360Flex – Speaker Samer Sadek
This 360|Flex will be Samer’s first time presenting and we’re happy to have him. It’s always great to have new people in the community step up to present. Whether new to presenting or simply new to presenting at 360|Flex, it’s always fun to meet new people who’ve decided to share what they know with the community.
Q: How long have you been working with Flex?
A: 3 years
Q: What do you like most about Flex?
A: Flex allows us to easily create a rich presentation layer to our applications. The Flex framework provides the components to build stateful clients that enhance the user experience. Also the fact that Flex communicates easily with ColdFusion is a big plus for me.
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?
360Flex – Speaker Jun Heider
Jun is not just a kick ass developer, he’s also a great musician!
When you attend 360|Flex DC not only will you have three chances to see jun present (“Large scale apps using RTMFP & Flash Platform” & “Advanced RTMFP” as well as a tech session at lunch on Tuesday about musicians using technology) but you’ll also get to see him perform Monday night at 360|Flex-a-palooza!!
Q: How long have you been working with Flex?
A: I’ve been working regularly with Flex a little over four years now.
It’s amazing how far we’ve come how fast!
Q: What do you like most about Flex?
A: Flex was a way for me to get into building Flash applications without having to learn the timeline and all the designery aspects of Flash. Not that I didn’t want to, I’m just a coder vs. a designer and Flex makes much more sense to me.
Ha! ditto. I tried my hand at Flash and never could get the timeline and library! Flex was my way to build awesome apps and user experiences beyond HTML/CF.
360Flex – Speaker Ben Stucki
We’ve known Ben Stucki forever, or at least it seems like it! He’s been a great supporter of 360|Flex, especially when it comes to advice on making the event better!
Ben is a great developer, who’s finally launched his own business, and is working on making awesome products with Flex and AIR. I can’t wait to be toasting his success! We need more developers building awesome tools with Flex and AIR.
Q: How long have you been working with Flex?
A: Since Flex 2 Alpha. So, forever.
Yeah Flex 1.x SO doesn’t count. That was a nightmare!
Q: What do you like most about Flex?
A: When a client asks, “Can we do X?”, I get to say yes
That’s definitely an awesome feeling. It’s always great when you don’t have to try to explain why the client should try a different approach, but can simply say, “Sure, that’s totally doable”
360Flex Speaker – Richard Lord
We first met Richard this past spring, at 360|Flex San Jose. He submitted some speaking topics, and despite being from Europe, was more than happy to come over to present! When we waned to make sure he knew we couldn’t afford airfare, his reply was “…I’ve wanted to come to 360Flex for some time – there’s very few hardcore technical Flex/Flash conferences – but couldn’t justify the expense of travelling from Europe. If I’m selected to speak, then I need only pay the flight and it becomes far more affordable. “Will speak for entry and accommodation” sounds like a good trade when it’s a great conference…”
He’s coming back again, and as always his sessions are gonna rock! That’s right, Richard is another of our two’fer speakers, doing double duty with “Re-architecting the designer-developer workflow” and “Open Source is for life, not just for Christmas”
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