My FlexCamp Experience: Part 1 7/27/07
Tonight, I attended FlexCamp at Adobe in San Francisco. The event was sold out, with about 20 on the waiting list. Anyone could watch online via webcast, but attending FlexCamp in person proved to be a great experience that was well worth the trip. What I got most out of FlexCamp was a healthy, regenerative dose of inspiration! For a Flash developer, it is inspiring just to see where the magic happens. This is the home of Photoshop, Illustrator, and now Flash. Adobe has a monopoly on print and Web development tools, and for good reason: They know how to make software that professionals want.
I also enjoyed the numerous freebies given out. I signed a short nondisclosure agreement, but I honestly didn’t read a word of it, being in such a hurry to get inside. So, I’m not sure if freebies are off limits for public discussion, but what I feel fairly safe in disclosing, since it was my idea, is that I had the most wonderful epiphany while in attendance, which is that beer and brainstorming create serious synergy!
Flex is a great rapid application development (RAD) tool for building rich Web-based applications. And it doesn’t hurt that Flex is built on top of the already phenomenal and lightning fast core of Flash Player 9. I see a lot of promise in Flex (and Air) for enabling the creation of original, cross-platform solutions.
Tags: flexcamp, Flex, Flash, Adobe, Air
Sphere: Related ContentJuly 27th 2007 Web Development
Mike Potter responded on 28 Jul 2007 at 4:00 pm #
Please talk about anything from Flex Camp… The NDA shouldn’t have been required. Everything, everything, was public information.
Mike
Intrinsitivity » My FlexCamp Experience: Part 2 responded on 28 Jul 2007 at 10:13 pm #
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