BarCamp San Diego 7 is upon the horizon. It’s slated for July 10th and 11th at the Intuit Campus in Carmel Valley.

What is BarCamp?
BarCamp is an international network of “unconferences” where alpha geeks, industry professionals and others passionate about Internet culture, technology, and life online can meet and share ideas and projects. It is built on the philosophy that anyone who builds or uses the Internet on a regular basis has something to learn and something to teach, so every attendee is also expected to be a presenter (but we’re pretty lenient for first timers).

The presentation will be based on the basic  multi-touch capabilities the Flash Player has using Adobe Flex. We will be going over what it  can and cannot do (out of the box), how multi-touch works with Flex, Some very basic code demos to help everyone understand and get started, and then I  will show a more complex product to demonstrate the possibilities.

Asa  Williams – Software Consultant, Cynergy Systems. Former telemetry leader for the Principia Solar Car Team where she first started utilizng Flex. Subsequently a contractor at Northrop Grumman working on ground station software for UAVs.

The team from developmentARC (WorkflowLab from Adobe) has just announced a Flex 4 training course. Here is the information:

In our session you will about learn MXML language changes, intro to FXG, Flex 4 component life cycle, in-depth Spark skinning architecture, changes to the item renderer system, and best practices for creating both components and item renderers.  We will walk through creating a new component and building a basic item renderer.  Session’s will be 4 hours online via Adobe connect and are only $100 dollars! Space is limited, see all sessions here http://www.developmentarc.com/site/training.

Current sessions include July 20th at 10am PST (http://www.eventbrite.com/event/748019346) and July 29th at 4pm PST (http://www.eventbrite.com/event/748058463)

Adobe’s Renaun Erickson will be joining us for the July meeting. Due to the July 4th Holiday, the meeting will be held on July 12th.

With the latest releases of Adobe Flash and AIR runtimes developers will have access to new features and new devices. Come learn about the new released features and some of the future roadmap. Come hear about the real world current situation as well as show demos of how the runtimes perform on a Android device.

Hope to see you there. This time I promise not to go kayak surfing and injury my back!

I know a number of people mentioned that they were having some issues trying to convince their organizations that they should purchase and/or upgrade to the latest Flash Platform software. Adobe has just put together the Flash Platform Evangelism Kit to help resolve these type of issues. The kit provides useful information to commonly asked questions, and other blockers to new technology. You can find it here: http://www.adobe.com/flashplatform/evangelism_kit/

Hope this helps!

So how is this different than the normal registration?

It is online. So you are free to watch any of the presentations live, but when you register, you also get access to the recorded presentations. That is 33 sessions from some of the biggest and best names in the business, including the keynote by Adobe’s Doug Winnie.

After you register, you’ll get an email back telling you the live room recordings. You’ll be sent where to view the recordings after the conference.

What is D2W?

Kansas City’s first Designer/Developer Workflow Conference. June 19-20 in downtown Kansas City, MO near the Power & Light District. We have some of the best speakers both locally and internationally coming to talk on all things workflow. If you are a designer, developer or both, this conference is for you.

Why Workflow?

What’s the big deal about workflow? Workflow is something we all do, day in and day out – although you may not even think about it. Do you work with multiple applications during the day? Do you work with team members, departments, clients, etc.? Improving those workflows is what D2W is all about. We have 3 tracks, with 60-minute sessions. Sign up as a designer, developer, or as a hybrid of both. In addition to the sessions centering around workflow, there’ll be several biz-type sessions for Web professionals.

Who is speaking?

We have an amazing speaker list. Doug Winnie, Flash Catalyst Product Manager and Workflow Manager, Paul Trani – Flash Platform Evangelist, Pariah Burke – Adobe Instructor and workflow is his middle name, Rob Huddleston – Adobe Instructor and author extraordinaire as well as Tom Green who is a legend in the Flash world. We have many more amazing speakers, check out the speakers page and find out more.

Flash Platform from Start to Finish: Working Collaboratively Using Adobe Creative Suite 5 is now available for pre-order on Amazon.com! Written by our very own James Polanco, his business partner Aaron Pederson, and Doug Winnie (principal product manager for Adobe Flash Catalyst): Flash Platform From Start to Finish will teach you how to properly plan and execute your projects using the Adobe CS5 Suite (including Flash Catalyst, Adobe Flash Builder 4, and Adobe Flash CS5).

Get your copy here!

I have an extra ticket for Flash And the City for sale, and extra space in my hotel room. Please contact me if interested. ktyacke at gmail dot com

Flash Camp San Francisco session recordings are now available online. Here is your chance to learn about the latest Flash Platform tools and technologies. http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/events/

Recorded sessions:

• Open discussion and Q&A with David Wadhwani
• What’s new in Flash Professional CS5
• Using Flash Builder 4 with Flash CS5
• Flash Player 10.1 internals
• Flash Builder 4 tips and tricks
• TV and mobile design challenges and insights
• Desktop and mobile development with Adobe AIR
• Introduction to multitouch in Flash Player 10.1
• Developer tips and tricks for targeting the Flash Platform
• Advanced text layout with Flash CS5

The San Diego Flash Users Group and the San Diego Adobe Developer Users Group will be hosting a special meeting demoing several of the new programs in the recently release CS5. Come learn about the new features in Flash Professional, Flash Catalyst, Photoshop, Fireworks, and more!

We will have pizza and soda. There will be some T-shirts to give away and we will be raffling off one copy of CS5 Web Premium

The event will be held at the Art Institute of San Diego on June 7th at 6pm.

Please RSVP at http://groups.adobe.com/index.cfm?event=post.display&postid=20313