360Flex – Now With More Awesome

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I’ve been in a weird mood lately (notice how my blogs have gotten a bit quieter) so part of me was dreading 360|Flex. It’s always great to see everyone but I wasn’t sure I’d been tapped into the community enough lately. I was partly right and partly wrong. It turns out the Flex community has exploded. It’s always great to see the old guard; guys like Ben, Doug, Dan, Josh, Chuck, Juan, Renaun, and everyone else who was there at the first 360|Flex, but there were a ton of people I didn’t know. I think that’s a really good sign.

One, it means that 360|Flex continues to expand its reach. It’s hitting parts of the Flex world that I didn’t even know existed and not just the AXNA bubble. 360|Flex has basically become a hub of of the Flex world. The presentations were great, the social activities were fun and informal, and there was an air of collaboration around the entire conference. With all of the sessions being online you may feel like you’re not missing out on much by not going. Content-wise, that’s half correct. But 360|Flex has become the place where you can work with other Flex developers to help drive the platform, help drive open source projects, or be inspired by a random guy sitting next to you.

I also want to give a shoutout to the Flex team. Deepa, Matt, Chet, and the other Flex team members who were there. They were always around and accessible which I think helps put the icing on the cake of the conference. Getting to talk to product managers and engineers is always worthwhile and I was proud to be an Adobean after watching how many conversations they had with the community.

Hats off to Tom and John. They put on a great conference and they’ve really enhanced the world of Flex. I’ll be posting the slides and code from my session this week. It was definitely not one of my better presentations but hopefully the code will be helpful to folks.

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  • http://www.360conferences.com John W

    We’re glad you made it even if we never get to see more than 2 minutes of you in the course of three days! LOL

    Thanks for the kind words and you’ll always be part of the community…

    until we decide we hate you and then publicly ostracize you from the group, but the last vote was still in your favor ;)

  • http://fleximagically.com polyGeek

    Wow, I’m old guard? Next 360Flex conference I’m wearing a long gray beard and bringing a cane. :-)

    Seriously, I couldn’t agree more. 360Flex has become a sort of reunion event because there’s a group that goes to all of them. Maybe we should call ourselves the 360Heads or something like that.

    But at the same time there’s a large group of people that have never been to a 360Flex conference before. People like Jeremy Saenz – the Flex Gangster – who’s already rocking the Flex community and isn’t even 18 yet. The future looks very bright.