September 20, 2009 at 3:04 pm · Filed under Personal
Over the past six months I have more or less neglected this blog - my apologies for that. There are two general reasons for my absence: Twitter and The Good.
I'll be posting more about The Good in the very near future, but as for Twitter, I tweet quite often (you can follow me here) on a varying number of topics from everyday life to serious Flash platform development. In either case, I have come to find that I can distill most of what used to be a full blog post down to 140 characters or less instead of putting a bunch of filler around the main point just to have enough content to form a blog post.
I see this being the case with most of the Flash/interactive community these days as most of the blogs I used to follow via my RSS reader have been all but abandoned in favor of the author's Twitter account. And for most topics, this works quite well: more to the point, easier to share, and certainly easier to post information quickly.
I do plan on continuing to post to this blog when a longer discussion is merited, such as my posts from conferences such as FOTB and the upcoming "what I have been up to for the past six months" post.
So, if you feel abandoned by my lack of posts, my apologies again and don't worry: you can find me on Twitter.
September 20, 2009 at 12:54 pm · Filed under Conferences, Flash, Flash on the Beach, iPhone
After spending a few days pre-conference in London, I've arrived in Brighton for Flash on the Beach 2009 and the first day of workshops. I chose to attend the iPhone App Development For Flash Developers workshop taught by Julian Dolce today.
While I certainly didn't grow any fonder of Objective-C today, I did learn quite a lot. During the eight hour session we covered a pretty wide range of topics and tasks. First Julian gave us a few hour Objective-C overview before we all took the virtual pet example from Colin Moock's Essential ActionScript 3.0 book and coverted it to Objective-C. This was a great task since everyone in the room knew AS3 and was more than likely familiar with the virtual pet example.
After a break for lunch we all jumped into some quick equivalents of ActionScript 3 code in Objective-C, and then used those examples to build a sample application with some animated images, touch events (taps and dragging), audio. Lastly Julian gave an overview of Interface Builder and then went over some general tips and tricks.
Julian will be posting his slides, sample code and some recommended additional reading on the page he setup on his website: http://deleteaso.com/iphone-workshop/
Hopefully I'll find a way to learn to like Objective-C as much as I do AS3 since developing for the iPhone, as I learned today, can certainly be a fun experience.
Thanks, Julian!
