Flex at Barcamp Dallas 3

I participated in BarCamp Dallas 3 today. The event is hosted by the Microsoft office in Dallas. Microsoft has a huge two-building campus here and was kind enough to offer the conference room space as well as food for the barcampers. The event is mostly self-organized, anyone can throw their presentation on the schedule board. I presented on the subject of "Building applications with Flex". There were about twenty people in the session. Some stats on the polling I've done: about 70% heard of Flex. Only one person (besides me) actually used Flex. People attending the event would fall into one of the following groups: client-side developers (HTML/CSS/JS), server-side developers (lots of Ruby, less .NET, even fewer Java) and open source enthusiasts. I also had a chance to sit in on a few sessions targeted at the HTML/CSS developers. It was quite interesting to hear the issues described there. I will try to sum it up in another blog post.