{"id":398,"date":"2009-01-16T08:53:54","date_gmt":"2009-01-16T16:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dougmccune.com\/blog\/?p=398"},"modified":"2013-06-09T19:38:47","modified_gmt":"2013-06-10T03:38:47","slug":"get-me-on-the-360flex-speaker-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dougmccune.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/16\/get-me-on-the-360flex-speaker-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Get me on the 360|Flex speaker list!"},"content":{"rendered":"

[UPDATE<\/strong>: apologies if this showed up as new in your feed readers when it isn’t, I had a database problem and had to restore two old posts. Also, the voting has now been closed, so no need to go and vote, thanks to everyone who voted!]<\/p>\n

John Wilker<\/a> just posted all the speaker session submissions<\/a> that they received for 360|Flex<\/a> and he’s letting the community weigh in on what they want to see at the conference. The sessions don’t list the speaker names, although with a little reading I could figure out some of them (my money’s on Labriola for the “Kicking Ass and Taking Names” session. [update]<\/em> I was wrong on that one, looks like Joseph Balderson<\/a> submitted the kicking ass session). My session’s title is Cool Shit: Inspiring Creation and Creating Inspiration<\/a>. The fact that I drop the s-bomb in the title and my description includes the phrase “holy shit, that’s fucking amazing” might give away the fact that it’s mine \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Here’s the description I submitted, which should sum up the kind of presentation I want to give:<\/p>\n

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By the end of 2008 I had burned out. Flex development had become a job – a real job, a normal job – and I wasn’t experimenting and playing with the technology like I used to. So I decided to go on a quest of rediscovery. I was determined to find the magic again, that spark of “holy shit, that’s fucking amazing!” that comes when you’re so inspired by someone’s work that you stay up until 4 in the morning trying to create something as cool.<\/p>\n

This session will include examples of Flex and Flash projects and experiments that have re-inspired me. I’ll talk about why I fell in dorky love with each example, and then dive into what that inspiration led me to create. Inspiration is a cycle, and I hope that by sharing my own inspiration and my own creations I can provoke others to do the same. We’re all in this together, and there’s so much cool shit to explore.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is sort of a self-therapy session for me. Over the next few months I’m going to be focusing my effort on playing again, like I used to when this technology was new to me. I want to bring back that intoxication with the technology that I first had when I started learning Flex.<\/p>\n

So if you think the session idea sounds good, go and vote for it<\/a>! Make sure to vote for all the other ones<\/a> you want to see too, the list of sessions is really long (126!) so it takes some time to read through them all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[UPDATE: apologies if this showed up as new in your feed readers when it isn’t, I had a database problem and had to restore two old posts. Also, the voting has now been closed, so no need to go and vote, thanks to everyone who voted!] John Wilker just posted all the speaker session submissions […]<\/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],"class_list":["post-398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flex","tag-360flex"],"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