First of all thanks to the Flex team for including the community in this soiree. It was slightly difficult for me jumping into the fray of conversations with my social skills being that of a… well of a programmer. But thats why I always drag my girl with me (She is awesome). Eventually towards the end I did get a chance to talk to Ted Patrick some about WPF/e and how Flex was a big step forward for making the flash platform excessible to .Net type developers. He was extremely candid and interesting. The whole team seemed to have a relaxed yet confident, attitude answering all questions honestly even if the answer had to be “we’re working on it”.
About Apollo. From talking with Ted, I did find out that an alpha/beta release of Apollo will be out in the near future. However, it will not be in the next couple of days or weeks. So everyone can just give the labs.adobe.com homepage a break.Two applications were demonstrated. One Flex application for monitoring and controlling different aspects of a yacht which seemed to have features that went on and on and on and on. I call it the iYacht. They may want to see if that trademarked before they try to use it. For me it was good to see a large Flex application functioning that smoothly regardless of what it did. The second application was a word processing application that was cool but didn’t really float my boat as much.Anyway, thanks again to the Flex team you’re doing fantastic work. You make development fun.Oh yeah. Just one suggestion for the next get together. Music. Let me know if you need me to bring some.-s
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Music is a good suggestion. Ted is going to be sending around some requests for feedback, this is a good one.
Please note that the average Flex engineer is 5′ 11″ (180cm) so I think your height expectations are off-base. Please also note I totally just made up that number.
I agree, I should be scolded for lack of music. My IPOD was out of batteries and and and….ok not much of an excuse.
At least I beat the height average.
Thanks for coming! It was great meeting you and we will be doing this again. Dare I say it might be a monthly thing…
Ted
For the record, I’m actually 4′9″, but I was wearing 14″ platform shoes. I was hoping it wasn’t obvious…
A famous Russian military marshall from 18th century Alexander Suvorov was short, and on one of the high society parties a tall general stopped by him, looked from above and said, “I’m higher than you”. Suvorov answered, “You are taller, but not higher”.
Yakov
Music is a good suggestion.
Hi Jim. Photos i received. Thanks
I think its because we normally wear heals around the office.
Well, at least Matt Chotin does.
Mike
Mike Potter
Flex Product Marketing