For the past few days I’ve been in Indianapolis, USA, where the 360|flex conference was held. I was invited by the awesome people of Powerflasher to come and support Frank Müller in promoting the FDT coding solution. It’s been a fun few days and the weather was great as well, although I spent most time inside the conference center, where the airco was running overtime. Frank actually got a cold with 28ºC outside!

People close to me probably know I have a very strong opinion on live coding during conference talks, so it’s only ironic that my session today consisted of 95% live coding. But that went really well, and the latest FDT beta crunched every build flawlessly. I started out demonstrating the ways in which FDT helps the developer get rid of the standard small stuff, like creating classes, methods and variables, and finished with creating a little Indianapolis 500 racing simulation all in about 70 minutes.

Here’s the result, use the arrow keys to drive the track, and correct, there is no collision detection. The *real* annual Indianapolis 500 race is this Sunday, but unfortunately we won’t be here to see it. We did go to the track after the conference today and rode one lap on it with our rental Toyota! That was pretty damn cool, I’ll tell ya! If I get to go to Indianapolis next time, I’m sure going to extend my stay to be able to attend the race.