Monthly Archives: October 2006

Just testing my MXNA ping code. Please don’t be concerned with the man behind the curtain. Move along… :)

So the Blogosphere scuttle but is that the cool posters Adobe has for Flex and AS class inheritance…. not Free!

Ryan Stewart and Rey Bango cover this as well.

I completely understand, these things aren’t cheap to make, but is it worth the cost of good vibes in the developer communitee? Is the thousand dollars I shelled out for MAX not enough, can’t 20 bucks of that pay for my poster?

MAX is by far the most expensive conference I’ve attended, and now they want 20 more of my dollars? I’m NOT going on a big corporation’s dime. I don’t have an expense account. I’m paying for the entire thing myself, and now they want 20 more dollars?

I haven’t priced it, but I bet I could take the PDF to Kinkos and use a plotter for less…

Bad form Adobe, bad form. You want a million Flex developers, how about not milking us for every penny?

Here’s a few suggestions as a previous MAX attender (actually last time I attended it was DevCon).

I don’t need more backpacks. Especially useless messenger bags. I don’t need the entire conference’s PPTs printed in a huge ass book. I don’t need pens. I don’t need squishy stress squieezies in the shape of logos.

Take any one or two of these useless bits of Schwag and give the incredibly useful posters away. Hell charge 20 for the backpack, and give me the poster. Maybe Adobe marketing would be surprised which was more popular.

It’s alive!!

We’ve got a name! A few other things too, but the name is the most notable part for the moment. Stay tuned, good things are coming!

Keep your March open, early March. Dates not set in stone but it looks like the as-yet-unnamed-Flex-Conference wil be early March.

Tom Ortega (silvaFUG fame) and I, as well as Adobe and Ebay are talking about getting a conference started. It’s really Tom’s brainchild, but Ebay and Adobe have both jumped on board like crackheads on a dime bag. I can’t blame them. The Flex conference scene is pretty bare at the moment. CFUnited‘s Flex content was only so so, IMHO. MAX is next week, I’m sure it’ll be good, but it’s not Flex centric. We’re thinking of a conference along the lines of Flash Forward. Something that won’t touch on Flex, won’t mention it, won’t cover it among other technologies, but will be 100% grade-A Flex only goodness.

I’m excited! It’s still super early in the planning stages, but keep your ear to the ground. Ted Patrick (Adobe) will likely be talking it up, and if Tom gets the knack of blogging, he’ll talk about it too.

Stay tuned!