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Obviously Facebook is popping up everywhere and I’m sure a lot of companies will be looking to integrate it with flash. Pieter Michels has started a great effort in bridging Facebook Connect and Flash using Actionscript 3. He provides a simple example using Flex and AS3.

Pieter Michels post on Facebook Connect to Actionscript 3
Pieter Michels Code Library at github as FBFlashBridge

Example of Facebook Connect with Flash at http://connect.redbullusa.com/

http://developers.facebook.com/
Facebook Connect Wiki
Facebook Developer Forum

UPDATE 3/30/09: I just noticed this post while looking through Facebook documentation. Looks like Adobe and Facebook are officially working together to support Flash and Facebook.

ActionScript 3.0 Client Library for Facebook Platform - revamped open source version by Jason Crist
Adobe Developer Connection for Facebook - materials and samples

Forgot to mention there was an recent update to the Career Navigator for the Army Experience Center. I worked on making the Papervision 3D helix loop around and adding in the job titles on the planes and various other bug fixes and improvements.

Text in Papervision 3D - Clearing Things Up - This post by Andy Zupko helped with making the text a bit clearer on the planes (basically you need to use a larger textfield and change some settings) - check out his post and demo if your text is unclear on planes.

Tom and John put on a great 360 | iDev Conference. It was a pretty relaxing conference where we were all well fed (breakfast, lunch, dinner) with sessions that were just the right length. There were also pre-hands-on sessions to bring people like me up to speed that have never worked on iPhone development before. Since I’m a flash developer, James Eberhardt’s hands-on session that relates flash development to the iPhone SDK was especially very helpful. He actually teaches a 2-Day course on it with the Rich Media Institute.

Overall, the conference was well worth it and more than I expected. It was inexpensive and a great introduction to the iPhone development world. It was also nice to learn that part of the fees goes towards a charity. Awesome job Tom and John!

Slides from the conference: http://www.slideshare.net/tag/360idev

Here are a couple links/blogs I collected from the session speakers:
http://www.craftymind.com/
http://iphonedeveloperjournal.com/
http://www.byteclub.com/
http://jonathansaggau.com/blog/
http://gamesfromwithin.com/
http://alanmusselman.com/blog/
http://www.mobclix.com/
http://iphonedevelopment.blogspot.com/
http://www.luisdelarosa.com/
http://iphone.timefold.com/training/myschool/resources.html
http://www.iphonedevsdk.com/