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360Flex: Stoked to get a break and hear great devs.

02/23/2010 in Community, RIA View Comments

360Flex is just over one week away and I am getting super stoked to not only get a break from the craziness, but to also hear and learn from some of the best devs in the business. I have to thank my employer for sending me, or else I wouldn’t be making the trek to San Jose…that and the fact that there is no limit to alcohol on my expense report. Yeah, what were they thinking ;) . So I decided to sit down and get a tentative schedule ready.

First off I will say that I wish I could duplicate myself and attend all of the classes available, but nonetheless I have to choose one from each available time slot. My first run through the session were chosen based on what’s relative to my current job, after all they are footing the bill. My second run through was what I would personally want to see, and honestly they were really close in comparison…

There are a few of speakers that I would choose no matter what…namely Deepa Subramaniam, Jesse Warden and Jeff Tapper. I have seen them all speak before and really enjoy their sessions. So, below is the list of topics I am currently choosing to attend, excluding the key notes and group sessions that I will of course attend:

Day 1:
  • 1:00pm – 5:00pm: Joel Hooks – Hands-on Development with the RobotLegs AS3 Framework

    • *I wouldn’t miss this session for anything. I am slowly digging into RobotLegs as I can outside of the office. I know the basics but am definitely looking forward to learning from Joel in a hands-on environment.

Day 2:
  • 10:00am – 11:20am: Richard Lord – Designer Last Application Architect.
  • 1:00pm – 2:20pm: Daivd Hassoun – Going Deep w/OSMF – OMG
  • 2:30pm – 3:50pm: Jesse Warden – RobotLegs on Top of GAIA Framework
  • 4:00pm – 5:20pm: Huyen Tue Dao – Greenthreading in Flex

Day 3:
  • 10:00am – 11:20am: Deepa Subramaniam – What’s New in Flex 4 that’s NOT Spark!
  • 1:00pm – 2:20pm: Gary Rogers – Automated Build and Deployment Processes.
  • 2:30pm – 3:50pm: Elad Elrom – Building Applications using Test Driven Development (TDD)

Day 4:
  • 10:00am – 11:20am: Jeff Tapper – Ouch, it hurts when I do that.
  • 1:00pm – 2:20pm: Caleb Adam Haye – Better Builds: Continuous Integration for RIAs
  • 2:30pm – 3:50pm: Eric Fickes – Adobe is from Mars, Microsoft is from Uranus: A View from the Server.

Community: RIABeardoff, For the Kids

12/02/2009 in Community View Comments

Inspired by Elad Elrom, and all the great Flash designers and developers already contributing, I have decided to give some incentive to donate to the RIABeardOff. The RIABeardOff, started by Chuck Freedman, is a very generous charity event that lets the members of the RIA community grow beards to raise funds for the Marine Toys for Tots Foundation. I myself am somewhat of the unknown in the group of unbelievable contributors, most of which I have looked up to for a number of years and have learned a lot from all of them. Some of the contributors are:

  • Jose Antonio Marquez Russo (@joseeight)
  • Art W
  • Val Head
  • Tom Green
  • Rachel Luxemburg
  • LordAlex Leon
  • Stacey Mulcahy ( BitchWhoCodes)
  • Bernie & Erikka Perkins
  • Mims H. Wright
  • Scott Janousek
  • Chris Allen
  • Curt Staubach (@curtStaubach)
  • Paul Gregoire (@mondain)
  • @BenStucki
  • Todd Anderson (@bustardcelly)
  • Robert Hall (@rhall)
  • Joseph Labrecque (@JosephLabrecque)
  • Jesse Freeman (@theflashbum)
  • Kevin Suttle (@kevinSuttle)
  • Brian Connatser (@connatser) <- me :)
  • Elad Elrom (@EladElrom)
  • Chuck Freedman (@chuckstar)

So, I will donate not only my “attempt” at growing a beard but 1 (one) full year of web hosting on my Cloud Account at The Rackspace Cloud, from 1-1-10 until 12-31-10. One lucky winner will be chosen at random on the close of the beard off and I will hand the keys to a full year of hosting over to them at that time. The account would consist of 1GB of storage, 2GB of transfer, 15 email accounts, 5 MySQL databases, and I will even throw in the 24 hour awesome support account from The Rackspace Cloud team at my cost. The winner can use this account however they please, as long as it falls within the rules of Rackspace…sorry no porn! All you need to do to enter is donate in my name (@connatser). Karma has been good to me this year and it’s time to give back, please do the same and make a needy child’s holiday one to remember.

Donate to the RIABeardOff here.

Hosting: Rackspace referral program

11/02/2009 in Community View Comments

rackspaceA few weeks ago I was talking to Jonnie Hallman of DestroyToday.com and DestroyTwitter.com about hosting space. I mentioned that I had a bunch of unused space and would be happy to host his site on my cloud instance. While talking with Jonnie I contacted Rackspace about a referral program, which actually was in works but not yet available. Annnnyway, they have set up a referral program early for me in case anyone is looking to start hosting on the cloud at Rackspace. I would like to think that my awesome blogging skills lead to the early referral program, but for some reason I think it was the connection with Jonnie ;) .

When creating a cloud account on Rackspace just use REF-Connatser as the code. This will save you $25 off of your first months cost. I know it isn’t a great savings, but every lit bit helps.