360Flex is coming to MAX

For those of you under a rock that may not have heard, there are some unconferences going down at MAX. 360|Conferences has been given one and we're calling it 360|MAX.

Most of our speakers have already signed up on the wiki schedule. If you have a Flex topic that's not being covered at MAX, feel free to sign up at our mini-conference. When you do, drop us a line at info@360flex.com so we have your contact info. No email to us and we may delete your session. We just need to make sure you're real and not a bot. :)

If you haven't registered for MAX, do it! If you haven't registered for our unconference, go do that too! You can attend our mini-conf only if you're registered for MAX.

FlashCamp Coming to San Francisco this weekend!

We're not putting this on, but wanted to give a shot out of support!

Adobe FlashCamp is a free event in the "unconference" style, focused on developers creating rich interactive experiences using the new Flash Player 10 features.

This event is inspired by BarCamp, iPhoneDevCamp, and the Hackathon, to develop inspiring content and applications using an advance copy of the Flash Professional CS4 authoring tool.

Attendees will include Flash and Flex developers, mobile developers, UI designers, and testers, all working together over the weekend. Development projects will include both solo and team efforts. While some attendees will wish to work solo during the event, we encourage attendees to team up, based on expertise, to work in ad-hoc project development teams. All attendees should be prepared to work on a development project during the event.

Participants will be able to:

* Learn about new Flash Player features
* Create Flash Player 10 content and applications
* Test and optimize content and applications for Flash Player 10

Of course, there will be a Contest, featuring some great prizes
including — you guessed it — Adobe Creative Suite 4! In addition to
the prizes, winners of our Contest will be featured as part of our
subsequent CS4 launch.

We are hoping to accommodate about 200 people at Adobe Town Hall in
San Francisco. See our Agenda before you register to attend.

http://www.flashcamp.org/

360Flex Camp New Jersey Unit Testing your apps.

Unit testing is important. I know it, you know it, I think even my mom knows it, though she probably just heard about it at a Jafra meeting.

That said, if you're not using Unit Testing, in your Flex apps, you should be. Jeff Tapper of Digital Primates, will be presenting on Fluint, formerly known (like Prince was, ya know) as dpUnit.

Based loosely on the concepts of FlexUnit and its ancestor JUnit, fluint provides enhanced asynchronous support, a graphical test runner, integration with continuous build systems and an optional Adobe AIR client for directory watching.
It adds support for:

• Multiple simultaneous asynchronous operations
• Asynchronous setup and teardown
• Asynchronous returns before method body completion
• Support for UIComponent testing
• Support for test sequences
• Support for testing Cairngorm commands and controllers
• XML output of testing results
• Support for externalizing tests in modules 

Wanna hear more about Fuint, and the other great topics we're going to have on Saturday? Register now! It's not too late!

360Flex Camp New Jersey session: Farata Systems cool productivity components

Victor Rasputnis will be with us in New Jersey to talk about the cool Flex components that Farata Systems has been working on. I had the opportunity to talk to Yakov from Farata for the Flex Show, so I know exactly how cool and useful these components are.

Did I mention that they're free? Yeah free. If you plan to OEM them, there's a charge, of course. but if you're just baking these great components into your app, you're free to do so.


Wondering why I haven't mentioned what the compenents are? Duh! That'd spoil the surprise, you're just gonna have to join us on Saturday to hear all about them!


Register now, times's running out!

360Flex Camp - 11 sessions, 2 lunches, 1 Full Day Training and a party for only $150!

For those of you on the East Coast, we just wanted to post another reminder about the new 360|Flex Camp. If you're in New York City, the camp is but a mere cab ride away. If you're in Boston, Philly, or DC, just hop a train and get there. Or if you're one of Tony's boys in Jersey (and he ain't got you on a job), then you know how to get yerself there.

For only $150, you get a full day of Training by Farata Systems (which by itself is worth $150) and a second day of 11 sessions by some great speakers (Jeff Tapper, Christophe Conraets, Yakov Fain, Simon Horwith, Jeff Houser, just to name a few). Not to mention lunch both days and a little social hour on Saturday night.

There's only room for 150 people. Register now so you don't miss out on this great opportunity!  If you're strapped for time or cash, you can even buy just one day tickets at $75 a piece.  We're accommodating like that. :)

360Flex Camp New Jersey Ten days left, register to win a CRUISE

You heard me right folks!!! If you Register for 360|Flex Camp - NJ within the next 48hrs, then you too will be eligible to win a Cruise! Not only do you get to spend 2-educationally fun days with us learning Flex, you will also be entered in this exciting new contest.

The winner will get their choice of Tom, Penelope, or if you can't decide, we've also thrown in the very hard-to-find photo of Tom and Penelope's secret love child...

Pick your favorite today:

360MAX still room for speakers! Not many though!

Got something to say? Wanna say it at MAX?

Email us your topic description. Our goal is to bump up the advanced level topics at MAX this year, so bring your crazy deep dive, first 20 milliseconds of an app, SDK reading goodness! And let's really raise the bar this year!

We've got a few spots left, and then we're publishing the schedule. We hope to have that done ASAP, we've been keeping everyone in suspense long enough.

360|MAX is gonna be awesome! We're lining up our own sessions, we're looking into our own SWAG, it should be a really kick ass time! Don't miss out!

The only guidelines for submission are, you must be registered to attend MAX. We can't comp registration :(

If you're attending MAX and think you'll drop by to hang with us, let us know, register here (It's free, just for accounting for Tom and I)