I’m happy to announce that I will be speaking at Macromedia MAX in Anaheim this year on “What’s New in Next Generation Flash”. The session description is:

In this one-hour session we will thoroughly review the biggest release of Flash in the history of the platform. We’ll talk about how to best apply the new graphical expressiveness features both visually and via code. We’ll discuss the long list of new video features, including encoding and delivering video. Finally, we’ll explore details of all of the other new features in the next generation of Flash.

Sounds like a lot to cover in an hour, eh? I’ll try my best to do it justice.

I’m also very honored to be part of the MAX marketing campaign. I’ve appended the mailing that went out this morning below (note that I had to do some hack-ish resizing to get everything to fit in my blog layout).

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I’m very happy to welcome 2 more excellent Flash developers onto our team. Say hi to Kyle and Wes, who both started on Tuesday. That brings our little team up to 7 full time people, plus one intern (hi Steph!). I’m pretty excited about our expanding capabilities – it enables us to deliver more innovative and large-scale projects while still having time to experiment and work on internal projects (like gModeler2 and GLIC/mCOM). Speaking of which, if you have a cool project, and are looking for an effective, organized development team to help you deliver it, send us an email.

Hopefully I can convince the new guys to blog a little more often than the existing team. 😉

gProject panel is now available!

I’ve never been happy with the project panel that ships with Flash, so when we had some spare cycles in the office, I decided it was time to rectify it. The result is a very robust project panel that incorporates all of the features we’ve been able to dream up in a tight, easy to use package. We are polishing it up now, and expect to start selling it in the next couple weeks (don’t worry, we’re staying simple with this – paypal or somesuch, so no unpredictable delays on this one).

Here’s some screenshots of this puppy. I’ll try to list all the visible features on each. I’m really excited about this panel. It’s been a huge productivity booster for us, and I’m sure it will be the same for other developers.

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Just a quick note to let people know that I have posted the notes and source code for my FlashForward New York session titled “Puki Dissected”. If you’re interested in Flash game development, 3D in Flash, or just have some extra time on your hands. You can find them on the session notes page.

I’m looking forwards to a few great upcoming events that I’m pleased to be a part of.

FlashForward New York is next week, and it’s looking great. They have added another track of seminars and have some really great speakers lined up. I’m already marking off the sessions I want to attend. I’ll be running a session called “Dissecting Puki“, which looks at the inspiration, code and architecture behind the “Puki: The Swarm” game, as well as participating in a panel on the Flash community, along with some other well known Flashers. Bobi and I are going down early to check out the July 4 fireworks, and have a mini-honeymoon (ya, honeymoon around a Flash conference – how nerdy).

At the end of July, I am speaking at a workshop at the Banff Centre called “Flash’n’Splash“, where attendees get 2 days of Flash training, and a day of white water rafting. Nice! It looks like I will probably be doing a couple of sessions here – one on Puki, and the other on Object Oriented Programming.

I will also be speaking at Macromedia MAX this year in Anaheim about “What’s New in Next Generation Flash“, which should prove to be a lot of fun – 8ball looks like the biggest release since Flash4!

Finally, I plan on running a few workshops later this fall on OOP and/or 8ball – both in my city, and potentially at a few other locations. I’ll post updates when I have them.

Busy, busy.

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