I will be doing a 2 day course on Design Patterns and OOP on March 1st and 2nd. We will be covering alot of stuff in the 2 days. Use the discount code KINETICZ to save yourself some dollars.

I haven’t finalized the course completely yet so if you have anything in there you would really like to hear go ahead and shoot it over. I have time to rework the outline a bit depending on what people want to hear about. Email me: jacob@kineticz.net

More info here: http://www.richmediainstitute.com/training/as_design_patterns/

I am working on a project right now that has about a million fla / swf asset files. we have all of them in an assets folder in the project and when it builds we get all of those flas copied into the bin folder and then when we upload the test site there are all of these flas all over the place in different folders taking up about a gig or so that we obviously don't want to push to the server.

so with this little command in the command line we can remove all of the flas before we upload in all folders in the bin. You just have to do cd path/to/project and then run that commmand.

hope that helps =)

The long awaited update to ElectroSever has finally been released, but this time it's more than just a multiplayer game server. They have streaming audio / video, ridiculous scalability, of course AS 3 support, and much more all for a very reasonable price.

Check it out here: http://electro-server.com/.

December 12 @ 7pm.

-Branden Hall will be opening the event with a talk on AS3
-We will be having a time for students to showcase their work
-Elliot Mebane of Zero G Games will be talking about tools for team project development.
-The almer / blank team will be discussing their new book, AdavncED Flex Applications.
-We will be debuting the new LA Flash websites
-And of course our awesome end of the year raffle.

More info can be found here: http://www.laflash.org/forum/showthread.php?p=10493#post10493

This last weekend I needed to change the password on my aunt's laptop running XP. I called a buddy of mine because he does this kind of stuff alot and informed me that if it was an XP laptop that I could boot into same mode, login to the Administrator account which by default in XP has no password and then go to the account manager and update the password for her account that way. I was stoked this took me no time at all, but the last time I had to do this it required booting into the windows install disc and it was kind of pain (as I would expect it to be). But it seems like any system that you pickup that has the administrator password blank is a bit of a security issue. I always set an administrator password when i used a PC (mostly because I always logged in as the Administrator), but i would doubt that most people setting up a system they got from best buy, hp, even dell would not think to setup an administrator password if they don't use that account.

In OS X if you want to even use the root account you have to enable it in preferences and it forces you to set a password. That is a bit better on the security side of things I think.

I just got back to London after hanging out in Brighton for a couple of days for flash on the beach. Flash on the beach isn't over yet, but I am going to spend the next couple weeks touring around london, so I decided to only see the first two days of the con. Overall it was everything I expected and more. The shwag bag, or should i say backpack, was full of goodies, including flip flops and a towel, and a copy of Essential AS3 by moock. All the sessions I saw were great and the exhibitor hall was pretty cool as well. Setup with two 30(ish)" screens to play wii, a room full of bean bags and couches to lounge around, lots of free coffee and of course tea.

Brighton was also a nice place to hang for a couple of days. The con was about a 10 minute walk from the water, lots of really good restaurants, and a couple minutes away from some pretty cool touristy spots.

I would have like to stay for the whole conference, but I need to get started on checking out the rest of England because I only have a couple of weeks there. I am definitely looking forward to future events hosted by John.

Like every other person on a mac, finding a decent SVN client has been a pain. I tried, svnX, smartSVN, rapidSVN, but all of them gave me trouble in some way or another. I went back to check on SCPlugin because coming from a pc, I always used tortoiseSVN. SCPlugin was kind of a disaster in previous versions myself and some colleagues have tried, but the most recent version is all integrated into the finder, no more command line stuff and for the last week or so I have had no issues with it.

before I will be hopping on a plane to London for Flash on the Beach and then two weeks of vacation. It's been a long year and I am looking forward to the time off. It'll be good seeing some friends out in brighton and then enjoying england. See you guys later =)

Today I heard about this little gem. The basic idea here is to be able to play ps3 games on your psp by sending a video stream of the ps3 game through the sony online system to your psp so that the psp doesn't have to do any 3d rendering, and then all controls on the psp get sent back to the online system so you are essentially using your psp as a controller to play ps3 games remotely over wifi. wow!

I have uploaded the source files from the presentation yesterday. You can find them here. Please email me with any comments or questions you may have on the talk.

I also want to say big up to Shawn Pucknell and the FITC crew for putting on another great con. This was the second FITC in hollywood and it was a big step up from last year and I will look forward to many more =)