Day 1 interviews:

Day 2 Interviews:

Day 3 Interviews:

Big thanks for Jeffry Houser and Blaine Bradbury for an amazing work putting these recording together.

Thank YOU so much for all who attended, the sponsors, the speakers, and the venue staff. Your support was crucial to the success of Flash and the City!

http://flashandthecity.com/survey

Each winner receive a box of Adobe® Creative Suite 5 Web Premium which retails for $1,799 and will be signed by many of the conference speakers.

Each winner also get a copy of FDT 3 Enterprise retailed at $699: http://www.fdt.powerflasher.com/

As if that weren’t enough, FATC Community winners will receive a litl web book!  They won’t ship until Flash Player 10.1 is available.

Categories:

Most significant Open Source Project of the year – Open source projects have been shaping the Flash community over the last few years. This award recognizes the most significant Flash platform related open source project in the year 2009-2010.

And the winner is…..RobotLegs

Most influential Flash person of the year – The “most influential” person award recognizes the contributions of such a person who has affected and impacted the thoughts and actions of most people in the Flash community.

And the winner is…..Steve Jobs

Best contributor of the year — A number of folks have been instrumental in making the world of Flash active, vibrant and participative. This award recognizes the best contributor among the many that we have today.

And the winner is…..Joa Ebert

Most talented Flash Developer of the year — While contributions of all forms are necessary for the growth of a technology, its developer base and its users, some stand apart from others in being truly brilliant in what they do. This award celebrates the most talented Flash developer of the year.

And the winner is…..Joa Ebert

Best Flash book of the year — Despite the rise of online content, a good book can be a great teacher and a companion. The best flash book of the year award attempts to find the best among these host of great knowledge bases created in 2009-2010.

And the winner is…..ActionScript for Multiplayer Games and Virtual Worlds (by Jobe Makar; New Rider’s Press, August 2009)

Best Rookie of the year — While seasoned folks take all the kudos and the attention, its also important to recognize the new and the upcoming. The best rookie of the year is not so much about someone new to the world of Flash but its more about those who have newly entered the virtual major league of the community.

And the winner is….. Kyle Kellogg

Since Steve Jobs won the Most influential Flash person of the year we will auction his prizes and donate them to charity. The award will be shipped to his office.

We invited impersonator and thanks to Sigma group team we have came out with what we think Steve Jobs would have said if we he would have been present to accept the award. We will post the video soon, meanwhile you can read the acceptance speech below.

Thank you. Thank you my followers. Elang, Elab, or whoever you are, you can now leave. I have officially taken over the conference, as stipulated in Section section 3.3.1 of the new Apple Developer Licence Agreement.

I have a couple of big announcements. But first a few housekeeping points.

To start, this is my boat. Secondly, this conference will now be know as Objective-C in the City. And finally, no matter where you run, or where you hide, I will always find you. You see the thing about flash developers is you might write classes but lets face it you have no class. I mean look at yourselves. What a pity, but luckily I am here to save you.

I hoping to convince you all to finally abandon the flash platform, because I want YOU to give YOUR users the best web experience they’ve ever had. And if I can’t convince you, well … get off my boat. Now.

On to the big announcement. You’re hearing it first at OCATC…

I’VE JUST BOUGHT ADOBE.

Lee, Doug, Ryan, Kevin, and the rest of you so called “Adobe” evangelists, you’re all fired. In addition to recoding the entire web in HTML5, I am personally working on the release of our brand new product– iFlash… It publishes content in the magical iSwf format. This new platform is so revolutionary we have removed roll-over states.

See what we’ve done is taken the pitiful platform that once was Flash and put an “i” in front of it. It will be cross-compatibile with iAir, iFlex, and the full iSuite. And now it’s an acceptable platform for apple products, provided all of your code is written as iClasses.

There I said it. Now you know. And now I’m leaving. See you later. The iCopter is waiting to take me back to Cupertino. And don’t worry, I’ll always be watching.

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The good news is that there are still spots left for the FATC workshops.  We’ve lowered the price in celebration!

Elad Elrom, Kevin Suttle, Jose Antonio, Jesse Freeman, the speakers, and the sponsors, want to thank YOU, the Flash Community for supporting a new conference and helping promote the event over the last several months! This is truly a community-driven event that we are so glad to see come to fruition.

