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I saw Ryan Stewart at 360 Flex!
So I made a pretty big deal out of Ryan spotting’s at 360Flex. But lets get this straight, this is Mr Friggin RIA! Ryan makes it his job to be were he can get the scoop on all the good RIA goodness and tell us about it on his blogs, both personal and professional. I really feel like when I spot him in a group, that is the spot to be.
But Ryan was not the only person that I saw at the conference who I was super happy to have visited with. This conference was a chance for me to try to make in-road with the flash-erati as well. I finally met Jesse Warden in the flesh. I met Renaun Erikson and Grant Skinner. I got to listen to Ely Greenfield talk about components! I mean heck I cant even name all the rockin adobe folks that were there.
I got to see Ben Forta again, and a bunch of my CF buddies from Bend OR (Jen,Randy,Tom, and new friend Becky). Even Jared came out for the flexiness. What really amazes me is the number of new flex/cf friends i made, like my new best friend John Wilker. I had such a great time sitting out in the comfy chairs and talking with folks about all manner of topics.
I also was inspired to blog more. To be honest sometimes I don’t feel like my blog contributes much, but I had so many people make references to obscure entries I wrote that I really felt I must be doing something right.
But enough about me. What I am really curious about is who were you excited to meet. Or what conversation just blew your socks off? I am curious to hear about amazing experience at 360. So blog it, comment here, or shout it in a podcast, but lets everyone know how cool it was to be apart of the first official flex-only conference!
ps. If you say me then I will know you are teasing me about my very serious and sincere blog post and I will probably cry :(
09 Mar 2007 Simeon

you! Don’t cry I mean it! :)
I loved meeting everyone! Thought Ryan was like meeting, oh I dunno, someone crazy famous that should have had a velvet rope seperating us! :D
It was great to meet the Cow-poo (he he) crew. I have way more friends in OR than I ever did before… Don’t think you won’t be getting a Wilker visit next time I’m in the area!
Coming home and doing things like look for projects and unpack, makes me wish we lived in conference land :) I think I’d like conference land :)
I felt your adoration deserved some kind of reward ;)
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No offense Ryan. sure you’re a stud and all but not something I need to know about LOL
LMAO Tink! That is freakin great.
Talking to the Adobe staff in person (Flex, FP, IxD) was fantastic. Another highlight was overhearing Joe Berkovitz and Jesse Warden hash out Flex architecture. Steven Webster, we missed you!
I wasn’t able to attend this time, but enjoyed reading what people had to say.
Matter of fact, I even dug how the excited "arrived at the hotel" posts petered out while the conference was going on… that relative silence meant that people were actually making full use of the time they had together.
(But didn’t Ryan have on a pink polo shirt or something…? ;-)
jd/adobe
You met me too, you big jerk! Haha, just kidding. I know I don’t rank highly in the true Flash-erati. It was cool to hang out with you and Jesse on Monday night though. Good times at the Biersch.