A few random thoughts from CFObjective

CFObjective was last weekend. I was there. I spoke. I enjoyed myself immensely. Here are a few random thoughts I had regarding the "experience" of the conference:

• The Hotel Rocked. Especially the food.
• I accidentally flew in a day early, and as such offered to lend an extra hand on day 0. I ended up folding around 50 of the T-shirts. I also had breakfast w/ Joe and Adam and two other people who escape me at the moment. Lunch was with Charlie. Overall a pleasant stress-free day.
• The more times that you give presentations, the easier it is. My presentation was on creating Flex Components. It was the fifth presentation I've ever created, and the 20th time or so, speaking to a group like this. It gets easier the more you do it.
• When at lunch or breakfast you are sitting at a table of 2-8 conference attendees, how hard is it to say "Hi I'm Jeff, who are you?" It used to be super hard for me, but is much easier now. I was glad every time I did that. I'm reminded of the mid-Ultima. You walk up to a bunch of random people and ask "Name", "Job", and "Health" an awful lot. Only this time, I wasn't looking for the last piece of a map. Took me ~6 months to find the 9th and final map piece. The Internet has definitely changed such challenges.
• A lot of people recongnized me as a CFDJ writer. I suspect this is because I still write for almost every issue. I think I'm one of the few column authors still standing.
• I got to have lunch with a bunch of CFDJ editorial board members. We are making a last ditch effort to improve the magazine.
• I got to ride the indoor roller coaster in the mall. Awesome!
• For the first time in my life, I successfully kept my mouth shut. I did not reveal the true identity of the "CF is Antiquated" guy.
• Did I mention how good the hotel food was? The Chocolate Fountain did wreck havoc on my digestive system, though. Or maybe it was the apple that Jeff C guilted me into eating? Yeah, definitely the apple.
• I think sitting in the hotel lobby will be the closest I'll ever get to Stark. The style was about right for the Longest Journey games. All I could make out from the background music was drum and bass, making it feel like a techno loop. Even when empty, the room had a crowd lull.
• Scorpio has a debugger and a server monitoring tool. I need to compare these tools to FusionDebug and SeeFusion. Speaking of SeeFusion, I got to meet the guy who created it. I hope to get him on the Flex Show at some future point.