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The last conference trip started in Sydney  Australia with the WebDU conference.
From Sydney straight to the Flash On Tap conference in Boston. A really big hop causing a really bad jetlag
There was only one week between Flash On Tap and Flashbelt so I decided to stay in the US and spend the week in wonderful LA. Next stop was Flashbelt in Minneapolis. From east to west coast to somewhere in the middle. Nice!
The last conference before the summer break was the Flash at the Lake conference in Zurich - Switzerland.

Great events, great people, great everything Love it!

Michael

Using shortcuts in FDT is one of the most important techniques to increase your coding efficiency. But learning shortcuts by studiying long lists of keyboard combinations is hard and no fun.

Because of that I thought of posting a shortcut every day on Twitter to give you the chance to add one shortcut after each other to your repertoire.

My Twitter name: @Michael_Plank
You can search for: DoYouKnowThatShortcut
Hashtag: #fdtshortcuts

If you’ve missed one shortcut, no problem! Everytime I post a new shortcut I will add it to the list so you can catch up if you’ve been lazy for one day.
Take the chance to learn all the cool shortcuts that will make it possible to work completely without the mouse

Have fun with this series,
Michael

Twitter name: @Michael_Plank
Twitter search: DoYouKnowThatShortcut
Twitter hash tag: #fdtshortcuts
RSS: #fdtshortcuts

Dear friends,

we have to answer this question very often on conferences all over the world: “How do we get one of your T-Shirts?”.

Now here comes your chance!!

All you have to do is to make your friend´s life easier!  “Make” him/her an FDT User, and you will get a “I´m part of it”-FDT T-Shirt straightaway.

Just drop us a line with the order no. and name of your friend and your details, and we take care of the rest. This offer is valid until end of July.

Cheers,

Frank

Last Sunday Berlin was not only proud to be capital, no, the city also played host to numerous Flash and Flex developers.

In a very beautiful and extraordinary location, Berlin’s Flash and Flex user group welcomed kindred spirits and provided them with a nice line-up of great sessions.

Of course we were also in Berlin, sponsored the event and showed FDT to newbies and sceptics at our FDT Test Centre. (Quote André Michelle: “You’re quite everywhere!”)

The event was free of charge for visitors. We decided to support it by auctioning off a FDT Professional license. That was great and fun! The ebay-like auction started off at 1 Euro and the highest bidder got FDT for 90 Euro! Lucky guy Of course the money went to the organisers. So in the end everybody was happy. Maybe we embrace the idea, auction off licenses in the future and donate the money. We will see!

And I made my own experiences: Berlin is big! And one hour isn’t long enough to return a car

Have a great time!
Maxim

A little sneak peak of an upcoming feature in FDT: adding EventListerners for Event autocompletion. To see the new feature in action just click on the screenshot:

Michael and Christopher were in Boston last week visting Flash on Tap. We were not only sponsoring the event, also Michael held a session, titled: “Simultaneous development of a web/desktop app”. Check out Chuck’s blogpost to get an impression on FOT if you weren’t there
http://www.insideria.com/2009/06/the-perfect-conference-brew-fl.html
Cheers
Ariane

Flash on Tap conference in Boston was great! Thx to all the organizers for arranging such a nice community event.

Here are the slides and files of my talk about developing an application for the web and desktop simultaneously. You will find the examples about conditional compilation, separating code in SWF modules, building with ANT and a lot more in these resources:

Flash On Tap - Slides and Files

Have fun!
Michael

If you would like to watch Michael’s FDT-session he held at Multimediatreff you should check out Galileo’s website:
http://www.galileodesign.de/techtalks/flash_flex_air?GalileoSession=19761469A4-ao4Rwg7k#flash_fdt
It’s a 56 minute show on how to increase your efficiency with FDT. I’m pretty sure that there are many ambitious beginners out there who could benefit from Michi’s talk.
Unfortunately it’s only in German.
Viel Spaß beim zuschauen!
Ariane

In this very moment the FDT team releases FDT 3.2!
With this final release FDT 3.2 leaves beta and all of FDT users now benefit from a stable and reliable version.
We’re sure you’ll feel it - especially the increased performance, which is for some of you the most significant change. Next to the MXML support, of course

With the basic MXML support we added a huge new feature. Currently you get a MXML parser and a MXML code editor which featurelist we will extend with FDT 3.3

We also fixed some major and minor bugs. Thanks to all of you who reported them and made use of our bugtracker! We also added some new features. Check out our changelog!

Have fun with FDT 3.2!
Ariane