Red5: Crossing the Streams (19:00 – 20:00) – Trevor Burton
Red5 is an open-source streaming media server written in Java… but that’s just the beginning. Since the project began as an open-source implementation of the RTMP protocol it’s become a solid product in its own right. Despite not yet having acheived a 1.0 release it’s already used in production software and is suprisingly easy for Flash developers to get to grips with.

Currently many Flash Developers are learning to work with other languages and platforms so you’ll also see how you can use Red5 outside of Flash with Unity3D and the iPhone and even how you can go beyond the computer itself.

An Introduction to Augmented Reality in Flash (20:15 – 21:15) – James Alliban
Augmented Reality has gained a great deal of attention recently due to the fact that it is now available in the Flash player due to the FLARToolkit library.

In this session James will provide a full introduction to building FLAR applications. There will be several demos of his own work with a discussion of his experiences and self promotion. There will also be a live coding session which will involve technologies such as Papervision 2.0, FLARManager, Blender and the FP10 native 3D capabilities.

Prizes for the free raffle
1 copy of Foundation ActionScript 3.0 for Flash and Flex donated by friends of ED.
1 copy of The Essential Guide to Flex 3 donated by friends of ED.
Red5 Server Keyrings donated by Infrared5.

Sponsored by friends of ED

When/Where
Date: 26th November 2009 (26/11/2009)
Time: 19:00 – 23:00 (doors open at 18:30)
Venue: CosmoBar, 50-54 Clerkenwell Road, EC1M 5PS (click for map)
Tube: Barbican/Farringdon

You need to register and sign-up if you wish to attend and be entered into the raffle. You can sign-up in the sidebar on the right of the front page or at the bottom of the post here. Please do not sign-up if you don’t plan to attend. You cannot win unless you attend the event.

Practical Design Patterns for ActionScript 3.0 (19:00 – 20:00) – Eamonn Faherty
Decorator; reactor; model view controller; model view presenter; model view little c; template; and reactor. These are just a few of the standard design patterns. There are hundreds out there and it is easy to feel a little lost. I hope to explain some of these patterns and their uses, along with their benefits and cost of use.

Once you start using design patterns you will understand frameworks better, work faster and will be sharing more code between projects!

Application Frameworks: The Good, the Bad & the Ugly (20:15 – 21:15) – Richard Lord
With so many application frameworks available which should you choose? Cairngorm? PureMVC? Mate? Swiz? Or should you roll your own? Which frameworks require you to write the most code? Which provide the easiest refactoring? Which features make frameworks flexible and which make them brittle? Which make them easy to use and which make them hard?

Prizes for the free raffle
1 copy of Foundation ActionScript 3.0 for Flash and Flex donated by friends of ED.

Sponsored by friends of ED

When/Where
Date: 29th October 2009 (29/10/2009)
Time: 19:00 – 23:00 (doors open at 18:30)
Venue: CosmoBar, 50-54 Clerkenwell Road, EC1M 5PS (click for map)
Tube: Barbican/Farringdon

You need to register and sign-up if you wish to attend and be entered into the raffle. You can sign-up in the sidebar on the right of the front page or at the bottom of the post here. Please do not sign-up if you don’t plan to attend. You cannot win unless you attend the event.

Adobe Town Hall – Mark Anders
An open platform for Mark to talk about the Flash Platform, Adobe tools and the future of Flash, including a question and answers session.

You need to register and sign-up if you wish to attend and be entered into the raffle. You can sign-up in the sidebar on the right of the front page or at the bottom of the post here. Please do not sign-up if you don’t plan to attend. You cannot win unless you attend the event.