Conferences on richardleggett.com

Flash on the Beach 2009 Tickets Now on Sale

Mon, 18 May 2009 11:29:44 +0000

The schedule has just gone up, new speakers have been added, and tickets are now on sale. You’ll want to get your tickets as soon as possible because the sooner you get them, the cheaper they are, and they’ll be going fast.

There are options for companies that wish to send several different employees over the course of the three days (see Flexi-pass option), as well as student tickets and single day tickets.

Flash on the Beach Conference Passes.. on eBay

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:01:49 +0000

What a great idea from Flash on the Beach, there are now 5 three day conference passes are up for grabs on eBay, the starting price just Ã‚£1. It will be interesting to see how much these end up going for. Whoever wins, I’ll see you there!

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Video for “Touching the Future” Presentation Now Online

Mon, 03 Dec 2007 14:12:58 +0000

Tink has just uploaded a video of my Touching the Future presentation. A big thankyou to Tink as always for the vast amount of effort it takes to organise LFPUG every month. The video itself is very small but most of the presentation is verbal anyway and the sound is not too bad at all. However you can still download the slides if you wish.

See the video here.
Download the slides to follow along with here.

Presenting “Touching the Future” at LFPUG Tomorrow (Thu 29th Nov)

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 13:28:40 +0000

Just a quick reminder to say I’ll be presenting my talk “Touching the Future” at LFPUG tomorrow night. All the details can be found over at the site.

Subjects discussed include:

Media management/subscription based models
Matured DRM (DRM that works)
Convergence of devices / desktops
Resulting paradigm shift (Google “Android project’ mentality)
Surveillance, the future of tracking (Amazon)
Privacy when always online (public/private “personas”)
Proliferation of sensors in devices (enabling “magic”)
Augmented reality (advertisting)
Cloud Computing (Information/Media Piping/Mashups for the many)
Ubiquitous computing (social/physical impact)

You can find the slides and source here.

Flash on the Beach 07 – Slides for “Touching the Future”

Sun, 11 Nov 2007 13:40:23 +0000

What a great event, I only feel bad that I couldn’t have been around for more of it. As has been seen many times already, John did another amazing job of giving this conference a unique feel, where content comes before all else (as well as looking after the speakers very well). So here’s a big thanks to John, and also a hello to everyone I met, there’s now way too many people in this community to list individuals. I would like to say an extra thanks to Tink for being the guinea pig for my presentation!

Almost Ready for Flash on the Beach 07

Sun, 04 Nov 2007 15:10:44 +0000

Just making my last minute preparations for Flash on the Beach 07. On Wednesday I’ll be giving my presentation entitled “Touching the Future” which will look at Human Computer Interaction and the web in 2012. I have a nice little suprise lined up that I didn’t want to put in the session description in case I couldn’t get hold of it, but let’s just say it might be able to read your mind! 😉

My Thoughts on Adobe Thermo

Tue, 02 Oct 2007 19:51:37 +0000

I’ve just read some pretty valid concerns over at EverythingFlex with regards to Thermo, announced yesterday at MAX. I thought I’d post my response on here…

At first I was also a little scared by this [tool]. But if you look at how it is at present, as Tink mentions there, you have to export layers out of Photoshop (which is a skill in itself unless your designer is ultra neat and doesn’t have a thousand layers with adjustments and masks). This means you are expecting your developers to be extremely savvy with Photoshop, luckily a lot of Flashers are, but that’s not always the case, particularly with Flex devs.

MAX Europe Competition

Wed, 26 Sep 2007 12:06:11 +0000

Just received an email with information on a great competition Adobe are holding for UK and Ireland residents:

“People can win a MAX Barcelona pass and copy of Flex Builder or Flash CS3 everyday this week and on Friday they can enter to win the whole package – MAX pass, flight and hotel!!”

Today’s question is very easy, and the prizes look great, so find out more and enter over at Andrew Shorten’s blog.