SILVAFUG And Other Cool Stuff

A lot has been going on since my last post. It seems that things are starting to go the direction I have been looking for!

Last week I attended my first SILVAFUG meeting (thanks to Tom). It was nice to be around people with the same kind of interests as me. The information was a little over my head at the time, but it was still great to be there for the experience. I met some new people who gave me more great direction to follow.

One in particular is Doug Mccune. Tom had told me about him prior to the meeting. He is definetely an interesting guy. Particularly because he is the only person to attend a 360 Flex conference and be so successful that he became a sponser! I have to mention for him too that I will be buying the Adobe Flex 3 For Dummies Book since he is the author. Apparently he is a "Flex Machine". lol. He's done the work to prove it too. Besides being smart and successful, the guy has a great personality. Who else would you want to get advice from?

After the meeting, Tom gave me and a few others a ride back home. They were talking and joking about the "dumb" experiences they had when they first learned Flex. You know, the kind of errors they saw and the simple mistakes they made. It's sounds kind of funny at first. But then I realized, "Hey! That's the kind of stuff that happens to me right now!" lol. At least I know they all started in the same place.

After my last post I realized that it made more sense for me to go back and refresh my HTML and XHTML skills, so I did that. Being refreshed in that will help out in my MXML usage. Now I'm teaching myself Javascript. I figure that AS3 is so similar to Javascript (both being derived from ECMAScript) that I should have no problem transitioning. Plus, knowing Javascript increases my chance at finding a job now!

Well, that's all the time I have for now.