BUT

we’ve got an incredible replacement! Greg Burch, from the Adobe Mobile team. You know the guys working on cool things like the Flex Mobile framework, Flash and iPhone stuff.

Yeah the mobile aspect of Adobe RIA on the cruise just went through the roof!! Don’t worry, we won’t be neglecting the rest of the RIA space. How could we with the likes and Ryan Stewart! Doug McCune, Sam Rivello, and Faisal Abid

Oh and in case you haven’t checked the tentative schedule, Faisal’s gonna be talking mobile too :)

This cruise will be something you’re gonna regret missing. If the conversations in hallways at conferences like 360|Flex, CFUnited, MAX, etc are something you enjoy and geek out on, well this will be almost two weeks of 100% hallways, conversation, geeking out, with a tropical paradise as the backdrop!

Register now, time’s running out, and boat is filling up.

These and the rest of the great submissions were played to kick off the keynote, they were a hit!

We’re getting our love of video on again for 360|Flex San Jose 2010.

The rules are simple.

1. Keep it short. We’ll be showing these before the keynotes, no small movies!
2. Explain why you think 360|Flex is the best Flex conference out there, what makes you attend, what makes Flex the best RIA platform? etc.
3. post it to youtube with “360flexSJ2010″ in the title (we want to make sure it doesn’t get cluttered after all)

That’s it.

The prize?

Free pass to 360|Flex San Jose? Already registered? Good for you! You rock! We’ll give you a full refund.

We’re gonna work on some other prices too, maybe Adobe will throw something in :)

How do you win?

Once we’ve cut off the submissions, we’ll pick the best, most funny video. The one that just screams, “This is 360|Flex” :)

So start recording! Get your time on the big screen!

I can’t even tell you how many times as a developer, AND a consumer I’ve wished for better integration with payment solutions. Not to mention, now that micro-payments are becoming the norm, it just makes sense to make collecting money easier for everyone involved.

And, because PayPal likes us, we can offer 10 free passes to the first 10 people who see this :)

Once you check out the event details, hit up the following special URL to redeem your FREE pass and register. On this page you will find a link in orange “Enter Discount Code”, please enter PP360CON. This should bring the price of the ticket to “$0” for you. Please register as soon as possible to receive your free pass.

The PayPal team has a great speaker lineup, including Tim O’Reilly as one of the keynotes. Attending will be some of the most innovative developers in the world of mobile, consumer electronics and financial services. Early adopters will demonstrate how they’re already building businesses on the PayPal platform.

All conference attendees will receive exclusive access to not-yet-released PayPal APIs. You’ll also get the chance to work directly with PayPal engineers and other developers during hands-on labs and code-and-build sessions and interact with PayPal’s leadership team.

You’ll come away at the end with so much incredible knowledge, it’ll take days to process it all. Ok maybe not days, but hours for sure!

Tom Ortega, and Thomas Burleson are both great instructors, and crazy smart developers. Oh yeah and Keith Sutton of SilVaFUG will be doing some hands-on intro to PureMVC at the end of the day saturday.

We’re also working on lining someone up to do some Mate Hands-On.

If you’re looking to level up your skills, don’t miss 360|Flexpress in San Jose. Hands-On training, by pros.

Oh yeah, and Apress is sponsoring the training, we’ll have some great Apress/Friends of Ed Flex books to give away each day! Don’t miss it!

Register now! You won’t find a better price on 2 days of Hands-On training anywhere!

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Please join Ribbit in San Francisco November 5, 2009 for a deep dive into our open telephony APIs.

We’re excited to formally launch our RESTful API, and we’re looking for early adopters like you!

In the network of the future:

• Voice will simply be another data object – and will be carrier, network, device and protocol agnostic
• Legacy carrier networks will be merged with open networks / the internet
• Innovation will be developer driven, not constrained by existing carrier / telco business models

Ribbit is revolutionizing the communications paradigm by providing an open and fully programmable global communications platform. This platform allows any developer to integrate voice, messaging, and rich communications into any application, on Web experience.

Join us for a day of innovation and learning and an evening of coding and cocktails.

Ribbit + REST = Open Programmable Communications

Rebuilding the Ribbit Platform on top of a RESTful framework allows developers to interact with Ribbit at the server level, enabling new forms of application-to-person and application-to-application services.  REST treats users, devices, calls, messages, and other elements as resources with which developers can easily interact — and exposes Ribbit’s core communications services in a platform-agnostic format using simple and secure HTTP calls.

