I've successfully made it through another SXSW Interactive.

I've been to a couple of these now, and they've both been pretty interesting, even if I'm not the target for the conference. The main target seems to be designers and small web companies doing web programming. There's not a lot of panels geared towards programmers who work in large companies or on big, complicated business applications. But, that doesn't mean I can't learn anything.

I saw several good talks over the last few days. A few of the subjects: AJAX and Flash mistakes, scalability issues, Sci-Fi's influence on UI design, wireframing, and client side code and internationalization. That last one (client side code and I18N) was really informative. Google has thought a <b>lot</b> about I18N, and it showed in this presentation. I learned a few new things there and got even more daunted by how hard it is to get I18N really right.

And it wasn't all talks. We wandered through the Screenburn arcade to look at some of the games and saw some interesting sights.

Sadly, though, it's come to a close, and now I have to go back to work tomorrow.

Once again, I've conned work into sending me to SXSW Interactive.