Paul Boag recently interviewed me for his Boagworld podcast. In the podcast, Paul says that the interview made him "realize that Flash has grown up a lot and it's been tarred with a brush which is somewhat out of date these days."

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Andrew Eatherington recently shared his Arp success story with the OSFlash mailing list. Andrew used Arp in his project to build the Nutrition Counter RIA for the McDonald's UK web site. I may not eat at McDonald's or support their business model but the application itself is a very good example of a clean, good-looking and useful RIA.

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I'm off to Bristol tomorrow morning to teach a two-day Flash Masterclass sponsored by Bristol Media.

The class is a combination of my Hot Shots: Foundations of Object-Oriented ActionScript 2 and Hot Shots: Best Practices Flash & Flex courses and will take place at the South West Screen offices in Bristol on Thursday, 22nd and Friday, 23rd June.

I was recently interviewed for a podcast by Ronald and Koen, the personable duo behind next week's Multi-Mania conference in Belgium that I'm going to speaking at. The said interview is now up on the Multi-Mania web site (and here's a direct link to the MP3). In it I share my thoughts on various things, including, of course, OSFlash, Flex 2 and my experiences in licking melted chocolate from the nipples of famous Hollywood midgets. OK, so two out of three -- I didn't really talk about Flex!

Multi-Mania will feature a panel discussion on OSFlash that I'll be chairing. Those of you who attended Spark Europe may remember a similar panel discussion there that ended up becoming a lively episode of "Is Red 5 Legal?" with FUD thrown about like chairs in Steve Ballmer's office. This time around, I hope we can use the panel to demonstrate the amazing open source work that the Flash community has been producing on OSFlash and to create a platform to connect with and address the needs, questions and ideas of the local community in Belgium. I am very lucky to have five great panelists on board: Christophe Herreman (AS2Lib, Arp), Edwin Van Rijkom (Screenweaver), Waldo Smeets (Adobe Benelux), Serge Jespers and Peter Elst.

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Calling all filmmakers: Current TV just launched a contest seeking a short form piece (pod) about tolerance. Winning filmmaker will receive $100,000 with an additional $15k to the nonprofit, tolerant organization of their choice. Also, the 2 runners up will receive cash prizes. Celebrity judges: Paul Haggis, Margaret Cho, Edward Norton and Melissa Etheridge.

Laina, a very good friend of mine who works at Current TV, asked if I'd help her get the word out on the contest. Actually, after getting her email, I read up a bit more on Current TV and I love what they're doing. In fact, you can see a sampling of their latest stuff on their Video Preview page. I enjoyed the viewer-created piece on "The Dubizzle in Dubai".

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