First of all a big thank you to John, Jo, Joey, Hippie all the Lifeguards – you guys rock and continue to put on an amazing conference. Of course a big thank you to John for giving me a slot in the 3 Minute Wonders session.

Which brings me to the source for my session, I’ve uploaded the source.

If it’s the first time you’ve used the Text Layout Framework there are a couple of things that might catch you out.

• You’ll need to download the Flex 4 SDK, greater than 4.0.0.7282, to get the TLF in the main SDK swc
• When you create the project in FlexBuilder or Eclipse make sure it’s targeting Flash Player 10.0.0

Feel free to comment if you have problems

A quick round up of fotb09 for me:

• There were a few nice CS5 sneaks in the keynote, the biggest one has to be custom code completion in the IDE, about time
• It’s now somewhat passé to go on and on about how amazing Joa Ebert’s session was, but, it was truly mind bending and worth the standing ovation
• Joel Gethin-Lewis’ inspired session was inspirational, touched on some interesting spiritual influences (Wales) and technological ones (OpenFrameworks)
• Craig Swann’s inspired session certainly started some debate, I was somewhat disappointed, but talking to other, they felt the polar opposite.
• Joshua Davis was in good form for the closing keynote, a few new pieces and talk of his collaboration with Branden Hall on their new framework HYPE
• The 3 Minute Wonders rocked, another innovation that all the other conferences will be copying I’m sure

Roll on Flash on the Beach 2010