March 19th 2007 | Jens C Brynildsen

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Flash On The Beach 2006

Flash on The Beach in Brighton is the event that the community will talk about for the next year and maybe years to come. Here are our ten reports from this brilliant event

Flash on The Beach, intro and various reports

This week, the stormy beach of Brighton is filled with Flash designers and developers for a three day conference featuring three parallel tracks and a great lineup of speakers. Flashmagazine is there to tell you what is happening.

..and now for something completely different..

My next session was with Craig Swan of Crash!Media talking about The User as the Interface. I got in a little late as I had to go out in the foyer to post the keynote, but this was really inspirational!

Explorations with ActionScript 3

Todays second session was an old favorite, Branden Hall. Branden was everybody's Actionscript guru back in the Flash 4 and 5 days. He did some amazing things back then that really inspired me to quit using Director and rather use Flash and ...

Keep Interested - Eric Natzke

Another old time favorite from former Flash conferences is Natzke. Before his presentation he showed off an awesome black and white video of generated graphics set to sound, exported from Director as a quicktime movie to improve playback.

Contains one scene of sheep skinning

Formerly, movies contained no warnings about what you were about to see. Todays movies have these long warnings and you are no longer taking any chances. Taking chances and experimenting more is what Brendan talked about at todays first ses ...

Microsoft invades The Beach

Microsoft's presence in Brighton is pretty impressive. They are far more visible than Adobe and they are here to show off the designer tools announced yesterday and grab developers from the pool of Flash developers and designers present.

Joey Lott: Actionscript 3.0 Design Patterns

Design Patterns are architectural solutions to common programming problems. They are principally used in the development of applications but can also be helpful as a kind of programming shorthand when discussing problems with other programm ...

Jeremy Keith: AJAX, Flash killer?

Despite the controversial title this highly enjoyable talk was a balanced and refreshing review of the current crop of web application technologies. Enlivened by quotes from Henry Ford and Darth Vader we learned that AJAX and Flash develope ...

Flash on the beach: Day 3

There was a few sore heads on day 3 as it was the morning after the big party, but most of the attendees made it back for another great series of sessions.

Flash on the beach: Wrap up

All good things must come to an end and unfortunately, so does this years best Flash conference. Flash on The Beach in Brighton is the event that the community will talk about for the next year and maybe years to come.

About Jens C Brynildsen

Jens has been working with Flash since version 3 came out. Since then, he's been an active member of the Flash community. He's created more than a hundred Flash games (thus the name of his blog) but he also creates web/standalone applications, does workshops and other consulting. He loves playing with new technology and he is convinced that the moment you stop learning you die (creatively speaking). Jens is also the Editor of this website.

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