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Vote for Noteflight (and come to FITC 09/Toronto)

I’ll be speaking at FITC ‘09 in Toronto later this month, which I’m really excited about. I will be talking about building graphical editors on the Flash platform (using Noteflight as well as other non-music-related editors as examples) and showing how to do this on top of the open-source Moccasin framework.

Anyway, I just returned from biking in Arizona to find that Noteflight had been nominated as a Finalist in the FITC 09 award category of Technical Excellence. FITC has a popular-vote aspect of these awards in which people can vote for a set of “People’s Choice” winners, separate from the judging process.

I hereby shamelessly ask for your vote at:

http://awards.fitc.ca/pc/

If elected, I promise there will be a chicken in every pot, plus a quick, painless end to the recession through a new government-mandated sedation program.

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Oops, I’m Speaking Again (at Boston Flex UG)

I’ll be talking on Tuesday, March 10 (that’s in 5 days) at the Boston Flex User Group’s monthly meeting. The subject: building graphical editors!

I’ll be talking about the architectural adventures encountered in building Noteflight, the first full-featured online music notation editor. I’ll then talk about how some of the ideas used there have been distilled into the Moccasin open source framework in Flex. I expect that we’ll build a new feature into a sample graphical editor right on the spot, as a live coding example. Finally, I’ll show a little bit of RedLine, a new interactive site-building tool based on Moccasin that I created with others at Infrared5.

Hope to see you there!

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