Sorry it took so long to get around to this. I got back Saturday afternoon, but had some debts to handle for being away so long – like taking my wife shopping and taking my daughter to the park. Sunday I woke up with a fever and was out of commission all day. Not sure I’m over it, but it’s back to work anyway.
My presentation on Forward and Inverse Kinematics went pretty well, despite Flash crashing once and my wife calling me on my cell phone in the middle of it. The notes are at https://www.bit-101.com/ffnyc05.
As usual, had a lot of fun hanging out with Sam, Pete, Chafic, Guy, Peter, Tink, Jared, Veronique, Aral, Grant and gWife.
And lots of new faces: Chris Mills (my editor), Glyn Thomas (who I knew back in my were-here days), Carolina (winner of the Triscuit eating contest, with 8), Carlo and Nico from Powerflasher, and too many others to mention. Even got to hang out with Christian Cantrell for a while and talk about, of all things, watches (the kind that go on your wrist, not the things that wait for a variable to change).
For me, this is the reason I go to these things. I learned more from a five minute argument between Aral and Peter in a pizza place on how to implement commands, than I did in most sessions.
Probably my favorite session was Jared Tarbell’s Code Karma, where he talked about a hot subject these days – Open Source. While a lot of people tend to get into an almost religious or political fervor on the subject, and how open source is going to save the world, Jared’s approach was how it is a wise move personally. What you put out there will come back to you. I can totally attest to this. He also went over some of the licensing schemes, something I have been totally in the dark about. You may be seeing a BIT-101 source code license soon.