By scott
Long time no blog! I just found out I will be presenting at Flash Forward in San Francisco on August 21, 2008. At this point I know I will be presenting with Neil Ishibashi, Disney.com Art Director extraordinaire. As to what exactly we will be presenting, I’m not 100% sure. I know it will be along the lines of Engineer/Creative work flow on the all new disney.com. Our presentation will be at 10am - 11am on Thursday morning, directly following the Adobe keynote (not a bad lead in). Leave me a commnet if you are going to be there and if there are any particular items you would like us to cover in our presentation.
By scott
It’s my own fault, it’s what I get for switching jobs a couple weeks before MAX. If I were still at Yahoo I would be polishing up my presentation and sitting in my Chicago hotel room right now. Instead, I am sitting in Burbank in a corporate house. Am i bummed, yes, would I change anything no! Am I jealous of the 4000 attendees, hell ya My first week at Disney was great. We are really working on some cool things Coming soon to a browser near you! Stay tuned!To the folks in Chicago, please blog, and please fill Flickr and You Tube with images and videos from the conference and more importantly the after parties.
By scott
I recently received my iPod Nano from 360Flex, it is even engraved with my name and the conference name and location. All I did was fill out a simple survey. You see, filling out those surveys really does pay off! See you in Seattle.
By scott
Just when we thought the Flash Platform arena was starting to dry up (YA RIGHT!) Adobe throws a new tool into our arsenal, Apollo. Apollo isn’t that new, but it is, isn’t it? It’s been around for a bit now, and already has become very popular. All this popularity and Apollo is still only a code name. That alone tells me it is going to be a huge release.I have to admit, I knew Apollo was out there, I knew what it was all about, but I really wasn’t paying a whole lot of attention to it. Not sure if it was because I had enough on my plate, or because it wasn’t released yet, or because I have done a lot of flash to desktop work with other third party swf wrappers (zinc, mProjector, ScreenWeaver). I’m not sure.
That all changed on Friday night. I was one of the lucky few who got to attend ApolloCamp. And after seeing some of the sample apps, seeing the excitement in the crowd, and personally seeing the potential of this app., I was pumped. Just check out my intensity in this pic taken of me at Apollo Camp.
I think my holy $@&t moment came during Christian Cantrell’s presentation. He presented script bridging between AS and JS. That one presentation proved to me that no other swf to desktop application can compete. He was injecting JS and AS events into existing sites, injecting and altering css in existing sites, and mashing up some of the biggest properties on the web today with only a few lines of code. His address book and google maps mash up was quite impressive. And his Scout application was every web developers dream app.
Adobe was very generous, amazing schwag (can you say free full version of Flex Builder), great food, lots of beer (and more beer when “people” started to “twitter” on low quantities of beer - I have to admit, I started the more beer twiter rally - not a surprise to anyone who knows me).
So what were some of the other highlights? I’m a little late posting this and I’m sure most of you have already read all about ApolloCamp so I’ll be quick. Kevin Lynch asking what “Moxie” was (for those that don’t know Moxie is the codename for Flex 3), Sean Christmann + project artemis + apollo = light saber == WOW!, Yahoo APIs + Apollo = Endless possibilities (sorry couldn’t resist plugging my peeps). The list is endless. Check out other blogs if you want to read more about the presentations. I don’t have time to type up a transcript of the entire conference, I’d much rather play with Apollo.
To all of you who were not lucky enough to attend. Ahhh hahahahaha, just kidding. The alpha build, documentation, ApolloCamp videos, O’Reilly pocket guide, sample code will all be available on labs.adobe.com sometime this week.
I have to say this was probably one of the best conference I’ve ever been to, very well organized, and very informative. I can’t wait to see what’s next, stay tuned here to see what I build in Apollo, I have a few big ideas, now I just have to find the time to actually dev them.
By scott
Not only will I be at 360Flex, I will be presenting there. Me and the team I work on at Yahoo! (Flash Platform) are presenting our new AS3 libraries. We will also be covering what we do at Yahoo!, our Flash Development Center, our future plans, and a few other suprises. Sorry, I can’t go into much detail or else you won’t show up 
We have so much to present we have two time slots - 4:00 on Monday, and 8:30 (yes A.M. ugh!) on Tuesday. We are also planning on doing something at the Monday evening event, again, can’t go into much detail, but I can tell you that you won’t want to miss it.
If you are at the conference come by and say hi. I’m excited to present but I am even more excited to see/meet some of the other speakers and attendees. Lastly, Yahoo! is one of the conference sponsors so you are sure to see lots of purple and yellow floating around. Here is what you can expect to be wearing around your neck.
This is going to be a great conference and is proof that the Flex community is alive and well and poised to take over the world ;).
By scott
Here I sit in cold Winnipeg Manitoba, my hometown. I am here for the FITC conference, wearing my Jets jersey (of course). Why Winnipeg you ask? I was asking the same question myself until I got here. There are approximately 175 people here, doesn’t sound like a lot, but for Winnipeg it is. And a lot of the people seem to be very passionate about new media here. There are a few small shops, a couple larger ones, and a bunch of students who seem to be very interested in new media. Critical Mass, the company I work for, is the gold sponsor here and we are also presenting. Being a gold sponsor means we get a big booth, we stand there, and we answer the same questions over and over again all day. Don’t get me wrong, I love it. I like talking to other developers or other people interested in new media. I have met a couple very interesting people, and who knows, maybe I will work with them one day. Afterall, the flash community is pretty small even with it’s astronomical growth in the past while.
Anyway, I am going to sign out now, almost lunch time here in the ‘peg. If you’re here, stop by and say hi. If not, go stand with your freezer door open and you will soon feel like you are here.
