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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The Budding Alchemist (19:00 - 20:00) - Thomas Vian
Still in it’s early stages, Alchemy is the strangest and yet perhaps most exciting project to come from the Adobe labs in some time. In performing it’s magic, thousands of libraries of code have overnight become available to Flash developers.

This session gives an introduction to the world of Alchemy, how it works, how to set it up, and how to use it in your own projects

Hands-On with the Pixel Bender (20:15 - 21:15) - Michael Chase
This session will review how to create Pixel Bender effects using the Adobe’s PB toolkit and Lacquer’s visual effect editor Conduit. The focus being on importing and embedding these filters into Flex/AS3 projects using Flex Builder as well as exploring future applications of Pixel Bender technology.

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.

Papervision3D, Simplified (19:00 - 20:00) - Seb Lee-Delisle
Finally! Realtime 3D in Flash is taking off and there has never been more demand for 3D games, apps and websites. And naturally, with such a powerful library comes somewhat of a steep learning curve.

This session will cover how to create 3D objects in code, import them from other 3D apps and even make a simple game.

We Make. You Enjoy (20:15 - 21:15) - Carlos Ulloa
Dive deep into the third dimension with the creator of Papervision3D and discover the secrets behind his latest interactive 3D experience, HelloEnjoy.com.

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An Introduction to iPhone Application Development (19:00 - 20:00) - Masi Woermann
The iPhone with its quite impressive user base and ease of publishing applications through the AppStore is obviously appealing to developers, but the development environment and Objective-C can be quite daunting the first time you look at it. We will walk through the process of creating a simple application discussing concepts that should make it easy to experiment for the newcomer.

iPhone Development for Web Developers (20:15 - 21:15) - Matt Biddulph
The Cocoa/Objective C iPhone programming environment lacks a lot of the standard libraries and builtin functions that internet programmers are familiar with from scripting languages. This talk will demonstrate how to use build internet-oriented apps using free libraries that give you convenient access to HTTP requests, regular expressions, JSON and local databases.

Prizes for the free raffle
1 copy of Beginning iPhone Development donated by Apress.
1 copy of Learn Objective-C on the Mac donated by Apress.

Sponsored by Apress

When/Where
Date: 26th March 2009 (26/03/2009)
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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Meeting cancelled due to Flash Camp taking place on the same day.

haXe for Flash Developers - Lee McColl Sylvester

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Piss-up
Come and join us for some drinks before Xmas and the New Year!

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FDT: Pure Coding Comfort - Powerflasher (Michael Plank)

Part 1 - Intro (19:00 - 20:00)
- Introduction to FDT
- FDT in action

Part 2 - Workflows (20:15 - 21:15)
- Animate in the Flash, code in FDT
- Logging with SOS

Prizes for the free raffle
1 Enterprise version of FDT (€599.00) donated by Powerflasher.

Powerflasher will also be offering a £50 discount on FDT for all attendees.

Sponsored by Powerflasher.

When/Where
Date: 27th November 2008 (27/11/2008)
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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Bridging Technical, Interactive & Creative (19:00 - 20:00) - Yates Buckley
This session will address the bridge between technical, interactive and creative work. We’ll take a look at tools used internally at unit9 that never get to see the light of day, but are fundamental to our productions including prototypes and interactive tests used to communicate with creative, whilst maintaining maximum flexibility.

RoR for Flash (20:15 - 21:15) - Daniel Todd
This presentation will walk you through the creation of a REST-ful Rails application; read and writable through a Flash based front-end.

Prizes for the free raffle
1 copy of The Essential Guide to Flex 3 donated by friends of ED.
1 copy of The Essential Guide to Open Source Flash Development donated by friends of ED.

We’ll also have some RED5 key-ring/bottle openers to give away.

Sponsored by friends of Ed.

When/Where
Date: 30th October 2008 (30/10/2008)
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.