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November 17th, 2011 Chris Griffith
| December 5, 2011 | ||
| 6:00 pm | to | 8:00 pm |
No agenda. Let’s meet at Chevy’s for some food and drink as we discuss the future of our group and the whirlwind of recent events.
Please RSVP (http://sdfug.groups.adobe.com/index.cfm?event=post.display&postid=39576) so we can make sure we get a table for everyone!
Plus, we do have some software to raffle off!
November 16th, 2011 James Polanco
Last Friday (November 11th 2011) the Flex Product team made a huge announcement about the future of Flex. The initial impression from the post, in-conjunction with the Flash Mobile announcement, caused a lot of controversy and confusion about the current state of Flex, Adobe’s overall goals with Flex and how they planned to handle Flex in the future.
Yesterday (Nov. 15th), the product team updated the post with a lot more clarity and details about what Adobe is doing with Flex. The core take-away with this update is that Adobe will be donating nearly all of the Flex eco-system (excluding the Flash Player, AIR & Flash Builder) to Apache:
We are preparing two proposals for incubating Flex SDK and BlazeDS at the Apache Software Foundation.
In addition to contributing the core Flex SDK (including automation and advanced data visualization components), Adobe also plans to donate the following:
- Complete, but yet-to-be-released, Spark components, including ViewStack, Accordion, DateField, DateChooser and an enhanced DataGrid.
- BlazeDS, the server-based Java remoting and web messaging technology that enables developers to easily connect to back-end distributed data and push data in real-time to Flex applications.
- Falcon, the next-generation MXML and ActionScript compiler that is currently under development (this will be contributed when complete in 2012)
- Falcon JS, an experimental cross-compiler from MXML and ActionScript to HTML and JavaScript.
- Flex testing tools, as used previously by Adobe, so as to ensure successful continued development of Flex with high quality
Adobe will also have a team of Flex SDK engineers contributing to those new Apache projects as their full-time responsibility. Adobe has in-development work already started, including additional Spark-based components.
Adobe also plans to continue support of current and future versions of Flex within the Flash Player, AIR runtimes, and Flash Builder. We definitely recommend reading the full post on the Flex Product teams blog.
November 9th, 2011 Chris Griffith
I am sure you all have heard/read the announcement about about Adobe stopping development on the mobile plugin version of the Flash Player. I wanted to hilight a great blog post by Matt Legend Gemmell on Adobe’s Communication of this annoucement. Since we all carry the Flash banner to some degree, Adobe’s misstep on how they handled this news affects all of us. I don’t know how many emails I had to respond to today internally about this. Matt has done a great job in reframing it. Hopefully, this can help you navigate the questions and decisions that might be ahead of you. Lee Brimelow from Adobe, also has written some good post on the future of the Flash Platform. I would also take a moment to read Thibault Imbert’s thoughts (he is the Product Manager for the Adobe Flash Runtime) It seems almost everyone BUT Adobe PR does a better job in explaining the decision than them. As an aside: I heard the new late last night, while working on a mobile prototype that I could only do with the Flash Platform in the time allowed. What are your thoughts? Share them here or at the next meeting!
Updated:
Mike Chambers, the Principal Product Manager for developer relations for the Flash Platform at Adobe, has posted his thought on his blog.
Doug Winnie, has also written a post entitled “Thoughts on Stuff and Things + Adobe“
September 13th, 2011 Chris Griffith
Thanks to everyone who attended last night’s meeting. I hope everyone was able to learn something new, I know I did.
Here are my intro slides from last night’s meeting.
The lab files from http://dev.dougwinnie.com/SDFUG.zip.
Hope to see you at October’s meeting!
September 7th, 2011 Chris Griffith
Create Mobile and Tablet content with Flash Professional CS5.5 with Doug Winnie!
In this session, Doug Winnie, Web Community Manager from Adobe Systems, will give an early run-through of his MAX lab for everyone to follow along with. Doug will walkthrough how to create a mutli-device project using Flash Professional CS5.5 and ActionScript 3.0. Bring your laptops and your development devices to follow along!
When: Sept 12th @6pm
Where: Art Institute of San Diego, South Building
August 2nd, 2011 Chris Griffith
| September 12, 2011 | ||
| 6:00 pm | to | 8:00 pm |
Due to Labor Day, September’s meeting will be pushed back by one week to September 12th.
