June 28th LAFlex/LAFlash Meet Up – FlashBuilder 4.5 User Group Tour with Adobe Evangelist Renaun Erickson

Wednesday June 22, 2011 at 7:00P
At Coloft – 920 Santa Monica Blvd Santa Monica, CA
***DIFFERENT LOCATION THAN LAFLASH MEETINGS***

// Meetup URL

http://www.meetup.com/laflex/events/17531437/

// FlashBuilder 4.5 User Group Tour with Adobe Evangelist Renaun Erickson

Sorry everyone, due to some Adobe Acrobat issues we had to change the Connect meeting URL: http://my.adobe.acrobat.com/ahouston/

We apologize for the inconvenience.

January LA Flash Meeting – Happy New Year!

Wednesday January 19, 2010, 7:00P – 9:30P
At the Rich Media Institute – 525 Venezia Avenue, Venice CA 90291
Join us on Adobe Connect Pro: http://bit.ly/laflashlive
FREE EVENT | FREE PARKING | FREE BEER | NO RSVP

// SPONSORS

Adobe
Revolutionizing how the world engages with ideas and information
Adobe: Check out Creative Suite 5!

FiTC
Inspire. Educate. Challenge. Connect.

The Rich Media Institute
Specialized, Convenient Education for Digital Media Professionals
Check out our brand new site!

ElementRiver
Where Flex meets the enterprise
Check out Element River’s Sourcemate!

FDT4
Pure coding comfort.
Check out Powerflasher’s FDT4!

// OVERVIEW

Join LA Flash as we hold our first meeting for the year on Wednesday, January 19th.  This meeting we will have Joseph Labrecque, AEL from Denver, CO, will talk to us about BlackBerry Playbook development. Omar Gonzalez, our user group manager, will dive into developing with SignalsCircuit. Finally, we will have a short Q&A type session where we would love to hear your suggestions/requests for LAFlash throughout 2011, as well as answer any Flash questions you might have! We will try to answer all your Flash questions or at least try and point you in the right direction, so bring your questions with you!

// Meeting Agenda

• BlackBerry Playbook Development Overview
• Developing with SignalsCircuit
• General Q&A Session
• Raffle, Networking

// BlackBerry Playbook Development Overview

Interested in developing for the upcoming BlackBerry PlayBook? There are a lot of things to consider! We’ll step though environment setup, including the Tablet OS simulator, SDK tools for Flash Builder, throwing together a quick app and compiling a .bar file for the PlayBook. If time allows- we’ll also have a look at the submission process.

// Developing with SignalsCircuit

SignalsCircuit is a PureMVC/as3Signals hybrid framework developed by user group manager Omar Gonzalez. A quick introduction to the framework followed by an introduction to getting started with using the framework in your applications.

// General Q&A Session

We will have a short Q&A session where we would like to hear any suggestions or requests for LAFlash in the new year. Also, we will be taking your Flash platform questions and we will try to either answer all your questions or point you in the right direction!

// RAFFLE, NETWORKING, AND BEER!

As always, we will host a raffle and networking session.

The number of user registrations from spammers has gotten out of control, and for this reason the user registration form has now been disabled. If you would like to sign up for an LAFlash.org user account so you can also receive our event notices please send an email to the address: register-at-laflash-dot-org

Its an inconvenience but it will help us to control the spam on the website.

November LA Flash Meeting – The AfterMAX! (Last Meeting)

Wednesday November 17, 2010, 7:00P – 9:30P
At the Rich Media Institute – 525 Venezia Avenue, Venice CA 90291
Join us on Adobe Connect Pro: http://bit.ly/laflashlive
FREE EVENT | FREE PARKING | FREE BEER | NO RSVP

>>> Win a copy of CS5 Web Premium!

// SPONSORS

Adobe
Revolutionizing how the world engages with ideas and information
Adobe: Check out Creative Suite 5!

FiTC
Inspire. Educate. Challenge. Connect.

The Rich Media Institute
Specialized, Convenient Education for Digital Media Professionals
Check out our brand new site!

ElementRiver
Where Flex meets the enterprise
Check out Element River’s Sourcemate!

FDT4
Pure coding comfort.
Check out Powerflasher’s FDT4!

// OVERVIEW

Join LA Flash as we hold our final meeting for the year on Wednesday, November 17th.  This meeting we will have Danny Kopping and Robert Cesaric showing off their new framework, Aerial. Hasan Otuome is going to take us through a little bit of PlayBook development with AIR! Then we will have a review on some of the really neat stuff that came out of Adobe MAX 2010. Finally, we will have a short Q&A type session where we would love to hear your suggestions/requests for LAFlash throughout 2011, as well as answer any Flash questions you might have! We will try to answer all your Flash questions or at least try and point you in the right direction, so bring your questions with you! And finally, you will want to stick around for free beer and a chance to win yourself a copy of Adobe Creative Suite 5 Web Premium!

