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Flex Camp London 08
Aug 2008
28
Thu
1:45 PM
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392 people attended.
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Mike Jones
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392 attendees
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“ Discussion area afterwards far too cramped. Some presentations overran and were a bit pointless (java and flex), some very good (design patterns, best practices, frameworks). Stick to the ones that work best ” -
“ I've got now a much better understanding how FleX can be integrated into a much more efficient and sophisticated development workflow. ” -
“ For a free event it was very good, thoroughly enjoyed it. Was a very packed schedule, felt like hard work since it started in the afternoon. The line up of speakers was good, I found 50% of them useful, but that is probably because I am not a Flex or Flash developer and the some talks were focussed on areas I know a lot about. ” -
“ This event was great. I missed some sample materials and and pieces of presentations which would summarize the lectures and enable me to practice at home what I have seen (I mean - files to copy to sticks and so on...). Pack of stickers is OK, but more practical stuff would be much better. By the way, lectures were very well selected. I found only one of them boring. Thanx for this event, and see you all guys!!! ” -
“ Super meeting. Great advice and lots of super dudes. ” -
“ Awesome. I found presetations were good, especially the initial ones (before break). I would have liked to see a bit more about Java and Flex: felt that presentation was a bit rushed (but I don't think it was to do with time)... and that was the talk I was particularly interested in. Some more little breaks in between talks would have been nice... ” -
“ Very good - got a little too techy ” -
“ Some of the presentations were far too rushed, others weak in terms of presentation (too focused in some cases and pointless in others). The Academy Class guy stood out as a great presenter, but as he's a trainer that should (in most cases) be a given. It seemed to me that the idea of FlexCamp was rushed. It didn't have a great focus; whether an Adobe, or other sponsors marketing opportunity or simply giving good presentations to 'the community'. I was hoping for better networking opportunities afterwards, but everyone was crammed into the entrance hall gagging for beer and food. The Asahi was a good choice; I didn't have the pizza but it looked great. ” -
“ SOUND was terrible. No internet connections(guess you know). ” -
“ Very badly organized scheduling; I had other things to attend at 8PM and had to miss lot of stuff because schedule was over 1 hour late at 7! Please have someone next time show 5min / "Stop Now" times to speakers. Hassle with mics wasn't too nice either; of course developers aren't usually best speakers there are but good mic helps a lot. Now we had to struggle to hear what was said. Good effort but badly executed in my opinion. ” -
“ I thought this event hit the nail on the head - something for everybody. My university lecturer /course leader from 2 years ago showed up and found the talk by David Arnold (your first flex app) really helpful in understanding how flex works to which he said will massively help him with introducing a course in the future On the other side, things got really tec-y such as the breakdown of the PureMVC framework + code examples and the insight into how cold fusion works with flex with code examples - MUWCHO GOOD! ” -
“ Good presentations, a little hard to hear at times. Was thinking that it'd be great if there was a video made and posted - some of the more practical talks were hard to keep up with. ” -
“ i would say some speakers were not prepared to do a presentation and hence never really did much justice on the presentation and some showed no interest and lacked enthusiasm but overall some aspects were very fascinating ” -
“ It was a great introduction even for someone coming from outside the programming world. I hoped to meet Flex developers inorder to recruit for an exciting RIA prototype project, that makes the tools of movie directing available to the growing online filmmaking communities. It was perfect as I had the chance to meet many very interesting people from lone developers to some of the top UK devs. I am already in the process of following up with the most interesting and still open to hearing from anyone who would like to learn more about the Tools Of Directing application. Thanks ” -
“ It was a good group and a good time, but the sessions were all to short and not really that informative. ” -
“ Good content, would have been good to have heard it all as the sound system was a bit poor. ” -
“ I'm enjoyed the conferences, the Flex potencial was exposed without any hesitation, but i'm thinking the sound was a little problem but that doesn't rest quality in the event. Would be nice as a user group have some practice class, doing one application, skining or preparing for work on the desk (it's more difficult but not impossible) XD Thanks a lot, i hope be in the next one ” -
“ I thought the topics were too basic, there was a lot of programming 101 discussions as opposed to Flex discussions. It seemed some of the presenters were poorly prepared and didn't know their audience (developers, designers, newbies or advanced). The microphones and audio quality were poor. I think the day could have benefited from seperate streams, with only one thing going on at a time after a few sessions I didn't get anything from, I left early. With two or three things going on at a time I'd have probably found something to attend. ” -
“ Central venue, easy to get to. As a newbie, the first two sessions - 'whats flex' and the 'introduction' both were excellent. Good content, easy to listen to. The third - on 'skinning' got scarily detailed and seemed to focus on Flex 4 (which I understood not to be out for another year). I had to head back to Scotland at that stage, which was a shame. Technical issues with mikes seems to dog the first and second speaker - perhaps this can be ironed out for the next meeting. ---* Bill ” -
“ Sound was patchy and the Flex/Java presentation was poor. Everything else was very good - including the refreshments. ” -
“ Some sessions seemed cut short, not much time there. The venue wasn't as cool as the onAIR Tour one. The rest was great, cool prizes, cool talks. I enjoyed the sessions on: PureMVC, Styling and Skinning and Flex Components. The rest were ok, but this is what interested me. The one on Flex & Java and the one on Flex & Coldfusion had to suffer a lot because of the time available. I think that a longer session instead of 2 short ones would have been better. Thanks for the shirts, posters, beer, pizza...etc ! ” -
“ it was great, great speakers, great prizes, a nice introduction that took you into the whole flex thing from the very beginning, good talks on the others aspects to development only problem was : it kicked off at 1.45 and there was none of the food til 8 15!!!!! -- i nearly died!! also the breaks were too shot. there should had either said bring food for lunch, given more than 10 misn for lunch break or (preferable) given the food at about 4 ish, not 8 30 ish overall great day though, highly recommend to anybody ” -
“ The problems with sound quality from the microphones was very annoying. The content was mostly good, but Flex and Java - Bryan Hunt was a joke. Not much time for networking as i had to leave at 8pm, having said that half the group had left much before that. ” -
“ It is rare to leave events like this one without learning something useful. However, I have to say that the talk didn't quite meet my expectations. I was hoping for an insight on Adobe's look on the future (market share, license policy, opensource vs. proprietary, etc), more Java/Flex integration(BlazeDS,
webservices, heavy server side apps), client side apps that really blew your mind away,...
