Jodie will introduce the main features of the latest OSMF build and demonstrate some examples with code.

TBC (20:15 – 21:15) – TBC
TBC

Prizes for the free raffle
TBC

When/Where
Date: 29th April 2010 (29/04/2010)
Time: 19:00 – 23:00 (doors open at 18:30)
Venue: CosmoBar, 50-54 Clerkenwell Road, EC1M 5PS (click for map)
Tube: Barbican/Farringdon

SEO is an important tool in your website building arsenal, yet many developers are unsure how to optimise their Flash based sites.

In this session Adam Chappell will discuss some of the techniques for re-organising Flash sites for SEO as well as some of the potential pitfalls and considerations involved.

Presentation: PDF.
Source: NavigationExample.zip, NavigationExample2.zip.

3D in Flash requires massive amounts of performance tuning in order to get a decent interactive experience. There are many different areas where optimisation can take place.

In his presentation Dennis will focus on optimising the loading of external 3D models. He will go through a complete workflow that starts with the creation of a 3D object in Blender and ends with the same 3D object displaying in the Flash Player. By going through this workflow he will show tools that help optimise the process and he will explore the different possibilities that 3D engines have to offer.

Presentation: PDF.
Source: BlenderToAway3DLit Eclipse project (ZIP), Cube Blender file.

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.

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.

In this session Trevor Burton will take you on a whirlwind tour of Red5. You’ll learn how to set up for working with Red5 in Eclipse and create an application without writing a single line of Java. Then you’ll see some of the applications you can create with this awesome piece of software; multi-player applications, neural networks and voice recognition to name just a few. There’s also a glimpse of what’s coming soon in Red5.

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.

We, as the Flash community, are on the frontline of those who are supposed to bring 3D content to the wide web. But around 3D graphics there already exists a huge industry with years of accumlated experience and hunders of tools. Scary? We will try to see how to get into the 3D flow without feeling lost.

During the presentation, we will make a walk through the Unity authoring tool and compare it with Flash IDE. Next we will get an introduction on how to work with 3D assets. Finally we’ll focus on scripting and briefly compare C# with Actionscript 3.

Last but not least, we will explore the topic on how learning Unity can inspire you to make better Flash applications… and how to use your Flash experience to make better use of Unity in your work. You will leave the presentation with a solid dose of 3D love that that you can directly apply to your next project!

The Many Faces of Away3D (20:15 – 21:15) – Rob Bateman
Since its inception, the explosion of 3D Flash content around the world has still not fully subsided. Yet we are already seeing the beginnings of a secondary stage of evolution and innovation. Demand for 3D graphics in the browser is as high as ever, and with the help of its ubiquity, Flash is still the most compatible 3D plugin existing on the web today.

In this session, Rob explores some of the potential new features now becoming available for creating high quality 3D Flash experiences in the browser, with help from the 3D friendly Flash 10 Player and some of the latest Away3D releases and related technologies available from the open source community.

Prizes for the free raffle
TBC

Sponsored by TBC

When/Where
Date: 25th March 2010 (25/03/2010)
Time: 19:00 – 23:00 (doors open at 18:30)
Venue: CosmoBar, 50-54 Clerkenwell Road, EC1M 5PS (click for map)
Tube: Barbican/Farringdon

In 2009 he launched a photo-painting online application called psykopaint where you can paint using the colors of an image, which is still being developed in his free time.

He is a creative developer, using creativity to solve problems as well as to experiment to obtain beautiful results. He’s not a by-the-book kind of developer, maybe more of an outlaw, but the fastest in the west(end).

This presentation will focus on techniques to improve both the speed and the quality (which we can summarize as efficiency) of our programming so you can have a life and more time with your friends, family, or with your Xbox, and still keep the client happy.
It will look at the balance between creating re-usable code, opposed to writing in a time limited environment focusing on the delivery of the the work, and how to adapt our coding to suit the project we are dealing with.

Flex 4 (20:15 – 21:15) – Tink
In this session we’ll take a look at the what’s new in Flex 4.

We’ll also take a look at how to build your own classes on top of the spark framework, including skins, layouts, containers and effects, with some practical examples of some code I’ve been working on.

Prizes for the free raffle
40 credits for use at flash scope.
30 credits for use at flash scope.
20 credits for use at flash scope.

Sponsored by flash scope

When/Where
Date: 25th February 2010 (25/02/2010)
Time: 19:00 – 23:00 (doors open at 18:30)
Venue: CosmoBar, 50-54 Clerkenwell Road, EC1M 5PS (click for map)
Tube: Barbican/Farringdon