Today begins the 9th annual FITC Toronto convention (although the workshop part began yesterday). I’ve been going to FITC since the 2003, although I missed 2 years (made up for it by winning tickets to FITC Hollywood one year I didn’t go). It’s always been a great time of learning combined with being inspired by what others are doing with Flash. I’m extremely lucky to have such a great conference where I live, rather than having to travel to go to conferences. I don’t think I would be the Flash programmer I am today without both FITC conferences and monthly FlashInTO user group meetings.

If you don’t already go to user group meetings in your area, check out Adobe Groups to see where they are organized in your area. If there isn’t one and you know of other Flash creators in your area, consider organizing one yourself.

Back to the conference, last year I was blogged for FITC and never posted the links on my website. However, checking now the links to the old FITC blog seem to be dead. Perhaps, I’ll achieve those posts later in my own blog.

This year it won’t be officially blogging for FITC, but will still be writing a few article for my own blog instead.

I’m really looking forward to seeing Jim Corbett’s 3rd FITC presentation on Flash Player internals, with this year a focus on mobile Flash. Learning behind the scenes info on how the Flash Player works from someone from the Flash Player engineering team is always geeky fun. Plus it’s great being able to ask him some questions after the presentation. Last year I asked about the future of ActionScript and ECMAScript, plus the chance of multi-threading happening in Flash Player. I may follow up on him with about the future of ActionScript and perhaps ask him about Sherlock (although that might be outside of the Flash Player’s team domain).

There’s other presentations that I’m really looking forward to, but the first session at FITC is about to start.

Also if anyone is interested I have a handful of free promo stickers from my work StickerYou, which say “code is beautiful”. If you see me at FITC, feel free to ask me for a sticker if I have any left.