Tonight was the last event of the onAIR Bus Tour and am very glad I made it out to Chicago in time to attend it! Mike Chambers, Ryan Stewart, Danny Dura and Kevin Hoyt walked us through the ins and outs of developing with AIR. We saw a cool showcase for digimix by Alan Queen read more
Just half an hour before I need to head out to the airport and what do I see? My MacBook Pro power adaptor is at it again — what the heck is wrong with these things? Last time it burned through at the magsafe connector, this time its happening at the base. First stop in read more
I lost track of this story for a while after I heard the code of the public art piece by Ben Rubin at the Adobe HQ in San Jose was cracked. The winners have since been announced — Mark Snesrud and Bob Mayo, two local research scientists. Turns out the semaphore was broadcasting the full read more
MAX Chicago is kicking off in under a week and its going to be absolutely huge with over 4000 people registered so far! My session is entitled “Introduction to OOP with ActionScript 3.0” and you’ll be able to catch it either Monday (October 1st) at 2PM or Wednesday (October 3rd) at 3PM. Some sessions that read more
Flashforward was the first ever Flash conference I attended back in 2001. I remember how thrilled I was to see Brandon Hall and Sam Wan in person and hear them talk about cutting edge technology — loading XML into Flash, something that took me days (if not weeks) to get my head around. I remember read more
The Papervision3D sesion with Carlos Ulloa is up next, still half an hour to go but better go grab a seat as I’m sure its going to be packed. 13:32:02 GMT-0400 – Carlos takes the stage and starts talking about next generation web experiences — going beyond technical limitations
Last day of the conference already, how time flies. This morning will be kicked off with a keynote by John Maeda from MIT Media Lab on “The Aesthetics of Computation”. Stay tuned for more… 09:05:56 GMT-0400 – John Maeda takes the stage — wants to introduce us to his graduate students who are showing a read more
In Chafic’s session on “Building and Architecting Flex Applications” — stay tuned for live updates! 16:35:09 GMT-0400 – Chafic says his session is aimed at clearing up some misconceptions around Flex, feedback on the book etc.
Those of you that follow my blog will probably know that I have a number of presentations on OOP and ActionScript 3.0 lined up this September and October. So, what better excuse to do a little giveaway? If you attended any of my sessions at Flashforward Boston, MAX Chicago or MAX Barcelona and have something read more
I just finished my presentation at Flashforward2007 Boston and absolutely loved it! My session covered the basics of object-oriented programming with ActionScript 3.0 and a little introduction to Design Patterns (Observer, Singleton, MVC). Managed to get a full room with Aral Balkan presenting next door so am pretty impressed about the turnout. Great audience response read more
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