FITC presentation videos are online, including mine. Its the first time I actually watch it. It's a bit creepy to see myself, but I guess it went fine. I couldn't get a mic hooked up at the time, so the audio quality is a bit crappy.
I also notice that I made a bunch of mistakes related to embedding swf's, which I only found out later.
A funny fact: The girl sitting right in the front (and leaves after a while) is now my girlfriend. So we actually have video footage of when we first met :).
I had the best time at FiTC.. Not to rub it in or anything, but if you weren't there.. you missed out.
My presentation didn't go bad ( I hope ). I got a bunch of questions at the end, which people tell me, is a good sign. The only issue is that I was done a little too early, but I guess thats something you learn through experience.. Overall I felt pretty comfortable on the stage, even though I had been awake for more than 30 hours and I suffered from a cold.
The conference itself was just amazing. There was a good balance between technical and creative talks. Although I am definitely a technical person, I didn't really feel like going to the coding talks. To be honest, the creative ones are a lot more inspirational, and are definitely also applicable in my work, such as thinking of different ways to present information to the user.
I'm having a bit of trouble putting my slides online here.. For the people who are interested in more info or code, be sure to drop me a line.
It's confirmed! I get to speak at flash in the can 2007. This is great news for me, as I wanted to speak at tech conferences for a while now.. but finally I got in.
Flash in the can is a flash conference held in toronto for a few years now and it is one of the most important conferences in North America. It is actually the first tech conference I attended.
Irony is that I'm not that much into flash.. Much of my work is related to opensource and standards-based development, but in this area you can have a religion about technology, but in practice you have to set that aside for realism and pick the right tool for the job.
Currently flash is simply the number one way to bring video content to the browser in both user adoption and usability. I kind of rolled into the video thing by accident, because one of my earlier clients requested a user generated video application.. That ball kind of kept on rolling and developing video-enabled web applications has been my main role ever since.
The title of my presentation is Flash Video Lifecycle: From User To Delivery. I will be covering uploading using flash, handling uploads using php, converting with FFMpeg and delivering video using Flash.
I'm very excited, and hopefully I will be able to jumpstart and inspire the people who are into this sort of thing, but don't know where to start. If your there, be sure to say hi!
My name is Evert, and I've been writing semi-regularly on this blog since 2006.
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