30 days of me - day 8

by kai on 16/09/2010

I'm quite late today. Actually it's even borderline just "today" :-) Today topic is three short-term goals for this month. 14 more days... How about: - Releasing part of a project/rebuilt I've been working on with a client for the last 2 months or so (next week to one site, then roll-out to 30+ sites) - Finally getting round to get some flying: 2 flights until the end of the month - Starting to…

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30 days of me - day 7

by kai on 15/09/2010

Today's task: a picture of someone/something that has the biggest impact on you. I actually thought quite a bit about that. Obvious answers would probably have been: My parents (and their way of upbringing me), Diane, my/our friends, my work, our move to the other end of the world and some other things. I think all of those would have been totally valid ideas. I decided to go with someone…

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30 days of me - day 6

by kai on 14/09/2010

Today's post is about my favourite super hero. It's actually Cold Fusion:

Why? He's helpful, rapid and just super. If you want to learn more about him (and also Flash, Flex and the "special" friendship between Breeze and Dreamweaver) watch the following awesome Nectarine animations:

MXDU 2005 (day 1 and 2)

webDU 2006 (day 1)

Flash 8

Flash tenth anniversary

Flash Platform Camp Wellington presentations

by kai on 13/09/2010

Flash Platform Camp Wellington 2010 is over and it was good fun. I'm going to write a larger post about it (also covering the night activities of speakers and sponsors). This post is really just to push out the page where the presentation materials e.g. slides, code samples, videos etc. are hosted. At the moment, 7 presenters have supplied me with their content, I've got another one or two emails…

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30 days of me - day 5

by kai on 13/09/2010

A picture of somewhere I've been to. Easy as - you've learnt in day 1 that I travel a lot. So - let's see....digging through iPhoto photos...here we go:This is me at the old Berlin-Tempelhof airport (runway 09 left). It's Berlin's inner-city airport and it was heavily used during the Berlin airlift after WW II. It then became a one of two airports in West-Berlin and over time it was less and less…

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30 days of me - day 4

by kai on 12/09/2010

A habit I wish I didn't have... I would love to say there's nothing and I'm perfect - but I know that some people would right away come up with something along those lines: "Kai's a smart-ass and thinks he knows more about XYZ (insert a random topic here) than everyone else." Unfortunately there's some truth in that - I might show small tendencies of being a smart-ass sometimes. Not often though.…

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30 days of me - day 3

by kai on 11/09/2010

A picture of you and your friends... Ha, tricky one as I needed to actually dig through other people's iPhoto libraries to find pictures on which I am shown myself. Even more difficult if you have multiple circles of friends on different continents. So - I decided to go with three photos instead of one. But even those three by far don't show all the people I'd like to be in here (another…

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30 days of me – day 2

by kai on 10/09/2010

Today is about the meaning and the heritage of the name of this blog. Back in 2003 Marcus (AgentM) and I were both working at msg at.NET - a Macromedia Solution Partner in Germany at that time. I was mainly doing CF and Java and Marcus was the resident Spectra guru (the whole Flex and AIR stuff was still in it's early childhood days back then). There was pretty much no one blogging about…

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30 days of me - day 1

by kai on 09/09/2010

Ok, today I'm supposed to post a recent picture of me and 15 interesting facts about myself. Great. Gosh, how do I start. Maybe with the photo... That's how recent it gets. It shows me and a reasonably annoyed @karoricat. Now to the 15 random/interesting facts: 1. I grew up in a tiny tiny tiny village in the middle of nowhere in Germany and even though I enjoy being there for a few days I will…

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#30daysofme - here we go, day 0 (and day 1 later today :)

by kai on 09/09/2010

The #30daysofme hashtag virus is spreading among my friends quite badly at the moment, so that's how I got But hey - at least it forces me to get back to this blog more often for the next 30 days (at least). So - the idea is to go through the following list of questions in the next 30 days: Day 01- A recent picture of you and 15 interesting facts about yourself Day 02- The meaning behind your…

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