FITC Amsterdam 2009

Friday, February 27th, 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 :D 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!