If you’ve not heard yet about Flash on Tap, the first ever beer festival and Flash conference, then man have you missed something big. But it’s not too late to get a ticket! We at Infrared5 and Influxis are putting together this stellar event with top notch speakers including Grant Skinner, Keith Peters, John Grden, Hoss Gifford, GMUNK, André Michelle, etc… as well as some of the best craft brewers in the country like Stone, Haverhill, Boulder and The Bruery (plus eleven others). Of course I’m also going to be presenting at the conference. It takes place on May 28 -30, 2009 in Boston, MA, USA.

So, if you’ve been thinking of attending Flash on Tap, but haven’t yet registered we have a deal for you! You can attend FREE when you register 5 or more people. And, your 4 friends each get $100 off their registration–that translates into $1,100 of savings! Email deb@flashontap.com to register your group!

I hope to see you there!

I suppose “switching” isn’t the right word; perhaps “adding to their repertoire” is a better description of what I’m talking about. Anyway, as many of you already know, we’ve been doing a lot of stuff with iPhone development lately at Infrared5. See our latest game iFly for example. Keith Peters, has been spending much of his free time developing cool games for the platform, and others on our team like John Grden and Andy Zupko are doing the same as well. It’s seems it’s not just Infrared5 guys either that are making this move. Mike Chambers, Peter Elst, Aral Balkan are just a few from the community that have been tinkering with the platform.

So, after reading Keith’s post on the subject, I thought I would ask how many of you guys out there are making this switch as well? Is this something that you are considering in the future? Are you using something like Unity 3D? And, why the iPhone? Please leave a response in the comments section.

I just wanted to write a quick post saying how excited I am to announce iFly. This fast pased flying game is Infrared5’s first application to hit the Apple App Store. It is loosely based on the “Fly Me” feature on our website. Here’s a little video of John Grden showing off his flying skills with the game. Keep in mind that this is one the harder levels.

I want to thank John Grden, Rebecca Allen, Andy Zupko, Lizzie Martin, Hilary Michaels, Dominick Accattato, Keith Peters and Mike Oldham for making this thing possible. I know that John is planning on writing up a blog post on his experience developing the game. Expect to see that in the next day or two. In the meantime, if you have an iPhone or iPod Touch, go get iFly now, and give it a great review! I think you will find it as fun and addicting as I do. Of course, as always, I would love to hear your feedback in the comments here as well.

If today wasn’t already exciting enough with the inauguration of President Barack Obama, Adobe announced that they would be opening the Real Time Messaging Protocol to the public. This is great news in my opinion, and it legitimizes (from Adobe’s perspective) projects like Red5.

I really don’t have much more to add to this at the moment, except to say well done Adobe! And thank you for listening!

Happy 2009 everyone! I just wanted to quickly thank John Grden (site architecture), Keith Peters (3D books and video section), Lizzie Martin (production) and Rebecca Allen (Art Direction and Design) for their hard work on the newest features on infrared5.com. We’ve released some brand new content which I think is pretty cool, so go check it out when you have a chance. More to come on this front in the next couple of months! Stay tuned!