Music and Sound in Flex and Flash

NCDevCon, Raleigh May 22,2010

Presented on various ways of working with sound in Flash and Flex.  Covered basics of digital signal processing for audio, creating sounds from scratch, and microphone manipulation.  Also covered various ways to get more performance when processing lots of audio samples

Adobe Fireworks CS4 for Beginners

Discussed Adobe Fireworks features for designing and interactive prototyping for HTML sites and Flex applications

Using Flash Assets in Flex 3

Discussed how to use assets created in Flash in Flex 3 applications.  Presentation covers skinning, creating AS3 components, and basic graphical manipulation using the Flex Component Kit for Flash CS4

Physics in Flash

Discussed why developers may want to use physics engines in Flash and covered the pros and cons of several free engines.  I went into detail on Box2D and showed a few demos and explained how it works

Zinc Desktop Tool for Flash

Discussed what Multidmedia's Zinc is and why it's a great choice to bring Flash to the desktop.  We went over using joysticks, embedding media, creating extensions, and more.

Sound in Flash

Discussed a wide variety of topics under the umbrella of using sound in Flash.  This included embedding on the timeline and loading/playing sound with AS3.  Also went into advanced topics like visualization and creating sounds dynamically through code.

Papervision3D

Discussed a popular 3D engine for Flash called Papervision3D.  We went over how to create assets in a 3D tool called blender (modeling, texturing, and exporting).  And then we covered how to bring these assets into Flash for manipulation.  This presentation was given by Troy Stratton, Iris Stratton, and myself.

Flash Catalyst and Flex 4

Discussed newly released beta software for the Flash platform.  Covered how to design/prototype an application in Flash Catalyst, and bring that over to Flex 4 for creating interaction and functionality.  This presentation was given by Troy Stratton, Iris Stratton, and myself.