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An event didn't really happen unless videos of it are posted to the web. So it must be the case that FlashCamp Boston really happened, because the videos are live. All of the sessions from last week's excellent Flex-oriented event are now on Adobe TV at http://tv.adobe.com/show/flash-camp-boston/ . These sessions include: a keynote on Flex 4 by Deepa Subramaniam FlashBuilder 4 tips by Rob Brambley , a skinning talk by Ryan Frishberg , a custom layout talk by layout king Evtim Georgiev a FlashBuilder 4 overview by Heidi Williams a talk on Catalyst by Doug Winnie ... and much, much more . Oh, and I gave a talk on (what else?) Flex 4 effects , which I'll embed here because that's what I do on my blog: Enjoy...

Now that Flex 4 is released (yay!), it seems like a good time to announce that I've been writing a book about the graphics and animation side of Flex 4 (apparently I didn't learn my lesson the first time around , or I actually enjoy spending all of my spare time writing about what I spend my non-spare time developing). It should be a fun read with lots of eye candy demos with source code available on the book's website. I'll have more details available in the next couple of days, and I hope to have the beta version of the book ready for online purchase within the week. (I actually hoped to have the real paper version available in stores this week instead. But that dream died a few months ago when I blew right past all of my deadlines. It's tough to finish a book about a product when you really need to finish the product first. So instead, I'll have a nearly-finished version of the book available online now, followed by the final version available online and i...

Creating a Reusable Flash Animation Library , the next episode in the gripping and suspenseful series CodeDependent , is now available from Adobe TV . This episode is a bit of a departure from my normal shows. Usually, I show graphics and animation techniques in Flex and Flex 4. This time, I talk about Flash Pro, the authoring tool for Flash (not Flex) applications. In particular, I show how to create a reusable library in Flash Pro that you can then link to and use in other Flash Pro projects. The process of creating a library in Flash Pro wasn't obvious to me, so I thought it might be useful to show how it was done. Thanks to Trevor McCauley for helping me figure this out. Trevor's on the Flash player team and is very helpful is figuring out all kinds of things about how Flash works, including this bit about Flash authoring. Check out his blog at senocular.com . Here's how this relates to Flex and my work for Flex: the library I create is an animation library based on th...

Here's a music video I made for the 360|Flex conference. It's a tribute to the Flex 4 release and the Flex SDK team. I hope you like it, from the bottom of my geeky little heart.