{"id":179,"date":"2009-05-18T17:31:08","date_gmt":"2009-05-18T22:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billdwhite.com\/?p=179"},"modified":"2009-05-18T17:31:08","modified_gmt":"2009-05-18T22:31:08","slug":"360flex-random-thoughts-and-observations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billdwhite.com\/wordpress\/2009\/05\/18\/360flex-random-thoughts-and-observations\/","title":{"rendered":"360|Flex Random Thoughts and Observations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My co-worker, Joshua, and I have just completed our first full day of sessions at 360 Flex here in Indianapolis.  So far it has been well worth it.  Just some random thoughts and observations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The folks here are really cool and very friendly.  They seem to be genuinely excited to be here.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve gotten to meet several of the guys who are working on projects that I&#8217;m either very interested in or already use.  This includes folks like Juan Sanchez, Doug McCune and Ryan Campbell just to name a few.  It is cool to finally put faces with names after following their blogs for such a long time.<\/li>\n<li>Indianapolis seems to be a pretty clean city and the downtown area is much more lively than I expected.  There are lots of steakhouses and brew pubs.<\/li>\n<li>Renaun&#8217;s presentation on structured log testing is something I can definitely use on my projects at work.  I just hope I can keep the disciplined attitude that it takes to keep my tests up-to-date.<\/li>\n<li>The enhancements coming down the pipe for Flex 4 are even more substantial than I realized.  They will make writing Flex apps much more efficient.  Too bad they are so vague about its availability.<\/li>\n<li>So far, Michael Labriola&#8217;s &#8216;Any Which Array but Loose&#8217; has been my favorite session.  He really seems to know his stuff and I learned a lot about what is really going on in the different types of arrays, vectors, bytearrays and arraycollections.<\/li>\n<li>I think Adobe initially thought that Flash Catalyst would be a great way to create Flex\/Flash applications without all the messing coding.  Now that it has been in development for quite some time, I think they&#8217;ve figured out that it is much better to position it as a tool for prototyping and wireframing applications and leaving the rest of the work up to the developers who want to get into the code.<\/li>\n<li>The first night here, Obama was in town.  His motorcade was supposed to pass right by the hotel but I never saw it.  Too bad.  Would have been cool to see the limo and the whole procession first-hand.<\/li>\n<li>Every night there is a reception at the Rock Bottom Brewery.   It is fun to socialize with everyone over a beer after a day of sessions.<\/li>\n<li>The presentation I&#8217;m most looking forward to is the one on OpenFlux.  The outside-the-box thinking that goes into a project like this is really something else.   The impact that OpenFlux and Degrafa have had on the evolution of Flex 4 is really impressive.<\/li>\n<li>This hotel is also a functioning train station.  The rooms shake when a locomotive rolls through.  They try to pass it off as part of the experience.  My bet is that they just didn&#8217;t think it through.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My co-worker, Joshua, and I have just completed our first full day of sessions at 360 Flex here in Indianapolis. So far it has been well worth it. Just some random thoughts and observations: The folks here are really cool and very friendly. They seem to be genuinely excited to be here. 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