Archive: July 2008

10 posts

Edge of the Web conference, Perth 2008

by kai on 17/07/2008

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 Friday will be most likely closely related to Adobe's AIR platform (stay tuned for details); but I'm not…

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What's wrong with those people and their animals :) ?

by kai on 17/07/2008

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 and that's why she ended up with the (not that well known) nickname goatlady. But…

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Best use of AIR so far? :)

by kai on 17/07/2008

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 the way it's been built. Make sure you'll have a look at the video on the "Behind the…

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Web on the Piste

by kai on 16/07/2008

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, experiencing the snow, we drove up to Wanaka for a day etc. Oh, besides all that fun there was a conference as well :) -…

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Adobe Ambassador

by kai on 15/07/2008

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 region. They are an expert of the Adobe tools. They understand…

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Aussies to invade New Zealand

by kai on 15/07/2008

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 of New Zealand by the Aussie army.

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Make sure you watch it soon, but I'm sure in a few days or weeks it will show up in the archive.

Flex User Group in Berlin: First meeting

by kai on 15/07/2008

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 it. So - great to see it fly. The other reason is that Bettina approached Flex from a significantly…

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Flash-based game suite on Facebook

by kai on 15/07/2008

Today I've met with Dan Milward for lunch. Dan owns a company here in Wellington (Instinct) that's pretty deep in developing a game creation engine for Flash and particularly Flash Lite games. I'm pretty impressed, it's a very nice tool and there's an online version of it available on Facebook. I personally can see a lot of use for that type of application and the games that can be created by…

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Another one on i18n... the capital "ß"

by kai on 01/07/2008

When one is talking about Unicode and i18n, usually part of any discussion is the question what exactly a character is. I'll give you a typical example in German. Besides the well known "umlauts" (which are basically ä,ö,ü,Ä,Ö and Ü) there is one more character that usually causes some concern. The story behind the umlauts is that those are what's called makrons - "normal" characters with a…

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Internationalisation with CF... - slides

by kai on 01/07/2008

During the last few weeks, I've presented a session titled "Internationalisation with CF, Java and Flex" at various conferences and meetings. To name those: Scotch on the Rocks, webDU and the June user group meeting of the ColdFusion user group Germany. The session has changed a bit from SOTR to webDU to the CFUG session and the slides uploaded here are the webDU version. Don't expect hardcore CF…

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