FlexCamp Bucharest
Last night we organized the first major event at Adobe Romania: FlexCamp Romania. There were a lot of attendees and all of them were curios about how this event will go as, from my knowledge, there was no such event organized in Bucharest until now.
We had a lot of swag for this event and the whole team switched to an old factory process: the production line.
First one to present was Matt Chotin, Product Manager for Flex. The room was full and the people interested in his presentation. He talked about Flex, AIR and also Thermo. Some of the audience knew about Thermo as videos from MAX 2007 where it was first presented were posted on youtube.
He was followed by Andrei Dragomir, our Ajax and Flex specialist that presented an overview of Flex. His session was long and intensive as there are so many things you can say about Flex.
However there were also breaks :). During those brakes, we ate pizza, drink beer and most importantly socialize. All the people got to know others that share the same interest and we were also very busy (and that’s a good thing) answering different questions about Flex, AIR and about Adobe user groups, as many of them were interested in joining or creating one.
Oh, I forgot to tell you, we broadcast FlexCamp live using Adobe Acrobat Connect and also recorded all the event and everything is available on myadobe.ro site.
Dragos Georgita took his turn and presented AIR along with a lot of cool samples.
After some small technical difficulties (his computer closed just before his session), Mihai Corlan held the first hands-on session about how you can create a cool Flicker gallery.
The second hands-on was about web services and Flex and Cristi Ivascu presented the new wizard available in Flex Builder 3 that inspects a WSDL file and generates the ActionScript client that knows how to use that service. One of the main advantages is the creation of all the complex types used by that service so the developer can have access to a strong type framework in using it (code completion and everything).
Mihai Pricope’s hands-on was about data synchronization in Flex and even if it was a late hour he managed to get all the audience excited about the subject through his unique presentation style. He proposed a poll application and all the audience was able to vote and see the results changing in real time on the screen behind him.
In the end the whole Flex team stepped in front of the audience and we were bombarded with a lot of questions and hopefully we managed to answer satisfactory for most of them.
Overall we think this event was a success and we are already planning for another one at the beginning of 2008. That one maybe will be bigger and we’ll try to involve more the Flex community giving them the chance to present their work and ideas.
