I'm still in Toronto (I fly back to my beloved Brighton on Wednesday) and working on SWX whenever I get a chance. Yesterday, I spent some time working on a higher-level SWX library which will make its way into the SWX 0.3 release (yep, we're skipping to a whole new minor version number with the next [...]

Notes from Dave Yang and Dongyub Lee's session at FITC. Dave starts off the session. MGMaps: Grabs maps from Google maps and uses GPS to locate you on your mobile phone. Streaming video: He's showing us the Slingbox Mobile Player. He's showing a QR Code example: Firefox extension: tinyurl.com/36evg6 Kaywa Reader: http://reader.kaywa.com Kaywa Generator: http://qrcode.kaywa.com Nokia: 83.145.232.112 RFID (inventory tracking, sales info, [...]

Notes from Grant's talk on the new Flash CS3 Components at FITC 2007. Core philosophy: Build a component set targeted at rich experience creators. Main objectives Size and performance: Reduce file size for downloads and minimuze CPU/memory impact Easy skinning & stlying: Simplify the workflow for customizing the appearance of components Extensibility: Make the architecture more approachable to encourage [...]

Pauline McNamara presents a 13 minute edit of my Memo to the CEO talk from last year's Flash on the Beach conference on the latest episode of the Edutech NTE Podcast. Listen to it here.

Web conferences are paradoxical in that you usually have the worst Internet access ever at them so I've essentially been offline for the duration of the otherwise excellent FITC conference in Toronto. FITC for me was three days of being reunited with friends and attending inspiring and informational sessions. There was a really great line-up [...]