Clo Willaerts, Marketing Manager at Sanoma Magazines and organizer of Brussels Girl Geek Dinners recently did a crowdsourced presentation on “Standing out in the blogosphere” and looks like I somehow made it in under the “Sharing and inspiring” header — very cool! There’s some really excellent points in there that you’ll want to keep in read more
Category Archives: General
I’m Devine
Its official. I’m happy to say I’ve accepted a part-time position as a lecturer at the Technical University of West-Flanders where I’ll mainly be teaching Flash Platform technologies and helping to develop the Digital Design and Media aka Devine curriculum. Its a great opportunity to work with a group of really passionate and talented people read more
Adobe job cuts and the community
By now you will probably have heard the news that Adobe is laying off 600 people, or about 8% of their employee base supposedly because of “weaker-than-expected demand for Creative Suite 4″ which started shipping in October. It came as a real shock to all of us, especially timing this announcement just after the MAX read more
Thank You America!
Thanks to all who voted, my faith in the US is restored after 8 years of failed politics — congratulations President Obama! I watched the election results come in on Twitter and arrived just in time at an internet cafe here in South India to see John McCain give his concession speech and Barack Obama read more
Blog Action Day 2008 – Poverty
“Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent life” – Nelson Mandela Today is Blog Action Day — thousands of bloggers will unite to discuss a single issue – poverty. We aim to read more
Please do me a favor…
I don’t generally blog politics and this is going to be the one and only time I’ll bring up this years US Presidential election. While the campaign so far has arguably resulted in some of the best political satire out there, the world is facing some serious challenges and whether we like it or not, read more
What have I been up to?
When you go to conferences as much as I do and meet up with old friends and acquaintances, the number one question is: “So, Peter what have you been up to?”. I realized that, unless you follow me on twitter and actually read the dozens of messages I post there every week, fairly few people read more
Flash vs Silverlight 2.0
Apologies to my international reader base for not blogging in English, after reading the latest edition of the Dutch “inside digital media” magazine on Flash versus Silverlight I felt compelled to clear up some misconceptions. [update] the English translation is now available in the comments Ik kreeg vandaag “inside digital media” in de bus, read more
Geographical pricing for CS4
With all the talk about the huge difference in geographical pricing for Adobe’s products I wanted to do a quick comparison between what those in the US and those in Europe (or at least Belgium for as far as I can check) pay for some of the different suites. Master Collection CS4 Full price read more
Vote for your favorite video!
What can I say? I’ve really been overwhelmed by the great video comments you guys submitted. Thanks to everyone who took part, love what you did! I’m now opening it up for my blog readers to vote on the video they like best and help decide the winners of our great prizes (including an FDT read more