Well, after some delay, uncertainty and ambivalence, it is confirmed: my employer (4Point Solutions Ltd.) is sending a colleague (Brad) and I to 360|Flex in Indianapolis. In the interest of good relations with our gracious hosts, I'd like to warn the fine people of the Hoosier State to tie down your valuables, hide your pets and children and inoculate your livestock.
I'm looking forward to going, first to learn something new, but I'd be happy just to get to meet other Flex developers and hear first-hand from/meet some of the people whose blogs I've been reading.4Point is sponsoring the business summit at the conference, so keep an eye out for our banner somewhere in the conference centre.
In case you will also be at the conference, after you've secured your valuables, you might just want to say "Hi", so here is a (not exactly recent) picture of me to help in picking me out of a crowd of nerds (a category of fauna in which your humble author doesn't include himself, of course). Since I've never been to Indy, I'd love to hear about good places to eat within walking distance of the conference. Also, feel free to drop me a line if you'd like to have lunch and talk shop.
I haven't yet gone over the sessions that are offered and am open to suggestions. Here's hoping that someone will be covering (in some way) advanced Flex concepts and architectures, test-driven Flex development (including IOC/DI) and implementing full-on enterprise Flex/Java projects (scalability, maintainability, etc.). I also enjoy beer, pretzels and lightly seasoned, medium-rare animal flesh.
Consider yourself warned, Indianapolis. Don't let me down!
[NOTE: Edited to remove a reference to the Business Summit, since I was just informed that the Summit has been canceled.]
I'm looking forward to going, first to learn something new, but I'd be happy just to get to meet other Flex developers and hear first-hand from/meet some of the people whose blogs I've been reading.
In case you will also be at the conference, after you've secured your valuables, you might just want to say "Hi", so here is a (not exactly recent) picture of me to help in picking me out of a crowd of nerds (a category of fauna in which your humble author doesn't include himself, of course). Since I've never been to Indy, I'd love to hear about good places to eat within walking distance of the conference. Also, feel free to drop me a line if you'd like to have lunch and talk shop.
I haven't yet gone over the sessions that are offered and am open to suggestions. Here's hoping that someone will be covering (in some way) advanced Flex concepts and architectures, test-driven Flex development (including IOC/DI) and implementing full-on enterprise Flex/Java projects (scalability, maintainability, etc.). I also enjoy beer, pretzels and lightly seasoned, medium-rare animal flesh.
Consider yourself warned, Indianapolis. Don't let me down!
[NOTE: Edited to remove a reference to the Business Summit, since I was just informed that the Summit has been canceled.]
St. Elmo's is THE place for steaks - St. Elmo's Website
And once you see some of the other attendees, you'll see that Indy has already been fairly warned ahead of time. We tend to have to meet with city officials, PDs, FDs, and STDs to make sure we're all clear and ready to rumble, err, I mean start our conference. :P
Ha ha. I'm glad to hear I'll be among like-minded people.
Thanks for taking time out of your busy schedule to comment on my humble blog, Tom. Kudos on all you've accomplished and good luck in pulling off another successful conference! This will be my first
360|Flex and I'm hoping to get away without any felony counts against
me. All fingers crossed on that one ;)
St. Elmo's looks like an awesome place... now I just need to find out if I can expense a meal there. I may just have to skip a few meals to save up. Sometimes, a world-class steak is worth a little hardship.