AS3 seminar with Colin Moock
Posted in Daily on May 12th, 2008
8 hours of hard-core ActionScript 3 at Suntec Convention Hall.
Speaker was Colin Moock, author of several books, latest one being Essential Actionscript 3.
Well, what I can say is that he’s quite what I imagined him to be - brainy geek with skills that no one can doubt, but not very good in breaking things down and explaining them. And also occasionally speaking softer and softer until it sounded like he was talking to himself while typing out the codes. I think it’s quite hard for him to dumb things down for the general audience cos he’s too smart already.
It’s a big jump from AS2 to AS3, and I’ll do so at my own comfortable pace! Like during school days when I munched on Oreo cookies while coding throughout the night. Agonising but shiok.
Saw quite a few well-known people in the industry too - Edwin kept pointing out the people that he worked with, which guy was the boss of which company etc. It’s actually very common cos the industry is that small. It also means that bad reputation gets spread around pretty quickly too… haha…so we have to behave. Ahem.
However I did see a few people that I didn’t want to see. The sight of them really turned me off as I recalled my difficult days in school. But that’s all in the past and I think I shouldn’t be so bitter with a few pebbles by the road. Now I’m a happy free bird who walks with her head up.
And the most important thing? No one can discourage me from learning more! :)