The Actionscript Conference Tickets on Sale Now!

The Actionscript Conference which will be held in Singapore with respectative speakers (Lee Brimelow, Peter Elst, Micheal Plank, Stefan Wessels) is one of events that you don’t want to miss if you are based in South East Asia.

Tickets are now on sale for just around 50$. Pretty good deal, cause organisers are nice guys and do it because they love all this AS madness in internet world

Flash MOD music player with sourcecode

Another MOD Flash player is out there. Not only player but full source code available too…

http://gimme.badsectoracula.com/flashmodplayer/modplayer.html

Lee Brimelow Interview with Justin Everett-Church, Senior Product Manager for Flash Player

Very nice interview by Lee Brimelow with Justin Everett-Church, who is the Senior Product Manager for Flash Player, about some of the most frequently asked questions regarding Flash Player 10 and our new search technology.
I somehow missed this one, and I am very happy to watched it now. I like the non-hype realistic talk Justin presented.

Watch the interview at TheFlashBlog by Lee Brimelow

One note more is that Lee Brimelow will be presenting at The Actionscript Conference in Singapore… Great news.

Adobe eSeminar - Integrating Flex with PDF and Acrobat 9

I’ve today attended eSeminar from Adobe Australia and New Zealand titled - Integrating Flex with PDF and Acrobat 9.
Adobe perfectly hits the spot in PDF creation and fill the important place in its well known PDF file format. It is obvious now that Flash is far more then a plugin, and in last few years it completly transformed itself into platform which surely now fits great into PDF documents and Acrobat workflow.

Incorporating Flash inside PDF document is very easy, in few steps you insert it into document and later easily access it through Javascript integration… Only thing that doesn’t seem natural is not naming a SWF file you import so you don’t access your flash by name but by number which seems little odd… This should be more likely to HTML page where you name your Flash file and then access it by name.

Great side is easy integration of Acrobat code inside Flex or Flash application, you can pass code from Flex/Flash you want Acrobat to execute, that is easy and important for all dialogs, scrolling and so on. Integration with web is natural, and works perfectly within document.

Adobe also introduces in Acrobat new feature PDF Portfolio which lets you create interactive document using a built in Flex application (this depicts Flash as a platform), throught the series of wizards and tools.

eSeminar was hosted by FlexDaddy -aka- Andrew Spaulding. It was a pleasure and I am eagerly waiting for next eSeminar…

Seminar on demand video will appear here…
List of eSeminars Adobe Australia and New Zealand

Flashforward Festival voting is on …

http://www.flashforwardconference.com/finalists

I will surely have an overview of categories like last time…
http://mrsteel.wordpress.com/?s=flashforward

I see some of very cool stuff there, and list seem better then last time but some choices are discutable…

Flex 4 - Gumbo first release is out

Gumbo

The next version of Flex, code name Gumbo, is now in active development. It is has 3 primary themes:

• Design in Mind: provide a framework meant for continuous collaboration between designer and developer.
• Developer Productivity: improve compiler performance and add productivity enhancements to language features like data binding
• Framework Evolution: take advantage of new Flash Player capabilities and add features required by common use-cases

Download and read more at Adobe Opensource site

Flash SuperSites : TommyTV

So how one flash website can be called supersite. Lets go step by step :

1. Purpose of Flash … If Flash site is being done in Flash there must be a good reason why it is done in Flash. Main reasons one site is good to go in Flash is - delivering of rich media, animation and effects, application needs… TommyTV is all about media, and application needs. Site delivers video from concerts and it’s desing incorporates 3D menu visuals.

2. Content… No metter if site is made in Flash, Ajax, HTML what makes it good is its content. And believe me TommyTV is all about great content, especially if you are a music lover. There is a band for every taste.

3. (UI) Design… it’s easy to get away from good UI design idea in Flash, too much of that or this takes you away. So keeping it clean, consistent and usefull for user is for respect. TommyTV have all of this. Resepct

4. Performance… Keeping a Flash in user acceptable performance is getting easier as Flash moves towards new player versions and better virtual machine. Even with that some sites go to far, or just don’t follow all the rules for better performance. TommyTV keeps it performance at high level, which for many video streaming sites and 3D sites isn’t a case.

If I remember few things more or you have your opinion please post a comment…

Anyway, enjoy TommyTV website, music and pleasure at one place…

Exclusive Thermo screenshots

Ted Patrick released on his blog onflex.org exclusive MAX 2008 Thermo screenshots.

Adobe / Google / Yahoo : SWF dynamic content indexed by search engines

Until now static content in SWF files (Flash Player file format) was indexed to some point by search engines like Google and Yahoo. Any dynamic content was not even close to be read by search engine, and developers worked with alternative content. Alternative content is content displayed in HTML page behind the Flash file, which containts infomation equal or similar to ones current flash page is displaying. Problem was that alternative content coudn’t be set dynamically and read by search engines as Flash file change it’s content without reloading.

Great news is, Adobe has came out with Flash Player which will be used by search engines, for now Google and Yahoo which enables them to get all content from Flash, going through it and retrieving the dynamically loaded content… You can read more at Adobe Developer Center

I think this doesn’t mean Google and Yahoo would be able to link to your dynamic pages directly, because there is no fake clicking capability in current Flash player, or time skip functionality. Something like that may be an option but for now I don’t think Google or Yahoo can lead  directly to your dynamic page inside SWF but they can be aware of your content and show it in search results.

This is surely a great news, with deep linking already enabled on your site this will work like a charm surely.
Thanks Adobe… And please keep this good news coming every month!

FUG Singapore July Meeting - Papervision and FDT presentations

It sounds like July meeting of FUG in Singapore will be even more interesting then in June. Basically it will be held out of Adobe offices at Tequilla office in Singapore.

Address is T\Junction Building, 5 Kadayanallur Street 069183
Seminar Room and meeting is held at 9th July at 19h. Entry is FREE but you should come at least half our before to register…

There will be two sessions as usuall In this meeting. Andrii Olefirenko will speak about Papervision 3D. FUG  also invited Nico, the founder of FDT, Germany, to give us a remote presentation on the FDT IDE and how it can improve your development workflow.

So great stuff again, see you there I will post if ther will be online live video stream, if not I am sure FUG Singapore site will have video files to download.