It was an exciting and eventful day at The Lalit Ashoka Hotel, Bangalore. The "Flash Ahead" event started as scheduled. We had a chance to watch the special preview of CS4 products, power of Flash Catalyst and Gumbo ( flex4 ).
And to talk about the RIAthon event, there were 10 finalists looking to grab the iPhone. Each team was asked to demo their application for a max of 3 mins. When our turn came, Ananth did all the talking, and i controlled the application. It was a wonderful demo by Ananth, as we were inching towards the iPhone. We were confident of winning the RIAthon 08 title, but we did not want to have any expectations.
Everyone was ready to hear the results. Harish announced the results in the reverse order. Our application GeoScope won the runner-up title of RIAthon 08 contest. We got a Sony home theatre system as the prize. The winner of the event was Krishna Prathap and his friend, for the application called FlexStats. He is also from chennai, and we know him personally. We are also happy that chennai grabbed the top two positions in the event.
It was an exciting evening for us as we signed off in a winning note. We thank Adobe for conducting this event, and congratulate them for making this as a big success. We are looking forward to participate in more events of this kind.
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Wow fellas thats great news !
Congrats to the doer and the talker !
Thanks Sathya.
Congrats! Any thougths on the event? When I heard the India team was putting it on, I thought it was a great idea.
=Ryan
ryan@adobe.com
Thanks Ryan.
When i entered the event hall, first thing that grabbed my attention was the limited number of available seats. I was a little bit surprised, because few months ago at "RIA Architect Summit 2008" the event was attended by big crowd of developers. Anyway it didn't bother me much, as the event started on time.
The events of this kind will encourage more people to take up ActionScript seriously as part of their career. I feel that most of the developers have opted out of the contest taking it lightly. After seeing the glamorous prizes and the kind of recognition one gets, i am sure that large number of developers will participate in upcoming versions of this contest.
I also feel that with the support of Adobe, even the user groups can host the miniature of this event. I along with Ananth, managers of Chennai Flex User Group, is planning to get the required help from Adobe for hosting these kind of contests. Lets hope for the best
congrats to talk ahead of adobe.
When will be next session in Adobe Flex 3. Try to Conduct by the sponsership by Adobe.
Regards,
R.Denesh Kumar
rdenesh@gmail.com
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