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We just got back from the yearly ‘Flash On The Beach’ conference in Brighton. As last year, the event was fantastically well produced courtesy of John Davey and his team. The quality of the speakers was amazing, especially on the last day. Though the event is called “Flash On The Beach”, the organizers has made sure to also cover all other aspects of Digital creativity to suit both designers and developers, heck even UX, motion graphics and other topics was added to the mix.

Swiff was invited to Adobe’s ‘Agency 2012 Dinner and Debate’. Johan Lopes, Swiff’s Technical Director thought it was very interesting to take part in this forum where he briefly shared some of his thoughts and experience with other digital and creative luminaries.

The wonderfully chilled out place that is Brighton with its sea side atmosphere gave us yet another inspirational couple of days away from the office. It was great catching up with old colleagues and making new friends.

Below are a few interesting links from various speakers (just a braindump from our notepad, go to the FOTB profile site of respective speakers to download their presentation slides).

Day 1

Lee Brimelow - ByteArray examples, links, and slides

http://theflashblog.com/

Keith Peters - Game architecture

BIT-101 Flash ActionScript

http://www.bit-101.com/blog/

Domain-driven design – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain-driven_design

PushButton Engine – Modular Flash Game Development

http://pushbuttonengine.com/

cocos2d

http://cocos2d.org/

flixel

http://flixel.org/

Chuck Freeman – Ribbit, getMicrophone()

getMicrophone()

http://www.getmicrophone.com/

Ribbit

http://www.ribbit.com/

Merapi

http://merapiproject.net/

Day 2

Grant Skinner, Quick as a Flash

Grant Skinner’s talk on optimizing ActionScript 3 code. If you are serious about code optimization then get his slides and follow his 100 tips like a bible: http://gskinner.com/talks/quick/

Joa Ebert, Leaving the Sandbox

Unfortunately, we missed this session. I’ve followed Joa’s work since I saw him at Spark Europe in 2005 – he is doing some r e a l l y amazing work.

Last year I was amazed by his speed coding skills (which we got to see again this year)

He is the core developer and Software Architect of the award winning Hobnox AudioTool. He is known for a lot of projects including WiiFlash, popforge, AS3V, ActionScript Wiki, PBDT and many more.

His talks is very technical blending raw computer science theories with creative ActionScripting.

www.joa-ebert.com

blog.joa-ebert.com

www.hobnox.com/audiotool

Richard Lord, Application Frameworks: The good, the bad, and the ugly

Excellent talk, sharing his experience on application frameworks (Cairngorm, PureMVC, Mate, Swiz)

@Richard_Lord

ELEVATOR PITCH, 3 Minute Wonders

Aron hallborg, Rotoscoping 2.0

Cool animation techniques from a Swedish dude.

Trevor Boyle, AS3 ‘Generative Art’ Framework

ARTionscript.com