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The Browser and Beyond. April 3rd 2008
Symposium Hall, Edinburgh
Enjoy a day of the web's best speakers discussing the future of information online.
Bare-naked Flash: Dispelling myths and building bridges
When did Flash grow up? From annoying ads and animations to RIAs, the Flash Platform has come a long way in the last decade.
In this session Balkan takes you on a whirlwind tour of the Flash Platform, including an overview of RIAs with Flex, desktop applications with AIR, and mobile applications with Flash Lite. Without going into technical details, Balkan reviews the state of accessibility, open source, open data and mashups, video, and 3D on the Flash Platform.
Join Aral for an honest, entertaining, and inspriring overview of the state of the art on the Flash Platform.
Aral Balkan - Singularity
About Aral
Aral Balkan is an entrepreneur, creative technologist, and Flash Platform veteran. This year, he is producing the world's first large-scale online web conference, Singularity.
Aral is co-founder and coordinator OSFlash.org, author of the pattern-based ActionScript framework Arp, and creator of the SWX data format, SWX RPC, and SWX PHP.
Aral is a published author and has contributed to several books and magazine articles. He is the author of the Adobe Flex 2 QuickStart Guides and has authored six courses on Flash, Flex, ActionScript and Open Source development.
Aral is a regular speaker at international conferences including Macworld, FlashForward, d.construct, FITC, Wizards of OS, and Adobe MAX.