Oooops, please delete the first post as it didnt recive mye pasted in text as this one did. And I posted it to soon. Sorry!

It is always fun to get out of the office and kick back and have some input and enjoy good times with colleagues and friends. So in that department it was great!

The close contact with the speakers are always a treat. Makes FOTB seem small and intimate. 

The place is just great! Really enjoying Brighton more and more. But the venue might be getting to small or? Maybe some smaller restaurants around can be used to set up smaller special interest lectures? 

But I have two issue. One that I also had last year and hope was because FOTB was new and they would even it out this year. It wasn’t. 

I think of myself as a multimedia designer. By calling myself that I give myself a broad spectrum of tools I work with (multi) and apply them together (media). This means I have to know a little bit about everything, but not everything about one thing. So I design, animate, model, comp and at the very end I do a bit of code. Enough to keep my clients happy. But I am not a programmer and will never be one. 

But any lecture I went to that would over AS 3.0 in any term started of with a easy example in the first 5 minutes and then left that world to race into higher end coding that went so far over my head its still spinning. Its not all bad as it gives me guides for what I know can be done and I can have a dialogue with real programmers on a level that we all can enjoy. 

But for me I was hoping this conference would have some lectures based on what I think is the masses of flash users. The ones making banner ads, campaign sites and rarely codes more then three or four variables in on project. How do we take the leap from AS 2.0 and keep building our small to medium size projects in AS 3.0? How do we build more efficient banner ads to save on KB? Heck, how do we code a clickTAG button? These are the kind of topics I hope will be covered in the future. Or that FOTB will brand itself much clearer as a developer conference. I am pretty sure I am not the only one who left some lectures with more questions then answers. Although Mario and Klangfabriks lectures just left us all amazed. 

About what was new. The workshops! Great idea but poorly implemented. The gameworkshop was pretty much a long lecture with a tiny bit of coding at the end. The AS 3.0 lecture tried to cover WAY to much base. Jumping from beginner codes into flex I think was a bit of a stretch for my level (I know there where more like me). How about you try more and smaller workshops. 8 - 10 workshops with 20 – 30 in each maybe? And making the teachers work much closer with the groups. And keep the scope small but detailed. 

Its always easy to focus to much on the negative, but I really had a good time...now I have to sleep for a few days!

It is always fun to get out of the office and kick back and have some input and enjoy good times with coleagues and friends. So in that department it was great!

But I have one issue that I also had last year and hope was because FOTB was new and they would even it out this year. It wasent.

I think of myself as a multimedia designer. By calling myself that I give myself a broad spectrum of tools I work with (multi) and aply them together (media). This means I have to know a littel bit about everything, but not everything about one thing. So I design, animate, model, comp and at the very end I do a bit of code. Enought to keep my clients happy. But I am not a programer and will never be one.

But any lecture I went to that would over AS 3.0 in any term startet of with a easy example in the first 5 minutes and then left that world to race into higher end coding that went so far over my head its stil spinning. Its not all bad as it gives me guides for what I know can be done and I can have a dialoge with real programers on a level that we all can enjoy. But for me I was hoping this confrence would have some lectures based on what I think is the masses of flash users. The ones making banner ads, campaing sites and rearly codes more then three or four variabels in on project. How do we take the leap from AS 2.0 and keep building our small to medium size projects? How do we build more efficient banner ads to save on KB. These are topics I hope will be coverd in the future.

Thanks for a good time...now I have to sleep for a few days!