FlexCamp OC Awesome line up!
FlexCamp OC is coming up quick! Make sure to register now!
We’ve got an awesome speaker line up all set, Boeing is gonna be rockin’!
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Speakers
- Marc Bir on: TBD
- Thomas Burleson (Universal Mind) on: TBD
- Tom Gonzalez on: Degrafa
- Adam Flater (Universal Mind) on: Flex 4
- Tony Hillerson (EffectiveUI) on: Flex Frameworks Breakdown
- Evan Gifford (Blitz)on: TBD
- Juan Sanchez (EffectiveUI)on: Flash Catalyst
Orange County CA is the place to be January 31st! Join us, and these great speakers, and the ASFusion crew for some awesome Flex community action. Only $25. Oh and don’t forget the food and fun after!
360Flex video Project: 360flexindy
So we’ve all heard of 30 on this, and 30 on that. All well and good, and a few made it onto the big screen at MAX.
If you were at 360|Flex San Jose you saw our 360Flex08 videos, which kicked serious ass! Well we want to up that anty, not just a little, but in a 360|Flex kinda way!
We’ve got like 6 months until 360|Flex Indy. That should be enough time to come up with an idea and film it. We’re not looking for an opus or Dances With Wolves (Though Tom does resemble a Tatanka when he sleeps). Just what you think 360|Flex is all about.
Funny, serious, scary (not too scary, Tom scares easy), whatever you feel like. Take a look at what Jeremy, Ben, Chuck and Ribbit team, and Dan did. We had a blast showing those videos during the keynote, and want to make sure we have even more in Indy so get on it!
Not registered for 360|Flex Indy? Better hurry if you want the special first 100 pricing of $360. Register Now!
FlashCamp Coming to San Francisco this weekend!
We’re not putting this on, but wanted to give a shot out of support!
Adobe FlashCamp is a free event in the “unconference” style, focused on developers creating rich interactive experiences using the new Flash Player 10 features.
This event is inspired by BarCamp, iPhoneDevCamp, and the Hackathon, to develop inspiring content and applications using an advance copy of the Flash Professional CS4 authoring tool.
Attendees will include Flash and Flex developers, mobile developers, UI designers, and testers, all working together over the weekend. Development projects will include both solo and team efforts. While some attendees will wish to work solo during the event, we encourage attendees to team up, based on expertise, to work in ad-hoc project development teams. All attendees should be prepared to work on a development project during the event.
Participants will be able to:
* Learn about new Flash Player features
* Create Flash Player 10 content and applications
* Test and optimize content and applications for Flash Player 10
Of course, there will be a Contest, featuring some great prizes
including — you guessed it — Adobe Creative Suite 4! In addition to
the prizes, winners of our Contest will be featured as part of our
subsequent CS4 launch.
We are hoping to accommodate about 200 people at Adobe Town Hall in
San Francisco. See our Agenda before you register to attend.
360Flex Camp New Jersey Session: Flex and Drupal!
We’ve got a great line up for everyone at 360|Flex Camp New Jersey, and among the great sessions, we’re going to have Michael Caudy talk about integrating Flex with Drupal. “Drupal is a free software package that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website.” That’s from the site 
Integrating Drupal and Flex, seems to be a pretty common topic these days, as more and more people see the benefits of using Drupal.
Michael will be presenting Saturday the 27th along with our other great speakers (more on them in other posts!)
Don’t miss out, on the first 360|Flex goodness to hit the eastern sea board! Register now, time’s running out!
360Flex Camp New Jersey
Day 1: Flex Hands On training, courtesy of Farata Systems. They’re a leader in Flex Training in the North East, don’t miss out on this incredible training opportunity!
Day 2: The Camp! Saturday, we’ll be all together, hanging out, gettin’ our learn on! The speakers scheduled below are some true industry heavyweights. If you’ve been to any of our 360|Flex 3 day events, you know we don’t do lightweight fluff content, only the best and brightest from 360|Flex! This event is no different! Check out the schedule!
