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In case you missed the announcement at Flash on the Beach this year, the conference will be held in North American for the first time next April. Spring time is when the conference circuit really starts to get busy and I can’t think of a better way to start it then spending a week in South Beach. Like every Flash on the Beach conference it is likely to sell out so make sure to get your tickets early. The conference site has been refreshed and tickets go on sale in November. This year I went to my first Flash on the Beach in Brighton and had an absolute blast and I am sure 09 Miami and Brighton will be no different.

I was finally able to purchase and download Flash CS3 CS4 yesterday after a couple of days of trying. The adobe store just wouldn’t let me purchase a download. Anyways all is good now. I have been going through all of the new features in order to do a lunch and learn at our offices showing off what’s new. I’ll be posting stuff as I get my examples together as well as some changes that I have found in the Authoring Environment as well.

But the thing that drove me crazy all day today was trying to find the Pixel Bender Toolkit. I searched the docs and everything, but for whatever reason I couldn’t find anything that referenced the location. And Quicksilver didn’t find it either when I tried to open it using that.

Finally I found it by going to the labs page.

/Applications/Utilities/Adobe Utilities/Pixel Bender

There should be like a short cut or something from within the IDE. I guess that’s what JSFL is for.

Here are the links that I showed in my presentation.

Places to buy

http://www.imagesco.com/

www.sparkfun.com
www.robotshop.ca
www.dgikey.com
www.jameco.com
www.phidgets.com

Reference

http://www.marumushi.com/apps/remotedriver2/

http://2005to2007.fabrica.it/tuned_stairs/old/index.html

http://www.uva.co.uk/archives/

http://www.arduino.cc

http://www.phidgets.com

Books
Physical Computing
Making Things Talk
http://terrisperber.mycyberway.com/celebrex9466.html
http://terrisperber.mycyberway.com/celebrex1571.html
http://terrisperber.mycyberway.com/celebrex1809.html

Just a reminder that Flashpitt is this Friday. I am really looking forward to this event as it is the first one, and I really enjoy the smaller conferences as it has a certain intimate feel to it that other bigger conference don’t have. I am really looking forward to seeing and meeting Golan Levin. If you aren’t familiar with his work check out his site chances are that you have seen some of it. He really does amazing work.I am going to be speaking about getting Ardunio and Phidgets to talk to Flash. I am going to show some examples and some projects that I have been working on. If you are interested in getting into this stuff than I recommend checking out the session. There will be a little bit of code, but just enough to get you started and pointed in the right direction to explore it on your own.

If you are going to be at the conference be sure to come say hi. I am also going to be there for most of the day after so if anyone has any suggestions on things to see in Pittsburgh let me know.

This is just a friendly reminder that if you are thinking of going to Flash on the Beach, which you should be, that ticket sales end tomorrow.

There is only a few handful of tickets left so hurry now to get your place sorted out!

We recently worked with A&E to make a Viking Quest game to promote the upcoming season of Entourage. http://vikingquestgame.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=711gsvP96Zs
The video is of Johnny Drama ranting about how he isn’t getting any royalties from the game and he is pissed. It’s pretty hilarious and was a lot of fun to work on. Entourage premieres September 7,10pm.

The IDF keynote that we were apart of is up online. It was my first IDF and I have to say I had a lot of fun.

http://www.intel.com/pressroom/kits/events/idffall_2008/video.htm?iid=idf_home+tab_audiovideo#

Session: Anand Chandrasekher
Click – launch webcast
Fast forward to 26 min and you will see Warren our CCO.

I am just getting ready to walk into the rehearsal for the Keynote tomorrow morning on Intel Mobile Devices. We are going to be presenting in the first keynote in the morning and we also have a booth downstairs in the MID showcase section. If you are here stop by and say hi.

Tickets for the very first FlashPitt are on sale now. I will be speaking this year and am excited since it’s the first one and it will also be my first time in Pittsburgh. There are a few speakers announced on the site and it looks like there will be a pretty good lineup. I will be presenting on Physical Computing in Flash. It will be similar to the presentation I gave at Flashbelt this year but I have been working on some new samples that should be lots of fun.

We released our first iPhone game today with the release of the new iPhone. It’s a pretty simple game that uses the accelerometer as the controls. We really wanted to get something up there for the release and worked really hard over the last few weeks. Here is the link to the game.

http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=284967502&mt=8