Watch your inboxes for handy attendee emails containing important details about the event and your time here in New York! We can’t wait to see you this Thursday!

What’s the catch? No catch. It’s just 2 simple steps.

1. We have a widget for you to embed on your site! Simply copy and paste the code below into your site’s sidebar:

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&lt;a href=&quot;http://flashandthecity.com&quot;&gt;&lt;img title=&quot;Flash and the City banner&quot; src=&quot;http://blog.flashandthecity.com/wp-content/uploads/banners/200x150.gif&quot; alt=&quot;Flash and the City banner&quot; width=&quot;200&quot; height=&quot;150&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;<br />
&lt;/div&gt;<br />
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It’ll appear as our official Flash and the City widget.

For embedding, you have two options:

• Option one is to set up SWFObject as your default Flash embedding tool. If your site is powered by WordPress, you can simply install the WP-SWFObject plugin and copy/paste the widget code into your sidebar.
• Option two is to just copy and paste the code straight from an already embedded widget by clicking the ‘Share’ button, and then ‘Copy’. The code will be automatically copied to your clipboard.

2. Enter a tweet with the #FATC hash tag along with a link to your site and the FATC site, like so:

I just posted the #FATC widget on mydomain.com – Check out http://www.flashandthecity.com for more info!

The contest ended Friday, May 7 at 12pm noon EST New York time.

UPDATE: We have a winner! Zedia wins the widget contest for posting our widget on his site! Check out his blog: http://www.zedia.net/

Adobe would like to speak with 6-8 Flex Developers who are attending FlashAndTheCity. They would like to gain a better understanding of how you learn, what resources Adobe has that you find useful, what content or types of content Adobe should be creating for you, and other related topics. The time commitment involved will be approximately 2 hours on Thursday, May 13th in the early afternoon prior to the conference workshops. The last half hour will be spent talking about the future of Flash and your opinions of Flash, HTML 5, etc.

Please contact us at info@flashandthecity.com if you are interested in volunteering your time to speak with Adobe.

9:00am – 4:00pm

• Beginning ActionScript – led by Rich Shupe
• Mobile and Devices – led by Scott Janousek

4:00pm – 5:00pm

• FREE FDT Training – “Developing Flash and Flex Applications with FDT”

5:00pm – 10:00pm

• Flex 4.0 – led by Duane Nickull and Kevin Schmidt
• AIR 2.0 – led by Peter Elst

We will be limiting the amount of tickets sold for the workshops to keep the workshops exclusive and allow each attendee to gain more knowledge. Secure your spot today.

http://flashandthecityworkshops.eventbrite.com/

Between 4:00PM – 5:00PM you can access a free conference about FDT. You don’t need to book in advance – just show up to the workshop and you will be able to learn about FDT.

FDT has been created to be the most advanced environment for creating Flash applications. Both inexperienced and experienced coders can use it to quickly and effectively write Actionscript. This sessions will also look at the new and upcoming features in FDT4. More info and the roadmap for FDT4 can be seen at http://www.fdt4comfort.com.

The session will begin with an introduction to FDT for beginners, covering topics such as creating projects and how to efficiently write Actionscript code.

The session will then move on to more intermediate and advanced topics including a demonstration of workflow features including workspace navigation, the creation and use of external libraries and SWCs, and some of the various ways to customize FDT to your development style.

Finally, the session will explore FDT’s new profiler, the integrated debugger, writing ANT scripts and team integration techniques.

Session Highlights include:

* Working with the new Profiler.
* Creating a project, Choosing a SDK and exploring the default project structure.
* Creating Classes, MXML files, interfaces, packages, top level methods and variables.
* Live error parsing, Quickfixes for class / interface generation, creating local and field variables, accessor and mutator generation (getters and setters), and event handler auto generation.
* Refactoring
* Using linked libraries and SWCs to centralize code and import art from Flash Authoring.
* Customizing FDT
* Integrating with a team.

FDT would not be there without the help of the Flash Community, Powerflasher have decided to generously support the Flash Community with some giveaways of their latest software together with the FlashAndTheCity team.

Every FlashAndTheCity attendees will receive FDT Pure License (retail value of $129) just for attending the conference.  Additionally, each FlashAndTheCity workshop attendees will receive FDT Professional License (retail value of $499) just for attending the workshop.

For more information click here.

Thank you, for your great work. Keep making the Flash Platform rock!