (actually sponsored by great folks like Adobe, Digital Primates and Universal Mind)

If you haven’t registered for 360|Flex and you’re a Flex developer, you really are doing yourself a disservice. Bluster aside :) you’re not going to get this level of content anywhere else, well except maybe the next 360|Flex :)

Register now, enjoy the community and the crazy amount of new things you’ll learn. No one leaves without learning something new, I swear it. Register now!

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