By the way, I'm in the lobby of the Sheraton hotel, polishing up my presentation notes and reviewing my course notes for tomorrow's workshop. Feel free to drop by and say hello.

After a lovely twelve hour flight, I arrived in Seattle last night and promptly crashed into the comfy bed at the hotel. I'm just catching up on email (it's ridiculous how much email accumulates in just 12 hours) and the latest news and saw that Patrick's released Amfphp 1.2.

I wrote a bit about this release earlier (prematurely, as it turned out) :) so I won't repeat all that again here. Suffice to say that it now generates stub code for Arp (which you can save to kick-start your Arp project) and now has a very simple method of class mapping for VOs. I won't repeat all my praise for Patrick here either, because, well, we all know he's the man! :)

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I'm literally out the door, on my way to Gatwick to fly out to Seattle for FlashForward. I'm going to be teaching my Foundations of Object-Oriented AS2 course on the first day of the conference and holding a seminar on the Open Source Flash Revolution and OSFlash.

Ping me if you're going to be there and maybe we can hang out.

Check out the meeting we have planned for March at the London MMUG.

We're going to be giving away a copy of the Adobe Video Bundle (oooh) and Emmanuel Okyere and I will be holding sessions called Testing Flash Applications (test-driven development, unit testing, etc.) and AMES for Flash Development (installing and using the AMES suite for open source Flash development.)

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My good friend Cedric Muller just sent me a photograph that he took using a 30 second exposure and flashlight. It's entitled "Flash ants going for the big mushroom" (suitably surreal to be a Cedric piece.) If you look closely you can see Cedric's faint outline by the ants. I also saw some of his other work and it's very cool indeed.

Thanks, man -- how nice of you! :)