July Meeting: Current State of Flash Runtimes (with Android Demos)

June 28th, 2010 Chris Griffith

July 12, 2010
6:00 pmto8:00 pm

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!


Flash Camp San Francisco

May 10th, 2010 Chris Griffith

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:


Learn Flex, Flash Builder 4, Flash Catalyst and more next week

May 7th, 2010 Chris Griffith

Adobe Developer Week 2010 logo

Adobe Developer Week is a week long set of e-seminars next week that go over all those topics and more. The sessions will be presented by members of the Adobe evangelism team including Ben FortaKevin Hoyt and Ryan StewartLee BrimelowJames Ward, and Christophe Coenraets, and the Flex product team including Andrew Shorten, Deepa Subramaniam and Ely Greenfield and other very talented people at Adobe.

Flex developers will be most interested in the following sessions, but be sure to check out the whole list so you don’t miss anything:
New features in the Flex 4 framework
New features in Flash Builder 4
What’s new in Flash Builder for Java developers
Building a basic CRUD application with Zend AMF and Flex 4
Advanced features in Flex

All the sessions will be recorded and posted online.


May Meeting: Transitioning to Flash Builder 4

April 20th, 2010 Chris Griffith

May 3, 2010
6:00 pmto8:00 pm

James Polanco from Development Arc will be giving a walk-through on transitioning from FlexBuilder 3 to FlashBuilder 4.

This will be a really great chance to get an introduction to some of the new features that you will all be working with in the new version of Flashbuilder from that man who (literally) wrote the book on the subject! Hope to see you there!


Flash Player and Adobe AIR Betas for Android

April 19th, 2010 Chris Griffith

You can now sign up to be notified when the first public betas of both Flash Player 10.1 and Adobe AIR 2.0 are available. Adobe just started the private betas and they are really looking forward to getting these technologies into our hands as soon as possible. There are going to be so many interesting things that you will be able to do on Android and there are also going to be many new skills that you will need to learn, especially if you are new to mobile design. One thing that will help you tremendously is to learn more about optimizing content for mobile devices. There are separate sign-up pages for Flash Player 10.1 and Adobe AIR 2.0 so go on over and get registered.


Meeting recap

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


“Critical” Adobe Flash and Air Vulnerabilities

December 14th, 2009 Chris Griffith

Critical vulnerabilities have been identified in Adobe Flash Player version 10.0.32.18 and earlier. These vulnerabilities could cause the application to crash and could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system. Adobe recommends users of Adobe Flash Player 10.0.32.18 and earlier versions update to Adobe Flash Player 10.0.42.34. Adobe recommends users of Adobe AIR version 1.5.2 and earlier versions update to Adobe AIR 1.5.3.

The Adobe security patches can be downloaded from the following links:

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Exhaustive List of Everything That’s New in AIR 2.0

October 29th, 2009 Chris Griffith

Christian Cantrell, is a Product Manager and Application Developer on the AIR team, has just posted an “Exhaustive List of Everything That’s New in AIR 2.0“. Until there is a public beta of AIR 2.0, you can use this as a guide to what’s coming. Enjoy!

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August 5th: Demo Day

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


April Meeting – Designing User Interfaces for Flex Applications

March 21st, 2009 Chris Griffith

Join us for our April 1st meeting at 6pm on “Designing User Interfaces for Flex Applications”. Dolores Joya Moore will be speaking on everything you need to know to make your next Flex application look its best. Some of the topics included:

  • Overview of possible Graphical Design workflows for Flex. (which path we will be covering)
  • Overview of the Photoshop to Flex Design Workflow
  • A Look under the hood at a Flex Component in Flex
  • Designing for Flex in Photoshop
  • Using the Flex Component Kit in Photoshop for Mock-ups
  • Designing a Custom Skin for a Flex button
  • Applying Custom Flex Skins to Flex Components in Flex Builder using CSS

About our speaker:

Dolores Joya Moore is an independent Flex UI Designer based in southern California. Since 1999, she has worked in-house and independently as a visual UI designer on several interactive Rich Internet Applications (RIA’s) where her jobs have included Product UI Designer, Senior Graphic Designer, and Flex Skin Designer among others. In her current role, Dolores designs Flex UI screens, designs interfaces for custom branded RIA’s, creates custom icons, creates MXML layouts and skins Flex components in Flex Builder 3.0. She brings a fresh look to emerging RIA’s and a passion for pioneering new methods in UI Design.

Meeting Information:

Our meetings are held the first Wednesday of each month at Art Institute of San Diego’s South Building from 6 – 8 PM. Anyone is welcome to attend the meeting!

Location:

The Art Institute of California-San Diego

Due to AI’s spring break we will be meeting in the NORTH building, Lab 159. 

7655 Mission Valley Road
San Diego , CA 92108