Second day just ended and a new day is already here. Time to catch some sleep.
The conference program extended in a pizza place 5 min away and across the street, each flexer having a small 1 liter glass of beer in front.
Anyway, Robin Harrison has a great time traveling elephant story, if you ever meet him he’ll be happy to tell it over again

Conference program of a day was pretty interesting.
Piergiorgio Niero made a nice presentation of Papervision3D, Sakri Rosenstrom enlightened us about flex invalidation mechanism internals and some optimisation techniques (he sacrificed Pan-European dinner for working on a presentation last night. Respect!), Neil Webb had a pretty funny presentation about Cairngorm framework that I unfortunately missed because we were too busy in the hall making funny 30 second “why flex?” videos.
Zohar Babin showed cool things that can be done with Caltura . And many other things that were going on in parallel in other 2 halls.

Closing day two was done (after we ate all pizzas and drunk all beer at this first place 5 min away and across the street) at hotel atrium drinking couple of more beers (it could sound like this event was just about food and drinking, but it’s not like that…) and shifting talks to metaphysical and global geopolitical levels. If I had a chance to go back to that time with Cyril Hanquez, Dan Thomas, Andrea, Michael Labriola, Sakri and Neil I wouldn’t change anything. It was funny enough

Well, I haven’t caught much of a first 360Flex conference day because I spent most of the time in my Fiat Punto driving from Zagreb to Milan. After reaching the city it took me another hour to find a route to the conference hotel, but that’s something you just count on when arriving to never-been-here-before-city. Well, at least I do. My Virgo horoscope sign gives me just basic space orientation abilities that usually lead to long and funny where-am-i-now-and-where-should-i-go adventures. Lucky me, I have a patience of Sisyphus. Sometimes. When there’s no other choice…
So I finally busted in a conference hotel hoping I’ll catch at least ending quotes of last lecture… Samuel Rivello spoke about innovating Flax/Flash development workflow - ways of using Embed tag in Flex to speed up compilation time and so on.
I remember a time two months ago when I hated every single “Embed” keyword in my app because it was slowing down my compilation times as hell and deadlines were “yesterday”. That happens sometimes, for example when you have about 100 Button instances in MXML components and each of them has fancy little icon inside. After some time I found some tips about it and now I kind of like my Embeds again.
Day one ended with a Pan-European Flex dinner with lovely Sumi Lim from Adobe taking best possible care of her developer community.
Actually it ended for me because I was dead tired and went looking for a place to stay (that’s what you do midnights when you don’t book hotel from home and don’t wanna pay 150 EUR for a room in a conference hotel where there’s no even free wireless included in the price…). Anyway, 30 minutes later I was enjoying my 3 times cheaper room in a nice small hotel with free internet just for me.
While I was sleeping like a log, bunch of other flexers were downloading bottles of wine all nite long. Some of them looked like a s..t in the morning