| March 3, 2010 |
| 6:00 pm | to | 8:00 pm |
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!
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
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:
November 2nd, 2009 Chris Griffith
This Weds, 6pm at the Art Institute San Diego (South Building) , Tom Gonzalez (@twgonzalez) will be speaking on Axiss/Data Viz. To get a running start on this topic, Tom wrote a great introduction to Axiss on O’Reilly’s InsideRIA.
I will also be giving a presentation on the design and development of the mobileMAX schedule application that was used during the recent Adobe MAX conference.
Hope to see you there!
October 15th, 2009 Chris Griffith
Thanks to all that turned out! Here is a list of some of the items that I mentioned during the meeting:
Grant Skinner’s Flash Performance Overview (http://gskinner.com/talks/quick/)
RIARadio (
http://www.insideria.com/2009/10/ria-radio-live-at-adobe-max–.html )
Flash Catalyst Beta 2, Flash Builder Beta 2 are now available for download at http://labs.adobe.com/
In addition, you should take a look at WorkflowLab, co-developed by a regular SDFUG attendee James Polanoc.
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/
March 21st, 2009 Chris Griffith
| April 1, 2009 |
| 6:00 pm | to | 8:00 pm |
Join us for our April meeting 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.
December 1st, 2008 Chris Griffith
| December 3, 2008 |
| 6:00 pm | to | 8:00 pm |
Join us at our new home at the Art Institute (South Building) for our December meeting, Wednesday at 6pm. Directions can be found at http://www.artinstitutes.edu/sandiego/AboutUs/Directions.aspx. Our meeting is in the South building, so follow these directions except instead of turning right into the AI parking lot, turn left. the driveway bends to the left and goes down a hill and points you right to the front door of the south building.
Park anywhere in the lot to the left of the South building. Once in the building, go up the stairs and we’re in the large conference room to the right at the top of the stairs.
This month we will cover the following topics:
- Recap the Adobe MAX conference
- Demo Flash Catalyst (aka Thermo)
- Raffle a copy of Adobe Web Premium (still double checking on this), but we have some swag anyway!
- Attending LAFlashapaloozastock?
- Plus open discussion and planning topic ideas for the coming year
Hope to see you there!
October 19th, 2008 Chris Griffith
I had the chance to play with an advance copy of Flash CS4 as a part ofAdobe’s Flash Camp. I’ve posted a small demo app I built over at my personal blog.
