In his keynote Kevin Lynch said it would take 5 minutes to get your flex app into Apollo. He wasn’t kidding. I had my cairngorm based flex app into apollo in under 5 minutes.. great job flex/apollo team. Way to come through and I was told to give a special thanks to Mike Chambers for tonights events…. This really is as cool as i thought it would be.. See my app in apollo below Click image to enlarge.
So I’m off to ApolloCamp tonight and I’m hearing a lot of “maybe” we’ll let people get Apollo and it got me thinking. When I was a kid I lived next door to a kid named Barry. Barry had an intellivision. He would always call me to come over and check out his video games with the enticement of “maybe” he would let me play. So I would go over and get all excited about playing and inevitably end up just watching him play for hours. Lets just say I found it slightly Frustrating.
For the last year now I’ve been hearing about Apollo, watching other people make applications with Apollo(mxna, http://video.onflex.org/, Flex 360), and what i want to know is, when is it going to be my turn? If you see someone having a temper tantrum tonight at ApolloCamp then you know you’ve found me. 
On the other side of it, its been a long time since I’ve been this excited about a new technology (like a kid again) and for that I’m thankful. Without the flex team/flex community keeping me filled with cool new things almost daily, I think the anticipation of Apollo would have driven me crazy a long time ago.
See you all tonight!
-Steve
Also, thanks to my Mom for getting me an Apple IIc which made me forget all about Barry and his Intellivision. Your the Best Mom.
