Back home from Flex Seminar

Just got back to Dallas from a one-day Flex Seminar in New York. From our perspective the seminar was quite interesting and very productive. The booth traffic was constant as we were demonstrating our implementation of the Flex Data Services functionality for .NET and Ruby on Rails. I plan to do another post describing the demo.

There were six vendors in the 'vendor demonstration area'. Only three companies (Adobe, Straker and us [Midnight Coders]) develop products, others are consulting/professional services organizations. I think this is due to the fact that Flex is still a relatively new technology. I bet a year from now, a similar event will be drawing a lot more product vendors.

The speaker line-up, IMHO, was okay. Personally, I would've been more interested to see and hear not only what people do with Flex, but also how they got there. I was curious to know what sort of challenges they had to overcome, what type of technology decisions had to be made and finally what are the best practices they could share.

I was asked to do a presentation on Flex Data Services, but, unfortunately in the end I didn't get a chance to present. You can still download my presentation here.