31st May 2012 (31/05/2012)

March 29th, 2012

Behind the magic of Lights (19:00 – 20:00) – Carlos Ulloa
Interactive studio HelloEnjoy created a mind-blowing 3D music video for Ellie Goulding’s song Lights. In this session, Creative Director Carlos Ulloa explains how the team chose WebGL and created various immersive graphic effects, walking the audience through the design and production process, sharing his thoughts about the work and showing behind the scenes demos and prototypes.

Away3D for the Accelerated Age (20:15 – 21:15) – Rob Bateman
The introduction of Accelerated 3D graphics in the Flash Player has created a great deal of potential for new Flash and AIR-based gaming platforms. As the Flash community solidifies around this and other new features, what are the likely tools and workflows that will enable the next generation of Flash games to harness this power? Rob Bateman, co-founder of the Away3D engine, talks about development options that offer both power and flexibility, without breaking the bank.

Prizes for the free raffle
TBC

Hosted by ITV and sponsored by Apress.

When/Where
Date: 31st May 2012 (31/05/2012)
Time: 19:00 – 22:00 (doors open at 18:30)
Venue: ITV, The London Studios, Upper Ground, London, SE1 9LT
Tube: Waterloo

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24th May 2012 (24/05/2012)

March 28th, 2012

HTML5 Apps in Java & Scala with the Play Framework (19:00 – 20:00) – James Ward
The way we build applications is rapidly changing. HTML5, Scala, non-blocking IO, real-time push, and the cloud are welcome advancements in the world of web apps. Play Framework makes using these technologies a pleasure. In this session you will learn how to build next generation applications with Play Framework and deploy those applications on the cloud.

Deploying Apps on the Cloud with Heroku (20:15 – 21:15) – James Ward
Heroku is a Polyglot Cloud Application Platform that makes it easy to deploy Java, Play Framework, Scala, Ruby, Python, and Node.js apps on the cloud. Deployment is as simple as doing a “git push”. This session will teach you how to deploy and scale your apps on Heroku.

Prizes for the free raffle
$300 of Heroku credit donated by Heroku.
Heroku T-Shirts donated by Heroku.

Sponsored by Heroku.

When/Where
Date: 24th May 2012 (24/05/2012)
Time: 19:00 – 22:00 (doors open at 18:30)
Venue: RGA, Level4, 42 St. John’s Square, London, EC1M 4EA
Tube: Farringdon/Barbican

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26th April 2012 (26/04/2012)

March 27th, 2012

Upping Your Game in 2012 (19:00 – 20:00) – Rowan Heasley
Rowan Heasley, MD of digital agency Naked Penguin Boy discusses all we have to do, with all we would like to do and how productive we really are.
What do we need to learn and apply to our lives to give us greater control over our destinies and better tools for staying in our jobs?

Real-World AIR for iOS Development (20:15 – 21:15) – Gavin Clark
This session will focus on what we learnt building an iPad app using AIR, what’s good and what’s annoying (performance issues, memory limitations etc.) with some tips to solve the problems.

Prizes for the free raffle
TBC

Hosted by Specialmoves and sponsored by APress.

When/Where
Date: 26th April 2012 (26/04/2012)
Time: 19:00 – 22:00 (doors open at 18:30)
Venue: Specialmoves, 120 Exmouth House, 3-11 Pine Street, London, EC1R 0JH
Tube: Farringdon

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29th March 2012 (29/03/2012)

March 13th, 2012

Closure for Flex Developers (19:00 – 20:00) – Johannes Nel
This simple introduction will cover the compiler, the type system and the component livecycle, the templating system and briefly touch css integration using the GSS compiler.

The Closure compiler being a javascript to javascript compiler has a well developed type system which allows static analysis of the code and detects errors early on through that. We will explore the type system, how it works, what you get from it and debugging it.

The Closure component livecycle part of the talk will cover rendering client side html as well as pre-rendering the html on the server, in this part both templates and css integration will be discussed.

Swiffy: Bringing the Flash Toolkit to Mobile (20:15 – 20:35) – Marcel Gordon
Flash has begun a gradual descent from being a universal platform, but its sophisticated development tools and widespread know-how are a long way from being replaced. Swiffy converts Flash content to HTML5, taking advantage of these two assets. I’ll talk about the reasons we think this is important, show how far we’ve come, and talk about what we’re contemplating for the future.

21st Century UI: A Proposal (20:50 – 21:50) – Hannes Stockner
Nowadays, we are constantly confronted with different frameworks in order to stay up-to-date. The progression is fast and we can not rely on secured knowledge.

Each and every framwork tries to solve a specific infrastructure based problem.
But in the end this only leads to even more infrastructure and new complexity.
While the expiry date of such a framework is one year we are distracted from our real tasks.

Our task lies within the creation of human centered interfaces. User interfaces that create confidence in the application and therefore improves the quality of life of our customers.

I want to contribute a first solution to this problem and share it with you in this session. If we can create an architecture in which each layer only does what it is responsible for we might be able to unravel the dilemma, with Google Closure playing a significant role on the front end.

Based on a real project I will show you how Google Closure in combination with
Command Query Responsibility Segregation and a fine new UX paradigm will lead to desirable results.

Prizes for the free raffle
The Definitive Guide to HTML5 Video donated by Apress.
Sencha T-Shirts donated by Sencha.

Hosted by Google and sponsored by Apress.

