My first 360|Flex experience began Monday morning with Mike Labriola (@mlabriola, slides) stalking back and forth in front of a standing room only crowd. Shirt un-tucked, one hand thrust into a pocket he held a goblet of water in the other from which he alternately took sips and gestured to his listeners. Delivering his best Sean Astin, Mike transformed the room into his private cigar study. We were all in audience to savor his cognac and digest the divine merits of unit testing Flex applications.

“Welcome to 360|Flex,” I thought. The session was fantastic and Mike was entertaining all the way through the final “ok, get out of here” as he waved his empty goblet and turned his back.

Bookend that session with my final session Wednesday afternoon on Design Patterns delivered by Yakov Fain (@yfain). I whispered to @dmatchack sitting in front of me, “I hope we finally talk about something over than MVC”. He said, “no kidding” and chuckled.

What we received in the next 1 hr and 20 minutes was a much more than that.