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.
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360Flex Atlanta + Adobe = Special Event
Yeah, if you live here in Atlanta you should already be attending this event because you're attending 360Flex Atlanta right? It's a great conference focused on your favorite RIA platform? All for only $480.00 (and you get to sleep in your own bed and miss out on those tiny airline seats with no leg room).
Well, if you can't gnaw off the business-hours ankle chain your employer welded to your desk, then here's your chance to mingle with people just like you! 360Flex has invited members of the Atlanta design and development community to a little get-together being held at Stats Sports Bar not far from where 360Flex Atlanta is being held. Yeah, that does mean adult beverages. Yummy.
So come out and see what's up. But you need to RSVP. Get your details here, here or here, but RSVP.
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Now Reading: Gary Rosenzweig's ActionScript 3.0 Game Programming University
A few months back, Gary Rosenzweig sent out a few feelers for Flash bloggers who would like to read his latest book, ActionScript 3.0 Game Programming University (Amazon) from QUE Publishing. I volunteered, and Gary's publisher sent me out a copy.
For those of you who are unfamiliar with him or his work, Gary is old-school not unlike myself (no offense to you, Gary). We are both around the same age, he got his start in this crazy business doing some cool stuff in Macromind Director and we've both made that transition to Flash and ActionScript. Gary has written several books including Advanced Lingo for Games and Flash MX ActionScript Fun and Games. This new book is very similar to those books in that it covers the same games, only recoded for ActionScript 3.0. There are a lot of Flash developers who are struggling with making the transition from ActionScript 2.0 (or even 1.0) to using Flash CS3's ActionScript 3.0. It is my hope that reading what Gary has to say may assist me in giving some of these people advice in successfully making this transition.
In the coming weeks, as I go through this book, I will be reviewing the chapters pointing out the good stuff. But as I see now, the book's site is aggregated on MXNA! And has been since September! Take at look at FlashGameU.com for video tutorials about building games in Flash CS3 with ActionScript 3.0. It looks like Gary is moving beyond the book by Video Blogging new topics. Great!
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Reminder: Programmatic Animation on Tuesday at the AFPUGAtlanta
I wanted to remind everyone about Tueday's Adobe Flash Platform User Group of Atlanta meeting featuring Ryan Taylor presenting Programmatic Animation. Please register for this meeting.
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Atlanta Flash Development Job Opportunity
Jason Jacobs, a recruiter for firstPRO, has a job opening in Buckhead that he describes this way:
Salary: 100-110k
Location: Buckhead
- Flash 8/CS3
- Flash Communication Server/Flash Media Server
- Flash Video delivery
- ActionScript 2.0 OOP architectures
- Flash Remoting
- Javascript/Flash Integration
If you are interested in this position, have your resume ready and contact him at 404-257-7329 or at j.jacobs@firstproinc.com
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Tonight: Stacey Mulcahy presents "Actionscript 2 to Actionscript 3 Migration"
I wanted to bump this event up for everyone in the Atlanta area. Tonight, Stacey Mulcahy will be presenting "Actionscript 2 to Actionscript 3 Migration" presentation that she originally presented at last month's Flash in the Can.
For those of you who are interested, feel free to RSVP at the Adobe Flash Platform User Group of Atlanta site.
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Kenny Bunch - Time Shifting Entertainment, a FITC Preview
At last night's Adobe Flash Platform User Group of Atlanta meeting, Kenny Bunch presented "Time Shifting Entertainment". I found Kenny's presentation so compelling I thought it might be a good idea to give people who will be attending Flash in the Can later this month a preview of his session (Monday, April 23, 4:00 - 5:00 PM).
Points of Interest (without giving too much away):
- Kenny's done work for CBS, Cartoon Network and CNN (well, those are the ones he could talk about)
- Kenny was influential in getting the Flash Player shipped on the Playstation 3 and making sure it ran well
- Bandwidth costs are making some online video providers to look away from using the Flash Player (Attn: Adobe!)
- Adult Swim's Interactive Video has visitors watching 20 minute episode, but staying on the site for hours looking at additional material linked in the video!
- Kenny previewed a Flash-based PS3 game that links Cartoon Network's Ben 10 episodes with a the game making the episodes and game play feed off each other. Awesome!
In all, it was obvious to me that Kenny has his exhausted finger on the pulse of Internet-based entertainment. For those of you going to FITC, I'd mark this session as a "must attend".
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Atlanta Flash and Flex User Group Meeting Tonight, Wednesday, January 17
Just a reminder that the Atlanta Flash and Flex User Group has their January meeting tonight.
Tonight's Topics:
- Taming the Flex Wizard Shrew
- Introduction to Flex Charting
- Flex Drag and Drop with ColdFusion
You can find directions on their site. Hope to see you there.
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Atlanta Flash Meetup Tonight!
Don't forget the Atlanta Flash January Meetup is tonight, Tuesday, January 9, 2007! The meeting is at Toolbox No. 9 (map).
Tonight's topic is video.
I hope to see you there.
Find more details here.
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