Ryan Stewart posted yesterday that Adobe is sponsoring an evening Flash Camp here in Boston (well, Cambridge to be exact) at the Charles Hotel in Harvard Square. on March 19 They are flying in several members of the Flash Builder and Flex teams including Deepa, the new Product Manager for Flex. In addition, for ColdFusion folks like myself, there will be a session on ColdFusion Builder. Something tells me we can expect some exciting announcements a this event! Plus, there will be beer...and, if that weren't enough, there will be beer too! Oh, and prizes, but did I mention free beer?

This sounds like its going to be a great event and given that its complete free (as in beer!), I expect it will sell out soon. So, grab your tickets ASAP. Here's some basic details from Ryan's site:

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

So, if you haven't already bought your ticket for RIA Unleashed : Boston, I have good news and bad news. The good news is there will be even more prizes to give away including a copy of CS4 Web Premium, Flex Builder Professional and ColdFusion Standard thanks to Adobe. In addition, we will have 3 licenses of FDT Pure thanks to Powerflasher. Finally, ThinkGeek has offered us several items from their extensive array of products to give away. This means you have even more reasons (as if any were needed) to come to RIA Unleashed.

What's the bad news? Well, the bad news is that if you don't act fast, you may not be able to get a ticket. As of writing this post with still 2 1/2 weeks to go, we only have 15 tickets remaining. Given the rate they have been selling, we could be sold out as early as even today! While that's bad news if you are still procrastinating, its great news for me, for the event and everyone who is attending and for the future of RIA Unleashed : Boston. So, register today! I hope to see you there!

MAX has ended and there were a lot of exciting announcements including Flash CS5 being able to create native iPhone apps, the release of ColdFusion 9, new betas of ColdFusion Builder, Flash Builder 4 and Flash Catalyst and much more! If you weren't able to make it to MAX (or even if you did), RIA Unleashed : Boston offers you a great opportunity to get the inside scoop on all of these announcements from the industry experts both inside and outside Adobe including Ryan Stewart, Raymond Camden, Adam Lehman, Kevin Hoyt, Christophe Conraets and many more! We have exactly 1 month left until the event and tickets have been moving fast. In fact, I still expect the event to sell out, so be sure to register as soon as possible. Tickets are only $50 for individuals and $40 for groups of 3 or more, which includes the full day of 3 tracks, plus lunch, an after-party and tons of giveaways. You really can't find a better value for your training dollar out there. So, what are you waiting for? Register today!

I am proud to officially announce RIA Unleashed : Boston, New England's only conference focused on building rich internet applications using the Adobe Flash Platform including Flex, AIR, ColdFusion, Catalyst and other technologies. RIA Unleashed is, in part, an expansion of the former Flex Camp Boston events I have run the past two years. The event will be held at Bentley University in Waltham, MA, on November 13th, 2009, from 8:00am to 5:30pm.

As my regular readers probably know, for the past two years I have run the Flex Camp in Boston each December. Both years have been hugely successful, drawing close to 250 people each year despite horrible weather. This year, I am looking to switch things up a bit. First of all, I am hoping to run the event earlier (October) to avoid the snow storms (hopefully). The other, even bigger change is that I plan to have 3 tracks running consecutively with one focused on Flex, one on ColdFusion and one on related products, technologies and disciplines. The plan right now is to have two keynotes (1 for Flex and 1 for ColdFusion) and to organize it so that if you are interested in CF but not Flex, you could do a full day of only CF and the same goes for Flex.