FlexCamp Miami Wrap-up

Brian LeGros | March 6th, 2009 | conferences  

For a one day event, FlexCamp Miami had tons of information packed into its 8 sessions. Greg Wilson started us out with a great intro to some of the new features coming in Gumbo (Flex 4) followed by David Tucker digging down into the persistence side of AIR, along with some new 1.5 features. After the break, Max blew away the crowd with loom and some AS3 internals followed by Andrew Powell and some awesome examples of using Merapi to bring some deeper OS interaction to AIR. We broke for lunch and then Christian Saylor gave a really motivating presentation on the importance of UX for developers. I had to follow him with my CI presentation, which didn’t even compare and ran long, but then Jeremy Grelle swooped back in and kept everyone’s attention with Milestone 2 of the new Spring/BlazeDS integration (released this last Wednesday). Laura Arguello finished out the day with a cool introduction to Mate. Universal Mind did a great job with the event, lunch was good, and my brain is full.

I should have my code available on the Adogo SVN server this week, I’d just like to add an integration testing example before I commit it. Look for Max and my code/presentations there soon. Hopefully we can convince UM to have another one of these a little further North … say Orlando? I think I know a few Central Florida user groups that could help promote it.

NOTE: If you ever make your way down to Coral Gables, give Titanic Restaurant and Brewery a try. They’ve got some really tasty microbrews and even more delicious food. I recommend the Captain Smith’s Rye Ale, super great. For food, I had the Shrimp Po-boy which came with 6 huge tailed shrimp and a nice remoulade. Thanks to Greg for the great meal!



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  1. jason olmsted Says:
    March 8th, 2009 at 9:30 pm

    Don’t sell your presentation short – there is a lot to cover in the workflow and I thought you did a good job cramming in as much as you did in the time available to you. I’m looking forward to checking out the code this week – if nothing else I need the tool to help choose lunch destinations.

    And I’ll second the Titanic recommendation. The fish and chips, prepared differently than normal pub fare (the chips were actually homemade chips instead of just french fries and the fish were more of a roll than a filet), were quite tasty.

  2. Brian LeGros Says:
    March 9th, 2009 at 9:44 am

    @Jason – Thanks for stopping by. It was good to see you and Alex again; best of luck in the printing business. Thanks for the reassurance about the presentation, I’m going to try and get the sample code up this week on the Adogo SVN (http://svn.adogo.us) for those who are interested.

  3. Brian Shoeman Says:
    March 9th, 2009 at 3:54 pm

    When have you ever given a presentation that didn’t run long? It was a good one though, even convinced me to play around with Hudson for my side work at home.

  4. Brian LeGros Says:
    March 9th, 2009 at 6:12 pm

    @Brian – Glad you enjoyed the extended version of my presentation; I promise you FlexCamp’s was equally as exciting … <crickets chirping>. Good luck with Hudson, not that you’ll need it, stuff just kinda works.

  5. Jeff Bouley Says:
    March 10th, 2009 at 2:20 pm

    Hey Brian, I’d like to see your slides and code as I was unable to see your entire presentation. Let me know when you upload to SVN. Thanks and great job!

  6. Brian LeGros Says:
    March 12th, 2009 at 10:48 pm

    @Jeff – Thanks for stopping by. I should have the code out soon, but in the mean time, you can catch a previous version of my preso at http://www.brianlegros.com/blog/2009/01/17/thanks-for-the-invitation-ksc/. I also wrote the build process for the Fluint project, so you can check out those scripts in their SVN repo at http://code.google.com/p/fluint/source/browse/#svn/trunk. Hope this helps until my latest revision is available.

  7. Jeff Bouley Says:
    March 16th, 2009 at 1:41 pm

    @Brian, u da man! Thanks.

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