I’m pleased to be speaking at “Arrivano i guru” stage of Milan the next September 26th.
Arrivano i guru is a moving conference iterating the whole italian peninsula. Here’s the complete list of stages
Main topics are Adobe Flash Platform , SEO, and graphics. Great speakers are involved, such as Tiziano Fruet, Luca Mezzalira, and many others.

This is my session’s outline:
(ITALIAN)
Special Effects in Flash CS4
Impariamo ad utilizzare bitmaps, filtri e tweens in Flash CS4 per creare effetti speciali custom.

I filtri in flash
- cosa sono i filtri in flash
- applicare i filtri con AS3

I blendmode in flash
- cosa sono i blendmode in flash
- applicare i blendmode AS3

Sveliamo i bitmap
- cos’è un bitmap in Flash
- i bitmap come tela di un pittore
- manipolare i bitmap in AS3

TweensyFX
- cos’è Tweensy
- animare i propri effetti speciali

(ENGLISH)
Special Effects in Flash CS4
Let’s learn to use bitmaps, filters and tweens within Flash CS4 to create custom special effects.

filters
- what are filters in flash?
- applying filters using AS3

blendmodes
- what blend modes are
- applying blendmodes using AS3

discovering bitmaps
- what are bitmaps for Flash?
- bitmaps as a painter’s canvas
- manipulating bitmaps using AS3

TweensyFX
- what’s Tweensy?
- creating and animating our own special effects

See you there

Just bought my ticket for Flash on the Beach 09! w00t!
I really can’t wait to reach Brighton and attending such a great conference.
See you there guys

Here’s my first post using Kaltura project (Zohar, are you happy now? )
I put in this video some pics taken at FOTB ‘08

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You can find all pics here on my flickr account page (227 photos…go and come back with a coffee for a better view )

Enjoy

Ahhh NICE!

That’s my first thoughts about these few days in Brighton at Flash on the Beach ‘08.

It has been a pleasure to attend such some much AWESOME sessions. I’ve been quite impressed by those by Mario Klingemann and Doug McCune, both very much inspiring even if very technical. I liked so much the session about Flint too which has been very explanatory on many aspects of that good project.

A special mention also for Carlos Ulloa’s session which has been quite inspiring, actually he didn’t talk so much about technical arguments otherwise his speech was about workflow, and expecially papervision3D workflow, so I learned a lot from there

Anyway, FOTB is absolutely great, the greatest conference I ever attended and YOU ALL must go there next year because it could really change your life (your professional I mean…even though brighton is full of nice girls ).

By the way, I’m really happy to have met so many gorgeous people and I feel so much comforted to have seen so much “famous” (in developers’ world I mean ) people being SO friendly! I mean, I shaked the hand of Richard Galvan, Aral Balkan, Ralph Hauwert, Mario Klingemann, Carlos Ulloa, Chris Allen (I still have to offer you that beer man!;) ) and many others… I mean…that’s incredible!

However, I missed Neil’s session…again :\ oh man, i’m really sorry for this, but I’m really happy to have met you again and really I hope to see you soon at someother conference around the world

I even missed Peter Elst’s session, so Peter…I hope to attend your speech at Head conference

further, I met many friends in Brighton (yes Zohar, you’re inside that group) and I’m really glad to have seen again those faces…and..I even tanned myself a bit…so i’m really satisfied

Yep, I’m going to be an attendee at Flash on the Beach 08 next week. I bought the ticket, booked a flight and a room at myHotel and right now it’s time to plan my schedule.

I’m really enthusiastic of getting there, I use to read blogs of speakers I never met yet and it will be a pleasure to listen and talk to them “live”, further, I’m meeting again some great people I knew at 360 Flex in Milan such as Neil, Koen, Zohar (yes, I installed kaltura plugin for wordpress ), Franto, and many others (and even my best friend Luca )

Back in topic… here’s my own schedule:

Day 1 – Monday 29th
09:00 – Keynote
10:15 – Carlos Ulloa: The best way to predict the future is to invent it
11:30 – Branden Hall: Brilliant ideas I’ve blatantly stolen
13:30 – Mark Anders: A preview of Flex 4 and “Thermo”
14:45 – Tink: Flex effects: transitions as design elements OR Richard Lord: creating particle effects with Flint
16:00 – Erik Natzke: Beyond the Knowledge: The Art of Play

Day 2 – Tuesday 30th
09:00 – Aral Balkan: Welcome to the cloud
10:15 – Adobe: Town hall meeting
11:30 – Grant Skinner: Things Every Actionscript Developer Should Know
13:30 – Chris Allen: Building Red5 Applications
14:45 – Lee Brimelow: Platform Jiu-Jitsu

Day 3 – Wednesday 1st
09:00 – Rob Bateman: Finding Away3D
10:15 – Seb Lee-Delisle: Papervision3D simplified
11:30 – Doug McCune: Decompiling Flex and Flash
13:30 – Koen de Weggheleire: Play With Pixels, bitmap manipulation with AS3
14:45 – Mario Klingemann: Here be Pixels

mmm…I really think I’m going to have a great time there in UK (hey, it’s my first time in UK…it MUST be great! )

stay tuned for comments and follow ups