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Back from FITC and Hobnox Evolution Festival

Published on Mar 1, 2008 in news, personal and projects. 2 Comments Tags: , .

I am finally back home and feel sort of alive. Thanks to Shawn for a great event in Amsterdam. I had a lot of fun at FITC and took a lot of new ideas with me. The FITC in Europe was a total success in my opinion. I hope that I will be able to attend it next year as well.

After the FITC we went from Amsterdam to Berlin and celebrated the launch of the Hobnox platform and the winners of the Evolution contest.

If you were able to register at www.hobnox.com you are now finally able to try out our latest baby. I am looking forward to get some feedback.

FITC Toronto: enthusiASM

Published on Feb 14, 2008 in Flash, experiments, personal and projects. 5 Comments Tags: , .

I am so happy — this year I will speak at FITC Toronto! And it is for me the first conference outside of Europe. So what will it be about? It is the first release and session about my currently nameless inline compiler. This tool allows you to write and debug bytecode by writing ActionScript. It includes also a lot of other nifty features like method injection — which is by the way a real killer-feature. If you do not understand it right now don’t worry: you will love it!

The compiler is currently in a working state (although I finally have to support bytecode 0x1b) and I am implementing several optimization techniques. This is not so easy but I hope to find some solutions to enable branch elimination, constant folding and loop unrolling (which is already getting pretty close) to name a few.

I do not want to spoil the fun so any updates are kept private until the FITC for now.

FITC Amsterdam

Published on Dec 5, 2007 in Flash, hydra, news and personal. 4 Comments Tags: , .

FITC Amsterdam
I am happy to announce that I will speak at the FITC in Amsterdam. My session is titled “Chop the Hydra!” and guess what it is about?

Probably you noticed that I was working with Hydra a lot in the past. Everyone who worked with BitmapData will love Hydra and I have the honor to introduce you into the world of shaders. And even better: It is not only about Flash since Hydra filters work with AfterEffects too.