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!

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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