I’m blogging from TAC Singapore 2008, organised by Singapore Flex User Group, held at the Singapore National Library. Hu Shunjie started off TAC by giving a passionate presentation on “Passion”. It’s passion that fueled this first ever user group initiated conference and I must give the organisers a big congratulations! No doubt the amount time [...]
I’m blogging from TAC Singapore 2008, organised by Singapore Flex User Group, held at the Singapore National Library. Hu Shunjie started off TAC by giving a passionate presentation on “Passion”. It’s passion that fueled this first ever user group initiated conference and I must give the organisers a big congratulations! No doubt the amount time and effort spent on the conference logistics must be tremendous.
Lee Brimelow, of gotoAndLearn.com fame, was next with his presentation on Flash. He is the platform evangelist for Flash. He also delved into several new features of Flash Player 10, which was released recently on 15th October 2008. I won’t repeat the contents here, as I’m sure that it has been blogged about forever.
Michael Plank started his presentation on FDT3, a kick-ass Eclipse-based Actionscript editor. He gamely recreated all of his demo classes without the mouse, using only keyboard shortcuts, to demonstrate the power of FDT templates, quick fix and refactoring functions. It wasn’t his best time, but still he did it in a swift 3 minutes and 50 seconds!
Peter Elst’s presentation was on Adobe AIR. Although he had some problems demoing AIR apps requiring internet connection, he did managed to show several, such as the native drag and drop capability, encrypted local store that can save to a secure area such as DPAPI on Windows and Keychain on OSX, undocumented ProductManager class that can launch an AIR app, and finally a community project called Merapi, based on Java that will help AIR launch external apps.
Marco Casario, CTO of ComTaste, presented on mash up of AIR widgets, with publicly available API such as del.io.cio.us, flickr, twitter, just to name a few.
Grant Straker, CEO of Straker Interactive, couldn’t make it to TAC and Mohammed Khan was allocated to the time slot. His talk was about skinning components using Flex Builder 3.
Prayank Swaroop, a technical evangelist for Adobe, talked about BlazeDS and it’s role in providing remoting services for Flash and Flex apps, making possible multiuser apps such as chat rooms and whiteboard meeting.
Stefan Wessels, co-founder of Breakdesign.com, gave his talk on building Flash Lite games and apps. His entertaining slides used the Star Wars analogy and urged developers to embrace the “Dark Side”, to begin experimenting and developing on the Flash Lite platform. He certainly livened up the place after the heavy developers talks.
Eksander Gvozden ended the conference with his presentation on Flash and Social Media.
In my opinion, this year’s TAC has been a monumental success. Although it’s relatively a small conference compared to the likes of FOTB or FITC, it paved the way for perhaps more such user group organised events. Once again, congratulations to SFUG. Now I’m waiting for <head> conference 
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