Multi-mania has always been one of my favourite multimedia events. First as student, later as attendee, last 2 years as speaker. It all started as a very small award show, now a full day event with 5 tracks and a lot of international speakers. And for the first time it’s fully booked.

Next to my own session “AIR: playing with api’s”, you can find me at following sessions:

• Ruling the web
• We are Hooox
• Having fun with Flash and Air
• Flash 2D & 3D Effects
• The Pixel Whisperer
• 2M08 award show
• 2M08 Party powered by Boulevart

Monday i will be hanging out with these guys ;-).

More info.

It’s becoming a yearly tradition to speak at the greatest Belgian multimedia event.

My session is going to be a 120 minute hands-on session about AIR. You will play with the Sqlite, file-system and drag and drop.

So see you all at multi-mania (may 23th 2008)!

Tomorrow i will be presenting the first hands on training regarding Adobe AIR at multimediacollege.
In the following 2 days i will talk about:

• Native Windows
• File System
• Connecting Applications (localconnection, html content, detecting network)
• Clipboard and Drag and Drop
• Sqlite
• Basic Security
• Customized deployment

And the end of training the students walk home with a AIR/Flex rssReader.

Last week we were building an AIR kiosk application. Everything went perfect until we installed the application at the client’s kiosk.

The basic idea of the kiosk is that you can record a video message. We used actionscript 3 connected to flash media server 2 to record the voice and audio. Around this we added some AIR to write the filename and some other details to a local sqllite database.

The problem occurred when we installed the AIR app on a windows computer (it was build on Mac). Sometimes the audio is recorded sometimes not. We weren’t able to figure out what was going wrong. After to much hours we removed the AIR wrapper and rewrote the app to use a local php, mysql server.

In the following week i will extract the problematic code and test it with the new fms3.

A lot of things happening! I made a biggest step of my life this week, later more.

Also a lot of development going on:
-Air application for a kiosk, using Flash Media Server and local sqlite database.
-At mmc we found some time to experiment with flash lite 2.0.
-I finally finished 2 long running projects.

Today i watched the students of the PIH presenting their Small Business Projects. There were a few with great ideas, it would be a pitty if they don’t bring their projects to the market.

Tommorow i’m going to the European Motor Show in Brussels, looking at dream cars. I was always saying: "the day i turn 30, i’m going to buy my first porsche". Next month i’m becoming 25, just 5 years left to find the gap in the market. Mmm beter try some hard working

Yesterday evening my employer presented their first Afterhours session in ages. Our guest speaker, Peter Elst, showed us in something more than 1 hour the more advanced Air api’s like the “Windowing”, “File”, “Drag and Drop”, “SQLite” and the “Upgrade” api. Peter used 5 little examples showing us step by step howto use the different Api’s. My hands are itching to make some great apps with Air really soon.

On the 18th en 19th of Februrary i’m presenting a 2 day course on Adobe Air with Flex at multimediacollege, so for everybody who wan’t to learn how to use Air in depth you can contact me or my employer to get your seat reserved.