http://www.jonnymac.com/blog Fri, 09 May 2008 02:43:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Some readers may remember my previous post on the costs of conferences, specifically Flash on the Beach and 360|Flex compared to FlashForward. In short, FlashForward was more expensive... by a landslide... even when factoring in the cost of an international flight and 2:1 exchange rates. However, when Lynda.com sold FlashForward to ... http://www.jonnymac.com/blog/2008/05/07/flashforward-sf-2008-pricing-announced-and-still-overly-expensive/ Life just got a lot more interesting for those who make a living working with Flash: http://blogs.adobe.com/open/2008/04/the_open_screen_project.html As a part of the announcement, Adobe is publishing exactly how the SWF format works without restrictions, and removing all other barriers to getting Flash on the widest range of devices. Set top/cable boxes, all ... http://www.jonnymac.com/blog/2008/04/30/adobes-open-screen-project-and-why-you-should-care/ About a month ago Aral Balkan mentioned he wasn't finding the time to write a chapter on SWX for an upcoming Friends of Ed book, so I offered to step in to write the chapter for The Essential Guide to Open Source Flash Development on SWX for Flash and Flash ... http://www.jonnymac.com/blog/2008/04/18/writing-swx-chapter-for-the-essential-guide-to-open-source-flash-development/ As I had mentioned earlier, I attended the PaperVision3D training in Vegas a few weekends back and it was well worth giving up a whole weekend and making the trip to Vegas. John Grden did an great job with the class and was really fluid in covering whatever we as a ... http://www.jonnymac.com/blog/2008/04/10/papervision3d-training-in-vegas-rocked/ We knew this was coming for some time now and today Adobe finally released the 9.0.124 Flash Player which includes security updates that have an effect on any sites you may have built using AMFPHP, SWX, or any other Flash remoting services. At issue is the crossdomain.xml file -- you'll need ... http://www.jonnymac.com/blog/2008/04/08/flash-player-90124-released-with-security-updates/ The Rich Media Institute is having official PaperVision3D training in Las Vegas this weekend (March 29/30) led by John Grden. Sometimes I feel as if I am the only Flash developer left without much PaperVision3D experience, so you can see why I'm so excited to be attending. It looks like they ... http://www.jonnymac.com/blog/2008/03/26/attending-papervision3d-training-in-vegas-this-weekend/ Mike Downey, a Platform Evangelist at Adobe, just posted the entire, correct story of Flash on the iPhone. As mentioned in his post, a lot of people have been blogging about how Flash is coming to the iPhone. However, the reports of Adobe CEO's comments about Flash support on the ... http://www.jonnymac.com/blog/2008/03/19/the-real-deal-with-flash-on-the-iphone-from-adobe/ Rostislav has done it again! The creator of SWFAddress just released a simple way of deep linking into video content via YouTube's new JavaScript API and SWFAddress. Why is this so awesome? Well, with this added functionality you can now create 'chapters' in your content, without having to split up the ... http://www.jonnymac.com/blog/2008/03/13/swfaddress-and-youtube-deep-linking-into-video/ Created by the guys (or Pirates, as they prefer to be called) over at Substance, Logobama lets you upload a photo to create a custom Barack Obama logo in sizes to fit user icons for Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, YouTube, Digg, LinkedIn, Flickr, and others. This is a great example of how ... http://www.jonnymac.com/blog/2008/03/03/logobama-the-barack-obama-logo-creator/ XPLANE is continuing to grow, and we're looking for Project Managers for the Portland and Atlanta offices. You can find job descriptions for both of these positions at http://www.xplane.com/#/careers/. http://www.jonnymac.com/blog/2008/02/23/project-management-positions-at-xplane/