I do understand though that it's impossible to cater for everyone's likings and expectations but imho it was too technical for managers, too basic for developers.
On the bright side, well organised and a good chance to meet interesting people. Thanks to all the organizers for their hard work. ”
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“ good varied selection of talks. sound system a bit bad ”
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“ Thoroughly enjoyed it, although some of the speakers could've been more thoughtful of those that had no prior knowledge of that which they spoke of and the pizza choices were weird! But generally, an awesome insight to Flex and how to make the most of it! ”
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“ There were some good points, the prizes and breaks to break up the day. But the venue was bad and a lot of the contributors took too long and did not present code in a 'conference friendly' manner (mid-green text on a black background at point 10 is NOT the way to let people read code!). Some contributions were good, but i think that in general there was not enough advanced / in depth information. ”
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“ It was great, some speakers better than others but the venue was great and the beer and pizza was a good idea. ”
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“ Talk were a good intro for me as a beginner but I can imagine didn't offer lots for more experienced users. ”
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“ Excellent, some real good topics, however, some did go too deep for some of the people attending. ”
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“ Flex camp London showed me that I was heading in the correct direction in terms of MVC frameworks, Unit testing and agile software development methodology. ”
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“ Not primarlily Flex oriented in my opinion, not structured particularly well ( 2 1/2 to 3 hours straight talks without breaks?! ). Cheers for the beer and pizza though. ”
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“ Good selection of speakers with most of them presenting good information. Poor sound system. Great raffle prizes in between talks, and the best part, Pizza & Beer afterwards :). Overall a good "FREE" event, 6 out 10 marks i'd say. "Hey, don't hate, congratulate!! it was FREE" ”
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“ The presentation about Flex and Java was really boring. However I did enjoy the talks about "Who you need on your Flex team" and "Best Practices". I think it was a good opportunity to meet up with other flex developers and see how they approach flex development. I was surprised at how few of the members attending practiced scrum and agile methodologies. Hopefully more of this will catch on. ”
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“ The Meetup was a little bit basic and i was looking for something a bit more meaty. Hopefully at the next one there will be more advanced topics covered. ”
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“ Really good. Would like much, much more for a beginner and at a much slower pace. ”
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“ It would have been better to 'stream' the talks so that the beginners could see more relevant to them and the advanced could see more relevant to them. Then get them all together for a show and tell / discussion after. As a newbee to Flex a lot of the talks went over my head ”
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“ Very informative ”
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“ A really great afternoon thank you for the training ”
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“ Presenters were not organised. Their topics were at best moderate, and at worst bloody awful. I think I might have nodded off at one point. Nice shiney flex 4 app where you mouse over a button and it enlarges to display a graphic and text? Wonderful. But not at 266k it's not. Severely dissappointed. ”
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“ It was a great format, with a really good blend of people from all sides of the flex camp contributing. Clearly, the main agenda is technical collaboration for the development community, and the FLUG team and associates accomodate all this fantastically. If you think that this event was free, its an awesome commitment from the organisers and speakers... On the day I think people like Simon G really put in massive effort to keep energy, time and pace. Its really hard to do this stuff and I think they all did great. ”
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“ The event started well enough with a demo of how to build a simple app but quickly descended into an ordeal. The presenter providing advice on skinning was inaudible due to the appalling sound system and probably overran his spot by about half an hour. The advice he appeared to be giving was over complicated or simply confusing and the net result of timeslip (over an hour late within 2.5 hours of starting) was that the following delegates had to rush their presentations, most of which were very hard to hear, leaving me with a very poor impression of the material and the preparation of the event. By a little after 6pm (4 hours after the due start time) my colleague and I gave up. I appreciate that it was free and I had high hopes of learning a good deal from the day but I would have demanded a refund had I had to pay. As it is I lost most of a day's work having travelled up from Somerset for the event. ”
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“ Really enjoyed the event, great people and very inspirational and very well organised. I really enjoyed the intro and the 'whats in the foreseeable future' part. however as a newbie I quickly found things things way over my understanding with the show and tell part. but with that I understand I was in the minority there and I imagine the majority would have really benefitted greatly from the available expertise. Very much looking forward to the next event ”
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