360Flex Ben Clinkinbeard at the Toys'r'us
Tom and I were killing some time waiting for some printing to finish so we walked over to a Toy'R'Us next door to the Kinkos. I'm a sucker for a Toys'R'Us, always have been. Guess who we ran into in the Action Figure aisle, (the only aisle in a Toys'R'Us that is worth being in) Our pal Ben Clinkinbeard, 360|Flex speaker.
"Hey dude! What're you doing here?" I ask as we walk down the aisle past the latest wave of Power Rangers toys, apparently the latest incarnation is the Power Rangers NASCAR. Not sure who they're targeted at. Ben looked up from the Princess Leia "Jabba's Slave Girl" edition action figure. "Oh hey guys."
We asked if he was excited about San Jose, who he was hoping to get in session.
"People that want to build reusable, useful components and are already comfortable with things like the component lifecycle. Oh, and people that weren't at my session in Atlanta because this one will be very similar."
Picking up some sort of transformer that changes from a robot to a grapefruit, Tom asks why folks should come see Ben, other than his great taste in action figures.
"Because if they don't I will cry. Not really, but guilt is a pretty good motivator sometimes. For reals though, rinky dink components that are rigid, single-use and/or hard for other developers to implement are not cool. Think about creating a component that when people ask 'can it do X' you can just say 'yep, do Y and Z and you're all set'. Nice, right?"
I look over at some truly neat looking figures from a movie I've never heard of. "What's the goal of your session?"
Putting Leia down and looking at what must be 30 different R2-D2 figures, one even opens and has the actor inside, creepy. "To illustrate some fairly simple things developers can do to take their components from being usable to being truly useful."
Tom is over looking at some He-Man figure, it's pretty dusty. Looks like Man-at-arms, "So what're you looking forward to most, besides your session, in San Jose?"
Ben looks at Tom, then the He-Man figure, "Alex Harui: Versioning Support for Large Applications and Portals and Michael Labriola - Diving in the Data Binding Waters."
Tom and I turn to head over to the electronics department, he busted our Rock Band Guitar last time we had it out, some Great-White-Lion-Snake song came on and he went nuts. I turn and ask, "Anything we should tell some one who's thinking about attending 360|Flex?"
Ben is heading out of the Action Figures aisle, and turns, "If you consider yourself a serious Flex developer and its at all feasible to attend, you'd be crazy not to. The sessions, the networking and the rare but awesome opportunity to geek out with a beer in your hand is simply too good to pass up. The price is an absolute bargain for what you get."
Ben should know, he was with us in Seattle and Atlanta. In Seattle he and some pals came up with FlexMDI, who knows what's next.
Wanna hang with Ben and Tom and I? See the new guitar we got. Register now!
"Hey dude! What're you doing here?" I ask as we walk down the aisle past the latest wave of Power Rangers toys, apparently the latest incarnation is the Power Rangers NASCAR. Not sure who they're targeted at. Ben looked up from the Princess Leia "Jabba's Slave Girl" edition action figure. "Oh hey guys."
We asked if he was excited about San Jose, who he was hoping to get in session.
"People that want to build reusable, useful components and are already comfortable with things like the component lifecycle. Oh, and people that weren't at my session in Atlanta because this one will be very similar."
Picking up some sort of transformer that changes from a robot to a grapefruit, Tom asks why folks should come see Ben, other than his great taste in action figures.
"Because if they don't I will cry. Not really, but guilt is a pretty good motivator sometimes. For reals though, rinky dink components that are rigid, single-use and/or hard for other developers to implement are not cool. Think about creating a component that when people ask 'can it do X' you can just say 'yep, do Y and Z and you're all set'. Nice, right?"
I look over at some truly neat looking figures from a movie I've never heard of. "What's the goal of your session?"
Putting Leia down and looking at what must be 30 different R2-D2 figures, one even opens and has the actor inside, creepy. "To illustrate some fairly simple things developers can do to take their components from being usable to being truly useful."
Tom is over looking at some He-Man figure, it's pretty dusty. Looks like Man-at-arms, "So what're you looking forward to most, besides your session, in San Jose?"
Ben looks at Tom, then the He-Man figure, "Alex Harui: Versioning Support for Large Applications and Portals and Michael Labriola - Diving in the Data Binding Waters."
Tom and I turn to head over to the electronics department, he busted our Rock Band Guitar last time we had it out, some Great-White-Lion-Snake song came on and he went nuts. I turn and ask, "Anything we should tell some one who's thinking about attending 360|Flex?"
Ben is heading out of the Action Figures aisle, and turns, "If you consider yourself a serious Flex developer and its at all feasible to attend, you'd be crazy not to. The sessions, the networking and the rare but awesome opportunity to geek out with a beer in your hand is simply too good to pass up. The price is an absolute bargain for what you get."
Ben should know, he was with us in Seattle and Atlanta. In Seattle he and some pals came up with FlexMDI, who knows what's next.
Wanna hang with Ben and Tom and I? See the new guitar we got. Register now!
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