Well, it’s all over.
Saw Robert Penner and Joshua Davis and finally Yugo Nakamura at the end of the day.
Then the closing ceremonies. Not sure what’s going on tonite. But it most likely will involve beer, I’d guess. Heading out on a 1:10 p.m. flight tomorrow. Then back to work as usual.
The saga continues. Went to a couple more awesome presentations – Robert Hodgin of flight 404, and James Paterson of presstube. Interesting story about Robert. I work directly across the street from him on Newbury Street in Boston. We’ve been in touch for a while via email, but never made the effort to actually cross the street and meet in person. Then, when Sam and I were on the plane to Toronto, we realized that the guy sitting in the seat behind us was Robert. Scared the crap out of him when I turned around and said his name.
One thing I’m coming away with from this conference is the desire to get back into more creative Flash (and/or Processing!) My roots in Flash are with the experimental stuff at BIT-101, but in the last year or two, I’ve really been concentrating on components, applications, frameworks, patterns, software design, etc. Cool stuff, but all this cool creative stuff that I’m seeing is making my mouth water. got to get back to that soon.
At night, we went over to the Awards Ceremony. It was good to see Grant Skinner and Craig Swann both win stuff. Then we went to another multimedia dance thing arranged by Craig Swann, Flux. Closed that down around 2 a.m.
Somehow got up early enough to see Jared Tarbell’s complexity talk this morning. Another incredibly creative guy. Everything he does always blows me away. Just hanging out for now. The big events this afternoon are Josh Davis and Yugo Nakamura’s talks. Yugo, Josh and Jared are the three guys who inspired me to create BIT-101 in the beginning.
Yesterday finished up the day by going to a creativity panel with Jared Tarbell, Craig Swann, James Paterson and Margot Knight. This was really inspiring and entertaining. The funnest presentation I attended during the day.
Tehn there was an author’s dinner at this place called “The Church”. The Church is a church. It looks like it was abandoned a dozen years ago and is in danger of falling apart. Now it’s a party hall. After the dinner was an event called Bridge, which had live mixed music and funky computer visuals created by various Flash people I guess.
I’m still getting over a cold and my throat was killing me, so I left a bit early. I also had my presentation at 9:00 a.m., so I didn’t want to go too crazy.
Came in this morning and did my presentation. It went really well I think. I’ll be putting up the files shortly. Had maybe 150 to 200 people there. Pretty responsive, lots of questions. Somehow managed to suppress my coughing for the most part during one hour of talking. Anyway, now I can relax for the next couple of days and have fun.
Saw the keynote, lots of cool stuff about how Flash is being used, where it’s going in the future. Nice 8ball and Maelstrom demos.
Attended a little bit of the Processing talk, but then went to work on my own presentation. I was scheduled for Monday morning, but found out they changed it to tomorrow morning (Sunday). Just wanted to run through it a few times and add some material in case it goes short.
Lots of cool people here. I’m sure it’s going to be fun as the day (and evening) goes on.
More pictures up over here.
Well, for the second time someone has hacked their way into my phpbb installation. Last time they banned every user in the forum and sent out an obscenity laced message to the entire list. This time they just sent a link to a virus.
I don’t have time to deal with this crap, so for the foreseeable future, no forums.
Well, Sam and I made it to Toronto. Ran into Robert Hodgin on the plane, and shared a taxi to the hotel. Tried to reach some people, but nobody seemed to be around. Either there’s some cool party going on, or everyone is asleep. Got some food, checked our mail, and now will crash. My photos will be posted here.
Read more...GlobFX has just release a public beta of their NeoSwiff C# swf creation tool.
I’m honored to have been involved in pre-beta testing of this product. I wish I could have found more time to play with this tool because it is definitely very exciting. Basically, you write C# code, using the NeoSwiff libraries, and it publishes a swf. I suppose it is pretty similar to the Xamlon project, and has probably been in development the same amount of time. I haven’t used Xamlon personaly, so I can’t make any kind of direct comparison.
I’m really interested to see how the community will respond to NeoSwiff and what people will start doing with this technology now that a larger test base is possible. Here it is, have at it:
https://www.globfx.com/products/neoswiff/
Almost forgot to mention it, but I’ll be speaking at Flash in the Can on Monday. I’ll be heading up there with Sam Robbins late Friday night. We have a 9:45 pm flight, so will probably get to the hotel some time around midnight I imagine. If anyone’s up for a nightcap, give me a shout, otherwise I’ll see you Saturday.
My ability to attend was almost in question for a bit. I’ve had a fever and bad cough since Monday. I think I’ve passed the turning point though.
My talk is on ActionScripted Animation: Making things Move. Basically using various physic properties and math for motion graphics. The talk is 9:00 am Monday. Craig Swann has nicely scheduled a massive party on Sunday night, meaning that everyone will probably be crawling out of bed about the time my presentation is wrapping up. Oh well.
I finally figured out how to make my panels go away while testing!!!
I know, I’m pathetic, but this makes me happy.
See https://www.bit-101.com/blog/archives/000120.html
Thanks to Derek for the hint.
It was the custom panel I had in there. The weird thing is that even after you close the panel and resave the layout, it will continue to think the custom panel is there. So you can’t just close the offending panel, you have to undock it, then close it, then save the layout.
Actually, you don’t even have to close the evil-causing panel. Just leave it undocked and your other panels will be fine.
On my work PC, when I test a movie in Flash MX 2004 Pro, the toolbar goes away, and the property inspector goes away. All my panels, which are docked on the right side of the screen stay there. I can hit F4 to make them go away though. When I close the swf preview, everything comes back (usually).
But at home, when I test a movie – same layout – everything disappears. The only thing visible in the IDE are any open documents and the swf preview I am testing. I like that. But I can’t for the life of me figure out how to get my work pc to do the same thing.
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