Archive for April, 2010

24th June 2010 (24/06/2010)

Friday, April 30th, 2010

Digital Storytelling – Creative Technology in the Newsroom and Beyond (19:00 – 20:00) – Alastair Dant
A tour of interactive authoring at the Guardian. Topics include storyfinding, cross-department workflows, rapid development, data visualisation and open APIs. We’ll take a peek behind the scenes of several apps such as live results for the election, the world cup in words and something to ponder for Stevie Jobs.

Flash Contracting (20:15 – 21:15) – David Fox
Becoming a contract developer in London can be a pretty stressful decision. Setting up limited companies, finding jobs, getting paid and generally fitting in are just a few things you need to master before you can even begin to deal with crazy deadlines, difficult clients, switching workspaces every other week and the occasional piece of badly written code.

This session will show the pro’s and con’s of contract life for those considering stepping over to the dark side and for those who have already taken the plunge, we’ll be going through ways in which you can make the market work for you, dealing with recruiters, how to minimize the pain of contracting’s disadvantages and also a few tips on how to push your day rate up.

Prizes for the free raffle
2 full conference passes to Flash on the Beach donated by Flash on the Beach.
1 copy of The Essential Guide to 3D in Flash donated by friends of ED.

Sponsored by Flash on the Beach & friends of ED

When/Where
Date: 24th June 2010 (24/06/2010)
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.

27th May 2010 (27/05/2010)

Tuesday, April 6th, 2010

Developing Flash Apps to Run 24/7 (19:00 – 20:00) – Matt Pollitt & Juan Delgado
Tips and tricks to develop Flash/AIR applications that are meant to run 24/7, most of the times unattended and facing the public. Fail and recover gracefully, error logging, automated updates, avoid memory leaks, remote access, crash forensics…

This session will involve AS3, AIR 2 (including the new NativeProcess API and monitor the file system for changes), building little “helper” utilities in haXe + Neko, setting up cron jobs (with SSH!) and let the world know via Twitter.

An Introduction to Android (20:15 – 21:15) – Richard Leggett
This session will go through the basics of setting up your environment ready for Android development, building a very simple Hello World application to illustrate how you build interactive user interfaces. It will also cover what types of resource are used in Android apps, how to draw graphics using a variety of techniques, and how to skin and theme components.

We’ll also cover the subject of screen resolutions and the hugely important screen density problem that will be important to all mobile developers as new devices come out with different size screens, so that your app can scale from phone to tablet without any modification at all. Animation and timing will be explored, those familiar with Tweens in Flash should find themselves at home here. We’ll then move onto the sometimes prickly subject of Threads and Handlers, two very important concepts for keeping your application and games responsive. Finally a look at a couple of game engines that make use of OpenGL ES for blazing performance, and some tips throughout.

Prizes for the free raffle
2 full conference passes to Flash on the Beach donated by Flash on the Beach.
1 copy of AdvancED Flash on Devices: Mobile Development with Flash Lite and Flash 10 donated by friends of ED.

Sponsored by Flash on the Beach & friends of ED

When/Where
Date: 27th May 2010 (27/05/2010)
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.

Matt Pollitt

Tuesday, April 6th, 2010

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The Many Faces of Away3D

Friday, April 2nd, 2010

Rob Bateman

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From Flash to Unity (and back)

Friday, April 2nd, 2010

Bartek Drozdz

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