This year, in the Campus Party 2009, we participated in the development of a software application for registering and printing of accreditation cards.

Following the same line of work we had been doing in the recent years, we chose to develop a web-based application. The software run directly on a web browser and only required an Internet connection to be used (quite easy to get into an event like the Campus Party)

In this case, we would stress that we made use of Flash technology for building a small software component that allowed capturing images directly from the web browser.

The application was connecting with the hardware of the camera installed on the computer and allowed us to take a picture of the person who owned the accreditation card.

There was a small area covered by a red rectangle identifying the area to be captured.

After taking the photo, the result could be previewed and then decide taking another photo if necessary or confirm the current picture, and finally continue with the registration process.

Once the picture was correct, it was sent to the server (hosted on the Internet) along with other registration information to compose the final document that would serve for printing the accreditation card.