There is a ton of great Flex and AIR events going on over the next few months. Here’s the run down of events I’ll be at:
The FREE Flex Camp is July 27th in San Francisco. This is going to be a great way to learn more about Flex. Spots are going fast so go register today! I’ll be at this event so hopefully I will get to meet some of you in person.
On July 16th I will be presenting at the TriJUG in North Carolina beginning at 6:30pm. There will be some great give-aways including a copy of Flex Builder 2. Then on Tuesday July 17th, buni.org and I will be hosting a half day Flex Sprint in Durham. This will be a great opportunity to get some hands-on Flex training, FOR FREE! Andy Oliver and I will be helping as many people who show up, learn Flex. You just need to bring a laptop (with power adapter & wireless). Festivities begin at 8:30 and end at noon. We will meet on the lower floor of Bean Traders Coffee.
My all time favorite journalist, Robert X. Cringely, has just published his weekly PBS article, this time discussing the future of Adobe’s platform technologies. It’s a great read and great press for our (Adobe) platform. Let me know what you all think about his opinions.
Dave Carroll of salesforce.com has posted a very cool Apollo Widget that pulls data from Salesforce and uses the Flex Toolkit for Apex.
Very cool stuff!
On Monday I presented at the Salesforce Developer Conference in Santa Clara. It was a great conference! The keynote was especially exciting because it kinda turned into the Flex/Apollo show. Near the middle of his keynote Marc Benioff went on about how great Adobe is for innovating with Flex and Apollo. He then brought Kevin Lynch on stage who did his usual Apollo demos, which filled the crowd with “Ooos” and “Ahhhs”. Then they brought up someone who built some amazing Salesforce based applications. And guess what? It was a Flex app running inside a Salesforce S-Control! Then Adam Gross and Parker Harris from Salesforce took the stage to present even more Flex applications! It felt for a second like I was at Max!
This week I’m in Vegas for a few presentations. First one is at the Interop conference on Wednesday. Interop is a fun place for me because I get to hang out with networking / sys admin folks. In a past life I was a sys admin (thus the reason why I love vi). :)
On Thursday night I am presenting at the Vegas Adobe User Group and really looking forward to meeting some of the Flex friends I’ve only known via email, blogs, twitter, etc.
It gives me a warm fuzzy feeling when the guy I learned Java web programming with starts saying things like:
“For me, Flex is clearly the way to go.”
The whole article is a great read for those evaluating the Rich Internet Application landscape.
Jon, we are glad to have you “Thinking in Flex” and can’t wait to see what you build!
Bruce and I recently hosted an eSeminar about Flex and Java. Check out the recording:
There’s so much fun stuff going on it’s hard to keep my blog up-to-date. But I did want to note a couple of things…
Bruce Eckel will be at JavaOne! He will spend some time in the Adobe booth and some time at various sessions. But the big news is that he and I will be co-presenting a short session before the Adobe Party on Wednesday night. This will be a fun thirty minute session that will be entertaining and educational. Too bad this isn’t an official JavaOne session, but I guess Sun doesn’t want me presenting about Flex at JavaOne (They rejected my three submissions but possibly for other reasons.) Following the short session will be the party. Food, drinks, and hanging out with Bruce Eckel! Stop by the Adobe booth at JavaOne to get your official invitation (which I think you will need to get in).
For close to a year I’ve been working (in my infrequent spare time) on an application that shows differences in data loading for RIAs (Rich Internet Applications), comparing Ajax methods, Ajax frameworks, and various Flex methods. The results are pretty surprising. The screenshot below is from a test run I did with the server running locally. (Note for the screenshot below: All tests except Dojo were 5000 rows, while the Dojo test was 500 rows.)