Dynamic Flash

Now that I’m a Londoner Tink has roped me into speaking at the London Flash Platform User Group November meet-up on November 30th. The session is titled ‘The Wonderful World of E4X’:

With the rise and rise of APIs we’re seeing an increasing number of developers using them to create mashups, either just for kicks or hoping to be snapped up by Yahoo! or Google for a boat-load of cash. Many of these web services output XML, and if you’ve ever tried to deal with complicated XML structures in ActionScript 1.0 or 2.0 then you have my sympathies. Stop messing around with endless child and sibling references and see the light - ActionScript 3.0’s E4X is the answer to all your problems (or at least the ones that involve processing XML in Flash) and this session aims to show you how.

The other session that night is Adam Robertson’s ‘Flash for Linux’:

With Adobe’s recent release of Flash Player 9 for Linux and the proliferation of OS flash tools, Linux is rapidly becoming a viable environment for developing real world Flash content. And unless you’ve been living under a rock recently you’ve almost certainly heard of Ubuntu, the current poster child of Linux distributions, and arguably the first Linux distribution to provide a truly usable desktop OS.
In this session we’ll take a closer look at Ubuntu, and cover turning a shiny fresh install into a full featured Flash 8 developement environment using (mostly) Open Source tools including Eclipse, MTASC, ASDT/FDT & SWFMill.

If you’re in London on the 30th come along and say hi - I promise I won’t bite. You’ll need to register your interest to get in the door, but it promises to be a good night of beer and geekery.

Update: I had to pull out at the last minute due to being stuck in Bristol. I’m working with Tink to get this presentation rescheduled for January or February 2007.