Space is limited, Register by Oct. 28! http://developer.ribbit.com/blog/spawn/

If you cannot attend in person, please join us via webcast. Register by 11/3 at:  http://developer.ribbit.com/blog/spawn-webcast/

Agenda

8:00  –  9:00  Registration and continental breakfast

9:00 – 10:00  Ribbit Platform Overview — New Features, Platform Roadmap & Pricing

10:00 – 11:00  Integrating Ribbit into Any Application, Workflow, Site or Online Campaign

11:00 – 11:30  New APIs and application showcase

11:30 – 12:00  Platform opportunities

12:00  -   1:00  Lunch

1:00 – 2:45 Afternoon Breakout Sessions

•  Flash
•  Java
•  .NET
•  PHP

3:00 – 4:45  Afternoon Breakout Sessions

• Building Client-and Server-Side Apps
• JavaScript
• Silverlight
• REST

5:00 – 9:00  Hands-On Coding with Ribbit’s API/Programming Language Experts

• Coding for Flash, Silverlight
• Coding for Java, JS, PHP, REST, .NET

Ribbit is an open, cloud-based platform for communications innovation. By exposing our carrier-grade SmartSwitch™ though popular programming APIs, Ribbit enables the development of next generation “voiceware” applications, such as our white-labeled Ribbit for Salesforce® and Ribbit Mobile™ applications.

As you may or may not know, the cruise rate is based on Double Occupancy, so if you’re traveling alone you need a roomie, or pay for the extra space. If not having a roomie is what’s keeping you from registering for the cruise, hesitate no longer!

So let us know, we can hook you up! It’ll be worth it!! Don’t forget, registration for the cruise includes a complimentary pass to 360|Flex San Jose 2010!!! Register now!

Tom and I are gonna do a one day, all day training event in San Jose at Ebay in November. Tom’s really excited to get a full day of training going on. He’s missed it, since moving to AZ and leaving behind SilVaFUG, and now deciding that training is his calling, it’s gonna rock!

We’ll be opening the registration ASAP, but if you’re in the Valley, keep the 7th open for an all day, Flex Hands-On training day, for only $149

See you at MAX! Remember you can pick up a ticket to 360|Flex San Jose 2010 if you find Tom and I at the 360|MAX Unconference.

Not going to MAX? Don’t miss out on the first 100 ticket sale. The first 100 tickets to 360|Flex are $499, and already they’re moving fast. Register now!

It just so happened Ali Daniali, Charity Code Jam Master, was in need of just such a ticket.

Digital Primates is a great company, and long time supporter of ours, and it’s cool to see companies like them and Simplified Logic give back to the community in these ways. In case you’re curious Simplified Logic gave all their extra 360|Flex passes for ATL, away to the community, rather than not use them.

Make sure you stop by and say hi to the Digital Primates crew!!

Also if you’re interested in Ali’s Charity Code Jam efforts, find him, there will be a Jam at 360|Flex San Jose 2010, so don’t miss out, the Karma points are two for one!!

It’s not too late to register for the RIAdventure Cruise! Remember everyone that joins us on the boat, gets into 360|Flex SJ 2010 for free! 2 events, 1 boat, all awesome! Don’t miss out! Register now!

Chad sent some basic guidelines, so I’ve listed them below for discussion. The overall strategy thinking is this.

Something like a mini ignite at the beginning of the conference to vote on projects (This might turn into using uservoice ahead of time to make things more streamlined, not sure)

During the conference there’s room for working on this project.

At the end, of the conference, much like the Charity Code Jam does, we’d see how the side project(s) had progressed.

So tell us what you think of these guidelines, the idea in general, etc. Let’s get some conversations going around this

1. The project should not be for an organization. At least not directly. Ideally it is a concept the developer/designer wants to create for him or herself but hasn’t gotten to finish it due to time constraints. This isn’t meant to supplant a charity code jam.
2. The project should have a tech spec or user story already written for it. Ideally, wireframes or a prototype UI have been created as well.
3. The project should be a true deliverable RIA or experience, not an API or other type of code library. Creating an API or code library to complete the project is acceptable.
4. The project will first be blogged about on the 360|Flex site. No other public announcement of the development commencing or launch can precede it.
5. The team producing the work will be listed as co-contributors, with the idea originator getting lead credit.
6. Flex 4 and Flash Catalyst should be used for the tooling.

Remember, the first 100 tickets are on sale now for $499, and if you’re gonna be at MAX, take advantage of our “We love MAX” price of $250. You have to be attending MAX to get the price, but since we’ll be in the community Pavilion, the expo only pass will do just fine if you can’t swing the full price!

Don’t miss out, this 360|Flex is gonna be great!

In the end we went with Garth’s design, because well who doesn’t like 8bit space invaders?

Anthony did our 360|iDev logo and it rocks, but this time we just had to go old skool :)

We’ll whip up some speaker versions, etc soon, but this is it! The official 360|Flex Logo!