There are 3 Flash mobile sessions going on this week.

For those new to Flash Lite, you may want to check out this particular e-seminar:

Getting Started with Flash® Lite™ 3 and CS3
Presenter: Bill Perry
Monday, March 24, 2008
11:00 A.M. PDT
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For those who are already Flash Mobile professionals, there are 2 other sessions:

Flash Lite and Flex for Tourism
Presenters: Michael Epstein/Ira Hochman
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
11:00 A.M. PDT
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Blood from a Stone: Flash Game Optimization on Low-end mobile devices
Presenter: Evan Kirchhoff
Thursday, March 27, 2008
1:00 P.M. PDT
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Get more info here.

Scott Janousek will be speaking about Flash Lite 3 at Harvard University's Flash User Group on Dec 20th, 2007.

Here is some logistical info:

Topic: Flash Lite 3
Presenter: Scott Janousek
Date: Thursday, December 20, 12:15 P.M. - 1:45 P.M.
Location: Lamont Forum Room, Lamont Library (Google Maps)

You can find out more information over on his blog, or at the ABCD - Harvard University Flash User Group's page.

For those that cannot attend in Cambridge, you can always sign up for remote viewing via Adobe Connect, but please my do so early so a pre-event link can be sent to you.

Just an FYI, but Scott is giving a talk tomorrow on Flash Lite 3 at the Boston Flash Platform User Group meeting scheduled for tomorrow (October 24, 2007 @ 7:00 pm at NEIA in Boston).

More information is located on BFPUG and on Scott Janousek's personal blog.

Hi all. Tomorrow, I (Scott Janousek, speaking here), head off to the Adobe MAX (Chicago) for a few days.

If you're there, and interested in talking about Flash Mobile, look me up ...

Also, just so you know ... I started a little book contest, where if you find me and say the magic phrase as laid out here, I'll hand over a copy of the Foundation Flash Applications for Mobile Devices book to you (I am only bringing 3 copies, so first come, first serve type business!).

For more details about the contest, check out my blog.

I just posted about a new Adobe devnet article written by David Carroll (Professor of Media Design at Parsons - The New School for Design) that may be very practical to those just starting out developing for mobile using Flash Lite.

It covers some useful and current material on transferring content to your mobile device (Nokia mobile handsets in particular) that we do not have in the book (due to it becoming quickly dated material if we did so!).

This the what David had to say about his short article:

This article covers some of the survival skills needed in going mobile and packing lite, Flash Lite, that is. I’ll describe how to get started, the unique considerations of designing for mobile devices, where to get more information, and what lies ahead. We’ll take a look at both design and development problems you may encounter. Finally, we’ll examine the mobile space as an interdisciplinary endeavor of left and right brain working together to solve the user experience problems of mobile media interfaces.

Here is a break down of some of the other areas of the article that you may find useful in addition to our book. Most of it relates to "mobile workflow" (or how you get your Flash Lite content from your desktop transfered to your device(s) for testing).

• Introduction
• Installing and configuring authoring tools and device connections
• Creating and transferring a test file
• Installing a Flash Lite SWF on a Nokia S60 device using a Mac with Bluetooth
• Sending SWFs as a Bluetooth message with a Mac
• Installing a Flash Lite SWF on a Nokia S60 device using Windows with Nokia PC Suite
• Viewing Flash Lite SWFs on your Nokia S60 device
• Adjusting your mindset
• Analyzing a quick 4-way menu example

Again, if you're just starting with Flash Lite and mobile in general, it's a must read.

I would recommend reading the primer, before, or during the reading of first few chapters in our book.

Richard Leggett and Scott Janousek are speaking at upcoming Flash conferences in September and November of 2007.

Richard Leggett

Richard is speaking at Flash on the Beach in Brighton (UK) from November 4th to the 7th.

His presentation is entitled: "Touching the Future", and it is all about Flash and HCI (Human Computer Interface/Human Computer Interaction).

Scott Janousek

From September 19-21, Scott Janousek is speaking at Flash Forward in Boston on the Art and Zen of Mobile Game Creation with Flash.

You can of course get more info, get tickets, etc at:

• www.flashonthebeach.com
• www.flashforwardconference.com

We look forward to seeing some of you there in both locations!

Nathan Daniel has a recent review of our book over at Actionscript.org.

Just an FYI ... but we've updated to WordPress 2.2. Give a shout if you notice anything a bit odd.

Here's yet another review from Hayden, a noted Flash Sound guru, and who runs the Flash Mobile (aka Flash Lite) forum over at FlashKit.

Snippet:

” … Overall, I would highly recommend this book to anyone interested in Flash Lite mobile development. It offers great tips and serves as a useful reference for those already experienced with mobile development, and should help to smooth the learning curve for those new to Flash Lite development. For more details on the book, visit the web site, www.flashmobilebook.com.”

It's been more than a few months since our book (Foundation Flash Applications for Mobile Devices) arrived on shelves.

We came across a review on amazon for our book over at amazon. 4/5 stars.

Here is what one reader had to say:

"This book will take a flash developer a long way towards publishing applications on mobile phones. I didn't see anything on utilizing web services (something that is easy to do with flash lite 2.x) nor how to create .cab files (which was why I actually bought the book), but it covers just about everything else to a good level of working depth.

Strongly recommended reading for next gen phone app development in flash."

We'd love to see more feedback from the community.