Aral Balkan

I presented a new session, Bare-naked Flash: Dispelling myths and building bridges, to a roomful of Scottish web designers and developers in Edinburgh today at the Highland Fling conference.

I love this city; the architecture, the vibe. It's my second time in Edinburgh and I wish Stephanie and I could stay a few more days but Singularity beckons.

Alan White, Highland Fling creator and Very Cool Person™, has been taking wonderful care of us and a lovely time was had by all at the conference today. Paul Boag did an admirable job as master of ceremonies and the conference format worked wonderfully (each session was followed by a 10-15 minute relaxed interview and Q&A).

We're flying back to Brighton tomorrow evening and then it's back to work on Singularity for me. I have quite a few Singularity-related announcements to make this month and things are really kicking off!

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• Hi Aral Just wanted to drop a quick line to say thanks again for coming to the event, it was a pleasure meeting you and Stephanie and I'm not going to mention my fubar ;-) Wishing you all the best for Singularity and hopefully our paths will cross in future. Cheers Alan

  by Alan on 2008-04-05 09:31:35

• Just wanted to say thanks again for a very informative and myth-dispelling talk on Flash, Air and Flex :)

  by Tane Piper on 2008-04-04 12:33:20

• @Johnny: Let me know if you guys end up organizing something. I'd love to support it if I can. And thank you so much for your efforts in organizing a local conference hub. I'm going to be kicking things off on that front this month. Keep an eye on the Singularity RSS feed (and this blog!) @Tane: You're very welcome :) @Savvasmalamas: I know you've read it but I just wrote up a comprehensive post on my session. @Ivan: Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that you were all Scottish... I guess I meant "web developers in Scotland"... ah! @Alan: T'was a great conference; thanks again for organizing it and I can't wait to talk to you more about Singularity and the local conference hub in Edinburgh.

  by Aral on 2008-04-06 19:54:49

• Is there any chance to post any video of this?

  by savvasmalamas on 2008-04-04 12:52:17

• I just wish something like this would happen in Wales, hopefully with The Cardiff Geek night/groups now growing day by day (Mark Boulton recently gave a short presentation at the second Geek night in Cardiff) - we could in the future have our very own 'Highland Fling' in the principality. There are a good few sub groups within Cardiff Geeks dedicated to Ruby, php, Django and Flash so there is plenty of scope for future discussions/meetings etc I have been telling a lot of people within the group about Singularity, and they are quite interested so hopefully I am going to try and propose we do something in October to represent our little corner of the globe :-)

  by Johnny on 2008-04-03 22:56:49

• There wasn't a room full of scottish web developers only, there was one Argentinean and an Irish too! Both working in Ireland. ;) Excellent presentation bytheway!!... Really happy with all the info you delivered. Thanks.

  by Ivan on 2008-04-04 14:59:26