{"id":303,"date":"2008-05-30T14:06:01","date_gmt":"2008-05-30T22:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dougmccune.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/30\/im-sponsoring-360flex\/"},"modified":"2013-06-09T19:43:01","modified_gmt":"2013-06-10T03:43:01","slug":"im-sponsoring-360flex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dougmccune.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/30\/im-sponsoring-360flex\/","title":{"rendered":"I’m sponsoring 360|Flex"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"360flex_sanjose_badge200.gif\"<\/a>I’m an official sponsor of the 360|Flex<\/a> conference! I think I am the first and only “just a normal guy” (not a company or independent contractor) to be a sponsor. I’m not looking for clients, I’m not looking for work… I’m just a dude who likes the conference. I like it so much that I was really sad about not being able to speak at the next 360|Flex in San Jose in August. So since I can’t be there, I figured out how to get my face in front of y’all anyway \ud83d\ude42 I’m sponsoring the official 360|Flex shirt that all attendees will get and all you suckas have to wear my silly face on your sleeve. <\/p>\n

\"screenshot057.jpg\"Check out all the sponsor logos on the 360|Flex site (screenshot on the right). You see that dumbass-looking face with the thumbs? That’s me!<\/p>\n

Why the hell?<\/strong>
\nI owe a lot to 360|Flex. At the first one in San Jose back in March 2007 I made a ton of contacts that have helped me professionally. I happened to sit next to Tom Link and Brett Cortese from Universal Mind<\/a> in the back of some session and we started talking. Now I’m a full-time employee with Universal Mind doing sweet Flex work. I got some of my work shown off in the keynote of that conference too, and people started hearing my name and wondering who I was. <\/p>\n

Then at the second 360|Flex I did my first-ever conference presentation (on custom Flex component development). Suddenly I was somehow an authoritative Flex developer, and the main reason I actually spoke at that conference was because Tom Ortega<\/a> asked me to in one of our local Flex user group meetings (in addition to planning 360|Flex, Tom also runs SilVaFug<\/a>). I made a lot of friends at that conference and felt like I really became a part of the Flex community. And then I had a blast at the last 360|Flex in Atlanta, where I spoke again. <\/p>\n

Cha-ching<\/strong>
\nI make damn good money as a Flex developer, and I owe a lot of that to the fame and connections I made at the 360|Flex conferences. So this is my little way of paying some of that back. So thank you Tom and John for all your hard work!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m an official sponsor of the 360|Flex conference! I think I am the first and only “just a normal guy” (not a company or independent contractor) to be a sponsor. I’m not looking for clients, I’m not looking for work… I’m just a dude who likes the conference. I like it so much that I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,47],"class_list":["post-303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flex","tag-360flex","tag-conferences"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t