Flash Installations - MXDU Conference

Myself and Peter Hall have been busy over the past couple of weeks working on a Flash Installation for the MXDU 2005 conference in Sydney. We have called it Graffiti.

The application is basically a noticeboard that allows attendees to send in photos, videos and text messages from their mobile phones, via email, through the website or via the Central application. They are displayed realtime on all clients. The application will run 24 hours a day on various plasma screens around the venue.

We also built in the ability for the organisers to broadcast announcements to all the screens to let people know about room changes, gatherings, competitions and such like. It is made with Flash MX 2004, Flash Communication Server, Flash Remoting, Coldfusion (Various add-on libraries) and Central.

As it will be running for 24 hours a day, we have to worry about memory usage, and thus it has been a big challenge and also alot of fun to rid it of any memory leaks, im still ironing out a few issues at the moment - just taking a break to write this. The browser version may still have problems if you leave it running for along time.

We have been asked to present a session about how me made it at the conference and will be releasing the whole application as open source so that other people can add new features etc…

I will be posting alot of my photos from the conference on there.