Being interviewed…

…is an interesting experience. Kay Smoljak didn’t show any fear and interviewed me about my trip to Adobe MAX 2007 earlier this month. The interview has been published now on Kay’s Sitepoint blog on ColdFusion. have fun

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Apply to be part of the Pacifica beta

Pacifica is the codename of a new hosted service from Adobe. Its target is to provide a high quality VoIP service layer for the Flash Platform (with Flash, Flex, AIR etc). I’ve seen some demos of Pacifica at MAX Chicago the other week and it’s pretty powerful and impressive – it took me a while [...]

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Kay Smoljak @ CFUG New Zealand

The next CFUG NZ meeting (on the 1st of November) will feature a presentation by Kay Smoljak on CSS and Webstandards. Start time: 5:45 pm New Zealand DST.
Connect URL: http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/newzealandcfug/

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Learning German by playing the Sims

I’ve got this link from JJ yesterday. It’s a scientific research paper about learning German by playing The Sims. Very interesting read!
http://llt.msu.edu/vol9num1/purushotma/default.html

C/C++ to ActionScript

One of my personal technical highlights of MAX 2007 was the Scott Petersen’s sneak peek about potential ways of converting existing C and C++ code to AS code and to re-use it for Flash platform based apps.
There’s a very good video online in Peter Elst’s blog and Ryan Stewart interviewed Scott about some of the [...]

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webDU 2008 is ON

Just got it off the ticker (well, last night, but we were having a public holiday in NZ and I was doing non-geek stuff) – webDU 2008 is on. It will be held May 7-9, 2008 at Star City in Sydney, Australia. Day 0 will again be a workshop day, followed by two days of [...]

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Kay Smoljak@Sitepoint

Kay Smoljak, world-known CF- and web standards activist has started blogging about ColdFusion on sitepoint.com. I’m very happy about that because Kay is a very respected, honest, intelligent and straight-forward geek friend of mine (D*** it, I should have opted for the Cyndi Lauper concert – someone wants to sponsor my flight?) – and I’m [...]

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