Andrew Powell

We're just over a week away from Flash Camp Phoenix and tickets are almost sold out.  If you're interested in going, but have been on the fence, all the sessions are posted here.  

Speakers Include:

• Kevin Fauth
• Dan Holth
• Dan Orlando
• Christian Saylor
• Carl Smith
• David Tucker
• Ryan Stewart

There are cheap flights and hotels available still.   Sign up today and ensure your seat before they're all gone!

Brian put on a great event this past Friday at Bentley University.  The attendance was more than most other conferences I've been to this year.  I am wondering if these one-day events are the way that conferences should be trending.  The content was great (amazing speaker lineup) and the location was great.  

I gave an overview of some Experience Design concepts, from a developer's point-of-view.  Here are the slides, but I really feel that without the rest of the preso experience, but here they are if you want them.

My Slides

We're just over a week away from Flash Camp Atlanta and tickets are almost sold out.  If you're interested in going, but have been on the fence, all the sessions are posted here.  There are cheap flights and hotels available still.   Sign up today at www.flashcampatlanta.com and ensure your seat before they're all gone!

Time to digest another CFUnited.  I didn't go last year because I was not too happy with the event after 2007.  It had gotten too kitschy and too, for lack of a better term, silly.  This year though, it seems things have turned around.  I think we have to attribute that to the conference being under Stellr's guidance.

Overall, I'm very happy with how the flex tracks turned out.  Great speakers, great content.  The venue was good and it was a bit spread out, but that's how it is.  The content in all the sessions was very strong.  That's something that has been lacking in years past; the content was too rudimentary.  This year, however, it's come back around.  I think that competition from 360|Conferences and cf.Objective() has been taken to account and the content has been upped, in concequence. 

The high point, for me, was the end of the demo mania when Doug McCune brought the house down.  Now, note the irony here, one of the biggest names in the flex community brought the house down to close the show at CFUnited. 

If you missed Doug's video (a mashup of the Adobe OSMF and FlexLingo), here it is:

The early bird pricing for Flash Camp Atlanta ends in less than 24 hours!  Tickets are on pace to sell out soon, so if you don't want to pay more later, go sign up now.  The early bird pricing is dirt cheap, only $40 for the main session and $15 for the introductory session ( an intro to Flash, Flex, and AIR ). 

Flash (Flex) Camp Orlando is this Friday, May 29th.  If you've been reluctant to sign up, I've got some things that may motivate you:

• There will be a big announcement from Adobe.  Think of this as a launch event.... *wink wink*
• We will be giving away a free copy of CS4 Master Collection
• We will be giving away multiple copies of FlexBuilder
• Lots of swag, this is a launch event, after all

There has been some confusion as to what FlashCamp Orlando really is.  FlashCamp is the new name that Adobe wishes to use for the events formerly known as FlexCamps.  The content that you can expect for FlashCamp Orlando covers:

• UX
• AIR
• BlazeDS
• Flash Catalyst
• Flex

This Wednesday, if you're in the Atlanta area (that means you too Chattanooga, Macon, & Augusta), come on out to CFUnited Express.  You'll get to see great topics on ColdFusion, Flex, & AIR, as well as hear from some great speakers, myself included.  It's a great price point and a great lineup.  Finish up your taxes, then come on over to CFUnited Express!

There are only two weeks until FlexCamp Miami.  Are you registered?

Brian Rinaldi recently did an interview with me to help promote FlexCamp Miami.  Click here to read it, then go and register for FlexCamp today.  

Need I say more?  Want to see it in person, come to Flex Camp Miami, cf.Objective(), or 360|Flex Indy