It is the beginning of the third day at FlashForward. The FilmFestival last night was fun as usual. They limited the finalist to 4 this year, so it flowed much quicker.
I am giving a session on Flash Remoting this morning (discussing Object Oriented Client / Service Interfaces) and then a QA session. After that I plan to catch Phillip Torrone’s session, and then Erik Natzke’s
I’ll try and post updates through the day.
Well, every FlashForward, I always find new Flash stuff that I didn’t know about. This FlashForward, everyone seems to be watching Strong Bad. I’m not sure how to describe this, but it is hilarious!
You can check it out here.
I am currently sitting in on Phillip Torrone’s session on devices. Phillip’s sessions are always a treat, and he is not disappointing today. I think he has already shown about 15 devices.
I had my session and QA this morning and they went well. Before the session, I got to meet Sean Voisen, which was really cool. Last night I met and chatted with Josh Dura and Daniel Dura. We ended up talking about video games most of the time.
The FlashForward Film Festival is about to start. I am going to post the winners as they are announced, so keep hitting the refresh button.
Update : WOW!!!!! James Burchfield, audio poet just gave an amzing freestyle vocal human beat box sessions. Simply amazing!
Thats it for the show. I have to go and get ready for my session in the morning.
There was an error in my Logged In Article on the FlashForward keynote. I stated that the Flash Player 6 for Pocket PC did not have support for video. That is incorrect, it does have support for Flash 6 Video.
Sorry for the hassle…
Well, I missed almost the entire first day of FlashForward. I was busy getting ready for the keynote. However, I did get to hang around a little at the end of the day, and ended up running into a bunch of FlashEnabled authors (Phillip Torrone, Christian Cantrell, Glenn Thomas, Billy Perry and Fred Sharples).
Sean Voisen has been blogging a couple of sessions from the conference, including:
Ill be helping out with the keynote in the morning. There is some really cool stuff lined up. I can’t say exactly what it is, but think new product (and its not what you are thinking)!
Probably the biggest announcement from this morning’s keynote, was Macromedia Central. Macromedia Central is a desktop environment for running rich, occasionally-connected applications.
Kevin showed how simple it was to install Central through the Flash Player (completely seamless to the user), and then install and run applications within it. It took a total of about 5 seconds to install Central, install an application and then have that application running within Central.
We have launched a new Macromedia DevNet Center RSS feed. We still have the old feed, but it should be considered deprecated. If you are using the old feed you should switch over to the new RSS feed.
The new feed is an RSS 1.0 feed, and has a lot more information than the old feed.
You can view the feed here:
http://www.macromedia.com/go/devnet_rss
You can find more information on the feeds here.
Btw, if you are curious, we use the RSSify application which will be available on DRK 3 to create the feed.
During the keynote this morning, Kevin Lynch announced that a new version of the Macromedia Flash Communication Server is available. Version 1.5 adds a number of new features and bug fixes including:
We have also released a free developers edition of the server which does not timeout.
Kevin then showed part of a 15 minute video which was streaming live from the Flash Communication Server and running full screen.
At the end of the FlashForward Keynote this morning, Kevin ran a video from one of the Macromedia engineers who is working on some new technology (code named Royale) that we are working on. He showed a Flash based input form with multiple sections. He then showed the code used to build it, which was written entirely in XML. Not only was the entire Flash application created from the XML file, but so was all of the databinding (SOAP Based), ActionScript and StyleSheets (yes, Cascading Style Sheets).
