360Flex Europe - Day 1

360Flex Europe day 1 is over. And it was awesome. I'm very happy to have the first edition of 360Flex Europe happens here in Milan, Italy. The conference does not reach the sold out but this is a good thing because with less people you can have a better networking activities and spend more time with people in a relaxed enviroment !
These are the list of sessions I followed yesterday:

• Koen De Weggheleire: Flex and LiveCycle Data Services
• Michael Labriola: Dense and Hot - An Introduction to Your Application's Start Up
• Marco Casario:
• Luca Mezzalira: Flex Bitmap Effects!  and Eros Marcon: Video Streaming with Flex and Flash Media Server

This is a report of the first day, briefly. Koen introduced the Livecycle Data Services development giving an overview of the possibilities that the DS gives to Flex developers, as you can see from the image on the right. He made a very clear and linear presentation, targetted to the audience, and moreover Koen is the only developer able to crash a Mac OSX system :) Great job mate !
Michael Labriola presented a very interesting topics talking about what happens under the hoods of component lifecycle architecture. It was very interesting and he's a great presenter. He can also speak italian very well with a fucking cool pronunciation ... that's incredible ! You rock man ;)

I'll talk about my session, Better Flex and AIR Applications Using AJAX, on a dedicated post :)
At the end of the day we reached Sumi for a dinner with some people from the european communities.
We had great time all together and Sumi is so sweet with all of us spending her time "making community". She's lovely!

360Flex day 1 was awesome. I had cool time with Koen (hey man your last name is unutterable), Cyril, Michael Labriola, Luca and Matteo. Plus a lot of new people known.

Tom and John made a wonderful job, putting on bad-ass conferences with excellent  good speakers.

Comments

[koen de weggheleire]

Actually changing the title of my presentation last minute to "naked women and beer" resulted in much more people attending my liveCycle session ;-)

[Tom Ortega]

Thanks for the kind words, Marco. I agree with you. The small size definitely makes it more intimate! And we agree, Labriola rocks! :)

Thanks for pushing us to get out of our comfort zone of American and going worldwide.

Grazie!

[Cyril Hanquez]

Nice day 1 post Marco. I would have loved to attend Michael's session but Koen would have killed me ! :-)