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Taking the plunge with ActionScript 3 and Flex

We're all winding down for Christmas now, of course. A week of pies, roasts and more cheese than you can wave a fat-filled sausage-like finger at. But there is an ache in my heart. Ever since going to FOTB, I have seen the power of AS3 and the Flash 9 player, and I want a piece of the action.

So what I've done is downloaded the Flex framework SDK from Adobe. It's free, and you get everything you need to build Flash 9 swfs except the skill. Wish me luck. I may be some time.

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Jason posted this on Friday, December 22, 2006 at 6:13 pm.
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Speakers@fotb06

OK, this post is going to be completely boring to most (ignores heckle about usual quality of blog posts). It's really a reminder for myself.

The speakers I saw at Flash on the Beach were:

Mike Downey Keynote
Craig Swann ..and now for something completely different.. / Notes
Branden Hall Explorations with ActionScript 3 / Notes
Nicolas Cannasse Revolution 2 / Notes
Erik Natzke Keep interest(ed) / Link
Snow Dowd & Robert Reinhardt Writing your way to the top / Notes
Jon Harris Check out my expression
Edwin van Rijkom Screenweaver HX
Hillman Curtis Hillman on video
Geoff Stearns Flash in a web2.0 world / Notes
Niqui Merret Accessible Flash: Oxymoron?
Hoss Gifford Creative evolution: behind the scenes
Peter Elst JavaScript Flash - scripting your tools of the trade
Neville Brody Asking Why?

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Jason posted this on Thursday, December 14, 2006 at 2:52 pm.
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Flashed on the beach

You'll no doubt have already read the hundreds of blog posts across the blogosphere about Flash on the Beach. Well, it's all true. As far as I'm concerned, it was a great conference. Made great by both the quality of the speakers and the quality of the other people there.

What I was looking to get out of it I got. I went looking for inspiration and the enthusiasm to go and create some funky flash movies to push myself and to get a bit more familiar with flash. I haven't done much flash work in the last few months, so it's great that I've got my flash mojo back.

More blogging about the conference to come...

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Jason posted this on Sunday, December 10, 2006 at 5:52 pm.
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