Friday, December 7, 2007

I sat at a table at Flex Camp Boston (which was great by the way) with two guys from a company looking to see if Flex would meet their needs in bringing their application to market or not (they wouldn't say what the application was).

One guy was approachable, friendly, and genuinely interested in Flex and how it could work with a .NET backend. He wore a blue button-down shirt, and he was obviously the developer for the company by the questions he asked me, etc.

His partner wore a suit without a tie, and generally only spoke about two words the entire day. He was the "suit" - the wannabe ceo of their startup. He shouldn't have been there, he didn't want to be there, he was completely bored out of his mind because it was obvious he didn't care about the technology... he only cares about how it gets done and gets sold in the end. Which is fine. But man, we saw the awesome Buzzword and he was Buzzkill.

I think they are going to choose Flex, with LiveCycle Data Services (if they can raise the $ to get the server), I think the friendly dev was totally open to what he saw & could see how powerful Flex really is. The sessions were by no means light-weight... there was some rockin' in-depth, code hungry sessions presented. Lots of Adobe presence. Lots of older developers who cut their teeth on Flex long ago... so the questions were really technical and wonderful. Most of the ColdFusion stuff flew over my head, but the concepts were clear which made that specific content digestible at worst.

Anyway, had a great time at FCB, I hope there is another one again very soon. And to the guy in the back of the room bitching about RTMP and ports, you bitched more than anyone I've ever seen and the Adobe guys cut you some slack. The CF dude beat you down several times with your misconceptions. I get that its a pain to worry about ports, so you do have http to rely on (ya there is some overhead)... stay tuned. You know Adobe won't let you down, you just need to be less aggressive in the way you ask your questions... you put people on the defensive immediately when there really isn't anything to have gotten defensive about. Hope you contact your IT guys and find out why some messages are getting dropped someplace.

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