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Barcamp came to Thailand for the first time on Saturday. As codegent was one of the main sponsors (along with a couple of lesser knowns - Google & Microsoft) Matt and I felt it our duty to come out to Bangkok and join the fun.

Topics ranged from the seriously geeky (the virtues of streamlined ssh) to the seriously socialist (how Open Source can empower the common man) but in between we had some great discussions about RESTful web apps, PHP Frameworks and the most enthusiatic man on the planet eulogising about Twitter. There was even room to talk about online adult video.

The event was a huge success and undoubtedly Barcamp Bangkok II will follow next year. It's just cool to meet the people from around the globe who are as excited about this whole 'web thing' as we are.

AS3 for Flash Player 9 is so amazing. Everyday people around the world discover new things in it to play around with and the performance is a big bonus for developers. Today I found a site that has benchmarks on each animation tool in Flash (including AS2 too). The performance for the new tweening tool is very impressive and this site demonstrates how it works really well. Check out codegent's own performance test using Baked Beans! (Requires Flash Player 9 to be installed)

More power, more creativity.

With Wii's in lounge rooms across the world connected to the web, a whole new platform has appeared, not only are people surfing the web through their tv, but by using the Wii camera and remote, they are interacting with the content in a new way.

Cynergy Labs is working on some cool technology! This system uses the Wiimote as a camera, to interface with Flash, which uses the users fingers to determine what the user wants to do. What I love about this is that it uses Flash which and doesn't rely on you buying new equipment, like Microsoft’s "Surface"

I think it's only a matter of time before applications like this pepper the World Wide Web. I believe that before too long this technology being built into laptops and other computer system in the near future to be used at an additional input device,