I’m delighted to announce that I’m one of the .net Magazine judges for the the 2010 awards celebrating the very best in web design and development!

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I’ve recently been asked to perform a three day training course for the folks at Cyfle. We covered three subjects in all, Augmented Reality with Flash. HTML and CSS for the second day and then an intensive course on building iPhone, iPad and Android applications using Appcelerator Titanium. It was a great experience and hopefully something I’ll follow up before the move to OZ!

Here’s a quick snap of the group!

Yes, Australia!

Some of you may already know the news but I have been a casualty of the financial crunch (boo!) and unfortunately made redundant from my post at the lovely Cube Interactive.

That’s about it for the bad news, it’s a bit of a shame but it has given my partner Jen and I a lot to think about; our future, what we want to achieve with our lives and ultimitely what is right for us. For a long time we’ve been throwing the idea of emigrating to Australia around and we’ve finally the perfect opportunity! Having attended the two day Australian Expo put on by WorkingIn in Hammersmith on the 17th and 18th July, we then purchased all of our eligibility tests and Journey To Work services to make sure it’s as smooth a transition as possible. We’ve finally had the results back and we’re totally eligible and we’re in the process of setting up the permanent residency Visa (subclass 175) which can take up to 3 years.

So while that is slowly ticking away I’m searching for a digital agency in Australia (preferably Sydney or Melbourne) that are either actively searching for a Interactive Developer (Flash/AS3/AS2, iPhone/Android) or if you think I could fit in to a team your building, definitely drop me an email at hello-at-antonmills-dot-com and we can have a chat about the possibilities as I can be onshore and working within 6-8 weeks. I can’t wait!

anton.

Quick update, I’ve just completed a new iPad development tutorial on behalf of Computer Arts Magazine!
Recently I’ve been using the fantastic Appcelerator Titanium (http://www.appcelerator.com/) to create some of my mobile applications. While Titanium isn’t really aimed at gaming per se it’s more than capable of moving objects around the screen and offering alert dialog boxes etc so I put together a small three page introduction to the tool and how to develop a simple drag and drop based game for the iPad. The beauty of Titanium is that your able to port your applications to the different platforms (Android, Desktop and Blackberry (soon!)) with a few clicks if your not using any specific platforms API so you could take this tutorial and port it to Android in a few minutes! Great Stuff.

Also I’ve just found a link to the Flickr and Flash/ActionScript 3 tutorial I did for them a few months ago here might be worth a butchers if your new to using API’s.

anton.

Another quick update. I’m also due to begin lecturing in Swansea Metropolitan University on the MSc Multimedia course beginning next week. Still planning some bit’s and pieces but be sure there will be lot’s of AS3, php/mySql integration, Air and hopefully a handful of 3D to break things up…. Great Stuff!

anton.

Just a quick post!

I’ve been looking to begin lecturing for some time now and I’m extremely excited to say I’ve been given the opportunity to undertake some part-time lecturing for the University of Wales Newport. I being on the 28th of September on a six week introduction to Flash course. Cube Interactive have been very supportive and released me each week so I can do this which is great…. can’t wait!

anton.

I am delighted to announce that I have just picked up a book deal with Friends of ED to write a new iPhone development book with a twist!

It’s called “The Essential Guide to iPhone Development for Flash Users” and I am extremely excited about it. I’ve planned the Table of Contents and I’ve just begun writing, all is going well. I’m hoping to really leverage what we as Flash developers already know for game and application creation and how that can be used to learn Obective-C and the basics of iPhone development. So if your a Flash dev and interested in the possibilities of iPhone development but havent made that step yet, this is for you!

I’ll be covering lot’s of topics ranging from basics of the Objective-C language, converting simple Actionscript to Objective-C to much more advanced topics like Mapping and some OpenGL.

I would love to hear any comments, thoughts for topics you’d like to see in the book, anything your currently stuck on if you are trying to learn iPhone / Objective-C or even if you might be interested in doing a little bit of writing as I am looking for a co-author to take on half of the book with me.

Leave as much or as little info as you want, even if it’s just something like “it would be cool if you covered…” as at the end of the day it’s for you guys so I want to include as much of the content you’d like to read or learn about!

anton.

I’m really looking forward to the LFPUG tonight at the Cosmo Bar in Clerkenwell Road.

I’ve not really touched on much Papervision yet as it doesn’t really fit in with the needs our client categories but I’m really looking forward to seeing some great examples from Seb and Carlos and seeing what others are doing with the framework!

Update: It was a fantastic evening with great talks about the use of Papervision in some of Seb’s and Plug-in Media’s projects. As well as a great presentation from Carlos Ulloa showing some new work and a behind the scenes overview of how he achieved some of the fantastic effects seen in his HelloEnjoy.com website. Also a huge thanks goes out to Tink as I didn’t get a chance to say hello on the night, as he runs and organises these monthly meetings in his own spare time. I’d deffintely recommend coming along to these meetings, I thoroughly enjoyed my first and I’ll be attending the Away3D meeting on the 25th June!

anton.