10:00a - 10:20a Introduction to the show
10:20 - 11:00a Jeff Houser - Intro to Components
11:00a - 11:40a Victor Rasputnis - Farata System’s Flex Productivity Tool
11:40a - 12:20p Simon Horwith - Object Oriented Actionscript
12:20p - 1:00p Jeff Tapper - Testing with Fluint (formerly known as dpUnit)
1:00p - 2:00p Lunch
2:00p - 2:40p Simon Free - Intro to Air
2:40p - 3:20p Suketu Vyas - Working with FLEX and JAVA
3:20p - 4:00p Michael Caudy - Flex with Drupal
4:00p - 4:30p break
4:30p - 5:10p Jesse Freeman - Flash Camo AS3 Framework
5:10p - 5:50p Tom Frauenhofer - Unleash the Power of Flex Builder
5:50p - 6:30p Christophe Conraets - Adobe goodness and Question / Answers
You’re not registered? Are you waiting for something in particular? Remember 360|Flex San Jose ‘08 sold out! Don’t miss the bus! Register now!!
360Flex Open Source Panel call for participants
This is a call for participants in the Open Source Panel BOF on Monday night. The panel discussion will be at 6:40. Anyone that’s affiliated with an OS project and interested in presenting need to send this info:
Your Name
A short 1 paragraph bio
Your Project
A short 1 paragraph description
Send this to:
Adam Flater
adamflater@gmail.com
twitter, yahoo im: adamflater
Doing mockups? Do ‘em cooler!
I stumbled across balsamiq Mockups the other day and was in love. I don’t do many mockups really, but the next time I do, I’ll be using Mockups!
Using Mockups is just like mocking up an app on paper (my current method), including scribbling things out, or making big red X’s, dropping a sticky, it’s very intuitive.
I went through it this morning to see what it was all about (and take screen shots) and could easily see myself firing the app up (it’s an AIR app, by the way, w00t!) and quickly outlining how my app would work.
Wanna learn to make apps like Mockups? There’s still time (though not much) to register for 360|Flex San Jose. There won’t be a wait list, we don’t do that, so don’t dilly dally, register now!
Attention 360|Flex attendees: Announcing the Flex 3 Cookbook Book Giveaway
Post your Flex Cookbook code recipe in the Adobe Flex Cookbook site at http://www.adobe.com/go/flex_cookbook between July 23 and August 19, and get a free Flex 3 Cookbook, the new O’Reilly Media book by Josh Noble, Todd Anderson, and numerous Flex contributors on the Adobe Flex Cookbook site. Recipes need to be your own original content, but can be reproduced from your own blog posts, flexcoder list or forum replies, and so forth. Bask in the glow of sharing your knowledge with other developers!
Additionally, by posting your content by August 2, you will also be eligible to be considered to win great prizes in the Flex 3 Cookbook Cook-Off Contest by O’Reilly Media. Read more about that contest at: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/logged_in/awong_flexcookoff.html
Post your code recipe today in the Adobe Flex Cookbook site at http://www.adobe.com/go/flex_cookbook. We’ll notify you via e-mail and conference announcements as to where you can pick up your free book at the 360|Flex conference on August 20th.
Eligibility: Cookbook content must be a solution, not a question, subject to the Adobe Developer Relation team’s discretion. Each conference attendee is eligible to receiving one book total.
If you haven’t already done so, register now for the conference. There’s just too much going on to miss!
360Flex API Contest! Show the world whatchya got!
If you missed our last API contest, you missed a chance at winning an Xbox 360, a Wii, and/or a Playstation 3! Are you kicking yourself for not entering? Do you wish there was a way to turn back time so you could enter?
Fret no longer, as we are proud to announce the next version of the 360|Flex API contest. This time around we’ve got Yahoo and OpenFlux on board. Here’s the low down and the two categories and how to win. Note: OpenFlux’s contest doesn’t even require any programming!
The deadline for the contests will extend beyond the show. Therefore, you can get cranking on your ideas now, come to 360|Flex San Jose to learn these APIs for free on Sunday, then still have time to go off and build your entry! How cool is that? Here’s the contest details as described by those in charge of each category.
*Announcing 360|Flex Yahoo! API Contest*
Yahoo! offers a variety of data-rich APIs for Flash and Flex developers. From Yahoo! Maps and Yahoo! Weather, to Answers, Search and Flickr, the set of tools for building applications is extremely varied and only limited by your imagination.
