Pythoneer

Fortunately Tobias found out one day before that Adobe was touring with Air and coming to Munich. Adobe really had provided everything, from breakfast, drinks, lunch too I guess (we weren’t there) and beer afterwards (that we didn’t miss). It was really impressive. The talks were very Air focused, I liked the first one best, which gave an overview of what Adobe does and plans to do. One of the notable things was to see VoIP running inside a flash client, pretty nice. The Air stuff was just nothing too new and I see the main focus of using Air in running JavaScript+HTML apps inside it, so I was actually more interested in what is different to web apps in this concern. And Dion held a very nice overview talk about his employer’s latest product AppEngine, which was very interesting to see too, since I am a django addict too.
But anyways, besides my personal interests, I think Adobe had arranged a great event and the sessions had been very well received. Congrats Adobe. it was fun.
The best part for me was meeting with Dion Almaer the Ajaxian man, finally getting to know the person behind the voice, since I am an avid podcast listener I have heard all of the ajaxian podcasts too. If you ever have him near go and talk to him, a very nice person!
It was also nice talking to Andreas Ecker project lead of qooxdoo, he showed me what will be coming next in their new version. But you know, I am already married ;-). Even more interesting because we had been colleagues for a while last year.
And Adrian Ludwig from Adobe stopped me when he saw the “dojo” on my shirt and we talked some dojo+Air. Adobe is very interested in staying in touch with the AJAX community. It just simply seems that the Flash guys are coming across Air anyways, but the other potential users are all the AJAX devs. So I hooked him up with Nikolai right away, who I knew had been creating the nice Air demo over at dojocampus.