Here is my 360 Flex wrap up, sorry for the delay everyone. So, if you have been following the posts you are probably wondering what happened to the charity project. Wednesday, the last day of the conference started off with the Community Keynote. Near the end of the keynote, Ali was invited up to show off our working soup kitchen finder. Ali, on zero sleep, actually pulled off a good presentation of the app. Demo went off well, no major bugs! The finder worked great and everyone seemed to like it.
Then, out of nowhere, Tom and John announced that they were going to donate $7,000 to Second Harvest in addition to the work we presented. Not even Ali knew this was going to happen. I have to say this was pretty cool. On top of this they also donated another $1,000 (I think) in the form of iPods and iTunes gift cards to the developers that helped. Totally unnecessary as we all had such a blast, but again, very cool of 360 Flex.
The rest of the day was sessions as usual. I had some more time this day to take it all in. Bounced around in the morning to check out Juan Sanchez and Tony Hillerson talk about data visualization. Mike Nimer gave a good talk on dpHibernate and I will definitely be checking it out more in the future. He showed some good ways to get lazy loading functionality out of Blaze DS.
Seth and I will be going over some more details in our review this week at Flash Coders.
1 Comment
That’s just how we roll
It wasn’t a surprise to us, but it wasn’t planned until we were going over our numbers. In Seattle we promised 10% of our profits to making the world a better place, when we realized what our profits were exactly, we decided we had our charity right on site anyhow, might as well be them, they’re doing good work, and the money, plus the charity code jam made it just that much better for them.
Glad you enjoyed your time, see you next time!