nothing yet | jason madsen

So day two was pretty interesting. Jeffry Houser gave an interesting session on building Flex Components. He has a comfortable, interactive style of speaking that works well, and keeps you involved with the session.

I really enjoyed the introduction to fluint, the Flex Unit testing project by Jeff Taper. Unit testing is one of those things that I would like to incorporate more into projects, but have always balked at the time considerations involved. I think the fluint project is really come along.

I think my favorite session of the day was Christophe Coenraets (Adobe Evangelist). It was a pretty high level overview of LiveCycle Data Services, and using remote objects. It didn’t get into too much of the tech details, but I really enjoyed the session. He also showed an interesting Flex portal application that was using Modules and a Module Loader.

After talking with Jeffry Houser for a few minutes, he talked me into doing an quick interview for the Flex Show. I was really flattered to be a part of the show. We mostly talked about the conference sessions and my thoughts on them. I have been listening to the Flex Show for a while now, so it was nice to meet Jeffry, and be on the show. You can check out the latest show, episode # 56 to hear it from here.

I ended up having to leave just before the mixer at the end to catch a cab to the airport. I was disappointed at missing that.

All in all it was a great two day event. I’m glad I went. Thanks to 360 | Flex and the NJ Flex group for putting it together.

So I made it through day one of the 360 | Flex Camp today. Yakov Fain from Farata Systems gave a one day “Advanced Intro To Flex” training at Montclair University in New Jersey. It started with some pretty introductory topics, but it moved on quickly, and ended with some hands on use with BlazeDS. I was excited to get a local installation of Tomcat and BlazeDS running on my Mac. I have been using AMFPHP a lot on some of my latest projects. We’ll see how BlazeDS changes that for me in the future

Tomorrow features the guest speakers. Several interesting topics on deck.

I can’t end this post without thanking Danton Chin. I was stranded at the University, and he offered me a lift to my hotel. I would probably still be wandering around the University looking for an appropriate bus to catch right now if it had not been for his kind offer.