Flash Forward – Boston 2007
Day one (Sept 19) -1:30-2:45 – “Let’s talk about SWX, Baby!” – Aral Balkan

We wrote 14 lines of code to directly access the Flickr API and loaded images in literally less than 2 minutes. Writing a very simple PHP class we were loading data from the server. Aral showed how easy it is to use and how quick it is to implement. We looked at PHP, Ruby in Rails, and how to connect to API’s including the talking bunny.

The bigest laugh was when Aral loaded a picture from Flickr of little kid bums. “When you work with live data on stage you get burned.” -Aral Balkan

The uses of SWX
Application Development
Mobile Development
AIR
Flash apps
PSP apps (because Flash 6 is supported)

The future of SWX
More API’s
Yahoo Mail
AS3
Flash 9 support

One thing that I realized SWX can also do is act as a proxy for common API’s. This could solve many issues. SWX – A great idea.

Thanks Aral Great Session