Latin Flash Tour Retrospective
Well the Latin Flash Tour is finally over and after taking a few days to rest, I want to share some of my experiences from this amazing trip. Overall this tour heavily reinforced my belief that the Latin American Flash community is one of the strongest we have, not only in terms of enthusiasm, but also in skill level. I only needed to be home for a few days before I started missing all of the new friends I made over the last few weeks. What follows is a very rough recap of the trip. Things got quite loco in some countries so this has been sanitized for public consumption. There were also far too many people and things to talk about so I’m sorry if I leave something out.

Flash Snippets panel for Flash Builder 4
I am releasing an early test version of the snippets panel that I have been working on for Flash Builder 4. Now this panel is essentially a re-skinned version of the great SnipTreeView panel that I modified to also work with MXML files. Now when I say this is an early version I really do mean it. Expect it not to work and if it does, well you will be pleasantly surprised then. Download the JAR file and place it into your Eclipse plugin folder. I am only really targeting Flash Builder 4 but you can try your luck with Flex Builder 3. Please watch the video below to see how to use the panel and let me know in the c

The Latin Flash Tour is only 2 weeks away!
I can’t believe that in two weeks I will be back in Latin America and I’m so excited about it. If you live anywhere in South America and are even remotely interested in Flash then you have to attend. It is not often that Adobe gets to come down to see you, although I’m hoping this is the start of a new trend. One thing that is really important is that these events are a huge success. This way I can come home and tell my bosses how enthusiastic the community is down there. So please make every effort to attend and also please help me spread the word via Twitter, blogs, etc. If you mention it on Twitter please use the #latinflashtour hashtag so we can all follow

New tutorial on ActionScript 3 performance testing
I just finished uploading a new tutorial showing how you can test the performance of your ActionScript 3 code. Grant Skinner recently released a great library called PerformanceTest which makes it easy to test out your code. In the tutorial I show how to use the library to test individual functions as well as a whole suite of functions. Always test out y

FITC Edmonton recap and dead drop
FITC Edmonton is now over and it was a really cool event. These smaller events are great because you feel like you get to know almost all of the attendees. During my stay I gave a full-day workshop on Flash CS4 in addition to a regular one hour session on the same subject. Based on the feedback I received, people really seemed to enjoy them and learn a lot. It’s funny because my evangelism actually starts to convince me. After the workshop I thought, damn Flash CS4 does have some great features. I decided to do a mini dead drop and announced over Twitter that I would be embedding some clues in