SDFUG

FlashCamp San Francisco is a free one night event hosted by Adobe covering everything you need to know about about the latest Flash Platform tools and technologies, including Adobe Flash Player 10.1, Adobe Flash CS5, Adobe Flash Builder 4 and mobile design and development.

I was at the last FlashCamp in San Francisco and it was a great event. It is an awesome way to talk directly to the folks who make the platform and tools that we all use. They usually have lots of goodies to had out, so if you can’t afford attending MAX, a cheap flight to San Francisco might be in order. I got my ticket, get yours before they are gone.

I ran across a very simple tutorial that quickly shows how to create a php webservice using Flashbuilder 4 as well as some of the new features such as two-way data binding and auto-generation of event-handlers.. I’d avoid a lot of these features in production code; however, for testing, prototyping, and general learning they are pretty damn cool and make throwing together a quick, database-driven app very fast!

http://www.flashrealtime.com/flash-builder-4-and-php-data-services/

Flash / AS3 Developer
- Strong development background with a strong sense of aesthetics
- Experience with the following: Flash, AS3, Flex, JSON, XML,
JavaScript, Web Services, HTML, and CSS
- Minimum of 2 years experience with AS (vers. 2 or 3)
- An online portfolio that we can check out

The pay is in in the $65k-$75k range with full benefits. Position is
in Encinitas. What they are really looking for is someone who has a strong portfolio, and entrepreneurial spirit, and is ready to hit the ground running.

**Please note this is a full-time onsite position, so you must be able to work in the San Diego area.**

If you’re interested please email me (Kyle): ktyacke at gmail dot com (please include job posting in the subject line so I know what the email is referring to)

We have two presentations planned for our March meeting!

First, Demian Borba will be talking about use FDT. For those who don’t know about this alternate editor for Flash/Flex development, here is a blurb from their site

FDT is the most powerful Flash development environment for Actionscript 2, 3 and MXML. The only editor built from the ground-up to support the needs of ActionScript developers, built by Flash developers for Flash developers. With highly efficient and time-saving features, FDT enhances your workflow while increasing your productivity.

He has also secured a copy of FDT to raffle off, so if you ever want to learn about this editor, this is the meeting for you.

Second, Chris Griffith will give a quick presentation on using the new itemRenderers in Flex 4.

Date: March 3rd

Time: 6:oopm – 800pm

Location: Art Institute San Diego, south building

Hope to see you there! Yes, we will have pizza!

We have two presentations planned for our March meeting!

First, Demian Borba will be talking about use FDT. For those who don’t know about this alternate editor for Flash/Flex development, here is a blurb from their site

FDT is the most powerful Flash development environment for Actionscript 2, 3 and MXML. The only editor built from the ground-up to support the needs of ActionScript developers, built by Flash developers for Flash developers. With highly efficient and time-saving features, FDT enhances your workflow while increasing your productivity.

He has also secured a copy of FDT to raffle off, so if you ever want to learn about this editor, this is the meeting for you.

Second, Chris Griffith will give a quick presentation on using the new itemRenderers in Flex 4.

Date: March 3rd

Time: 6:oopm – 800pm

Location: Art Institute San Diego, south building

Hope to see you there! Yes, we will have pizza!

Interested? Contact:

Marketa Hancova (Dean of Education): marketa.hancova@gmail.com

If your serious about learning AS3, this is a great deal.
Free through February 28th
Introduction to ActionScript Development with FDT

30 minute introduction to the world’s most powerful ActionScript editor with Alan Klement.

Free through February 15th
Comprehensive ActionScript 3
Over 9 hours of AS3 training with R Blank

We have a packed meeting planned for February 3rd at 6pm at the Art Institute of San Diego. First off we will have a representative from Chumby. For those of you who do not know what Chumby:

chumby takes your favorite parts of the internet and delivers them to you in a friendly, always-on, always-fresh format. It’s a window into your internet life that lives outside your desktop, so content like weather, news, celebrity gossip, podcasts, music, and more has a place to play away from your world of documents and spreadsheets. Just plug in your chumby, connect to your network, and use your computer to create a lineup of favorites from over 1,500 widgets in more than 30 categories, with new ones arriving all the time. Then let your chumby do its thing — streaming everything you like, from sports scores to stock quotes, from video clips to interactive games, from photos to trivia.

They currently have two devices, the classic and the Chumby One. However, at the recent CES show in Las Vegas, several new concepts were shown; a Samsung / Chumby prototype digiframe and the Chumby Sunfury Touchscreen tablet. Hopefully we can learn more about these products as well.

We will hopefully have a recap from FlashCamp Brazil that was recently held. The event was organized by our own Demian Borba (who has been honored as an Adobe Community Professional (formerly Adobe Community Experts).

Here is a tweet from @ddura about the event:

Big shout out to @demianborba for putting on one of the best Flash events I have ever been to. Can’t wait for next year! #flashcampbrasil

Maybe we might think about a FlashCamp here in San Diego???

We will wrap up the meeting with an open forum. So if you have questions, not sure how to do something, want to demo a project, bring it on!

And one more thing. We are going to try having pizza at the meeting. I will stop by Costco before the meeting and pick up a few pizzas. We will charge $1 per slice (unless someone wants to sponsor it). Please RSVP with on Adobe Groups site so I will have an idea of how many to purchase.

We have a packed meeting planned for February 3rd at 6pm at the Art Institute of San Diego. First off we will have a representative from Chumby. For those of you who do not know what Chumby:

chumby takes your favorite parts of the internet and delivers them to you in a friendly, always-on, always-fresh format. It’s a window into your internet life that lives outside your desktop, so content like weather, news, celebrity gossip, podcasts, music, and more has a place to play away from your world of documents and spreadsheets. Just plug in your chumby, connect to your network, and use your computer to create a lineup of favorites from over 1,500 widgets in more than 30 categories, with new ones arriving all the time. Then let your chumby do its thing — streaming everything you like, from sports scores to stock quotes, from video clips to interactive games, from photos to trivia.

They currently have two devices, the classic and the Chumby One. However, at the recent CES show in Las Vegas, several new concepts were shown; a Samsung / Chumby prototype digiframe and the Chumby Sunfury Touchscreen tablet. Hopefully we can learn more about these products as well.

We will hopefully have a recap from FlashCamp Brazil that was recently held. The event was organized by our own Demian Borba (who has been honored as an Adobe Community Professional (formerly Adobe Community Experts).

Here is a tweet from @ddura about the event:

Big shout out to @demianborba for putting on one of the best Flash events I have ever been to. Can’t wait for next year! #flashcampbrasil

Maybe we might think about a FlashCamp here in San Diego???

We will wrap up the meeting with an open forum. So if you have questions, not sure how to do something, want to demo a project, bring it on!

And one more thing. We are going to try having pizza at the meeting. I will stop by Costco before the meeting and pick up a few pizzas. We will charge $1 per slice (unless someone wants to sponsor it). Please RSVP with on Adobe Groups site so I will have an idea of how many to purchase.

You may not be aware but one of our user group members (and user group manager as well). Demian Borba has been honored as an Adobe Community Professional (formerly Adobe Community Experts). Way to go!!!

Most recently he organized the very successful FlashCamp Brazil. Here is a tweet from @ddura:

Big shout out to @demianborba for putting on one of the best Flash events I have ever been to. Can’t wait for next year! #flashcampbrasil

I am sure we will get a great recap of the event at an upcoming SDFUG meeting.