The slides and sample apps for the Flex and Silverlight stack comparison talk that I gave at 360 Flex with Eric Fickes are now available. You can find them here: http://www.iheartair.com/?page_id=604
The slides and sample code for the Peer-assisted networking talk that I gave at 360 Flex with David Hassoun are now available. You can find them here: http://www.iheartair.com/?page_id=609
Chat is @ Thursday Feb 11th, 11:30am MST
Eric Fickes and myself will be talking to the 360|Flex guys tomorrow about our session. It’s actually going to be a back-to-back mega session comparing the latest and greatest on both the Flash Platform and the Silverlight Platform.
Come check it out and feel free to ask questions…although for the good stuff you’ll have to wait until our talks. 
Here’s the full details: http://www.360flex.com/blog/2010/02/360flex-speaker-chat-eric-fickes-and-jun-heider/
Click above to register and help me get the party suite!
The 360|Flex guys have a copy of Flash Builder Pro, and CS4 up for grabs, and of course a ticket to 360|Flex. They’ll select the best video before the conference and show the videos before the keynote. Here’s the details on the contest: http://www.360flex.com/blog/2009/10/360flex-be-a-movie-star-win-a-pass/?utm_source=360%7CFlex+San+Jose+Speakers&utm_campaign=9e6b1c9270-360_Flex_San_Jose_Speaker_Email_312_16_2009&utm_medium=email
Here’s two very good reasons to attend 360|Flex in San Jose:
Reason 1:
David Hassoun and I will be co-presenting all that is cool in the world of Flash Player 10.1, Adobe Stratus, and RTMFP. It’s going to be a great presentation on some of the cutting edge Adobe technology. So register for 360 and come to our presentation:
Adobe Stratus and Flash Player 10 P2P: Enterprise Multi-user Applications Without the Need for Large Server Infrastructure
Reason 2:
I’m excited to announce that I’m FINALLY going to do my Silverlight for Flex developers talk. The scope of my original idea has changed and now it’s now evolved into a product compare/contrast, developer workflow, media delivery, and back end system talk. The cool thing is I’m bundling it up with my friend, and band mate Eric Fickes who will focus on the server side of things. So register for 360 and come to see the RIATron:
Session 1: Adobe is from Mars, Microsoft is from Uranus: A View from the Client
Session 2: Adobe is from Mars, Microsoft is from Uranus: A View from the Server
Breaking News (Denver, CO)
Rocky Mountain Adobe User Group is holding a Mini MAX session tonight at Casselman’s in Denver. The 360|Flex guys were nice enough to give us two free passes to raffle off at the event, thanks dudes!
Head down tonight to catch up on things you may have missed at Adobe MAX 2009, see my Flash Catalyst demonstration, and most importantly to qualify to win a free pass to 360|Flex San Jose 2010. (This is regularly $599)
Oh, and did I mention we’re also giving away a copy of Adobe Creative Suite 4? 
Register to Attend: http://rmaug.com/
Venue Info: http://www.casselmans.com/
See you at 6:30 tonight!
I’ve uploaded the profiling samples I used to walk through memory profiling and performance profiling with the Flex Builder profiler. (It’s a Flex Builder project archive)
For those of you that attended, you can use the AIR app that was on the USB key to get to the samples. (Just hit the home button) For those of you that didn’t feel free to download them and the slides from the following page: http://www.iheartair.com/?page_id=197
As far as my thoughts on 360|Flex Indy, it was a very enjoyable conference. Kudos to Tom and John because they’re big pimpin’ conference organizers! I enjoyed seeing familiar faces while I was there in addition to meeting new ones. Although I didn’t get to see as many sessions as I would have liked, the ones I saw were very good and/or entertaining. Just to give you an idea of the sessions I enjoyed:
It’s a wrap…thanks again Tom and John!
360|Flex has been a wonderful time so far. The sessions are great, and so are the parties. Last night I sat down for some serious beer drinking with Doug McCune and was enlightened by a very interesting tidbit of information. Apparently, his family has a history of royalty with the country of Albania. According to their laws, if he had lived a couple centuries earlier, he could have been a prince!
That’s pretty bad-ass if you ask me, and a perfect example of the fun you can have while attending a 360|Flex conference…prince McCune, pretty interesting.
Crossing my fingers that this goes without a hitch, but the book that I’ve spent the last year working on with 7 other authors should be making a presence at 360|Flex Indy. Read the full press release at Joe’s site.
If it does, I’ll be giving away a copy of the book at my Flex Application Profiling by Example session. This book, this bad-ass book is one I wrote a 34 page chapter on the Flex Profiler for and IMHO, that’s just scratching the surface of all the other cool bad-ass stuff you’ll find in it.
So, here’s the TODO list for ya:
1. Register for 360|Flex if you haven’t already.
2. Come to my session on Flex Profiling.
3. Get a chance to win a copy of Professional Flex 3.
4. If you’re the lucky one, enjoy the book, else feel free to pre-order it. (Although I linked to the publisher site since the cover snapshot is up to date, it’s cheaper to buy the book at Amazon.)
See you in Indy!
As I sit here and get my Flex Profiling session ready for next week, I just realized, 360|Flex is an incredible deal. Not only do you get to attend THE Flex conference of 2009, but for the price of admission you also get the following:
What a steal! So…get crackin’ and get yourself registered here: http://360flex.eventbrite.com/
See you in Indy!
