Last Night: Flex 3/AIR prerelease /w Ben Forta – Nashville

So last night I went to the Flex 3/AIR Prerelease event with Ben Forta here in Nashville. It is always a pleasure to see Mr. Forta talk… as is anyone with a great British accent. He talked about the new features in Flex 3 and some of the plugin stuff for PS/Fw/Ai look really sweet. The ability to easily skin Flex apps is very enticing to me.

I think the AIR stuff is what excites me the most. I have always wanted to be able to create desktop apps but never wanted to learn a “Real” programming language to make this happen. The ability to work in Flex and HTML/CSS and have it become a desktop app is sweeter then sweet.

All in all it was a great turnout for Nashville… about 80-90 people… and it is nice to see the Flex community start to grow. This is the year that I really will start to get into Flex and learn it!

Thanks go out to:

Matthew Wallace with 615Flex for putting on the event and having the foresight to get REAL beer.

Aaron West with Nashville ColdFusion User Group for co-sponsoring and for providing the space through Dealerskins.

The Dealearskins Guys for supplying Shuffles for giveaways (Aaron West, Andy Matthews, Cutter Blades) and Especially for Andy for thinking up of the meeting venue.

Dave Ramsey’s crew for furnishing the pizza and subs and the obligatory Total Money Makeover Books

And of course Adobe for sending Ben and providing giveways and refreshments… oh and wonderful products for us to come around and geek about!

Pictures to come… I forgot my digicam so I have emailed Brett Davis to see if he can email me some of his.