Archive: March 2006

17 posts

webDU day 1 and 2

by kai on 07/03/2006

To make a long story short - I didn't make it blogging on it properly. It was just too good to blog all the time. Thursday I attended various sessions in the afternoon and the annual banquet afterwards. Then: Karaoke in the Irish pub and eventually lots of drinks on Finula's (also known as "the bird from Microsoft") tab in the casino bar. By the way - I promised Gav - the inventor of this term -…

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Back to the 70s/80s

by kai on 07/03/2006

Not just back from Sydney and webDU - also back to the last century ;) Guys in my age or slightly younger or older might remember the concept of audio tapes. You know, the stuff people used to listen to music before the CD or the DVD was invented. The stuff you used to record music on to give as a present to your favourite girl in school...

Welcome back then and klick here to get the best of audio tapes... ;)

webDU day 1 morning sessions

by kai on 02/03/2006

I went to Andrew Mullers session on FlashForms first. This was pretty awesome, he explained a lot of interesting stuff and showed cool ways of debugging and tweaking FlashForms apps.

After that I enjoyed LordAlex Leon speaking on Cairngorm. Again a very informative and to-the-point session. The slides will be available on his blog pretty soon and I can recommend them to everybody who's interested in structured Flex development.

Apollo != widgets :-)

by kai on 02/03/2006

Mike Chambers kicked my butt :-) After I've posted on Apollo earlier this morning apparently people started asking him about the widget functionality I've mentioned.

Well, to make the point on that again: Mike never mentioned that Apollo purely is a widget building toolkit or anything like that - it is just one of the possible and my private interpretation of the Apollo technology. As far as we've seen today Apollo will provide way more possibilities than just building widgets, ok? :-)

Adobe "Apollo"

by kai on 02/03/2006

Still in the keynote and Mike is talking about "Apollo" which will be some sort of successor of Central (remember to that one ?). It will somehow bring together technologies as Pdf, Flash and HTML. An Apollo application will be installed from a web browser or via the file system and will be launched like any desktop app. It would integrate with desktop functionality and you can style the app…

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webDU day 1 keynote

by kai on 02/03/2006

Another great piece of animation done by Nectarine opened the day 1 keynote of webDU. Those guys are just hilarious and the clip is to be continued tomorrow morning. In terms of content Mike Chambers talked about the so called engagement platform with basically describes the way how the Adobe Reader and the Macromedia FP will evolve and what to expect for the next years. Mike talked about the…

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webDU day 0

by kai on 01/03/2006

Well, day 0 is over. Max and I were delivering our 1/2 day workshop on ColdFusion and Java this afternoon and it went pretty well from my point of view. I will probably post a bunch of information here later that week. Max and I showed some really good examples and we talked about some ideas we had and we were developing together with our colleague Marty back in Wellington. Let's say - people…

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