One of our exceptional developers Robert Broneak recently attended Flashbelt, an annual conference here in Minneapolis that brings together designers and developers to “get their geek on” and learn more about the growing world of possibilities online. Here are his thoughts on the event:

Well,

Flashbelt 2010 is done and if you are a programmer/developer it held a great amount of inspiration, creative concepts, and reasons to work hard. None of the speakers received their titles as "experts" simply from being talented; instead they earned them through very hard work and determination. When you see and hear such people speak it is a wonderful reminder that if you want something bad enough, you can get it.

On the technical side of Flashbelt; yes it is about flash, but all of the speakers are not talking about and demoing flash. There was a broad range of programmers there discussing programming environments, work flow and code libraries. Further, it seems as though there is a large focus from the programming world to reduce the time it takes to get results from your ideas. This is made possible by implementing code libraries and open source code. It is exciting when such a high level of knowledge is created and openly shared.

There was chatter concerning the longevity of flash, however, no in-depth statements were made. It will be interesting to see how it all plays out; remember, we are at a very early stage of the internet and things are going to be awesome! If you want to talk with me further about anything specific, just give me a holler.

Thank you all for the patience and opportunity that allowed me to take part in Flashbelt 2010!

rB