You probably know that we are having a contest to win a free ticket to 360|Flex, which is coming this April in Denver. If you want to go to the best Flex conference without the hassle of paying for a ticket, this is your chance.

360|Flex is the best Flex conferences and attending will give you a chance to meet some of the best Flex experts in the industry. This will be your chance to learn about Flex, in person, as it transitions to the Apache Foundation.

360|Flex is loaded with over 50 sessions focused on Flex and related technologies. It will have nightly "networking opportunities" and even a pre-day with hands on training.

To enter our contest, just send us an email and tell us who is sponsoring the even receptions. The evening parties are a perfect chance to bump elbows with some of great Flex Developers from Adobe, and Apache Contributors, and other stellar Flex devs.

We have a special discount code that you can get just for sending us that email. So, even if you don't win, you still win. Be sure to get your entry in before Monday March 19th.

We're looking forward to seeing you there.

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Register Now for 360|Flex Denver to learn from the Flex Experts

For those that were listening closely in the last episode, you had heard that The Flex Show is having a second ticket contest with 360|Flex. If you want to go to the best Flex conference for free, this is your chance.

360|Flex is the best Flex conferences and attending will give you a chance to meet some of the best Flex experts in the industry. This will be your chance to learn about Flex, in person, as it transitions to the Apache Foundation.

360|Flex is loaded with over 50 sessions focused on Flex and related technologies. It will have nightly "networking opportunities" and even a pre-day with hands on training.

To enter our contest, just send us an email and tell us who is sponsoring the even receptions. The evening parties are a perfect chance to bump elbows with some of great Flex Developers from Adobe, and Apache Contributors, and other stellar Flex devs.

We have a special discount code that you can get just for sending us that email. So, even if you don't win, you still win. Be sure to get your entry in before Monday March 19th.

We're looking forward to seeing you there.

Sponsored By

Register Now for 360|Flex Denver to learn from the Flex Experts

For those that were listening closely in the last episode, you had heard that The Flex Show is proud to announce a contest for a complimentary ticket for 360|Flex in Denver this April.

360|Flex is the best Flex conferences and attending will give you a chance to meet some of the best Flex experts in the industry. This will be your chance to learn about Flex, in person, as it transitions to the Apache Foundation.

360|Flex is loaded with over 50 sessions focused on Flex and related technologies. It will have nightly "networking opportunities" and even a pre-day with hands on training.

To enter our contest, just send us an email and tell us what you're most excited about learning at the event. Just for entering, we'll give you a discount code (just in case you don't win). Be sure to get your entry in before February 20th.

We're looking forward to seeing you there.

Sponsored By

Register Now for 360|Flex Denver to learn from the Flex Experts

I know that our listeners have been used to getting another episode of Flex Show goodness released every other Wednesday at 9am EST. Today would normally be the release of a new episode. Due to some of the furor around Adobe and Flex; we've been trying to get timely episodes that are more timely instead our usual 4-8 week backlog.

As such, we don't have an episode ready to release today. I think this is the first time in three years we haven't had a bunch of episodes in our queue waiting to be edited and released.

There has been a lot going around in the Flex Community. There is a lot to take in, and a lot of change on the horizon. Despite some bad press, and some poor communication from Adobe; the news is not all bad. Flash is not dead, and today, I still believe Flex is the best choice for building many enterprise applications.

Adobe just finished up a semi-private meeting with some members of the Flex community at the Adobe offices. We weren't invited, but some of our friends were. We're hoping to get a few of them together for a brain dump of the event.

After that episode, we're hoping to get a handful of community members together for another roundtable, similar to our last one. These two episodes will bring us into 2011.

A few have asked me if we'd be abandoning the Flex community like so many others are claiming to do. It is our plan to continue as always right into 360|Flex in April 2012. I suspect this will be the last conference ever to focus on Adobe Flex; but hopefully 360|Conferences will bring us a 2013 conference focused on Apache Flex.

After 360|Flex, I plan to take a month off from podcasting, just like I did last year. Then John and I will re-evaluate what we're doing with the podcast and the best way to continue. Don't take the re-evaluation to mean anything bad, it's something we've done on a yearly basis since starting the podcast.

If you want to be on the show to talk about something, be sure to let us know.

Thanks for sticking with us!

For the final episode of this year, we've decided to do a live Q&A session, where you can come and ask us questions about the show and the state of Flex.

This will take place using my connect room on Monday December 20th at 7pm Eastern Time. Convert the time to your time zone here.

This is experimental for us, and we're not sure what to expect. If you ever wanted to know anything about the show, this is the chance to get info from the horses mouth. How do we do it? What are some of our favorite show moments? Do we prefer Coke or Pepsi? Do John and I fight? If the Hulk fought Spiderman, who would win?

We'll have the answers! So, come hang out with us for an hour or so and we'll see what happens.

We want to thank all those who have given to The Flex Show's 2011 Pledge drive. Your support helps keep us going. But, not everyone has given and we are still afar cry from our end goal. This is a video I put together about all the extra content we're offering you, including our Flex 4 screencast series:

The goal is to raise $12,000 because that would really help us keep things going as they are. If each listener gave $5 we'd easily surpass that goal. Go read through all our options and chose one that works for you.

Just a reminder that we have an ongoing Pledge Drive. this is your chance to help us, so we can continue for another year. One of the options this year is a tip jar thing. This is what I had to say about the tip jar:

The goal is to raise $12,000 because that would really help us keep things going as they are. If each listener gave $5,000 we'd easily surpass that goal. Go read through all our options and chose one that works for you.

For those of you who didn't catch it in the previous episode, we have launched The Flex Show 2011 pledge Drive. This is a way for you to help us continue for another year. Our goal is to raise $12,000; which is a sum easily surpassed if each one of our listeners gave $5.

We have a bunch of gifts including more content on the Flex Show USB Drives, T-Shirts, 360|Flex Memorabilia, and the ability to join us live for an episode. Here is my introductory video:

For those that have been paying attention, you'll know that we release audio interviews every other week on Wednesday at 9am EST. A show should be out right now.

Flash And the City is this week, and we will be there doing our daily conference interviews. As such, we decided to defer today's release and devote or time to the conference. Look for conference interviews coming out on Saturday, Sunday, and Monday.

Don't forget, you can still pre-order our premium USB drives to get some extra Flex Show goodness, such as a screencast series on creating Flex 4 components and the 2009 unedited tracks.