You might be starting to notice that Update isn't a regular conference. It kicks off with the Royal Banquet at a palace (for which there are still a few tickets you can buy to attend), continues in the premier concert hall in Brighton, and ends with the A Night at the Museum after-party at the Brighton Museum and Art Gallery. It is a tightly-scripted experience, with 18-minute inspirational talks punctuated by Geek Ninja Battles, tech beats, and live/interactive music and visualization acts. And, unlike other conferences, we're approaching sponsorship differently too.

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My good friend and Flash guru extraordinaire Seb Lee-Delisle is holding two new two-day classes in Brighton (United Kingdom) in February 2010.

The first course, to take place on February 1st-2nd, is Seb's Official Papervision3D Training class.

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I initially wrote this as a comment in my previous post: Why Adobe's mobile strategy is fundamentally flawed as a response to Rachel Luxemburg's comment but it grew somewhat so, in the interest of keeping comments short and succinct, here it is in its own post:

"Frankly, if you’re that convinced that Flash simply isn’t suitable for the mobile space, then you’re right, you’re going to get very frustrated at Adobe for not giving up and going home." (Rachel)

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A few days ago I stumbled upon Swiz, which bills itself as the "brutally simple micro-architecture for Rich Internet Application development with Adobe Flex." If the term micro-architecture or the buzzword Rich Internet Application haven't scared you off yet, read on, because it really is a lovely little framework.

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I love the immediacy of Qik for recording short videos and yet I don't want my Qik videos to reside separately from my blog.

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