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The Adobe CS6 launch event recording is up and available for viewing: http://tv.adobe.com/watch/adobe-creative-suite-6-creative-cloud-launch-week/adobe-creative-cloud-and-adobe-creative-suite-6-launch-event/

We hope to have news about a local event shortly!

Recently, the Denver RIA Developers Group held a session on the The Future of Flash – Mike Chambers @mesh and on Adobe Gaming Technology – Lee Brimelow @leebrimelow

Both sessions were recorded and made available for viewing.

The Future of Flash

In this session, Mike will lead a discussion around recent changes and announcements around the Flash Platform. He will then spend some time laying out the roadmap for the Flash Player, and discuss the direction in which the player will evolve, including the general focus of the player and the ActionScript language and AVM (ActionScript Virtual Machine). In addition to discussing the Flash roadmap, we will be showing off the latest Flash and Adobe AIR content, give some sneak peeks on upcoming releases, and setting aside plenty of time for open discussions and Q&A.

Mike Chambers has spent the last decade building applications that target the web and the Flash runtime. During that time, he has worked with numerous technologies including Flash, Generator, .NET, Central, Flex, Objective-C, Cocoa, JavaScript and HTML5. He is currently the Directory of Developer Advocacy for web platforms at Adobe. He has written and spoken extensively on Flash and Rich Internet Application development and is coauthor of the Apollo for Adobe Flex Developers Pocket Guide,Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) for JavaScript Developers Pocketguide, Flash Enabled: Flash Design and Development for Devices as well as Generator and Flash Demystified. http://www.mikechambers.com/blog/

Adobe Gaming Technology

In this session Gaming Evangelist Lee Brimelow will reveal the latest technologies being worked on by Adobe for game developers. They will show how these technologies allow developers to create casual 2D games in addition to AAA 3D games. Current best practices will also be discussed.

Lee Brimelow is a developer evangelist at Adobe who is currently focusing on Flash gaming. He has worked in the past for companies like AOL, Netscape, frog design, and eBay. Lee runs the highly popular video tutorial site at gotoandlearn.com and writes a blog dedicated to Flash at theflashblog.com.

Adobe has posted new beta versions of both Adobe AIR 3.3 and Flash Player 11.3 on labs.adobe.com. 

The key features of Adobe AIR 3.3 are:

• USB debugging for AIR iOS
• Enhanced Background behavior for AIR iOS
• Stylus support for Android 4.0
• Simulator Support (Mac)
• Aspect Ratio Enhancements
• Improved Mac App Store Support

Flash Player 11.2  and AIR 3.2 SDK final versions are now available for download at the official release pages.

Adobe Flash Player – downloads: http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/downloads.html

Download Adobe AIR SDK: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/air/air-sdk-download.html

There are lot of new significant features like mouseLock, middle click, right click, silent auto-update and Stage3D on mobile.

Long time Flash guru, Grant Skinner, has announced that they’re going to be releasing EaselJS and a number of companion libraries under the new umbrella name “CreateJS”. CreateJS will be a suite of modular libraries and tools which work together to enable rich interactive content on open web technologies (aka HTML5). These libraries will be designed so that they can work completely independently, or you can mix and match as suits your needs. The initial offerings will be: EaselJS, TweenJS, SoundJS, and PreloadJS. 

Along with the new name, they will also be launching a new site at createjs.com which will consolidate demos, docs, tutorials, community, and showcases for all of the libraries and tools. If you have a project or tutorial you’d like to see featured, tweet it to us: @createjs

UPDATE: Unfortunately due to an unexpected personal matter, Chris will not be able to attend this meeting and provide the session. Because this is a last minute change we are unable to prepare for another topic and will be canceling this meeting. We apologize and will let you all know about the next topic and meeting shortly.

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Learn more at sencha.com/touch

Adobe has recently published several white papers on the Flash Platform.

The whitepaper, titled Adobe roadmap for the Flash runtimes lays out the 1 to 2 year roadmap for the Flash runtimes (primarily Adobe AIR and Flash Player). This includes information on specific planned releases, longer term player work, and supported platforms.

The primary goal of the whitepaper is to have a single definitive resource that provides clear insight into Adobe’s plans and thinking around the roadmap for the Flash runtimes. – Mike Chambers

Also Adobe has published an official whitepaper title, Adobe’s view of Flex and its commitments to Flex in the future, which details their support for Flex going forward. The paper also contains details regarding Flash runtime support, Flash Builder support and other Apache contributions including the Falcon compiler. 

The UX Speakeasy Conference is a one-day event that pairs the best speakers in the UX field with the best information about our Southern California and San Diego UX communities. Mark your calendar for Saturday March 31^st 2012 and join us in San Diego.

The UX Speakeasy program features speakers on many aspects of the design process, from research to development, along with workshops and breakout sessions on the latest UX tools. A panel of local and national experts will also be on hand to answer questions about building and connecting the San Diego and Southern California UX and tech communities.