Archive for the 'FITC' Category

Video: Mike Potter’s Presentation on Apollo @ FlashInTO

Tuesday, February 6th, 2007

Rick Mason from FITC posted the Apollo Demo given by Mike Potter at January 31st meet. If it was on You Tube, it would be easier to embed the video but here’s the link to the presentation anyways.
http://www.flashinto.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=19532#19532
If you are in the Greater Toronto Area, the Flash In T.O. Flash Usergroup has monthly meetings. Visit [...]

FITC 06: Ben Fry Makes Sense Out Of 010101 Nonsense

Friday, May 19th, 2006

A screenshot of Genomic Valence visualization doesn’t do justice when you can say you’ve actually witnessed the application in action on a huge projector in front of an audience whose is just wow’d out.

Presentation Title
Playing With Data
Speaker(s)
Ben Fry (Ben Fry.com, The MIT Aesthetics and Computation Group, Processing.org)
Did I Stay For The Whole Thing?
Captivated from beginning [...]

FITC 06: Get Great Looking Video Minus The File Size

Thursday, May 4th, 2006

Sorenson Squeeze 4 on2 encoding beats out of the box Flash 8 on2
Presentation Title
The Art of Encoding Video for Flash
Speaker(s)
Derrick Ypenburg (New Toronto Group, Community MX, Focus On Media)
Did I Stay For The Whole Thing?
Definitely.
Reason For Attending
I’ve worked with FLV in the past. I am working on a video side-project. I hope to do more [...]

FITC 06: Adobe Keynote Explains Merger Is A Win-Win

Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006

Mike Downey at FITC 06 Keynote (Photo Credit: DarbyMedia)
Presentation Title
The Adobe Keynote
Speaker(s)
Mike Downey (http://weblogs.macromedia.com/md);
Mike Chambers (http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mesh)
Sho Kuwamoto (http://kuwamoto.org)
Adobe mobile guy
Did I Stay For The Whole Thing?
Yes.
Reason For Attending
I attended this because I didn’t get a chance to attend the Adobe Q and A earlier in the morning.
Highlights
Watched a video of a bunch of people pop’n [...]

FITC 06: Open Your Mind To Open Source Flash

Tuesday, May 2nd, 2006

Presentation Title
The Open Source Flash Revolution
Speaker(s)
Aral Balkan (flashant.com, London MMUG)
Did I stay for the whole thing?
Yes.
Reason for Attending
I’ve always found open source development intriguing. I have a tremendous respect for OS (open source) contributors because they don’t code for monetary gain. They code for the passion of it. They also code to evolve the [...]

FITC 06: Festival Definitely Opened My Eyes

Monday, May 1st, 2006

For the most part, the festival was good. Some of it…well…was simply not for me. I have a lot to say that is positive about the event. I’ll be staggering the review posts (hopefully) on a daily basis because I’d lose an entire day if I posted all my thoughts at once.
The following list are [...]