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FITC Amsterdam and Phlash5

Published on January 18, 2008 in Conferences and Music. 4 Comments

Fitc Amsterdam 2008

FITC is coming to Europe with FITC Amsterdam in February and I'm honored to be speaking at it. Not only that but our band, Phlash5, is going to be performing again. We had our debut performance in Hollywood at FITC Hollywood and it's going to be great to have the whole band together again for Amsterdam.

Phlash 5 Video Still from FITC Hollywood. Aral Singing.

As always, there's a great line-up of speakers (including all the Papervision 3D project leaders together for the first time) and the Netherlands is one of my favorite places so I can't wait!

Give me a shout out in the comments if you're going to be there and make sure you come by and say hello at the event! :)

Go Beyond the Buttons at FITC Amsterdam 2008

Published on December 5, 2007 in Community and Conferences. 4 Comments

I'm going to cut down on my speaking engagements in 2008 as there are a lot of other things I want to do but I will still be speaking at several events, one of which is FITC Amsterdam where I'm presenting a session titled Beyond the Buttons:

Learning new programming languages, development tools, and technologies is a fun (and essential) part of what we do but they are not ends in and of themselves. Integrated Development Environments like Flash and Flex Builder, scripting languages like ActionScript 3, and technologies like AIR are merely tools, like the painter's brushes, easels, and paints, the animator's lightbox, and the photographer's camera. In this session, Aral looks beyond the tools to what you can make with them.

Aral's session will take you on a tour of cutting edge Flash and Flex and journey beyond the Flash world to find inspiration in the trends and trendsetters from the greater web. Video, 3D, open data, APIs, mashups, accessibility, development processes, application architecture, usability, social networks, open source, and tons of links for you to continue your own inspirational journey are just some of what you will experience in this talk.

This session will not teach you new tools or programming tricks but will widen your horizons and provide you with ideas and inspiration to spark your own creative endeavors.

I trialled this talk at FlashBrighton's Big Day Out and it went down really well so I'm going to expand it for FITC.

FITC Amsterdam is February 25-26th.

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