Flash on the Beach 2010

Tickets for Flash on the Beach 2010 were released this morning and are selling like hotcakes. For those of you that don’t know, Flash on the Beach is the definitive conference for all things Flash/Flex/Design/Actionscript Development/General Web sexiness.

If you’re in the industry and have never been:

1. Shame on you;
2. Buy a ticket NOW;
3. Shame on you!

I can’t stress enough how much of a great time you’ll have. To give you a taster of what to expect, check out my review of Flash on the Beach 2009.

Hope to see you there!

Warning 1090: Migration issue

Actionscript 3 errors and warnings are not always easy to understand – especially if you’re teaching yourself and aren’t completely up on all of the terminology. Sometimes I scream for the error message to be plainer English and spend far too long googling the solution. So from now on if I get an error and found that the solution was simple but took a while to find, I’m going to blog it here. Hopefully it will help somebody else too! More

Pixel perfection in Papervision3D

I’ve been tearing my hair out for the last 24 hours trying to work out how the hell to get my precisely drawn design to scale correctly in Papervision. Anyone who’s tried this will know that it’s a frustrating blend of messing around with camera zoom, focus and field of view. But try as I might, I found it absolutely impossible to solve. I had come to the end of my patience and was ready to give up with PV3D and change the design completely…

…and then I came across this.

The thing that crossed my mind first when seeing this demo was “not only is it possible to reproduce a good pixel perfect 2D design in Papervision, but potentially it could be really great”.

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Flash on the Beach 2009 – The Aftermath

Well I’m back from Flash on the Beach 2009 in Brighton and yet again I wasn’t disappointed. There were a couple of sessions that weren’t as good as expected and a couple more that unexpectedly blew me away, all-in-all I had a blinding time. Needless to say I’d thrown out my previously organised schedule by Monday lunchtime though

This year was so enjoyable I’m still buzzing a week later, hence this post. I’m not going to go massively into detail about it all, but there are a few highlights and lowlights that I think are worth talking about…

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Flash on the Beach 2009

So it’s that time of the year again when all of the Flash geeks from around the world descend on Brighton to “educate” themselves. Four days of Flash geekiness in it’s purest form. Education, inspiration and quite a lot of dissipation.

I can say without any doubt that FOTB 2008 was the most inspirational event that I’ve ever been lucky enough to attend. I picked up more skills and creative ideas in 4 days than I had done in the entire previous year. It was exhilarating to say the least.

Flash on the Beach is a wonderfully constructed event that encourages free thinking and debate and is an excellent opportunity to mix with other Flash designers and developers from around the world. I met some amazing people last year and I am sure that this year will be the same.

However last year I was so overwhelmed by the whole thing, I missed at least two lectures that I really wanted to see through to disorganisation (and at least two more due to hangovers). So although there’s not a great deal I can do about the hangovers, I have decided to at least try to plan in advance a lecture schedule this year of the speakers that I want to see. I’ve listed it below so you can stalk/avoid* me (*delete as appropriate) if you’re going to be there.

Seriously though if any of you are attending FOTB this year, please do get in touch. It’s always great to meet like-minded people.

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