I’ve had a great couple of days here at The ActionScript Conference in Singapore (Flickr photos here and here). I had the first session of the conference and got to talk about Adobe Flash Collaboration Service. I had some good questions during the day and I’ve got high hopes for some cool AFCS examples coming out of Singapore. Of course the rest of the sessions were way better than mine. One of the things I love about this conference is the really amazing set of speakers. We got to see some multi-touch demos from Alvin Zhang, and during his session Andre Michelle demoed Hobnox, which is a fantastic use of the new sound features of Flash Player 10.

A few things that I learned during the conference:

• FDT is really cool. Michael Plank showed off some nice productivity features. Might check this out.
• Mark Barcinski is hilarious. If you get a chance to hang out with him at a conference, do.
• If you come to Singapore, you need to hang out with Aleksandar Gvozden. Just don’t drink his Rakia. It tastes like gasoline.
• I think Peter Elst has a loud, obnoxious side to him somewhere. And he also has an AIR Badge plugin for WordPress that I didn’t know about.
• The Sonoflash guys are doing some great work at using the new Flash Player 10 sound APIs to make it easier to use sounds in Flash apps (video coming later).

It really has been a great conference. One of the things I love about the Flash community is that there are so many different types of creative people. We have sound guys like Andre Michelle, full on artists like Erik Natzke, video geeks, code monkeys, and everything in between. This conference captures a wide range of those types so you get a great spectrum of talks and some really engaging hall conversations.