Because we love to see developers come up with mash-ups and apps based on our APIs, we are conducting an API Contest, to bring your best and brightest ideas to light. During this three hour event, we are challenging you to use at least two Yahoo! API to build a mash-up, a widget, an application — or anything that will capture attention and impress your fellow developers. For information on the APIs see our Flash Developer Center: http://developer.yahoo.com/flash/
As with any contest, this one would be boring if it didn’t have incentives. So, naturally, a panel of Yahoo! judges will select the top projects and award some great prizes.
The award categories are:
*Greatest number of Yahoo! APIs *- can you use three? Or maybe five? Pull them together in a cohesive app, and the prize is yours!
*Most creative use of an API *- you take a Yahoo! API and really run with it, using its functions to achieve remarkable results.
*Eye candy* - an app using Yahoo! APIs that’s a joy to see. Whether it’s large dataset visualization, or an innovative photo viewer, or something else, its the visual chops that count.
*Best overall* — the app that really appeals to the users with its functionality, simplicity and quality.
The top prize for the best overall winner of the API contest is a Game Console. The other winners will receive some wonderful Yahoo! gear, and of course, all winners and their projects will be featured on Yahoo!’s popular Developer Center and the Yahoo! Flash Platform blog.
OpenFlux: The Big Idea Contest
(This time ’round we’ve selected OpenFlux as our Community API. If you’re not familiar with how we do things, we (Tom and I) pick a community driven open source project as our community API. Those who enter the contest in this category win a prize from 360Conferences, and help make the open source project world a little better.)
OpenFlux is getting ramped up for some exciting new demos at 360Flex San Jose, but we’re still waiting for that one component that really shows what the framework is capable of. Luckily for us the guys at 360|Conferences decided to sponsor the official OpenFlux Big Idea Contest. Here’s how it works.
OpenFlux makes it so easy to build custom components that we’ll prove it. We want to see your best component ideas and designs. You come up with it, and we’ll build it. Entries can be submitted as pencil sketches, design mock-ups, or even plain text. The submission with the most votes at the end of the contest takes home a PlayStation 3 courtesy of 360Flex!
The contest deadline will extend past the 360Flex San Jose conference, but you’ll need to be in the audience on Wednesday to hear the final deadline. That means you’ll have plenty of time to learn more about OpenFlux in San Jose and even develop your own OpenFlux components! A fully functional component is a valid submission of course, but remember that your entry could still get out-voted by that one solid idea scribbled on the back of a napkin. I like to think that this is what OpenFlux is all about. It makes sure that framework details don’t get in the way of good ideas and helps developers become innovators. Once you have the ability, there’s only one question left… what’s the big idea?
360Flex Free Sunday Training Highlight: Yahoo!
This week, we’re highlighting all your options for free preconference Training. These hands-on sessions will take place on Sunday, August 17th, the day before the show officially starts. They are 100% free to all registered guests, so be sure to stop by on Sunday and getcha learn on. All the descriptions can also be found in the eProgram Guide.
To register, simply send an RSVP to info@360flex.com and let us know you’re coming. We’ve now added checkboxes for your Free Sunday training selection to the registration process. If you checked that off, there’s no need to send an additional RSVP.
Yahoo! Workshop: Flex@Yahoo! - A Deep-Dive Look at How We Build Flex Components and Applications
Since its inception over two years ago, Yahoo!’s Flash Platform team has produced a large collection of Flash an Flex components and libraries, nearly all open-sourced and available to the developer community for free . In this session, we’ll look at some of our popular Flex components, and deep-dive under the hood of the source code to see how they were built.
The topics discussed will include:
- The very popular Yahoo! AS3 Maps component: We will talk about the efficient tile engine and the techniques of combining a component with rich data APIs.
- The novel AutoComplete manager: Though not a visible component on its own, the AutoComplete manager can turn any text input in Flex into an AutoCompleteone. We’ll demo how to do this.
- The ColorPicker: How one universal component can replace twenty different ones.
During the workshop, the best questions and comments will receive unique Yahoo! prizes. Additionally, a raffle at the end of the workshop will determine a few winners of Alaric Cole’s new book “Flex 3 for Beginners” (O’Reilly)
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