As I mentioned previously, I gave a new talk titled Bare-naked Flash: Dispelling myths and building bridges at Highland Fling this week. What follows is a comprehensive live-blog style commentary of the session with slide highlights.
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At the end of every week, I plan to make a short entry highlighting the new jobs posted on the OSFlash Job Board. Here's the first one!

• Flash / Actionscript 3.0 Game Developer - Confidential, Chicago, IL and Raleigh, NC
• Lead Flash Developer - LocaModa, Cambridge, MA
• Lead Actionscript developer - NDi Media, Montreal, QC, Canada
• ActionScript 3 Engineer - DigiDeal Corporation, Spokane Valley, WA
• Flash Developer - Confidential, Santa Monica, CA
• Sr Flash AS3 Engineer/Developer - Confidential, Palo Alto, CA (telecommute)

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Do you have a Flash, Flex, or ActionScript job to post? Post it on the OSFlash Job Board.

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I'm playing around with Django (and considering whether to use it to build the back-end for Singularity). I love the regular expressions-based Front Controller that Django uses and the first thing I thought when I saw it was that it would be incredibly easy to use this to implement deep linking in Flex and Flash applications. I whipped up a proof-of-concept a few moments ago which I thought I'd share with you.

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I just read a blog post and watched a screencast about a new Flash framework called Gaia and I like most of what I saw.

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