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I will be presenting Red Sun at RubyConf 2008 this coming Saturday, November 8, 2008. Red Sun is a virtual machine for Ruby written in ActionScript 3 that runs in the Flash player and Adobe AIR.

I will be posting more information as the presentation wraps up. The development for this has been ongoing for a few months at Github in the Red Sun git repository.

The VM is moderately functional. If you can build the AIR project you can play around with it quite easily. I will be releasing better information and instructions soon.

Update: The videos from RubyConf 2008 have been made available to watch by confreaks. You can see all of the videos at RubyConf 2008 Confreaks Coverage and my video at Red Sun: Ruby Flash VM Confreaks Video.

The nice folks at 360|Flex (with sponsorship from Adobe) recorded our presentations in San Jose Aug 18-20th 2008. I'm planning to transcribe the talk and perhaps post some better screencasts for the middle part of the talk. I had many specific examples prepared that floundered somewhat on stage. Also, a friendly attendee suggested that posting about Eclipse/Flex Builder 3 shortcuts would be good, so I'll do that. There are so many things that I planned but didn't include!

The best part of the talk is the first 8 minutes, at 0:45, and 1:01 where I show the Star Wars of Flex development. I also showed a few utilities that I've developed: a class browser, a stack inspection tool (to find method callers), and a performance profiler. I'll be getting these together and posting the source within the next 2 weeks.