Afternoon All

Trust everyone enjoyed the holidays and are glad to be back at work ;). Here's your LFPUG spam for the month.

LFPUG on Tour
For our first meeting of 2012 we will be hosted by iris (thanks to Paras Sheth).

Monthly Meetings
First up, Stuart Mitchell with 'Agile from the Trenches' and following him Steve Buckley with a session on 'Profiling'. As usual, full details below.

For security reasons you need to register and sign-up if you wish to attend. You can sign-up in the sidebar on the right of the front page or at the bottom of the post here. You will need to confirm your username and email address when you enter the venue.

Next month we will have Rowan Heasley will a session titled 'Level Up' and following him will be Laurent Arhuro with a session on 'Flash Cartoon & Animation'.

Competition
On the 31th of December, 2011, the Apache Software Foundation has accepted the Flex SDK into incubation. Apache Flex is now a community project managed by Apache (ASF). The migration from Adobe to Apache involves a re-branding and you can contribute by proposing the new Apache Flex logo. See the logo contest's rules and details here.

Events
FITC Amsterdam 2012

26th January 2012 (26/01/2012)

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

For security reasons you need to register and sign-up if you wish to attend. You can sign-up in the sidebar on the right of the front page or at the bottom of the post here. You will need to confirm your username and email address when you enter the venue.

23rd February 2012 (23/02/2012)

Level Up (19:00 – 20:00) - Rowan Heasley
Upping your game in 2012.
Why we should be aiming higher in everything we do.

Flash Cartoon & Animation (20:15 - 21:15) - Laurent Arhuro
Laurent will talk about Flash as an animation tool, will demonstrate some Flash animation techniques such as cartoon character design and rotoscoping and will show some of his personal and commercial work as an animator and music video director.

Prizes for the free raffle
Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography donated by WCRS.
Foundation Flash Catalyst donated by Apress.
Flash Builder and Flash Catalyst donated by Apress.

Hosted by WCRS and sponsored by Apress.

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

Sign-up will open late January.

FITC Amsterdam 2012

FITC Amsterdam has played host to a program focused on design, technology and cool shit for the last four years, and 2012 is no exception. Featuring the best and brightest in the digital space, FITC Amsterdam showcases work which is shaping the future of the digital interactive industry. FITC Amsterdam has a history of selling out and 2012 is on track to as well. The combination of unbelievable international presenters, incredible networking opportunities and the infamous FITC parties, all with the amazing backdrop of the city of Amsterdam, creates a stage for the unexpected. Register early to reserve your spot!

LFPUG Member Discount
The good people at FITC have also gave us a 10% discount code LFPUG.

FITC Amsterdam 2012

See you in a couple of weeks.

Tink on behalf on LFPUG

http://www.lfpug.com

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