“Flex 2 in Real Time Applications” – Phil Heinz, intelisea
“Interactive Animation: Sight, Sound, Motion” – Craig Swann, Crash! Media
“AS3 in Action” – Beau Ambur, Metaliq
“Finches to Flash: Darwin in Design” – Jeremy Thorp, bluprint design
"Hillman on Video" - Hillman Curtis
"Learn to Love Actionscript - Flash for Designers" Trevor Dodd
"Migrating to AS3 from AS2" - Caleb Haye
"Flex Builder 2 for Flash Programmers" - Phil Heinz
"Mashup Baby!" - Mario Klingemann
"Understanding Apollo" - Daniel Dura
"Analog In, Digital Out" - Brendan Dawes
"The Evolution of Flash Animation: Bed Rock Revisited" - Sandro Corsaro
"The Ultimate Guide to Flash Runtime Compositing" - Rich Shupe
The day started off with the Adobe keynote from Kevin Lynch, et al. He gave a great rundown about where the Flex framework is currently - especially Flex Builder 2 and Apollo. Then he turned it over to Mike Downey and Justin Everett-Church who previewed, for the first time, upcoming features in the Flash 9 IDE.
I have been looking forward to this week for some time, and I haven't been let down by the conference. It's been extremely inspiring to be around so many peers and to see what everyone else is working on.
While in the Expo Hall I spoke with lots of vendors including iStockPhoto (who liked me enough to pull a t-shirt out from under the table), VitalStream, and WowzaTV.
I spoke at great lengths with Charlie from Wowza about their upcoming services, including BlogCheese (http://www.blogcheese.com) and SideFlicks (http://www.sideflicks.com). I've actually installed SideFlicks on my blog, to the right in the sidebar. As soon as I get this blog completely up and running, I'll write a review of the service.
The book signing with Brenden Dawes was great mainly because I got to get into more detail with him about his presentation. He is so inspiring, and such a nice guy. He'll chat it up with you all day -- you'd never know he runs a company, creates amazing experimental art, and just came out with an amazing book (which I bought and he was kind enough to sign).
On that note, I'll end this post with a quote Brenden shared:
"They who dream by day are congizant of many things which escape those who dream by night." - Edgar Allan Poe
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