London Flash Platform User Group

Agile from the Trenches

Tink — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:21:21 +0000

26th January 2012 (26/01/2012) – Stuart Mitchell

This is a “warts and all” presentation on how one of the first Agile project was delivered into one of the UK’s major Banks. There will be an overview of the project’s innovative techniques used in recruiting, planning, running the Scrums, analysis, development and testing. The team won the ‘Most Valuable Agile Project in the UK’ at the Agile 2010 awards. All attendees will also receive 2 Agile ebooks that Stuart believes are invaluable to any Agile project.

Publications: Scrum and XP from the Trenches, System Error.

WCRS

Tink — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:59:59 +0000

WCRS

Lee Brimelow

Tink — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:03:54 +0000

Lee Brimelow is a developer evangelist at Adobe who is currently focusing on Flash gaming. He has worked in the past for companies like AOL, Netscape, frog design, and eBay. Lee runs the highly popular video tutorial site at gotoandlearn.com and writes a blog dedicated to Flash at theflashblog.com.

Mike Chambers

Tink — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:01:56 +0000

Mike Chambers has spent the last decade building applications that target the web and the Flash runtime. During that time, he has worked with numerous technologies including Flash, Generator, .NET, Central, Flex, Objective-C, Cocoa, JavaScript and HTML5. He is currently the Directory of Developer Advocacy for web platforms at Adobe. He has written and spoken extensively on Flash and Rich Internet Application development and is coauthor of the Apollo for Adobe Flex Developers Pocket Guide,Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) for JavaScript Developers Pocketguide, Flash Enabled: Flash Design and Development for Devices as well as Generator and Flash Demystified.

http://www.mikechambers.com/blog/

Rowan Heasley

Tink — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:01:39 +0000

Founding Partner and MD of Naked Penguin Boy – www.nakedpenguinboy.com

Rowan developed his leadership skills managing and expanding large supermarkets with a speciality of marketing to diverse target audiences in a single area. A career change presented him with a short stay in financial banking working in futures and options.

Rowan moved on to become a niche specialist Software Performance Test Consultant which he enjoyed for a number of years working on proprietary systems for many large clients, including Eurostar, Abbey National, MBNA, BskyB, T-Mobile, Homebase, and the Criminal Record Bureau.

Rowan moved further up the channel and into developing websites, not testing them. Utilising his background of project management with an emphasis on usability and functionality he ensures that many issues are solved at the development stage before reaching testing.

Rowan became a founding partner and MD of Naked Penguin Boy in 2001. The company focuses on creating engaging digital content across industries and has created a number of high profile websites and marketing campaigns for clients such as Ladbrokes, Paramount Pictures, DreamWorks, Harper Collins, Aviva, Turner and Intel.

Iris London

Tink — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 23:15:30 +0000

http://www.irisnation.com/london/

23rd February 2012 (23/02/2012)

Tink — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 23:11:43 +0000

The Future of Flash (19:00 – 20:00) – Mike Chambers
In this session, Mike will lead a discussion around recent changes and announcements around the Flash Platform. He will then spend some time laying out the roadmap for the Flash Player, and discuss the direction in which the player will evolve, including the general focus of the player and the ActionScript language and AVM (ActionScript Virtual Machine).

Adobe Gaming Technology (20:15 – 21:15) – Lee Brimlow
In this session Gaming Evangelist Lee Brimelow will reveal the latest technologies being worked on by Adobe for game developers. They will show how these technologies allow developers to create casual 2D games in addition to AAA 3D games. Current best practices will also be discussed.

Prizes for the free raffle
Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Master Collection donated by Adobe.
Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography donated by WCRS.

Hosted by WCRS and sponsored by Adobe.

When/Where
Date: 23rd February 2012 (23/02/2012)
Time: 19:00 – 22:00 (doors open at 18:30)
Venue: WCRS, 60 Great Portland Street, London, W1W 7RT
Tube: Oxford Circus

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Laurent Arhuro

Tink — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 23:13:01 +0000

Laurent ARHURO is an illustrator and animator whose work spans across diverse media.

Laurent began working as a graphic artist after studying at Camberwell school of Art and started using Flash in 1999.
Flashartist has worked on a number of animations, music videos and other motion graphic project for the last decade.
Other commissioned work includes advertising campaigns and TV commercials for The Mill, BBH, Levi’s, Cartoon Network.

http://www.flashartist.co.uk/
http://www.flashartist.org//

Steve Buckley

Tink — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 14:07:32 +0000

With over 14 years expertise in multimedia development. Projects have ranged from CD-ROM, E-Learning projects to online casinos, micro sites for the games industry, viral marketing applications for the music industry.

A specialist in Adobe products such as Director Flash and Flex,and Adobe AIR, for the last few years specializing in cross product integration and Rich Internet Applications.

26th January 2012 (26/01/2012)

Tink — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 13:46:48 +0000

Agile from the Trenches (19:00 – 20:00) – Stuart Mitchell
This is a “warts and all” presentation on how one of the first Agile project was delivered into one of the UK’s major Banks. There will be an overview of the project’s innovative techniques used in recruiting, planning, running the Scrums, analysis, development and testing. The team won the ‘Most Valuable Agile Project in the UK’ at the Agile 2010 awards. All attendees will also receive 2 Agile ebooks that Stuart believes are invaluable to any Agile project.

Profiling (20:15 – 21:15) – Steve Buckley
Take a trip down memory lane… and end up in Memoryland. Do the magic mushrooms, er.. magic buttons, on the Flash Builder UI confuse you?

This talk will walk you through the Profiler and what it does along with some simple techniques for finding memory issues.

Prizes for the free raffle
2 Festival Tickets to FITC Amsterdam 2012 donated by FITC.

Hosted by iris and sponsored by FITC.

When/Where
Date: 26th January 2012 (26/01/2012)
Time: 19:00 – 22:00 (doors open at 18:30)
Venue: iris London, 185 Park Street, London, SE1 9DY
Tube: Blackfriars/London Bridge/Southwark

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