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.
January 7th, 2010 Chris Griffith
Thanks to all that could attend, and sorry for the room mix up.
Here is a brief recap of the information that I presented at the start of the meeting:
Flash player 10.1 Beta 2 released (with debug versions!)
http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html
Flash Player & AIR Security Updates
http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb09-19.html
Adobe Flex 3.5 SDK Released
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=flex3sdk
Tour de Flex update with AIR 2.0 samples
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/tourdeflex/?sdid=ENQNT
Conferences
360Flex (March 7-10 San Jose, CA)
FITC – Toronto (April 25-27)
Flash and the City (May 14-16 New York City)
Flashbelt (June 13-16 Minneapolis, MN)
User Group Survey
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/JJ7R992
New Tools
Doc?
http://airdoc.be/home/
SourceMate
http://www.elementriver.com/sourcemate/
Again, thanks for coming out and staying late! See in February!
Chris & Kyle
November 27th, 2009 Chris Griffith
Come join us this Wednesday, our topic will be on the new WorkflowLab project, developed in part by our own James Polanco. WorkflowLab is a new AIR application that provides an easy way to learn about and share workflow best practices. It provides designers, developers and project managers with a common way to share information on specific project types including tasks, applications and instructions. The application includes a number of workflow starting points and enables users to easily share additional workflows. WorkflowLab is currently in development and an Alpha build is available for download. Rumor has it that other members of the team might be attending, including Doug Winnie.
In addition, we will have several software giveaways, so you better make plans to attend.
When: December 2nd, 6pm
Where: Art Institute San Diego, South Building
September 29th, 2009 Chris Griffith
Recently the Flash on the Beach conference wrapped up in Brighton, England. Among the many incredible talks, I wanted to highlight this one from Grant Skinner. Entitled Quick As A Flash: Optimization Strategies for AS3 and Flash, it is a great analysis of performance in the Flash Player, and what we as developers can easily do to make our Flash projects even better.
http://gskinner.com/talks/quick/
July 28th, 2009 Chris Griffith
Forget the dog days of summer, we are having demo day! Bring your coolest Flash/Flex/AIR creation and show it off. We are not sure which room will be in, so check the website for more details.
If you need an internet connection for the demo, let us know so we can arrange it.
We will have some prizes for the best demos.
Hope to see you there!!
Date and Time:
August 5, 2009 from 6:00pm – 8:00pm
Address:
7655 Mission Valley Road
San Diego , CA 92108
UPDATE: The meeting will be held in the NORTH BUILDING in room 145
May 17th, 2009 Chris Griffith
Date and Time: June 3, 2009 from 6:00pm – 8:00pm
Address: 7655 Mission Valley Road San Diego , CA 92108 – NORTH BUILDING
Description: Come learn about the next releases of Adobe Flex and Flash Catalyst. Daniel Dura from Adobe will be showing some of the awesome new products and features coming soon from Adobe Specifically we will be talking about Flex 4, the next Flex Builder, Flash Catalyst, and more. Sponsored by Adobe and the San Diego Flash User Groupand San Diego Adobe Developers User Group. We will have free pizza & drinks and some great giveaways! PLEASE RSVP on the Adobe Groups Site so we know how much pizza to order!! (http://groups.adobe.com/posts/10d5f00eba)
Speakers: Daniel Dura
