The Summer of Flash Page on My Site

I just wanted to point folks to the Summer of Flash Podcast page on my blog. I thought it might be good to have a place on my site where the podcast that features Garth Braithwaite, Stacy Mulcahy, Zach Stepek, and myself droning on and on about the Flash Platform. The "info" links are to the InsideRIA site pages that Garth put together for us, but I wanted to put all the information in one place so that I can refer people to it.

I totally enjoy recording this podcast. It is so much fun and honestly it's almost therapeutic for me. I don't work in a work site environment where there are a lot of Flash and Flex developers. In fact, I am the only one in the office who does that type of work, so getting to "hang out" online with the Summer of Flash crew is pretty healthy.

I want to thank the people at O'Reilly who have been so supportive. This was their idea and I feel lucky to have been asked to come along.

Oh, boy. Did I just say that hanging out with Stacy was healthy? What was I thinking?

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Summer of Flash Podcast Episdode 1

I am pleased to announce that the first episode of O'Reilly's InsideRIA Summer of Flash podcast has been released.

In this episode, Garth, Stacy, Zach and I discuss the recently released Flash Catalyst Public Beta and what we like and dislike about the product.

We're continuing to record episodes and have lined up a few people from the Flash Platform to waterboard... er, grill for infor... er, interview about all things Flash.

If you have any thoughts, ideas, questions or requests, feel free to leave them in the comments for my entry here or at the entry on the InsideRIA site.

Summer of Flash Podcast

 

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User Group Overload Ends with Tonight's XD Atlanta User Group Gathering

This week has been totally user group overload for me.

Tuesday we had Ryan Taylor present "Intro to Flash Player 10 and Pixel Bender" at the Adobe Flash Platform User Group of Atlanta. Ryan always wows us with his giant brain full of math. The part of his presentation that I thought was most interesting was his examples of Pixel Bender, the tool kit that lets you (yes, you. It looks like it's that simple) script filters and effects for Flash. Ryan has posted his presentation and demo files on his blog if you want to take a look.

Wednesday had me visiting the Atlanta ColdFusion User Group where I was pummeled by comments "Where the heck have you been?" and "You didn't RSVP!" Mea Culpa, my CF friends, I have been neglecting you badly. But tonight's meeting was a must-see event; John Mason gave us an overview of "BlazeDS for ColdFusion Developers" and he did so without showing a chat example (thanks for taking the high road, John). He replaced the unfortunately stereotypical chat messaging example with the much more pertinent ColdFusion error message widget example. John's presentation will be posted on his labs site.

Tonight should also be fun as Michael Hagel has arranged for the XD Atlanta User Group to have a "Summer Social Gathering" at STATS Atlanta, you know, the place where all the 360Flex parties were held (and the only place you could have seen me during 360Flex because I was too busy at work to attend sessions :-( ). It should be great. By the way, Michael, the site is looking great!

See you there!

 

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Tonight's Adobe Flash Platform User Group Meeting: Ryan Taylor and Flash Player 10

I am so glad that I know Ryan Taylor. Every now and then, Ryan will contact me and say "Hey, when would you like me to present?" I always seem to reply "Next month!"

Tonight, Ryan will be presenting some of the new features of Flash Player 10, currently in beta, at the Adobe Flash Platform User Group of Atlanta and Flash Meetup Atlanta meeting. You should attend.

 

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