I wasn’t at Javapolis and I’m not the person who talks to the Java community (that would be James Ward, who needs a raise). However this post by a Javapolis attendee captured really well why I love my job and why I came to work for Adobe:
I think everyone should learn at least one lesson from this keynote: evangelists are good for courses, are good for teaching people the basics of the technology. But at a keynote you have to do much more, you have to make people dream of what they would be able to build using a new technology. And to do that, you have to find out people who actually use the technology to build something great, like Stephan did.
It actually bums me out that I haven’t been able to do more Flex. I was talking with Tom and John at the Ribbit Platform Release Party and they mentioned that I wasn’t talking as much about Flex. That sucks because Flex is awesome and after traveling around with the Thermo team I know we have some cool stuff planned for Flex 4. But the best part of my job is that I get to see what other people build. I’m not the best developer (by a long shot) but our technology enables some really fantastic things. I get to see those before everyone else. When I’m lucky I get to show them. I’d much rather put customers in my place when showing off cool things, but I get paid to travel around and show off things, so when they can’t I’m more than happy to do so.
As the Thermo evangelist I’m hoping I get to plug back into the Flex community. You guys kick ass. And we’ve got good things planned for you.
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