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The last day of the AJAXWorld Conference and Expo is about to end. Attendees are having their last break with some drinks and cookies before Session 10 and 11 from Track 1 up to 6 will take place.

Interest from visitors at our booth has remained good throughout the three days. Some were still new to the topic of testing User Interfaces, others came by with concrete questions that stemmed from requirements of their application. And we were happy to have been able to positively answer all those questions. Apart from the small number of requests from companies deploying Flash applications. But given our track record it’s probably just a matter of time when a Flash edition will be available.

We also had lots of interesting discussions with other ISVs that are exhibiting their Ajax solutions. The concentration of vendors dominating the market has been extremely high here.

Our flight back to Hamburg is going back late tonight. So we’ll have no stress packing up our things and getting to the airport. Getting some sleep on the plane would be nice but difficult to get as usual. Will give the next sign of life once we have returned and have recovered from the jet lag that we’ll have because our bodies have just been recovering from the jet lag we got from our flight here.

The first day of AJAX World is over and we are now starting into the next day of the conference. After setting up or booth yesterday started rather slow. But people were still arriving until after lunch so that’s ok.

So it was a good time to get to know the other exhibitors and sponsors and see what they are doing. Got to know many of the people behind several of the AJAX frameworks which we support and which we want to support in the future.

After lunch the conference attendees started finding their way to the expo floor and we had plenty to do at our booth. We showed off Squish quite a lot, esp. during the reception after the day at the expo floor many interested people came to talk to us. Having set up a video projector at the both constantly showing a video of “Squish in Actions” certainly worked well.

So let’s hope it will be a busy days today again.

Harri and I arrived yesterday evening in NYC for the AJAX World Expo which will start tomorrow. The flight was one of the more pleasant experiences. Emirates, who flies directly from Hamburg to NYC, really does a good job when it comes to service, food, etc. The on-board entertainment system was also the best I have seen so far. I’ve been playing Mahjongg for the first time in years again so the time went by quite quickly

The hotel which we are staying at in the middle of Manhatten is nice too. But it’s rather cold here esp. compared to the temperatures we had already in Europe.

Earlier today we already checked out the conference location and probably not much will happen today anymore. Jetlag isn’t too bad (ok, I was up at 4:00am already so we will be fit and ready tomorrow to man our booth and take back a lot of valuable feedback and ideas (and leads of course

A customer has reported repeated bounces when sending mail to our support address. Unfortunately we could neither find anything in our server logs nor from the SMTP error message.

So if anyone else is experiencing problems too please drop us a mail at admin@froglogic.com or (as this might one might not work for you either) just paste the error message you got as a comment below. Will try to find a common pattern behind this.

Thank you.

The froglogic web log - short FrogBlog - is officially online as of today.

We have been looking for ways to improve communication with our users for quite some time. A blog seemed like a good choice. We are not exactly a large corporation but keeping each of our users informed about we are working on has already become a challenge. Our development process is also very much demand driven so we invite everyone to make suggestions and provide feedback.

This site is running the WordPress blogging software which appeared to be a good candidate after a little bit of searching. It was very easy to set up. Not as fast as suggested by the The Famous 5-Minute Installation guide but almost. Not much customization has been done on the templates and various settings so far but will surely happen over time.

I see that Frerich has already beaten me with a first post reporting about the experiments has done with post-processing Squish’s XML output. I’m sure each of our users will find it to be an interesting read.