360 Flex Day 1 was very cool.  I really enjoyed "Flex and Hardware" by Justin Mclean.  For the first time ever I played around with an Arduino and Flex.  It really got my head thinking about all the things you can do with an Arduino.  It was very cool to see Flex controller the Arduino and also the Arduino passing information to Flex.  This was done by using as3Glue and also Serial Proxy (Go to the bottom of the Arduino download page).

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Day 1 at 360 Flex in San Jose should be a lot of fun.  I am first sharing a picture of the hotel room turned command center.  The Marriot has terrible wifi that is not free so I am wireless tethering my DROID over Verizon 3G.  It has been working out great for all.

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Steve Weyrick and I (John Gag) will be attending Flex 360 in San Jose this coming weekend.  We will be in San Francisco friday night and then San Jose for the conference. 

Just wondering if anyone else is going and what their plans are.  Happy Monday!

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To make this post a little more real, I just turned off my laptop WIFI and started tethering my Google DROID.  I have to first say that setting up tethering on my ANDROID phone was so easy it kinda hurt a little bit.  You go to a market place, download a FREE application (accepted application in the market), run a couple steps and BAM. No Jail breaking, no worrying about rooting your phone, just so easy and safe.  Here is a link to the application I used and feel free to let me know if there is a better one. Its called PdaNet in the market: 

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Looking for a fast and easy tip to speed up your SQL queries then look no further.  Using a conditional AND in your join will improve performance rather than putting it in the traditional WHERE clause. Let me explain by using a simple book order example.

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So I find myself checking MangoBlog.com more often to see if any news has been released.  Well I decided to make a quick plugin so that the Mango Blog News appears right in the Overview section of the Mango Blog Admin.  Not sure if this will be useful for anyone but I have already used it today.

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So I am always on the lookout for new material to read in this world we call Web Development.  More specifically I look for ColdFusion material and Flex material. I bit the bullet and bought Fusion Authority and Flex Authority and here is my short review.

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The Mango Blog Theme "Fresh Media" is now available for download in the Mango Blog admin.  If you have any questions on how to port themes into Mango Blog or if you have any questions/comments please feel free to write a comment, or contact me by email/forums.

For more information about the theme:

http://www.mangoblog.org/news/new-theme-freshmedia

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Not sure how many people have already seen this but I thought it was worth a good laugh.  The picture says it all.

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