Branden Hall
Bio
Branden Hall is co-principal and CTO of Automata Studios, a consulting and development studio located outside of Washington D.C.
Branden has been involved with Flash and the Flash community since 1998.
He has been busy since then speaking at conferences, founding the Flashcoders mailing list, writing a number of articles and books on all sorts of web technologies, and, oh yeah, writing code. Branden lives in Maryland with his wife Patti, his son Kai and three very ferocious (at least they like to think so) cats.
Session
Explorations with ActionScript 3
ctionScript 3 is powerful. But, much of it's power has been focused on creating rich internet applications rather than on more traditional uses of Flash such as interactives, games, and art. The good news is that ActionScript 3 and the Flash 9 player bring a lot to the party for even non-RIA applications.
This session will explore how ActionScript 3 helps make all kind of Flash development faster, more interactive, and potentially even more beautiful.