Branden will both be speaking at the free Flash conference LAFlashapaloozastock III in Venice Beach, CA on December 6, 2008.

To help keep the event free Branden will also be teaching a very cool course of his own titled "Creating Killer ActionScript Robots For Fun & Profit" on December 4th and 5th. It's going to be a two day romp through ActionScript 3 learning advanced programming techniques in order to make software robots with which the students will do battle! The course is $499 per student. If you're interested click the course title to find out more.

Branden will be giving his talk on "Brilliant Ideas that I've Blatently Stolen" at Flash on the Beach which runs from September 28 - October 1. Branden will be speaking on Monday, September 29 so if you are there, be sure to catch his session!

Automata Studios is proud to announce the hiring of Maureen Farrington (that's me!), project manager extrordinaire.  Branden likes to add the title "Producer" to describe my position since my job will consist of "making things happen" as I ease into actual code-producing duties.

This is my first foray back into world of hardcore IT after spending three years working in higher education for a local university.  Prior to that I worked for a colocation facility, hence the homecoming for me.  I'm especially excited to be at a place where interesting ideas are valued over maintaining the status quo.

Branden and Keenan do simply amazing work here, and I have learned something new each day I've been here for the last two weeks.  I am looking forward to contributing all I can to Automata.

Oh, and now that I'm here, this site is going to be updated more frequently.

The slides from Branden's presentation at FITC Hollywood 2007, Flash on the Beach 2007, and FITC Winnipeg 2007 - "The Nooks and Crannies of ActionScript 3" are now available for download. Enjoy - and if you have any questions or comments drop us a line.

• The Nooks and Crannies of ActionScript 3

Branden will be speaking this weekend at The FITC Road Show - Winnepeg 2007. This will be Branden's first time in Winnepeg and he's hoping to not lose any vital body parts to frostbite!

The notes from his talk "The Nooks and Crannies of ActionScript 3" will be available on the site soon.

Welcome to the new home of Automata Studios, we're glad to have you here.

Take a minute to browse around and check out some of the new features. We have some code examples and upcoming speaking gigs in the sandbox for you to play with, and for an aggregate list of our content, and a great place to pull an RSS feed some, check out our testing ground, Automata Labs.

Branden will be speaking at Flash on the Beach on "The Nooks and Crannies of ActionScript 3".

The conference runs from November 4th through the 7th. Branden's talk is scheduled for the 7th at 1:30pm.

In the evenings you should be able to find Branden at the pub in the conference hotel, The Old Ship - stop by and say hello!