John C. Bland II

I’m at the airport squeaking out this post before group A finishes and group B (my group) starts loading. I wanted to get here earlier and write this eloquent post about how my life is about to transcend…{insert scratched record noise}…WHATEVER…I’M GOING TO CHICAGO! lol

See you there! Keep an eye out for a lot of posts this week. I blog a lot when I’m at conferences and they usually include “WOW…THIS IS SWEET!” type posts. I’ll try to keep’em a bit to the point this time around.

Uh oh…group A is moving fast…gotta run! {insert Speedy Gonzalez running noise} lol

Day 1 is complete…PHEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!

My sessions were good for the most part but, for whatever reason, I kept losing track of my thoughts. It wasn’t too often but it happened more than I’d care.

As promised, I’m uploading the files from my “AS3 Command Pattern session”:http://www.johncblandii.com/uploads/AS3CommandPattern.zip. My other sessions used examples from “Adobe LiveCycle ES Edition”:http://www.adobe.com/products/livecycle/editions.html, “Adobe AIR HTML+JS”:http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/air/develop_ajax.html, and “Adobe AIR Flex and Flash”:http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/air/develop_flex.html.

Tomorrow I have a preso at 1 PM (same Bat-time…same Bat-place) title “Flex 3 Preview” which covers…ummm…Flex 3. Come out and check out Flex 3!

Also, here in the next month or so I’m going to start creating presentations via Adobe Connect as well as writing more tutorials. I need to sharpen my preso skills again and I have a LOT to cover with all of the ColdFusion 8, ASP.NET/Silverlight, Flex 3, AIR, and Flash CS3 goodness out there right now. Oh how yummy it is to be a developer right now.

Well, it is “Code Camp”:http://www.desertcodecamp.com time! Preso’s have begun and I’m starting my first in 2 minutes! See you there…errr…here.

I am officially registered for “Max 2007″:http://www.adobemax2007.com! Yay!

This year will be different though. I’m going as an attendee (“Katapult”:http://www.katapultmedia.com employee) ANDDDDDD I’ll be a TA (teacher assistant) for several “Flex”:http://www.adobe.com/go/flex and “ColdFusion”:http://www.adobe.com/go/coldfusion hands-on training sessions on Sunday as well as a few during the week. This is going to be pretty cool.

I’ll be at the “Palmer House Hiton”:http://www1.hilton.com/en_US/hi/hotel/CHIPHHH-The-Palmer-House-Hilton-Illinois/index.do and will probably be in the lobby geeking out a bit (maybe in the room; lol). Hopefully I can meet up with some more geeks and business folks.

Special thanks to “Michael Hagel”:http://www.michaelhagel.com/…you know why.

Sarge…appreciate the **strong** nudge to go. lol.