The Phlashers Ustream channel is now live!

View our Phlashers February meetup webcast later at 12 noon (Manila time, GMT +8) here: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/phlashers

Adobe Platform Evangelist Tom Krcha will be giving a free e-seminar on Peer to Peer Programming in Flash Player 10.1 this coming Wednesday, March 3, 2010 from 11 pm to 12 midnight Manila time (GMT +8).

For more details and how to sign up, head on over to Tom Krcha’s FlashRealtime Blog.

We shall be having our next Phlashers User Group meeting this Sunday, February 28, 12 noon at Shakey’s Katipunan, right across Ateneo de Manila University’s Gate 3, beside Starbucks. Look for the table reserved under John Imbong (our User Group Co-Manager).

For those who are commuting, you can go down the EDSA Cubao MRT station, enter Gateway Mall, go to the Araneta Cubao LRT station then take the LRT along Aurora and go down at the Katipunan Avenue LRT station. Head up Katipunan Av and Shakey’s will be right across McDonald’s on your left side.

There will be WiFi at the venue and we’ll try a webcast.

This is an important meeting and we’ll be discussing the following topics:
1. The Second Phlashers ActionScript 3 contest
3. Flash, Video & HTML5 - why HTML5 isn’t going to totally replace Flash
anytime soon
2. What’s new with Flash CS5
4. The upcoming Adobe Flash Player 10.1 and AIR 2.0
5. Flash on Mobile - Android, Windows Mobile 7, Symbian, etc
6. Flash on the iPhone

The following internal topics will also be discussed
-Phlashers membership, benefits
-Phlashers Shirt
-Phlashers ID/Discount card
-Sponsorship
-Tying up with local Adobe resellers, training centers, certification
centers
-Tying up with schools, student orgs and training centers
-Upcoming Phlashers activities for 2010

This Phlashers meetup is open to anyone interested in the Flash Platform (Flash on web, mobile, CD-roms/kiosks, Flex, AIR and Actionscript). There is no registration fee, but you probably should buy stuff from Shakey’s out of courtesy. We’ll also have some free swag for raffle.

Please try to sign up at the Facebook event page so we can have a rough headcount for table reservations:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=366492417192

See you guys there and don’t forget to follow us on Twitter!

Follow Phlashers on twitter today! Just add phlashers and start receiving updates. If you don’t have twitter yet, then, uh… sign up for one!

A must read for anyone wanting information on the Flash vs. HTML5 debacle:
http://isflashdead.com/

For an extremely informative, objective and the definitive view (IMHO) on the issue, check Richard Legget’s blog post: “The World is Moving to HTML 5″ and Other Flights of Fancy

Adobe has released videos of Adrian Ludwig (Flash Platform Product Marketing Group Manager) demonstrating Flash 10.1 running on 2 new Android 2.x Phones.

Adrian demonstrates the HTC/Google Nexus One running the game Alien Attack from Miniclip.com as well the Flash-heavy National Geographic website.

Next, he demonstrates Flash Player 10.1 on the Motorola Droid with the BBC, New York Times, and Angry Alien websites.

Finally, we have a unified *current-generation* Flash runtime that is the same on Desktop and mobile devices, which is a far cry from Flash Lite which has always been based on previous desktop versions of Flash.

See more videos of Flash Player 10.1 on other mobile devices here:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/mobile_demos_fp10.1.html

Thanks to all who submitted and congratulations to the winners of the Phlashers 2009 AS3 contest!

Enormous thanks to John Koch and Rachel Luxemburg from Adobe for their support for the community and providing the prizes (software licenses, shirts). Also, special thanks to Masakazu Ohtsuka and the rest of the crew at KAYAC Inc for the amazing Actionscript service/toy Wonderfl.net that they have created!

The following entries received the highest ratings from our panel of Actionscripters:

1st prize goes to JP Tiangco for his entry “Thunder Bangaws”
Description: Swarming particles that get angry when you click your mouse

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2nd prize goes to Donald Martinez for his entry “Close Encounters” (Interesting use of the sound API!)
Description: Dynamic Sound and Graphic composition based on the Close Encounters of the Third Kind Theme.

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Finally, 3rd prize goes to MJ Mendoza for his entry “Rainbow Worms”
Description: Here’s my wormy contest piece. Nothing fancy. It was
supposed to be a funky remix of the old snake game until I read the rule
that it must be within 5KB.

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The other two submissions were by Jopi Ruiz Ardoña:
Atomic Movement

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phlashers2009-jopiruizen-textbased game

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Happy New Year everyone! Here’s to a great 2010!