Really excited about going down to Flash On The Beach ’08. I’m down for some of the AS3 workshops and looking forward to loads of the speakers as it looks like there’s going to be loads of talented folks and good ideas down there.
If you’re coming, I look forward to seeing you there. It will also be nice to back in Brighton as I haven’t been back since I used to work for Epic on Old Steine many moons ago 
Found some really cool stuff on 3D Papervision recently, I’ve always loved the effect you get with these and the blend of analogue & digital you need. Obviously distribution of the goggles themselves is an issue as not many people have a pair on their desk although I do!
More details on this and source code can be found here.
There’s another semi-3d anaglyph project over on Paul Neave’s blog http://www.neave.com/anaglyph/
Some blogs claim this was w-mode related but I was getting issues even in the Standalone player. There is a quick easy solution to this with Key.getAscii() :
http://flashmonk.blogspot.com/2007/08/wmode-key-flash-bug.html
Cheers dudes
SVN is incredibly useful but as a Flash Developer, the large binary files I am checking in stop me using the full functionality of the visual diff’s between files. That’s why I really like this concept by Pavel Simakov & extended by Alex Hart which uses JSFL to parse the DOM model of the FLA and export it as XML. You can then use Visual diff on the xml text doc and it will give you useful information about what has changed across the two version including in FLA scripts and MovieClip names:
http://www.softwaresecretweapons.com/jspwiki/howtotrackchangesinflashmoviesusingjsfl
I’m sure it’s possible to automate this into the compile process in the same manner in which Flash generates .txt reports from the bandwidth profiler for optimization so that every project would have an associated XML DOM doc in case you needed to track such changes. Hope this is useful to someone and nice one to the authors
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