FlashCamp Boston is a free one-night event hosted by Adobe covering everything you need to know about getting started with building and designing rich Internet applications (RIAs) with Flex 4 and Flash Builder 4.

Details

How Much: Free and open to the public (Limited space and Registration required)

When: Friday, March 19th, 2010. 5:00 p.m. EST - 10:30 p.m. EST

Where: The Charles Hotel, Harvard Square, 1 Bennett St. Cambridge, MA 02138

Why: Why not?

How Much: Free and open to the public (Limited space and Registration required)

What to Bring: Yourself and your laptop. We’ll be providing the beer, food, prizes, and access to parts of the engineering team so you can get all of your Flex questions answered.

Agenda (tentative)

5:00 - 5:45 p.m.  Registration/Food/Drinks/Networking

5:45 - 6:30 p.m.  Keynote/What's New in Flex 4 - Deepa Subramaniam

6:30 - 6:50 p.m.  Flash Catalyst - Doug Winnie

6:50 - 7:10 p.m.  What's New in Flash Builder 4 - Heidi Williams

7:10 - 7:25 p.m.  Break

7:25 - 7:55 p.m.  Animation and Effects in Flex 4 - Chet Haase

7:55 - 8:10 p.m.  Introducing ColdFusion Builder - Alison Huselid

8:10 - 8:25 p.m.  PHP and Flex 4 - Kevin Schroeder from Zend

8:25 - 8:55 p.m.  Creating Custom Layouts in Flex 4 - Evtim Georgiev

8:55 - 9:10 p.m.  Break

9:10 - 9:40 p.m.  Advanced Skinning in Flex 4 - Ryan Frishberg

9:40 - 9:55 p.m.  SpringSource and Flex 4 - Mark Fisher

9:55 - 10:25 p.m.  Flash Builder 4 Secrets - Rob Brambley III

11:00 p.m.           Doors Close

Meet the Teams

People from the engineering teams from the Flex SDK and Flash Builder will be on hand to answer your questions during the breaks. 

Pizza and Beer

Pizza will be served.  In addition, we've selected some local brews for your enjoyment during the event including:

• Harpoon IPA
• Mercury Ipswich Original Ale
• Smuttynose Shoal's Pale Ale
• Wachusett Blueberry

News and Social

Flickr: Please tag all images and videos you take related to FlashCamp with the "flashcamp" and "flashcampsboston" tags.

Twitter: FlashCamp Twitter Account. Note, we will use this during the conference for session feedback and questions. Please mark Flash Camp related tweets with #flashcamp.

Parking

Self-Parking and valet is available at hotel’s parking garage is available for $10 after 4:30pm.

Public Transportation

MBTA (Red Line)

Follow the signs inside the station to the Harvard Square Exit. Once on the street level, proceed down Brattle Street and stay street at the fork.  Turn right on to Bennett Street, and the Hotel is immediately on the left.

Bus

MBTA has three bus lines that stop at the Massachusetts Ave station:
•    Line 77
•    Line 83
•    Line 96

Cabs
Brattle Courier: (617) 547-7900

Hotel Information

The Charles Hotel
1 Bennett St.
Cambridge, MA, 02138
617-864-1200
Directions

Please note that check-in time is after 3:00 p.m..  Guests arriving prior to this time will be accommodated as soon as possible.  Check-out time is 12:00 p.m. or prior.  Arrangements can be made for baggage storage with the Concierge.