// Meeting Agenda

• Introducing the Aerial Framework
• AIR PlayBook Development
• Adobe AfterMAX
• General Q&A Session
• Raffle, Networking

// Introducing the Aerial Framework

Danny Kopping is one of the current lead developers on the open source project AMFPHP as well as a Flash Platform Consultant based out of South Africa (http://www.dannykopping.co.za). Robert Cesaric is a Flex developer with an background in mobile development currently working on a startup and Aerial Framework (http://cesaric.com/). Danny and Robert will be showing off Aerial framework, a framework built on top of Doctrine and AMFPHP.

// Developing for the PlayBook

LAFlash Online User Group Manager Hasan Otuome will do a short presentation on PlayBook development with AIR.

// Adobe AfterMAX

If you missed Adobe MAX 2010 or have not had a chance to catch up we will go over some of the awesome announcements that happened this year at MAX.

// General Q&A Session

After the MAX review we will have a short Q&A session where we would like to hear any suggestions or requests for LAFlash in the coming year. Also, we will be taking your Flash platform questions and we will try to either answer all your questions or point you in the right direction!

// RAFFLE, NETWORKING, AND BEER!

As always, we will host a raffle and networking session. Make sure you can stay until the end, as we will be raffling a copy of Adobe Creative Suite 5 Web Premium!

For those of you who are not attending MAX, and also for those of you who are, don’t forget about MiniMAX (http://www.laadug.org/october-27-minimax-x-in-santa-monica/). Speakers include Humber College’s Tom Green, Flash Catalyst Bible author Rob Huddleston, Flash PHP Bible author Matthew Keefe, KC WebCore’s Dee Sadler, 086 Studio’s Todd Sanders and David Wood Training’s David Wood, and its all free!

October LA Flash Meeting – PreMAX Warm Up

Wednesday October 20, 2010, 7:00P – 9:30P
At the Rich Media Institute – 525 Venezia Avenue, Venice CA 90291
Join us on Adobe Connect Pro: http://bit.ly/laflashlive
FREE EVENT | FREE PARKING | FREE BEER | NO RSVP

Win a copy of FDT Pure!

// SPONSORS

FiTC
Inspire. Educate. Challenge. Connect.

The Rich Media Institute
Specialized, Convenient Education for Digital Media Professionals
Check out our brand new site!

Adobe
Revolutionizing how the world engages with ideas and information
Adobe: Check out Creative Suite 5!

ElementRiver
Where Flex meets the enterprise
Check out Element River’s Sourcemate!

// OVERVIEW

Join LA Flash as we come back from our short break on Wednesday, October 2oth, for our monthly meeting.  We have a few topics going on this month as there is lots to talk about!  First we’ll have a quick run down of all the news that has happened over the last couple of months, lots of news in the Flash world!  We will have Paul Taylor join us remotely to talk about his lightweight TLF alternative tinyTLF.  Powerflasher will join us to talk about their newly released FDT4!  And finally, Omar will show how PlugrMan can  help you develop AMF APIs for all types of Flash front ends.  And, of course, we can’t forget Adobe MAX 2010! We will talk a bit about what is going down at MAX.  Thanks to Powerflasher we will be raffling an FDT Pure license!

// Meeting Agenda

• Explore and Experience FDT4 with the Powerflasher Team
• tinyTLF with Paul Taylor
• Developing and Debugging AMF with PlugrMan
• Raffle, Networking

// Explore and Experience FDT4 with the Powerflasher Team

Powerflasher has just released FDT4 and with it has introduced new features that make coding both easier and more fun. For this presentation, we’ll show off some of those new features as well as show some ways of incorporating PlugrMan and tinyTLF into your workflow.

// tinyTLF with Paul Taylor

In this short preso, Paul Taylor will hit the high points of tinytlf, his smallish TLF alternative. tinytlf is built on top of the newest low-level API, the Flash Text Engine. tinytlf renders real HTML and CSS and provides a robust API for decoration, interaction, and text layout.

// Developing and Debugging AMF with PlugrMan

Omar Gonzalez will show how PlugrMan can help easily debug and develop AMF APIs, as well as show off its support for strongly-typed APIs, code generation and automated remote method unit testing features.

// RAFFLE, NETWORKING, AND BEER!

As always, we will host a raffle and networking session. Make sure you can stay until the end, as we will be raffling an FDT4 Pure License and some other stuff!

Sorry everyone, but due to some personal circumstances I will have to postpone this month’s meeting until next week month.  I hope this doesn’t put to much of a wrench in anyone’s plans.  See ya next week month!

Adobe MAX is in October, so I am currently  not set on a date and am trying to work a date out where I can bring some speakers in to LAFlash for an in person presentation, so please stay tuned for our October date.  We have a lot of information to go over in October, we’ll be talking Squares and Burritos, Paninis and Max, plus some presentations that I will announce as soon as I get a date set and the speakers confirmed, which I am already in contact with.

If you have any topics you’d like to see presented at LAFlash please send me an email at omar@laflash.org so we can try to schedule it into one of our meetings.  We’re coming on the end of the year and I want to have some great meetings going into 2011!  Thank you all for your support, you guys all rock.

One last thing, if you are purchasing tickets for Adobe MAX please enter LAFlash as the User Group you are a part of and my name, Omar Gonzalez, as the User Group Manager.  For every 5 MAX tickets that are purchased by LAFlash we get one ticket that we are able to give to the LAFlash community.  Help us get some LAFlashers to represent at MAX!