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I was digging in my archives when I came across this POC (Proof of Concept) I did last year …

It would make for a nice simple Flash Player 8 performance test … basically it just reads an XML file containing 10,000 (or more) “nodes” with random x,y coorindates and then populates that list of nodes using 3 different methods … there are 2 passes, one to draw the points and a 2nd pass to colorize them based on xml attributes (this was an explicit requirement for the POC) … the goal is to do it in the fastest way possible (without any preprocessing).

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The latest BFPUG (Boston Flash Platform User Group) occured tonight. The topic, ActionScript 3.0.

About 30 people showed. Probably more … remotely. There was a live cast going on you see.

Keith Peters did a quick history of AS, and then Sam Robbins carried on with some of the new features/capabilities … as well as a couple of walkthroughs (one on the new event system and the other on DisplayList).

I was able to follow along readily, so looks like AS 3.0 isn’t quite the jump I thought it would be. Clients will ask for it at some point.

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I just read Darron’s post … more evidence for the non-believers and nay-sayers.
O’reilly recognizes it officially in their history poster! Ha!
O’reilly language poster (.PDF)

2.) Also, recently, I found out my Alma Mater, Umass at Amherst has jumped on the wagon with a few courses in Flash & AS (and Director too) … ah, times have changed from my Pascal and C days.

• CMPSCI 553: Interactive Web Animation
• Umass Graphics Department

My point is when you have nationally ranked CmpSci departments in Colleges and Universities like Umass and MIT utilizing it in graduate level classes … you know the language has made it: end of story.

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Came across an article that lays out how to read local files from a user’s pc using Acrobat 6 … basically having an embedded .swf within a PDF is a security risk, such that if you know the location of a file on a user’s machine you can read it …

1. Create a local file called “c:\jelmer.txt” then click the link below …
2. Demo

Ought-oh.

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Tony had a recent post about a mobile based AIR application that was created for Intel for the CES Show.

The touchscreen based app is called “Teknision Media Junction” and split into a music and video applications.

If you don’t have UMPC handy (who buys these things?!), you can download the AIR frameworks, and run off your respective desktop.

Looks cool. Get the download off his blog.

Yay. Tony’s mobile project revealed! Nice.

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A new Adobe DevNet article: “Ten tips to help you develop better Flash Lite games” is available from Mariam.

“Mobile games are a big business with many talented developers creating compelling device content. Although most developers can write effective code, create interesting graphics, and test their games successfully, it is always helpful to review the best practices to follow—especially considering the wide variety of handsets on the market.

In this article I’ll provide tips to make your game design and development experience better and easier. My intention is not to provide an analysis of how to improve the game development process, but to share some tips that I picked up while developing Flash Lite games.”

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On Dec 18th, there is a scheduled e-seminar session entitled: “Exploring Flash Lite Video Capabilities for Mobile”, which you pre-register for here.

Speaker: Giorgio Natili is a Forum Nokia Champion and this e-Seminar is co-sponsored by Forum Nokia

The aim of this eSeminar is to teach developers how to integrate video media in mobile applications using Flash Lite.

In addition, a comparison of capabilities offered in Flash Lite 2.x and 3.0 versions will be explored to demonstrate the richness of the new video features offered in the latest release of Flash Lite.

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Just an FYI, but I believe there is still Flash Lite 3 training going on in San Francisco this week (you’ll need to email to see if it’s the case (adjust the email or it’ll bounce), … or perhaps Bill or someone from Adobe will comment below).

Below is the courseware overview.

Adobe Flash Lite 2.x/3.0 Mobile Application Development Training Course

Audience
The course will be targeted at mobile developers with a review of Flash basics. Course will continue to use Flash CS3 and Device Central as the main authoring tools.

Course Length
This will be a three-day course.

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I just got an email dropped in my inbox from Adobe about the Adobe Community Experts program this year.

Among its contents:

“The Adobe Community Experts Program is a community based program made up of Adobe customers who share their product expertise with the world-wide Adobe community. The Adobe Community Experts’ mission is to provide high caliber peer-to-peer communication educating and improving the product skills of Adobe customers worldwide. We thank you for all of the community work you did in 2007 and look forward to an exciting 2008!”

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