Web on the Piste -- the Conference on Rich Internet Technologies has been announced for this year.

It will be held on 20-21 August 2008 in the pretty Queenstown, in the South Island of New Zealand.

The theme for this year's conference is usability and user experience in RIAs.

The cost for registering for the conference is AUD 500.

So if you are interested in either attending or speaking or sponsoring, head over to the Web on the Piste website and register your interest.

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Just finished my session on Working with Web APIs at Web on the Piste, Queenstown, New Zealand. The presentation was about:

• What are Web APIs
• How do they work
• How to use them
• Creating a ColdFusion and Flex front-end using Flickr API

As with my presentation yesterday on "Introduction to Flex", I had a lot of content, and lots to talk about. The presentation is attached with this blog. It was a light presentation. My session was one of the last few sessions for today and I just wanted to try and keep it simple and fun.

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I took some pictures at Web on the Piste -- the conference on Rich Internet Technologies -- being held in Queenstown, New Zealand, 2007. Some pictures are on Flickr. And some are on Facebook. We all are sure having fun. You have some too... hic...

This morning I gave a presentation on "Introduction to Flex" at Web on the Piste at Queenstown, New Zealand. It went off quite well -- at least that is what I hear from the response to the presentation. I realized that for an hour-long presentation about 20 slides is the maximum, especially when one is going to show code as well. I'm attaching a PDF of the presentation with this blog entry.

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