conference
24 Sep 2008
I had an absolute blast previewing my new talk, Aim for the low-hanging fruit (or 5 rules for Hedonistic Developers), at the Adobe User Group events in Amsterdam and Ghent during the Adobe CS4 launch.
I always love presenting in both the Netherlands and Belgium -- you guys are so awesome -- and this time was no exception.
I'm happy to announce that Adobe is sponsoring the Singularity web conference as a platinum sponsor. Our sponsorship agreement also gives Adobe global rights for venue sponsorship.
In the last few years, I've been making a very conscious effort to attend and speak at a variety of conferences both within the Flash world and in the greater world of web development, web standards, and open source. This has meant that in the last year or so alone, I got to opportunity to present to plethora of different audiences at conferences as diverse as MacWorld, Wizards of OS, Flash on the Beach, and d.construct. XTech, however, was very different to any of my previous conference experiences and I have to thank Jeremy for suggesting that I speak at it. (Jeremy also live-blogged several of the sessions from the conference and you can find several of the session slides online at SlideShare.)
XTech, at its birth, was a conference about XML. Although, as I understand it, the focus of the conference has shifted somewhat in recent years to embrace other web technologies and the crazy/sexy world of Web 2.0. Shifts in focus notwithstanding, I still had the pleasure of meeting and conversing with delegates from a variety of interest areas that I hadn't had the chance to at previous conferences, from people who make dictionaries to government representatives.
I presented a new session, Bare-naked Flash: Dispelling myths and building bridges, to a roomful of Scottish web designers and developers in Edinburgh today at the Highland Fling conference.
I love this city; the architecture, the vibe. It's my second time in Edinburgh and I wish Stephanie and I could stay a few more days but Singularity beckons.
Singularity sponsored BarcampBrighton2 and the Brighton Girl Geek Dinner this month and the mullets did battle for inside these innocuous looking silver envelopes everyone got three Mullet Power cards to do battle with.
