Awesome, I’ll be traveling over to Perth in November to attend the Edge of the Web conference. I’m going to do a regular conference session during the main conference (Nov 6) and will offer a 1/2 day workshop on the day after the main conference (Nov 7).
The topic of the 1/2 day workshop on [...]

It seems some people I know and who are also more or less heavily involved in the Adobe community have a reasonably “different” relationship to (their) animals.
Let’s start with Kay. Well known blogger, friend and co-worker of mine and a fellow Adobe Ambassador. Back in the days, she used to own a goat. Fair enough [...]

I got this via Matt Voerman while having a Skype chat conversation with him. Desktop Keely seems to be very close to being the best use of the AIR technology so far, LOL.
Having downloaded the “application” immediately after Mr. Voerman kindly pointed me to this excellent use of the platform, I started to study [...]

Web of the Piste 2008 is not to far away – August 20 and 21, 2008. For all those of you not knowing the conference from last year, it’s a RIA technology event down in Queenstown, New Zealand.
Diane and I went down there last year and we had a lot of fun staying in Queenstown, [...]

Just recently, I was appointed to be one of the Adobe Ambassadors for the Pacific region – namely Australia and New Zealand.

I hear you asking… “Well, what does it mean?” There’s a pretty easy and nice definition:

An Adobe Ambassador is a recognised industry professional whom Adobe has approached to represent them in the Pacific [...]

This is the funniest thing I’ve watched in the last year or so. The Gruen Transfer is an Australian TV show about advertising on ABC.
They have a segment called “The Pitch” and agencies have to compete against each other to fulfil a somewhat “challenging” brief…. for example: A TV spot to advertise for an invasion [...]

I wanted to blog this for quite a while but didn’t get to it: There’s a new Flex User Group in Berlin, Germany.
I’d like to mention it here for three reasons – I’ve met Bettina Schulz, who has founded the group, just recently at the webinale conference in Karlsruhe, Germany and encouraged her to do [...]