It’s that time of year again, where web and digital designers, developers and business-types descend on Sydney for the annual webDU conference! I’ve posted about it many times before but now that it’s here, I wanted to point out some of the highlights I’m looking forward to over the next 2-3 days.
- Seeing the “two Mikes” – Mike Chambers (Adobe) and Mike Downey (Microsoft) – back presenting at the sane conference again, although this time they’re speaking for different teams!). Mike D has a interesting session on game development on Friday afternoon
- Catching up with many good friends from the industry, both from locally and overseas
- Delivering my first webDU session in 6 years that’s NOT specifically about Flash!
- Seeing if Greg Rewis has mellowed out at all after getting married
- Seeing some Android action
- The conference party, the after conference party, and the speaker party
For those of you going, I’ll see you all at Bondi Beach in the morning!
It’s conference season at the moment for geeks, and one of the best going around is of course Sydney’s own webDU. This is seriously one of the best conferences for the web and technology industries, and always delivers a high standard of content and entertainment
This will be my 7th webDU, and 6th as a speaker. This year I’ll be speaking about mobile marketplaces and the technologies that allow us to go to market quickly, and there’s some other great mobile content at the conference as well, including a great session from Rod Farmer and Oliver Weidlich.
I encourage you to get along to webDU this year – this time at a new venue at the famous Bondi Beach!
www.webdu.com.au
Posted 24 May 2009 — by Dale
Category Events
I’ve just arrived home this afternoon from another exhausting but thoroughly enjoyable and inspiring webDU conference. This was my 6th conference (5th as a speaker) and I love my time at this event more and more each year.Geoff, Julie and the whole Daemon team have done themselves proud again with putting on this event – well done guys. They always know how to look after their speakers as well as putting on a great event for delegates, and I count it among the high points of my year coming and being part of this community of talented presenters.
The mobile session I gave on packaging Flash content was the best attended Flash mobile session in the last 5 years. Great attendance matched with great questions from an attentive audience, most of whom really seem to be getting hold of the bigger multi-screen opportunities with Flash but are particularly happier with where Flash is going on mobile.
Worth also mentioning that the other sessions related to iPhone, Google and Windows Mobile also had excellent interest and attendance, proving that within the “web technology” community, the mobile platform is really starting to step up and take some developer mind-share.
To see what you missed, check out the webDU Flickr stream. Hope to see more of you all there in 2010!
Posted 21 May 2009 — by Dale
Category Events
Just finished giving my “Gift Wrapping Flash for Mobile” session at webDU and I was very excited to have nearly a full room – the most people I’ve ever had in 5 years of presenting Flash Lite at this conference. And based on the questions I was getting at the end, there is a significant amount of interest now because of Flash Player 10 for mobile and support on platforms such as Android. Funny thing was I only got “the iPhone” question right at the end?!
Download my slides from the presentation here
I’m just putting some finishing touches on my presentation for webDU this week – “Gift Wrapping Flash for Mobile“. I’m going to be covering the options you have for packaging Flash content for various platforms, some of the tools you can use (including a sneak peek at Adobe Mobile Packager 1.1), methods of Distribution (including Nokia’s Ovi Store) and related topics such as signing your applications.
I’m also leading a mobile BOF (Birds-of-a-Feather) group on Thursday afternoon, and will hopefully have many of the other mobile-session speakers there with me, providing attendees with an interesting discussion around the various mobile platforms represented at webDU this year (Flash, iPhone, Google, Windows Mobile).
Above all I’m really looking for to mixing with the Aussie dev community again. This is always a great event, made better by the people that attend. It’s also nice this year to be taking my wife Tanya down with me for a belated Mothers’ Day present (4 days without the kids – now that’s a gift mothers really love!).
Expect posts and tweets (@dalerankine, @moketdotcom) coming in their usual semi-regular form during the conference
