Wednesday morning i woke late, missed the first few sessions and then arrived at the conference 15 minutes before my presentation thanks to Sydney traffic and Mark’s lack of driving skills. My presentation started 10 minutes late due to technical difficulties, my laptop display would only display on the projector screen or on the laptop screen as opposed to both, so we had to bring in a monitor so i could actually type and see what i was typing. The presentation was slow starting and then eventually picked up and went really well by the end of it. I showed off some funky examples of what can be done with the JSAPI and attempted to give everybody a basic knowledge of it, such that they can go away and code their own and learn the rest. People seemed to love it and a fair few questions for various people came afterwards, it seems i actually inspired people to come up with ideas for their own extensions, which can only be a good thing.
Following that was lunch, again great food! And then into a Mapping with Flash presentation which was really interesting and gave me some good ideas for applications. Then came John Talbot from Macromedia - another very nice bloke with his presentation of Flex, which turned into more of a Q & A session between myself, Branden, Peter, Jesse and John. I left the presentation very excited about Flex and its future.
Speakers roundtable session followed which was basically all the speakers up on stage for an hour and everybody was asking Macromedia questions so we just had to stear into the crowd and smile. Drinks flowed afterwards with all the speakers chatting about geeky Flash stuff and then off to a lovely Thai restuarant by the harbour where all the bloggers drank beer and ate lovely food. Returning from the dinner we went to an Irish pub in the hotel and played pool until the early hours of the morning. Im now in the Deamon offices with the rest of the speakers at a BBQ, more great food and drunken babble.