I spent the afternoon of day 2 among a talented music visualization artist (Jared) and two of the masters of computer generated art (Eric and Robert.) Jared showed us how music can be visualized in the real, physical analog world with Eric and Robert showed different approaches to digital art. The conference day ended with another massive crowd game by Colin Moock and the official FITC party.

After spending most of day one on design related topics, I was excited to hit some hard-core code on day 2. This morning I heard Ralph Hauwert talk about turning your passion into your job (and his is graphics in Flash), Jim Corbett talk about the internals of Flash Player 10.1 for Mobile, and Joa Ebert discuss The Apparat - his new tool set for Flash compression and engineering.

Paul Taylor aka Guy In The Chair has a new blog post up TODAY introducing his new tinytlf framework for displaying Text in Flex. tinytlf improves on the existing TLF framework by allowing you to use TLF-style text encoding similar to TextFlows using CSS and text decoration that's more consistent with HTML. Paul's library allows you to map specific HTML symbols to different text styles and makes it all selectable over multiple columns, making tinytlf an incredibly useful library for rendering text.

The first morning of FITC passed like an inspirational whirlwind, but the afternoon was no less intense. In this entry I discuss the Adobe Keynote, which discussed where Flash has been and Flash and AIR's future on mobile. Next I talk about Robotlegs with Joel Hooks, learning about Creative Community from the amazing film titles producer Kyle Cooper and finally playing Megapong with Colin Moock and 20 other people.

Flash in the Can is off to a great start. I've been really surprised so far by how many amazing presentations they have going in every session - I'm not kidding or trying to make up hype here; this is really an amazing conference. I find myself regretting only being able to be in one place at one time during any given hour, and I wish they'd record these sessions so we could watch them later. Maybe they do. Anyway, enough wishing for omnipresence. Let's talk about the sessions I have been able to attend. In this entry I discuss the morning sessions I attended today by Mario Klingemann, Kevin Suttle and Scott Hansen. They were amazing.

Recently I've found myself building more and more applications that need to run on a number of mobile devices; from BlackBerry to BREW, iPhone to Android, iPad to Desktop. When building applications for numerous devices, you have two options: "Go Native" or "Go HTML".

Background: The Johnny Cash Project A few months ago I had the privilege of working on The Johnny Cash Project website at RadicalMedia. It was the last project I did there before going to Roundarch, and probably one of...

Over the years as my comfort level with teaching has increased I've found that I'm growing more and more experimental in my teaching methodologies. When I first started teaching, seven years ago this August, I struggled with how to go...

I had a discussion last week with a coworker where he asserted that using addEventListener in Flex will keep the object that is listening in memory. One of the great things about having disagreements is that it forces me to go back and revisit my conclusions so that I can defend them. And I found something interesting. Without any fanfare, the online documentation for addEventListener has changed from the original instructions.

Flash Player Product Manager Thibault Imbert reports on his blog that Flash Player 10.1.82.76, containing H.264 GPU Decoding, has been pushed as the official current version of the Flash Player.

Over the course of my career so far I've interviewed and phone screened many candidates. Over this time I've worked out some fairly straightforward ways to establish their baseline level of experience and expertise in certain areas. One of the...

One of the things that is unique to myself in the industry in which I work is that I have been with the same company for over 8 years now. Most of my friends in the industry tend to move...

Ever since I've started my new gig, I've found I have less time to keep up with the latest happenings in the business. So when I do take the time to read an article, it is usually because it...

OSCON 2010 provided hundreds of sessions covering open source languages and platforms, practical tutorials that go deep into technical skill and best practices, inspirational keynote presentations, an Expo Hall featuring dozens of the latest projects and products, fun networking events and activities, and the best "hallway track" around.

OSCON 2010 provided hundreds of sessions covering open source languages and platforms, practical tutorials that go deep into technical skill and best practices, inspirational keynote presentations, an Expo Hall featuring dozens of the latest projects and products, fun networking events and activities, and the best "hallway track" around.

As touch devices become more prevalent, we start to expect more out of the applications that we use. If you spin a globe, you expect it to keep spinning. If you flick something off of the screen, you expect it to keep moving. Simulating physical attributes on non-physical UI elements adds to the richness of the experience and adds a natural feel to the user interaction. In this post, we'll explore a relatively simple mechanism for adding inertia and physical attributes to standard Flex Spark components.

OSCON 2010 provided hundreds of sessions covering open source languages and platforms, practical tutorials that go deep into technical skill and best practices, inspirational keynote presentations, an Expo Hall featuring dozens of the latest projects and products, fun networking events and activities, and the best "hallway track" around.

OSCON 2010 provided hundreds of sessions covering open source languages and platforms, practical tutorials that go deep into technical skill and best practices, inspirational keynote presentations, an Expo Hall featuring dozens of the latest projects and products, fun networking events and activities, and the best "hallway track" around.

Flex 4 introduced new skinning architecture that includes a complete re-work of the style architecture in Flex 4 components and allow to easily changing CSS or re-skinning the components. In this article I will give you an overview of the...

This entry was submitted and updated several days ago, but O'Reilly did not post it.  Since then events have moved quickly.  Were I to submit it today, I would entitle it "Oracle Restores Eclipse Functionality."  - MikeI often work with...