What an amazing experience this week has turned out to be. I didn't get a chance to record as much of the conference on here as I would've liked, but I blame that on flaky dial up connections and being absorbed into the "see as much as possible before you leave" mindframe. Sean did a much better job than I.
The conference itself was spectacular. There were a lot of great presentations and much was shared about Flex, Breeze, CF BlackStone, and of course Central. Flash was not left out, being as it's the technology that really ties everything else together and every application seems to touch.
As a speaker, the most enjoyable part of the conference for me was socializing at the bloggers dinner and then the speaker's barbeque the following night at Daemon. It's great to finally be able to put names to faces, though I think I spent a little too much time with Peter and Guy. There were a few times where I caught myself talking with a hint of a British accent, and I even let "bloody" slip in as an adjective. I thought for sure I would've used "crikey" first...
All in all, Sydney was an amazing experience. I leave tomorrow, so I have another night yet to enjoy my time down under. I'll probably be creating a photo gallery at some point - I have something like 400 photos, but most of them are "tourist" things and not really of the conference. I'm not sure many people would be interested in my random pictures throughout Sydney, but there are definitely a few that I want to share.
Next week, it's back to ActionScript 24/7, but this vacation was enjoyable and the time off was very refreshing.
Did I mention I'm working on an ActionScript -> bytecode compiler? I've spoken to a few people about it at the conference.. everyone seems to be pretty excited about it. I'll post more about that when I get back home. My language of choice for the project is Java -- I want to be able to compile ActionScript under Linux so I can stop using Windows for good.
A special thanks goes out to Geoff and the entire Daemon crew. You all rock. Thanks for inviting me down to participate. It's been really great, though I never did find Nemo...
It was great meeting you, i also enjoyed your presentation.
Hopefully next year, someone else can pay for you to come down.
btw, did you end up finding NEMO ;)
Great event! Great dinner/s! My 2am Wednesday night effort just drained me so I went straight from the Partner Conference to the Airport and sat around till my 8.30pm flight back to Canberra. The taxi ride to the Airport was pretty hairy also!
See you all next year!
Darron, it was great mate!! Will keep in contact.
Andrew