Today the keynote started with a trailer of the movie we're going to watch tonight: Beowulf. If you like the genre it's probably a great movie, and since I do like the genre I'm really looking forward to it. After the trailer Bruce Eckel and James Ward did the same they did Monday, talking about, and showing how to code Flex. It was actually fun to see it again a bit shorter. Bruce really know what an audience wants and makes a great team with James. I'll probably watch it on Parleys again. More about that when you read further. Bruce and James did show some new things which they did not showed before. A cool demo with an opensource component that allowed you to watch a book and flip through transparent pages. For example an overlay of organs over a sheet of the human body. It looked really slick. Something I did not know before, was the fact Flex can use multiple cores when rendering. It really speeds things up on multicore machines.
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Dec 13
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