To Conference or Not Conference…
On a related note about conferences, 360Flex is one of 3 major Flex conferences that happens in the year. The next one coming up is in Washington, D.C. during the month of May. It’s Webmaniacs 2008
Personally, I would not attend this one for myself because there isn’t enough new content to warrant going again but I have to say it was a really really good experience. I would recommend this conference to anyone who has an interest on enhancing their current Flex interests regardless of what level you are at. The 3rd major conference is the Adobe MAX conference. It’s the industry equivalent to those Steve Jobs/Bill Gates presentations in front of a massive big screen and there are lots of clapping, ooohs and ahhhs. Big announcements are made on that big stage. The early bird price for that one last year was $1,095.
I have to say conferences as such are not critical to what we do at the place I work at. However, they expose developers to ideas they would normally would not be exposed to in their workplace. If some of us go, it helps everybody. However, it’s unlikely to have everybody go. It is very possible for someone to be an adept Flex developer without going to expensive conferences using community resources like:
- Flexcoders Mailing List
- Macromedia XML News Aggregator
- LiveDocs
There you have it, all my secrets that I frequent the most!
