For those of you who haven't seen them, Jared Tarbell has posted a TON of pictures from Flash in the Can 2004, and some of them are really good. And warped. And blurry.
It seems like Flashers are starting to jump on the social networking bandwagon. Within the last week I have received at least five "friend requests" on Orkut from Flashers all over the world. This is just another sign of the trend that geeks are using Orkut for professional networking whereas other social network sites like Friendster or Tribe seem to be used primarily for personal networking.
Another really cool person I met at Flash in the Can is Jeremy Thorp.
I met him in the speakers' room on Sunday. I had done my presentation a few hours earlier and was just chilling for the rest of the day while Jeremy was getting ready for his presentation. Like myself, it was his first time speaking at a Flash conference. Mostly out of solidarity, I decided to attend his session, the last of the day. On my way over to the seminar room I ran into Jared Tarbell who was on his way to Joshua Davis' session. I convinced Jared to come with me to Jeremy's session instead because I knew that Jeremy's stuff was right up his alley. I think it's safe to say that both Jared and I made the right choice.
Jeremy has been around for a while but doesn't get involved in the community much, which is why his site is not as well-known as it should be. He said he used to follow all the blogs but stopped because they made him work on what he thought he should be doing rather than what he wanted to be doing. And so instead of skinning components and building RIA's, he tries to recreate life in Flash. Coming from a biology background, he makes single-celled organisms, fantasy sea creatures and other little "swimmy things." In the RIA era it's nice to see that people are still creating things that live and breathe in Flash.
I'm surprised this hasn't been blogged about earlier. Actually, Kai König just did, but other than that the ranks have been quiet.
At Flash in the Can I met two very talented ActionScripters: Simon Wacker and Martin Heidegger (no, not THAT Martin Heidegger). Together they are working on an ActionScript library for Flash MX 2004 called AS2Lib.
as2lib is a Library, that gives ActionScript2 programmers access to a variety of packages/classes to improve and speed up their work with advanced Flash projects.
I believe that one of their focus points is advanced error handling. I definitely see a lot of potential for this project, so keep your eyes on it.
Mark Shepherd's SOAP header fix (a workaround for the broken/misdocumented SOAPCall.addHeader() method) is on slide 19. Please let me know if you have any questions.
I got up at 4 am this morning and arrived in Toronto at 3:30pm local time after a very painless five hour flight. Immediately upon entering the Westin Harbour Castle where Flash in the Can is held and where I’ll be crashing for the next three nights, I ran into Guy Watson and Kai König. I felt right at home. It’s so great to come to a totally strange city you have never been to before and then see all these people you know. That’s one of the great benefits of being part of the Flash community.
Later in the night I made my way over to a party at Colin Moock’s house where I met Colin Moock and his mohawk, who are both very very cool, Thijs Triemstra of collab.nl, Francis Bourre, Jared Tarbell, Dave Yang, etc. And who knew I would ever find myself inside a Canadian cab at 2am with Guy, Eric Natzke and Joshua Davis?
Unfortunately the wireless doesn’t seem to be available in my hotel room, and I also left my camera cable at home, so the blogging will not be quite as real time as I would like it to be.
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