From Flash to Unity (and back) (19:00 – 20:00) – Bartek Drozdz
Unity is a new technology that is taking the web and mobile by storm. Along with Flash engines such as Papervision and Away3D it announces a shift in general web desing, where 3D is used not only for games but for any kind of applications: social, advertisement, education, you name it.

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Efficient Programming Practices (19:00 – 20:00) – Mathieu Gosselin
In an ideal world without any deadlines, hot-blooded project managers and no picky stubborn designers we would all follow best practices and write clean re-useable code. Unfortunately we don’t live in an ideal world and as developers we often have the constraints of having limited time while we still need to provide a decent outcome.

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Flash 3D Workflow (19:00 – 20:00) – Dennis Ippel
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.

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Piss-up
Come and join us to honor the age old tradition of eating Chinese and drinking many beers for Xmas and the New Year!

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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

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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

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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.

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FlexUnit 4 and Hudson (19:00 – 20:00) – Conrad Winchester
Developing Flash and Flex applications in what approaches the strictest TDD (Test Driven Development) manner, produces stable products with very few bugs. This session will share some of the procedures and techniques involved, in particular, how the new FlexUnit 4 framework can be used to test not just pure ActionScript, but Flex components going through the component lifecycle, and the setup of Hudson, a continuous integration environment, in order to automate the testing.

Flash 10, Making Music (20:15 – 21:15) – Keita Kuroki
Adobe has release some exciting and great new features in Flash Player 10, one of them being the ability to generate dynamic sound.

The Sound class is simple yet some developers find it confusing when trying to create the perfect sound wave and make it musical. This can be overcome by learning about sound physics, making developing with the sound class enjoyable.

Prizes for the free raffle
1 full conference pass to Flash on the Beach donated by Flash on the Beach.

Sponsored by Flash on the Beach

When/Where
Date: 27th August 2009 (27/08/2009)
Time: 19:00 – 23:00 (doors open at 18:30)
Venue: CosmoBar, 50-54 Clerkenwell Road, EC1M 5PS (click for map)
Tube: Barbican/Farringdon

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UML for AS3 (19:00 – 20:00) – Matthew Press
UML can be a powerful tool to help plan a project before you begin coding. But often developers see the time it takes as better spent on producing code.

Drawing on real-world experiences this session will demonstrate the existing tools (both commercial and open source) enabling you to integrate UML into your workflow. We’ll look at generating skeleton code from UML and generating UML diagrams from completed projects. Understand what you just wrote! And convince your clients it’s what you meant to do all along.

Mate Framework: The Pleasures & Pains (20:15 – 21:15) – Gilles Guillemin
Mate Framework is often touted as an easy to use, yet powerful MVC Framework. It is quite true, particularly when compared with other well-known Flex frameworks like Cairngorm or PureMVC. Still, simplicity doesn’t go without rules and Mate’s relative youth, along with its also relative lightness on the subject of documentation and up-to-date examples doesn’t always make the laborious programmer’s life as easy as advertised. So, for those who want to enjoy the delights of declarative tag-based MVC frameworks, the illumination of dependency injection, and possibly improve their social life by spending less time pulling their hair on Mate’s trickinesses (at least the ones I’ve experienced so far), well, this presentation might be for you then!

Prizes for the free raffle
1 full conference pass to Flash on the Beach donated by Flash on the Beach.
2 current issues (printed) of the bimonthly Flash & Flex Developers Magazine donated by ffdmag.com

Sponsored by Flash on the Beach

When/Where
Date: 30th July 2009 (30/07/2009)
Time: 19:00 – 23:00 (doors open at 18:30)
Venue: CosmoBar, 50-54 Clerkenwell Road, EC1M 5PS (click for map)
Tube: Barbican/Farringdon

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Away3D and the Future of 3D in Flash (19:00 – 20:00) – Rob Bateman
Hear about the latest developments in Away3D from the lead developer and co-founder, including the most recent Flash 10 optimisations that take full advantage of the new features in the player. Rob showcases some of the interesting collaborations happening within the 3D Flash community, as well as some examples of practical use of Away3D in the wild. As a finale, there will be some sneaks of work in progress from inside the Away3D production team archives.

Constructive content in Away3D (20:15 – 21:15) – Jens C. Brynildsen
3D on the web is often just eye candy or fancy navigation. Powerful APIs like Away3D now allow you to create solid applications that really use that third dimension for something useful. Jens will show and deconstruct his pet project – a Skate Ramp Generator and maybe some more apps if time allows. Having spent a lot of his commercial and spare time on building Away3D applications and writing about it (http://www.flashmagazine.com/Tutorials/category/away3d/), this session is a good opportunity to ask those “how-to” and “can-it-be-done” questions about 3D in Flash.

Prizes for the free raffle
1 copy of Beginning iPhone Development donated by Apress.
1 copy of Foundation ActionScript 3.0 with Flash CS3 and Flex donated by friends of ED.
2 current issues (printed) of the bimonthly Flash & Flex Developers Magazine donated by ffdmag.com

Sponsored by friends of ED

When/Where
Date: 25th June 2009 (25/06/2009)
Time: 19:00 – 23:00 (doors open at 18:30)
Venue: CosmoBar, 50-54 Clerkenwell Road, EC1M 5PS (click for map)
Tube: Barbican/Farringdon

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