2008-08-25

Ottawa Flex Camp recap

The Ottawa Flex Camp was a blast. I saw my old partner in crime Stacy Young who now works at those same Adobe offices in Ottawa and another old college of mine from Optimal Payments. So it was nice to see old friends again, but also a couple of the presentations were interesting as well. One of them was related to a Flex app talking to a USB port using sockets via a local Java app. Also learning that there is a AS3 library for working with MySQL database was an eye opener! That library is hosted here, but I do not recommend using this in a production environment as there would be serious security concerns. Good for prototype apps I suppose.

Definitly would go again, kudos to the Adobe folks for entertaining 150 people for 5 hours :) Can't wait for the next one!