Almer/Blank Labs

Howdy all:

I know blogging's been light for the past several months. Work here at Almer/Blank has had me pretty consumed.

But, as I gear up and prepare for a busy autumn of talks and courses, you can expect some heavier posting.

First up, I'll be presenting at FITC San Francisco — the first SF installment of the really amazing FITC conferences.

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I'm continuing work on my FITC Toronto talk, 'Standardize Your Flash with Adobe OSMF', and the files to accompany it.

OSMF certainly has features and functionality for hard-core developers to build powerful media-rich experiences. But OSMF also makes basic media player code really easy for those users of Flash who might not consider themselves developers, but who still are comfortable coding on the timeline.

One of the issues with the still nascent, but growing at an impressive rate OSMF documentation, is that almost all the sample code is for users of Flex Builder / Flash Builder — and all of the sample code for Flash assumes use of external class files.

But using OSMF does not require coding in external class files. So, to illustrate that point, I've gone ahead and modified the simplest possible OSMF video player from Adobe's documentation to code that works on the timeline. Which I'm posting here. …read more…

A common practice amongst PureMVC developers when creating PureMVC Mediator implementations is the "view getter", a getter method that returns the instance of the view object that the Mediator is coupled with. As an example I will use an imaginary media player with a playlist. …read more…

This coming Wednesday, December 2nd, I'll be giving my new talk, Hearing Pictures at the LA Flash End-Of-Year Party. This will be only the second time I've given this talk — I first gave it at the FITC Unconference at MAX 2009. Since I was speaking at an unconference (a less formal environment, with very different criteria for acceptability than the normal conference tracks), I used the opportunity to create a brand new talk on a sort of crazy idea that's been nagging me for a few years — the idea of translating anything into anything.

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