360Flex Speakers make their own standards
360|Flex speakers love to start crazy projects like degrafa and openflux. They start their own application frameworks like Mate and Swiz. However, none have ever tried to incite riots. Well, okay, so maybe a few have (i.e. Doug McCune, Sim Batemen, Ryan Friggin’ Stewart), but none have so boldly stated it as Sam Rivello.
In an email to John and I, he actually says:
I’m hoping to get mad feedback and insight riots.
I come from Los Angeles, so I love a riot just as much as the next guy. (I ain’t a looter though, DESPITE what that video camera shows!) Therefore, I refer you all to Sam’s blog to read up on his Coding Standards doc. His post is a month old, but I still think very relevant. I’m just slow in writing blog posts. (Ask John about just how slow I am). Go read it and getcha riot on! 
The Flex team has released their Coding Standards as well. Tariq Ahmed did one too awhile back, but I can’t seem to find the link. (Someone post it in the comments if you know it.)
I personally wouldn’t have the patience to write my own conventions, but I love to use them. Gimme an example to follow, and I’ll follow. It’s sad how many people let their preference get in the way of clean, coherent code. I worked a Y2K project at Bank of America once. I asked the Project Manager for their Coding Conventions doc. As he handed me the 300 page printout doc (It was all languages and styles; I just used/read a sliver of it), he said, “You know, in all the time I’ve been here, you’re the only one who has ever asked for this.” Sad.
So if you and your team aren’t cohesive yet, go get cohesive. When you see Sam in San Jose, be sure to thank him for taking the time to help out lazy coders like me. Buy your ticket soon though, I’m sure many will come to see the hopeful riot Sam wants to start!
360Flex We bumped into Mary McDonald at Kinko’s
Tom and I went to Kinkos the other day to pick up some signs for 360|Flex San Jose, and guess who was there? Mary McDonald, our pal from 360|Flex San Jose ‘07! It looked like she was picking up some fliers, some sort of bake sale for the Junior Foreign Legion or something.
“Hey Mary, long time no see! How’ve you been?” I shout across the Kinko’s, lots of people look up from whatever weird things they were doing in a Kinko’s in the middle of the day. I pointed at Tom real quick with a “He did it” look. As we get closer, I switch to my inside voice. “Hope you’re excited about your session in San Jose. Who should come?”
She looks up from the stack of fliers. “Anyone interested in using Item Renderers in Flex.”She thumbs through the stack, pulling out one that look a little askew.
“Why should they come?”
“To discuss the Item Renderer examples and things to avoid when writing Item Renderers.”
The Kinko’s guy takes the crooked sheet, looks it over, starts to ask who the junior Foreign Legion is, but stops, when Tom jumps in and asks, “What’s the goal of your session?”
“I will explain what Item Renderers are and how they can be used to in Flex applications. I will also discuss things to avoid when incorporating Item Renderers into your Flex application. I will demonstrate how to apply In line and Custom Item Renderers to Datagrids.”
Picking up a pack of 3 hole dividers that come in neon colors, I look over and ask, “What two sessions are you looking forward to most?”
“How to make money with Flex! With David Bigelow And Versioning Support for Large Applications and Portals with Alex Hanui.” She grabs a few packages of envelopes, looks like the Junior Foreign Legion fliers are hitting the postal service too.
Wann see what Mary has to say about Item Renderers? Join her in Alex or Dave’s sessions? Register now, waiting is for losers!
360Flex Advanced Flex topics FTW
This was pointed out to me, and I think it’s a good thing to bring up. Tom and I will be at MAX this year, and I’m sure it’s gonna be a great event. However, what was pointed out was that MAX is pretty light on Adv Flex topics: 11 to be exact.
To get the whole Adobe experience, there’s no other conference to attend than MAX. You’ll be exposed to the developer/designer workflow, the LiveCycle workflow, Acrobat goodness, Flex and Flash awesomeness, ColdFusion coolness, etc. If they can, whole teams should attend MAX, Managers and CxOs should attend MAX. There’s no place to get “the whole picture” more clearly than the sessions at MAX.
But what if you’ve never opened Photoshop or Illustrator in your life and never plan to? What if the only thing you care about is Flex? What if you bring home the bacon by living in Flex Builder 12 hours a day? What if you’re a small dev shop wanting four developers to get some conference love, but only have a $2000 budget?
If any of that is you, then 360|Flex is your show to learn new tricks, new ways of thinking, new approaches, etc. When you and the team need to progress to the next level, come to 360|Flex. If you’re coming from Java/AJAX/CF and want to break into Flex, our Lynda.com sponsorsed Flex 101 Sunday training and 100 level sessions are the best place to learn. When your ready to progress more, coming back to 360|Flex for our unsurpassed advanced topics is the only thing that makes sense. Tom constantly pushes our speakers to dig harder and deeper to come up with more and more advanced topics. (Workday has an advanced code base for their app, so I think Tom just wants to make his life easier!) There’s no better bang for your buck on Flex goodness, than 360|Flex.
MAX and 360|Flex form the perfect compliment for expanding your knowledge and skills. Got to both if you can. If you can’t, be sure to pick the one that is right for you. MAX just launched their new site, so be sure to go there and check out all the details.
If 360|Flex is the show for you, buy your tickets now. The small dev shops maybe be tiny in size, but we can tell you that they sure love the 4 tickets for $1500. “Tickets left” drops a lot quicker when the decrease in multiples of 4.
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