In this session, Doug Winnie, Web Community Manager from Adobe Systems, will give an early run-through of his MAX lab for everyone to follow along with. Doug will walkthrough how to create a mutli-device project using Flash Professional CS5.5 and ActionScript 3.0. Bring your laptops and your development devices to follow along!
Doug Winnie is a Web Community Manager at Adobe Systems where he works with the developer and interactive design communities to help their workflow and efficiency when working with the Flash Platform and HTML5. Doug formerly was Principal Product Manager for Adobe Edge, Adobe Flash Catalyst and Creative Suite Web Premium. Doug tweets as @sfdesigner on twitter, blogs at sfdesignerdw.wordpress.com and lives in San Francisco, CA.
Hope to see you there!
Chris & James
June 3rd, 2011 Chris Griffith
Calling all developers! Interested in building apps that run seamlessly across the Web, desktops and mobile devices for Android, BlackBerry Tablet OS and iOS with one tool, a common framework and a single codebase? Then look no further than Adobe Developer Week! Taking place June 20-24, this weeklong event will feature a series of free, live webinars via Adobe Connect hosted by Adobe technology experts.
May 30th, 2011 Chris Griffith
The San Diego Flash User Group, the San Diego Adobe Developer User Group and the San Diego Photoshop User Group are hosting a 4 hour deep dive into Adobe’s Creative Suite 5.5!
Join us at the Adobe Camp where we will share with you how Adobe Creative Suite tools have evolved to dramatically enhance your workflow and keep your skills fresh. You’ll learn how to work faster and stay ahead of the latest trends, especially the rapid proliferation of mobile devices and the vast array of screen sizes.
When
Saturday, June 25, 2011 from 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM (PT)
Where
Art Institute of San Diego
7650 Mission Valley Road
San Diego, CA 92108
You will discover how to:
Design and develop rich browser-based content for desktops or devices with the leading HTML5 authoring tools.
Develop rich interactive applications for Android, Blackberry, and iOS with Adobe AIR, Flash Professional and Flash Builder.
Learn about the new iPad applications available for Photoshop.
Welcome & Overview – 10 minutes
Flash Professional – 30 minutes
Dreamweaver – 30 minutes
PhotoShop – 30 minutes
Flash Catalyst – 30 minutes
Flash Builder – 30 minutes
CF Builder – 15 minutes
Community Showcase – 30 minutes
Wrapup and Prizes – 10 minutes
(lunch is included)
Chris Griffith – Adobe Community Professional / Manager San Diego Flash User Group
James Polanco – Founding Partner / Web Application Architect at DevelopmentArc
Stephen M. Burns – Manager San Diego Photoshop User Group
Darius Fattahipour – Manager Adobe Developer User Group
Demian Borba – Adobe Community Champion / CEO at Action Creations
We are capping attendance to 50 campers, so get your tickets now. Tickets are $20, which includes lunch and raffle entry. The raffle prize will be a copy of an Adobe Creative Suite (sorry, no Master Collection).
April 14th, 2011 Chris Griffith
A big congratulations to Demian Borba on hosting another successful Flash Camp Brasil.
The hot news from the conference was the presentation by Arno Gourdol,
Director of Engineering for Adobe’s Flash Runtime on “Sneak Peek of Future of the Flash Runtime!”
Here are the highlights from the presentation:
- Faster GC : GC hint API and more.
- New numeric types : float and float4 (very useful for Molehill in the future).
- Concurrency : Worker threads (shared nothing model) to leverage multicore CPU’s. No more UI ‘s blocked when doing expensive operations.
- Stage3D : The API used for Molehill (that you know through the Incubator builds).
- StageVideo : Allowing full GPU acceleration (decoding + blitting) when used with H.264. Part of Flash Player 10.2 and coming to AIR soon.
- Threaded video pipeline : Will decode non H.264 streams on another thread (H.264 being decoded by the GPU), Net I/O will also be moved to another thread, all this bringing smoother playback.
If you are curious about the slides, you can download them here.
March 14th, 2011 Chris Griffith
| May 2, 2011 | ||
| 6:00 pm | to | 9:00 pm |
Grab your laptops, bring your Android devices, and join us as Chris Griffith leads us through a hands on lab!
More details coming!