To keep in the open tradition of 360 | Flex I’m posting my survey feedback once again. The Merapi session at 360 Flex | San Jose was really fun and was happy to share the stage with my friend Jordan Synder.
There was one very constructive comment about our examples. The examples that I showed were pretty basic and Jordan’s example was somewhat complex. Showing some deeper examples with medium complexity is a great suggestion for improving this talk and a great take away for me in preparing for my next Merapi session.
Thanks to everyone that came to the session and provided feedback.
Without further delay…
How to make your AIR app blow up with Merapi
Merapi is a framework that enables a bridge between Flex on AIR and Java at the desktop layer. If you need to access a Java api in Flex or a Flex API in Java, this is the right tool for you. This session will cover the basics of using Merapi to build a Java enabled AIR application. Please bring your questions and comments about the framework as well as any applications you want to show off. This will be an interactive session, you’ll be able to code along with the session and try out some Merapi samples.
Respondants: 33
What the user Expected? 90.91 %
Slides Useful: 84.85 %
Average Rating: 4.3030
Session Informative? 100.00 %
Was the speaker authoritive?
Answered questions very well and had in-depth knowledge of the subject material
Both speakers spoke well.
Oh man, they knew like everything about this stuff. EVERYTHING.
Seemed very knowledgable, and was confident in what they were presenting.
Adam was very knowledgable about the topic, seeing as he wrote the framework. He was confident in his presentation, and had very interesting content.
he is involved with the beta framework and created working apps
Both Adam and Jordan did a great job with their presentation. Jordan’s usage of Bluetooth via AIR to control the LEGO MindStorm was way cool.
adam and jordan are badass
Both speakers were extremely knowledgable. Jordan; however was somewhat soft spoken and monotone, as if she was not really interested in presenting.
Adam and Jordan really know their framework, and they didn’t have trouble fielding question from the audience. Unfortunately, Merapi is still in its infancey, so a lot of their answers were, “That’s something we’re planning on doing.”
I did not previously know anything about Merapi
Yes
I love how you have the authors of the various projects presenting on their stuff.
he was one of the leads on the project and seemed to have a good grasp of what he wanted to present and the way to do it
He knew what he was doing, explained it well
Both speakers seemed very authoritive with the toolsets.
Was a fun preso. Jordan’s robot rocks!
Loved Ms. Snyder’s application!
Was the Session Informative?
I had never heard of Merapi before
Good demos
It was interesting to see what Merapi was capable of and how it worked.
I learned a whole whole lot of things.
Good examples of what can be done with the project, and a good quick intro on how to get started.
I have a sense of what merapi is and is not
The session was example-heavy, which really helps when showing off a framework.
The session was example-heavy, which really helps when showing off a framework.
very much so
Basic introduction to Merapi, though it is in private beta.
he started with just 4 slides and then jumped into code
yes, but I basically knew all that Adam said, but the lady was all new, that was great
Were the Slides Useful?
There were a few slides to give background info then many examples which really helped
Primarily code.
They were pretty good, but it was really all about teh codez.
There weren’t any slides, just sample code. Which is much better than slides.
There were only a few of them before he jumped in to code examples, which was great. The examples were simple enough to easily understand everything that was happening, but still interesting enough that they kept the audience’s attention.
Not that they weren’t useful, just pretty much non-existant. Not a bad thing, hands on demos rock.
There weren’t many slides, but lots of talk about what the code did, so that was great.
simple and sweet
Yes code snippets were concise and easy to understand
There weren’t many slides because the session was driven by examples, but for what they were, the slides did provide the necessary information: what Merapi is, where to get it, and contact info for the speakers
There weren’t many slides because the session was driven by examples, but for what they were, the slides did provide the necessary information: what Merapi is, where to get it, and contact info for the speakers
good overall
Yes
but it didn’t matter. the code was the best way to describe merapi
cant remember the slides – i do remember the robot
Additional Comments:
The focus on hardware integration was interesting although unexpected. A demo of complex data manipulation using Java would have been a nice addition. There was some delay switching presenters’ computers.
Adam is such a badass that now I’m following him on Twitter. Also, I really liked the guest appearance by Jordan. She has a neat robot and I want to be like her (knowledgeable about robots; not female).
I had never heard of merapi. I walked in thinking it yet another cairngorm clone but walked away with an appreciation of it’s real domain. nice presentation. concise. And thank you for finishing when you were done rather than pull out a load of filler.
Good speakers. Great demos. Bring them back.
Very good. Would like to see solutions to deplyoyment and runtime intigration with java and air
There were no Air Apps that blew up.
Great demo from both presenters on using Merapi to bridge AIR/Java
Adam had several examples that were somewhat low-level, getting no more complicated then pushing random numbers generated in Java to Flex, and Jordan’s examples were much heavier. I would like to have seen something in the middle: perhaps how to leverage Merapi to do something on the OS that you cannot do in AIR. The LEGO Mindstorm demo was fantastic. It really drove the power of the framework home.
Adam had several examples that were somewhat low-level, getting no more complicated then pushing random numbers generated in Java to Flex, and Jordan’s examples were much heavier. I would like to have seen something in the middle: perhaps how to leverage Merapi to do something on the OS that you cannot do in AIR. The LEGO Mindstorm demo was fantastic. It really drove the power of the framework home.
speakers were very knowledgable
The Lego Mindstorm NXT demo was very clever.
Great example of hardware / air integration.
AIR controlled cars woot!
Dude, the Mindstorm stuff was HOT, HOT, HOT!
it would have been nice if the developers of merapi had more of the projects future planned and deployment issues decided upon but overall it was a good introduction to what merapi is and where it fits in a developer’s toolkit
exciting stuff
Great examples!
as a java developer this is a solid tool to work with AIR