Thoughts from 360|Flex day one
Here are a few things that stood out to me the most in this great day at the greatest Flex conference on the planet:
- FlexUnit 4. Wow. Big update. Very nice new features. Time to get (back) into it. (presentation by Michael Labriola)
- Renaun Erickson’s Structured Log Testing framework. Another great, unexpected surprise. I didn’t really have plans to go to this session except that Renaun’s such a smart, friendly guy. And frankly, I’ve never really had enough interest to take a look at his work on this project so far. Boy am I glad I changed my mind. This is definitely a testing approach I can get into — much less overhead than other approaches I’ve seen. Getting going with it is only barely more work than adding
trace()calls. And the result is certainly infinitely more valuable.
Considering I didn’t come to Indianapolis with any real interest in hearing more about testing…I’m surprised to find myself so excited by what I saw today. Today is a great day for Flex testing, that’s for sure.
I also got to hear some interesting ideas and future plans from Jacob Wright and Tyler Wright. (They made me a bit jealous — I wish I had a Flex programmer brother that I could see at conferences.) If you’re in Indianapolis, I recommend checking out their “write-in” session on the Flight Framework at 10am Tuesday in the Illinois East room.
Other less code-centric, but interesting, tidbits:
- Joe Berkovitz is an avid mountain biker.
- Ben Stucki has a sweet five-year-old daughter who likes deep-fried calamari and pasta, although she wasn’t able to finish her macaroni and cheese at Buca di Beppo, where apparently even the child meals are sized to feed 3-4 people.
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June 7th, 2009 at 6:07 pm
Peter deHaan is reported to have said:
May 18th, 2009 at 11:21 pm
renaun erickson is reported to have said:
I am glad you found the testing discussion going on today something of interest. It is definitely and area that needs more sessions on and exploring new ideas.
June 5th, 2009 at 1:04 pm
Brad White is reported to have said:
I was reading through your slides from 360 and it told me to come here for the complete slides, notes, links, etc… I can’t seem to find your presentation and I’m really keen on finishing the reading from the conference slides please.
June 7th, 2009 at 4:57 pm
Jacob Wright is reported to have said:
Where are your slides, notes, etc? And why is your background so saturated?! ;)
June 9th, 2009 at 9:59 pm
Paul Robertson is reported to have said:
Sorry for the delay. I have now posted the slides, notes, and links from my 360|Flex session “AIR data privacy and security”
@Jacob:
Saturated background? I don’t know what you’re talking about =)