This is fantastic news!
Most of the European carriers are owned by only a handful of big telcos (like France Telecom, Vodafone, …) and this should be a no-brainer. But they obviously make a lot of money from roaming and if no one tells them to change their price structure, they won’t. Now that Neelie’s on the case it looks like data roaming across Europe may soon/finally become affordable.
PS: It’s great to see Neelie Kroes on Twitter!
Join Adobe Platform Evangelists from across Europe for a cuppa, an espresso, a double non fat latte or whatever your chosen caffeine jolt is and see what’s new with the Adobe Flash Platform. Ask some questions, see Flash Player 10.1 running on Android devices, see what’s new with Flash Builder 4 and Flash Catalyst, show what you are working on…
These meetups are informal and small, taking place at various coffee shops around Europe. Come along and join us for a drink and a chat! We’re limiting the numbers per meetup depending on the location so register early!
I just added the first two dates and I hope to see you there.
(You have to attend to be eligible to win the raffle prize!)
Keep an eye on http://bit.ly/flcoffee for more dates.
If I was living in the US, I could pick one of the big carriers like AT&T, T-Mobile or Verizon and use their service across all states. In Europe… No such thing. There are some alliances between some carriers but there is no such thing as a European wide carrier and frankly they don’t do a very good job at promoting these alliances.
I travel all over Europe and thus I always need to be aware of the fact that I am always roaming. And roaming is still freaking expensive. Sure, Adobe does pay my mobile bill but that doesn’t mean I don’t care about how much it costs.
Most of the European carriers are owned by only a handful of big telcos (like France Telecom, Vodafone, …). It is definitely possible to make this happen. I honestly don’t know why we don’t already have a European wide carrier… But then… I guess that these big telcos don’t mind making truckloads of money from frequent travelers like myself… *sigh*
After a very successful and fun tour though the UK, SOTR is now going to mainland Europe. Most of you know that my love for ColdFusion is growing with every project I do using it. I think you can really only appreciate ColdFusion after getting a taste of it and SOTR is the perfect place to get that taste. With SOTR Europe being a free event, there really is no excuse to not be there. ;-)
Hope to see you in Munich, Zurich, Milan, Amsterdam, Brussels or London!
More info and free registration on http://www.scotch-on-the-rocks.co.uk
If you have any doubts, let me make this clear: ColdFusion is alive and kicking! Together with a number of European partners, Adobe is organizing a series of free workshops throughout Europe. If you want to find out more about what’s new in the latest version of ColdFusion or how to build ColdFusion-powered RIAs, go ahead and register for this event.
For more info and links to the registration forms, check out Andrew Shorten’s blog.
This is just a friendly reminder. My MAX Europe discount code is expiring today. So, if you haven’t registered yet and want to save €240 on your ticket, today is your last chance.
Did I already say that MAX 2008 is going to rock? I think I did ;-) Man, I wish I could tell you about all the cool stuff we plan on revealing during the keynotes and sneak peak sessions. Last night, I read some draft press releases that I wish I could publish today. I tell ya, there’s one serious disadvantage with being this close to the source. It’s damn hard not to accidentally talk about all this awesome stuff. As a reminder, I just want to mention again that MAX US is not going to have all the announcements this year. MAX Europe will also have some big announcements and sneak peaks!
I’m starting my 13 hour trip in a few hours and will be at the Moscone center tomorrow. I’ll take some behind the scenes pictures and record some video that I will post this weekend. So stay tuned!
This year’s MAX Europe is just around the corner and we are all starting to get really excited about this year’s edition. I wish I could tell you about all the cool and exciting new technologies we will be showing at the keynotes and sneak peak sessions, but I really love my job so I won’t ;-) But maybe you can try and decipher what we censored in this video…
If you haven’t registered yet, I have some great news for you. As a member of my regular blog readers, you can save €240 when you register before November 14, 2008! So instead of paying €840, you’ll be able to get your ticket for €600! That’s more than a 28% discount!
Use registration code EEB856 when registering*. (Additional restrictions apply. Please read the note below!)
Register now on http://max.adobe.com/eu/register
I’ll be doing a couple of “Hands-on with Thermo” lab sessions and a “Flex Workflows with Flash CS4 Professional” session that you don’t want to miss ;-) Leave a comment when you’ve registered and I hope to see you there!
If you didn’t know this, the Flash Player can easily play back a 1080p high-definition video. And the cool thing about this is, that this HD video is really a part of your Flash app like any other movieclip or asset meaning you can also do things like masking, rotating and animating it. If you wanted, you could even use it on a 3D plane with Papervision!
To be fair, Europe is a little behind on this particular version. But 78.6% is still a lot better than any other HD capable players out there!
At this moment there are only 37525 minutes left for you to register for the second leg of the onAIR tour. That’s 26 days before we start travelling from northern to southern Europe. In case you forgot, we are doing this onAIR tour by train and there are some pretty challenging routes we have to take this time. We start in Stockholm on June 2nd and end in Milan on June 13th. I don’t know if my evangelist buddies have already seen this but our first train ride, from Stockholm to Berlin, is going to be 15 hours. Our train-ride from Madrid to Paris was a good rehearsal but this one is even longer. I’m already stacking up on extra batteries etc and I’m gonna make sure my 3G card works. Maybe we should carry a power generator on the train so we don’t run out of juice :-)
I remember that in one of his videos, Lee Brimelow says that “Europe isn’t that big”. I’m pretty sure he’s gonna change that statement by the end of this tour.
Again looking forward to this tour… We are visiting some really beautiful cities, some of which I’ve never been to myself. We’re doing Stockholm, Berlin, Warsaw, Prague, Munich and Milan. If you weren’t aware of this yet, we are also giving away a bunch of goodies and for the second part of the tour we’re getting everyone a copy of the Adobe AIR for JavaScript Developers book and a copy of the RIA ActionScript 3 printed reference guide. They weren’t ready in time to take on the first leg but don’t worry if you came to the first part of the tour, you’ll receive an email soon with details on how you can get them as well. In the meantime, you can download these books.
Oh… Did I already mention the tour is almost sold out? So if you haven’t registered yet (it’s free by the way), now is the time to do so! Register at onair.adobe.com. Hope to see you in Stockholm, Berlin, Warsaw, Prague, Munich or Milan!
Just over a week ago, I asked you guys to register for the Brussels stop of the onAIR tour because we (us Belgians) were in last position. I am happy to announce that we actually doubled the registrations last week and have actually sold out now! So thank you all for creating the buzz and for registering! I’m looking forward to see you all there!
Actually, all events in the first leg of the tour are now sold out but we have expanded the capacity for the Paris event. Paris is only about an hour and a half from London and Brussels with the train so that may be an option if you couldn’t make it to those events. And there’s also the second leg of the tour which starts in Stockholm on June 2nd.
The tour starts in exactly 10 days now and I have to say that I’m really looking forward to it. There’s something very appealing to taking the train all across Europe with your fellow evangelist friends and I’m sure we’ll have lots of fun and a ton of great stories to tell and we all have Flip camera’s in our backpack so I’m pretty sure there will be also be a lot of incriminating video footage to share :D
UPDATE: Paris has sold out again.