When/Where
Date: 29th March 2012 (29/03/2012)
Time: 19:00 – 22:00 (doors open at 18:30)
Venue: Google, Belgrave House, 76 Buckingham Palace Road, London, SW1W 9TQ
Tube: Victoria

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1st March 2012 (01/03/2012)

February 7th, 2012

Hello Sencha: HTML5 Applications (19:00 – 20:00) – Ted Patrick
Ted Patrick will walk you through Sencha’s frameworks for building mobile and desktop applications using web technologies including HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS. We will cover the framework’s foundation (OOP+MVC), standard libraries, containers, components, xtype rendering, and most importantly cross-browser support. Bring an open mind and a laptop, we will be building applications from scratch; feel free to follow along. Sencha provides frameworks, tools, and services for building professional applications with HTML5.

Prizes for the free raffle
Sencha T-Shirts donated by Sencha.

Hosted by RGA and sponsored by Sencha.

When/Where
Date: 1st March 2012 (01/03/2012)
Time: 19:00 – 22:00 (doors open at 18:30)
Venue: RGA, Level4, 42 St. John’s Square, London, EC1M 4EA
Tube: Farringdon/Barbican

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23rd February 2012 (23/02/2012)

January 5th, 2012

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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26th January 2012 (26/01/2012)

December 15th, 2011

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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15th December 2011 (15/12/2011)

November 9th, 2011

Piss-up
Come and join us for some xmas drinks and smokes in the ditch.

Prizes for the free raffle
Learn C on the Mac donated by Apress.
AdvancED Flash on Devices Mobile Development with Flash Lite and Flash 10 donated by Apress.

Sponsored by Apress.

When/Where
Date: 15th December 2011 (15/12/2011)
Time: 19:00 – ??:??
Venue: Strongroom Bar & Restaurant, 120-124 Curtain Road, Shoreditch, London, EC2A 3SQ
Tube: Old Street/Shoreditch High Street

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24th November 2011 (24/11/2011)

October 6th, 2011

Cloud Computing – An Introduction to Amazon Web Services (19:00 – 20:00) – Shaun Pearce
Individuals and companies of all sizes are starting to realise the power and flexibility of public clouds to quickly and easily stand up back-end infrastructure to support their products and services. Public cloud products such as Amazon Web Services have completely changed the way we look at backend infrastructure, AWS treats computing power as a “utility”, in other words paying for and using their servers should be no different from the way we consume other utilities such as gas or electricity.

So what does this all mean? Most importantly, it enables individual developers and small startups to have access to the scalable, robust and cost effective computing power previously only available to large multinational organisations, and with that brings a lot of opportunities.

This session will introduce the Amazon Web Services product suite and discuss how each of the components can be combined to create a robust, scalable and cost effective backend solution. I will also talk about how designing cloud based solutions requires a significant paradigm shift when compared to a traditional physical hosting setup. Finally, I’ll also draw on some of my experiences delivering a new AWS based solution on my current project pointing out both architecture best practice as well as some of the obvious pitfalls that have tripped us up alone the way!

Animating HTML5 (20:15 – 21:15) – Liam Flynn
Much discussion has occurred about capabilities of the <canvas> element within HTML5. However, it is not the only way that animation can be achieved using this standard. This session aims to investigate HTML5 in one of the main areas it encroaches upon the functionality of the Flash platform. It will introduce a range of graphical options, compare them and give some examples of their use. The entire session will be given from the perspective of a Flash developer new to web standards scripting.

Prizes for the free raffle
The Essential Guide to HTML5 –
Using Games to learn HTML5 and JavaScript
donated by Apress.

Hosted by Tag and sponsored by Apress.

When/Where
Date: 24th November 2011 (24/11/2011)
Time: 19:00 – 22:00 (doors open at 18:30)
Venue: Tag, 29 Clerkenwell Road, London EC1M 5TA
Tube: Farringdon/Barbican

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27th October 2011 (27/10/2011)

September 5th, 2011

Wired Up (19:00 – 20:00) – Tom Underhill
It’s happened again! You’re piecing together yet another User Interface from an eps or psd with questions building over what does what, how, when and where? Does a button have multiple states, what action does it invoke? As the frustration rises, projects stall, budgets hike and the pressure of deadlines gets ever tighter.

Invariably most or all of these points will have been weighed and resolved in the mind of the designer down to the last pixel. But workflows and budgets don’t always allow this vision to be appropriately articulated to development teams. Are these ideally designers’ decisions anyway?

So how do we fix it? Do designers learn to code or do developers learn to design? There’s room for both – but this can clearly only move the discussion so far. Specialisms are specialisms for good reason. What we need is a positive and progressive structure enabling two way collaboration and iteration between all facets of the project’s delivery team from outset to completion.

This session will explore collaborative wireframing, tools, techniques and workflows tried and tested on projects small to large.

By opening up communication channels we really can move closer to the efficient and cost effective utopia where optimum delivery of brand, function, usability and a decent night’s sleep coexist!

Git – Fast Version Control (20:15 – 21:15) – Shaun Smith
Git is a free & open source, distributed version control system.

Every Git clone is a full-fledged repository with complete history and full revision tracking capabilities, not dependent on network access or a central server. Branching and merging are fast and easy to do.

This session is a basic introduction to Git. We’ll look at what it is, why you’d use it and how to get started.

Prizes for the free raffle
Foundation Flash Catalyst donated by Apress.

Hosted by M&C Saatchi and sponsored by Apress.

When/Where
Date: 27th October 2011 (27/10/2011)
Time: 19:00 – 22:00 (doors open at 18:30)
Venue: M&C Saatchi, 36 Golden Square, Soho, London, W1F 9EE
Tube: Oxford Circus/Piccadilly Circus

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