FITC Amsterdam 2009
In one word, FITC was hectic for me. I spent the week before frantically preparing my presentation. Having ran into some technical issues, I was behind schedule. So much so that I spent most of sunday and monday in my hotel room cranking out code, slides and examples.
Here’s me rocking the Artemis hotel room:
I finished my last example Tuesday morning around 9, followed by a thrilling cab ride to FITC. Steven told the cab that we were in a hurry, and the driver certainly delivered : He ran 4 red lights, drove on bus and tram lanes, honked a lot, and seemed to just LOVE it all the way! He deserved a FAT tip 
Alas, I was on time for my presentation. The “Tekenzaal” filled up slowly with hungover attendees.
I was worried that I wouldn’t have enough time to go through my slides, so, wired on coffee I managed to whiz through my slides in just 30 mins… Questions anybody? 
I have to say that I’m a bit bummed about it, having put that much effort, only to rush through whilst forgetting half of what I was meaning to say. In the end, I got some positive feedback, and it seems there’s some genuine interest in my framework.
I won’t be posting my slides just yet, as it seems some of my examples fail on macs 
Instead, I’m gonna be posting bits and pieces with code, in easily digestible portions.
After my preso I managed to catch a couple of really inspirational ones, namely Keith Peters “Art From Code” and Mario Klingemanns “The Tinkerer’s Box”. Got me all Juiced up for actionscript adventures 
The evening was followed by an Adobe dinner… Om Nom Nom… Exhausted from the lack of sleep, we stopped by the party for a quick beer then retreated to our hotel.
All in all was a great experience! Thanks again Shawn!
February 27th, 2009 at 3:35 pm
Don’t be too bummed about it.. I enjoyed the presentation!
I AM wondering though what you forgot to tell in your caffeine rush.. anywayz, definitely checking out the framework!
March 1st, 2009 at 6:11 pm
[...] Highlight of the day was definitely Sakri’s session No really, it was pretty good. He only rushed trough it a bit too fast, and was finished in 30 minutes. For me the timing was ok, but it’s kind of a bummer because he worked so hard on it. We’re still looking for other occasions where he can give this presentation, so if you now something let me know. Basically he wrote a framework for doing easy (yet cool) text effects in flash. He’s going to release it as soon as he finished off some stuff. You can read more about it at Sakri’s own blog. [...]