MAX recap slides posted

November 8th, 2010 Chris Griffith

I posted the slide deck I showed at the meeting on the Adobe Groups site (SDFUG-Nov.pptx).


November Meeting

October 29th, 2010 Chris Griffith

The craziness that surrounds Adobe MAX is finally winding down. So come to our November meeting and get the lowdown on all the announcements, find out which session you really should watch on Adobe TV, and more!

Day: Monday November 1st

Time: 6pm

Place: Art Institute of San Diego, South Building, room 307.


New Flex 4 Training Course!

June 30th, 2010 Chris Griffith

The team from developmentARC (WorkflowLab from Adobe) has just announced a Flex 4 training course. Here is the information:

In our session you will about learn MXML language changes, intro to FXG, Flex 4 component life cycle, in-depth Spark skinning architecture, changes to the item renderer system, and best practices for creating both components and item renderers.  We will walk through creating a new component and building a basic item renderer.  Session’s will be 4 hours online via Adobe connect and are only $100 dollars! Space is limited, see all sessions here http://www.developmentarc.com/site/training.

Current sessions include July 20th at 10am PST (http://www.eventbrite.com/event/748019346) and July 29th at 4pm PST (http://www.eventbrite.com/event/748058463)


CS5 Launch Event

May 10th, 2010 Chris Griffith

June 7, 2010
6:00 pmto8:00 pm

The San Diego Flash Users Group and the San Diego Adobe Developer Users Group will be hosting a special meeting demoing several of the new programs in the recently release CS5. Come learn about the new features in Flash Professional, Flash Catalyst, Photoshop, Fireworks, and more!

We will have pizza and soda. There will be some T-shirts to give away and we will be raffling off one copy of CS5 Web Premium

The event will be held at the Art Institute of San Diego on June 7th at 6pm.

Please RSVP at http://groups.adobe.com/index.cfm?event=post.display&postid=20313


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


Flex 4 User Group Tour

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


Free Copy of Flex Builder to unemployed developers!

February 26th, 2009 Chris Griffith

If you’re a Web developer and you’ve recently been made redundant, is offering you a free copy of its Flex Buildersoftware to learn while you’re unemployed. Flex Builder is an IDE (integrated development environment) offering coding, interface design and debugging tools for Adobe‘s Flex Web development language. Flex is designed for creating visually-rich Web applications from reusable components created in the MXML mark-up language and ActionScript 3, the scripting language behind Flash.

All you have to do is make contact with an Adobe evangelist (pick your favorite or contact shorten [at] adobe dot com), provide some details about your development experience and your most recent employment and they’ll provide a free copy of Flex Builder together with links to free online training resources.

FYI: If you are a student you already can obtain a free copy (https://freeriatools.adobe.com/flex/) .

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Limited Time Offer: Adobe Software 20% off!!

February 25th, 2009 Chris Griffith

Adobe is delighted to offer San Diego Flash User Group members special pricing on Adobe software. Contact either Kyle or Chris to get the details.

 

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Flex Camp in Southern California

January 26th, 2009 Chris Griffith

Start 2009 off right by beefing up your Flex skills. Flex Camp OC is a full-day event featuring some top industry experts on Adobe Flex and AIR. Come advance your Flex skills and network with local companies and fellow developers. Sessions will be geared towards developers with moderate to advanced level of experience with Flex and/or ActionScript. There will be plenty of giveaways, raffles and swag.

They’ll be providing lunch and a little afterparty to make sure you have a chance to mingle and network.

Seating is going to be limited to 150 people. So buy your tickets now!

If you are planning on attending, you might consider carpooling up.


Meeting: December 3rd 6pm @ Art Institute

December 1st, 2008 Chris Griffith

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!