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 release). The library/API also makes it easier to build Flash Lite applications with SWX as it provides classes that handle usual Flash Lite gotchas (such as the highly annoying ActionScript stuck error and loadMovie limitations). Of course, you will also still be able to use SWX without the library.

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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:

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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

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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 this year and I actually preferred the new venue at the Hilton hotel. I felt that having the conference rooms closer together made it easier for me to attend more of the talks and the event just felt more focussed, somehow, thanks to the layout of the venue.

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