Phoenix has started a Flex User Group! I'm very excited about this. Finally I can bore someone besides my wife with my rantings about how awesome Flex is.Our first meeting was rather low-key; as expected it was mostly a meet-n-greet where a lot of people handed out business cards and we all got to see that there were other people like us out there. Somebody from Adobe gave a brief Breeze talk thanking us for showing enough interest in the platform to form a group and talking a bit about the Flex 3 Beta. I understand we're going to have some more people down from Adobe in the flesh in future meetings.
I was interested (though not at all surprised) to discover that most of the guys that drifted into Flex actually came from the Java world rather from Flash. It seems that a lot of us Flash guys get a bad rap from other disciplines for being hacks and not knowing how to program. Hopefully the involvement of programmers from other walks of life in groups like this will bring some much needed attention and validation to our platform and to our code.
If you're in the valley area then I hope to see you there!
