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FlashFocus reloaded (part 1)
Published by Ronny on June 15th, 2009 in Community, FlashFocus. No comments
Those who know me personally have undoubtably noticed a serious increase of FlashFocus activity in the past few days, and today I’m happy to announce that FlashFocus started the long awaited update.
FlashFocus went down for scheduled maintenance on Friday, June 12th. The team worked for 3 days straight in order to be able to present a new FlashFocus running from our new server over at our sponsor Easyhosting.
The work the team did during the past 3 days was the first big step in order to be able to roll out a lot of new features in the coming weeks.
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Design. Technology. Cool shit.
Published by Ronny on February 13th, 2009 in Community, FlashFocus. 4 comments
The well-known slogan of FITC!
After having held successful events at Toronto, Chicago, Winnipeg, and Hollywood, last year FITC came to Amsterdam. I don’t have to tell you that Amsterdam was at least as successful as the other events. And in a little less than 2 weeks, FITC Amsterdam will kick off for the second time!
Only a few days ago FITC announced that the Amsterdam event was already sold out. Again. And I’m one of the lucky ones to go!
Also, no different than last year, Adobe Max Award winner Thomas Joos created an event guide for your mobile phone. Make sure you check it out!
I’ll be attending FITC for the first time, so I’m very excited.
I’ll be there with Jeroen Beckers, my FlashFocus colleage. If you’re there make sure to come by. I’d love to meet you guys (and gals)!
Soooo… Who’s coming? 
<head> revisited
Published by Ronny on November 1st, 2008 in Community, General. 2 comments
Man, I can’t believe it’s been a week already since the first edition of <head> kicked off. This event was so freaking amazing, I don’t even know where to start.
Okay, let’s just start right from the beginning. At first I didn’t really feel quite comfortable about the ‘online room’ concept. I remember having these meetings in Connect rooms, and believe me: those are horrible memories. Fact is: When I entered a room, 2 attendees were already there and they were having this conversation…
Attendee 1: Hmz, aren’t we kinda early?
Attendee 2: Yea… True… Oh well, at least we’ve got good seats, right?
Cool quotes from the <head> conference
Published by Ronny on October 26th, 2008 in Community, General. 6 comments Yea yea, there we go: My first English post on my blog. (Feel free to correct me whenever I make stupid mistakes ;))UPDATE: I’ve added some more quotes from day 3! <head> speakers rock!
UPDATE 2: Added some more cool quotes!
I attended the second day of the <head> conference today. At 10PM (Brussels) I tuned in on the session about Red5, presented by Chris Allen and Keith Peters. We had a lot of fun, and the session was pretty awesome (even though Chris was fighting the Red 5 server, and Adobe Connect most of the time).
During the session Chris and Keith went off, throwing out all of these crazy quotes, and I promised everybody I’d post them on my blog. Afterwards somebody (I think Patrick Welfringer) told me not to forget to post this, and asked me the URL. So here you go: Cool quotes from the <head> conference! Read the rest of this entry »
<head> conference staat voor de deur
Published by Ronny on October 23rd, 2008 in Community, General. No comments
Morgen is het zover: De lang geanticipeerde <head> conference (voormalig Singularity) gaat van start. De eerste sessies trappen af om 18 uur lokale tijd.
De <head> conference is de eerste online conferentie op grote schaal. Organistator en oprichter, Aral Balkan, heeft hier maandenlang naartoe gewerkt. Aral heeft altijd al een aparte blik op het web en de community gehad. De <head> conference is het zoveelste project waarbij Aral de grenzen verlegt en de aanpak 180° omdraait.
Aral is in mijn ogen een van de tofste, spannendste en inspirerendste sprekers op conferenties en festivals als deze. Morgen zien we of hij ook zo goed kan presteren als organisator.
Als ik mijn ervaringen van de laatste 6 maanden op het internet, reflecteer op ’s werelds eerste online conferentie, dan zal (volgens die ervaringen) de applicatie, waarmee de ‘bezoekers’ naar de sessies kijken, op het eerste moment van belasting plat gaan. Overbelasting is tot op heden namelijk regelmatig niet goed voorzien, laat staan überhaupt verwacht.
Een schoolvoorbeeld van ‘overbelasting’ is natuurlijk Twitter. Twitter is in 2006 en 2007 waarschijnlijk meer onbereikbaar geweest dan welke andere webservice op het internet. Ik moet eerlijk toegeven dat ik in de laatste maanden een ongeëvenaarde verbetering van de service zie. Tegenwoordig komen Failwhales veel minder voorbij, dankzij heel wat optimaliseren van de serverscripts.
Als Aral zijn huiswerk gedaan heeft zal hij geen Failwhale nodig hebben. Ik hoop voor het alvast voor hem.
To Aral and your fellow colleagues: I’m really looking forward to the <head> conference and I wish you guys the best of luck. 
