The Flash Art of War

I am working on a 2 part series for Flash Tuts Plus about using Flash Camo 2.2. Make sure you check it out, here is a quick summary:

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Hey if you are anything like me you probably love 3 things: Flash, Drinking, and Free stuff. That is why I am giving away a free ticket to Flash on Tap on May 28-30th. So here is the catch:

*** We have a Winner for the Free Ticket ***

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Awhile back I was talking about the cool FLAR experiments I was doing at my job. Well I was asked by Rich Tretolia (@richtretola) from insideRIA to come up with a tutorial to help others get started. Since there are so many tutorials on FLAR right now I decided to try a different approach and talk about not only how to create a reusible set of classes but also how to make a FLAR Emulator. Here is the final result:

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I just finished shooting the follow up to my FlashBum website. I spent two days running around the city taking mostly photos and a little bit of video. To celebrate the new redesign of Flash Bum I am going to let everyone follow along as I build it! The new Flash Bum will be 100% open source, built with FDT (yup going to give it another shot), and I will document the entire process.

Here are some of the features of the new Flash Bum (tentatively called Flash Bum Redux)

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I would have loved to have been a part of this pitch - “Lets put Drinking and Flash together, right lets make a conference!” That’s right if you havn’t heard about Flash On Tap then you need to check it out. The lineup looks incredible and like I said before, you get two of the things I love most in this world¹. If you want a $50 off coupon, leave a comment with your email address! Also, make sure you add @flashontap to your twitter feed and tell them that @TheFlashBum sent you.

1. …outside of my wife and unborn son! [↩]

I have just finished a tutorial (part 1 of 2) on how to Create A Flash Development Sandbox on Flash Tuts+. This article is very detailed and something I had been working on for a very long time. It is basically what I started back on this post. Here is what I go over in Part 1:

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I am a big fan of Google Code. One of the coolest features that I completely overlooked was the way you can star projects you like. Once you star them they will appear in a drop down under the My projects tab. Probably not the most intuitive place to keep them but this menu holds a list of all of your projects as well as the ones you have stared. I have been doing a lot of checking out projects from SVN and creating new workspaces in Flex Builder lately so I have been using this menu a lot. I figured I would share some of the really great projects I use:

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In a very vain google search for Flash Bum I came across this website thirstyflash.wordpress.com that gave a really nice plug for my Flash Bum site. Looks like he is just getting started with the blog so hopfully there is a lot of potential. I am always looking for good reading to add to my ever growing list of Flash RSS Feeds.

On a side note I have been playing around with Twitter¹ and you can now follow the crazy adventures of the Flash Bum (@theflashbum) here.

1. the reason I was googling Flash Bum was to see the SEO impact of what I have twitted [↩]

If anyone is familiar with the Tuts+ brand of site will know they are a great source of information and well crafted tutorials covering everything from Photo Shop, Vector Design and event Audio. Well two days ago they launched a brand new Flash Tuts+ site and I was lucky enough to be the first person to get their tutorial published. I chose to talk about about my Flash Decal System from Camo and created a simplified version that I would like to invite you all to check out. I have always been a big fan of these sites and now to be a writer for them is a great honor.

Please check out what I have written here and you can see all of thier sites here.

For the past few days I have been working on some demos showing off FLAR and Augmented Reality. The project I am working on is Top Secret so I can’t say to much but I thought I would share my collections of links that got me started.

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