ActionScript 3 Game Development: From Timeline to Good Design with Mike Welsh of Newgrounds.com
Speaker Bio:
Mike Welsh is an ActionScript developer currently working for
Newgrounds.com, the web's original Flash portal. Mike contributed to
Castle Crashers, the best-selling XBox Live Arcade game. Always exploring new technologies, he most
recently ported Doom to Flash using
Adobe Alchemy. An interview Mike did with Peter Elst on this project is available on Peters Blog: h
http://www.peterelst.com/blog/2008/12/18/porting-doom-to-flash-interview-with-mike-welsh/
Meeting Topic:
ActionScript 3.0 Game Development: From Timeline to Good Design
Are your games riddled with ugly timeline code? In this talk aimed at beginner to intermediate developers, you will learn the secrets to game development in ActionScript 3. We will discuss the principles object-oriented programming and how they can apply to games. Discover workarounds to specific AS3 gotchas using many practical examples.
Date/Time:
June 17, 2009 from 6:30pm - 9:30pm
Location:
Independents Hall (Classic Location)
32 South Strawberry Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106
Directions via Google Maps
RSVP
Please RSVP for this event here or if you are a member of our
groups.adobe.com area, you may
also RSVP here.
There will be light refreshments, snacks, sodas - and special thanks to all our good friends at
Independents Hall for hosting the event!
Posted: 06.09.2009 - 08:29am
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Flash Platform Special Event: Flex and ColdFusion NEXT - June 24th
Meeting Topic:
We've got several cool meetings lined up over the next few weeks. Please join us in welcoming
Adam Lehman Product Evangelist and ColdFusion Product Manager at Adobe as part of the
official 2009 Adobe Flex/Flash Catalyst and ColdFusion 9/Bolt tour!
Adam will be discussing and demonstrating Flash Builder 4 (formerly Flex Builder), Flash Catalyst, and the next version of ColdFusion as well as the new IDE for ColdFusion code named Bolt. See and learn how the new Flex framework powers both Flash Catalyst and Flash Builder to speed the development and testing of rich Internet applications and content.
Visit
http://labs.adobe.com/ to download public betas of
Flash Builder 4 and
Flash Catalyst to begin playing, and come prepared with questions!
UPDATE: We just got some very cool t-shirts from Adobe to give away during the event - hope to have some other nice giveaways as well. :)
Date/Time:
June 24, 2009 from 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Location:
Philadelphia University - Tuttleman Center Auditorium - There will be light refreshments, snacks, sodas, water available prior to the meeting in room 109 next to the auditorium. Thanks to Philadelphia University for the gracious hosting and refreshments.
Philadelphia University
4201 Henry Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19144-5497
Directions:
School House Lane and Henry Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19144-5497
Tel: 215.951.2700
For directions/location info visit:
http://www.philau.edu/directions/
An interactive map of the campus highlighting the Tuttleman Auditorium can be found here:
http://www.philau.edu/UniMap/index.htm
RSVP
Please RSVP for this event. You may
RSVP here or if you are a member of our
groups.adobe.com site, you may
RSVP here on the calendar event page.
Posted: 06.09.2009 - 08:05am
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Course Offerings From Philadelphia University On Flex For Designers
I wanted to point out some cool new courses/classes from
Philadelphia University - read on for more info:
Philadelphia University and Digital Design Masters Program
Would like to invite non degree majors who are interested in furthering their knowledge and skills in Digital Design to come and take summer classes this Summer 1 - Six-week (SM1). Classes are listed below.
For more information and times please call 215-951-2872 or Email:
finchs@PhilaU.edu
To register for classes please call 215.951.2943 or Email:
GradAdms@PhilaU.edu
Classes begin Monday, 5/19 and run for Six-weeks
Class: An exploration of Ajax and modern JavaScript Frameworks
The class will cover creating html and JavaScript applications using ajax, as well as modern JavaScript frameworks such as JQuery, Prototype, and script.aculo.us. Topics covered will range from cross browser DOM manipulation to asynchronous loading of server-side data, to Object Oriented Programming with JavaScript.
Class: Flex for Designers
Purpose:
This course is designed to provide students with a theoretical and practical understanding of MXML/AS3 Object-Oriented design principles. Students will obtain the perquisite skill-set necessary to design and produce interactive experiences utilizing core Adobe Flash platform technologies.
Course Description:
Flex & ActionScript 3.0 for Designers is for beginning MXML/AS3 designers and developers. The Flex framework and AS3 language will be covered from an object oriented design perspective with an emphasis on visual design and experimentation. Students will be introduced to MXML and AS3 programming language through lectures, demonstrations, practical exercises and a comprehensive final project. The focus will be on writing, testing and de-bugging the code which will ultimately be deployed via the Adobe Flash Player. An increasingly complex series of exercises will gradually build the students knowledge and understanding of the MXML framework and AS3 programming language and syntax.
Posted: 04.21.2009 - 08:32am
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New Nearby Group - Susquehanna Valley Flash User Group and First Meeting
On January 27th @6:15pm the first
Susquehanna Valley FUG meeting will be taking place. On behalf of Jason Epperson the groups manager, I wanted to invite those of you who might be our nearby neighbors out in Western PA, but who just can never seem to make it to Philly, if you are in the York/Lancaster area, then this is a great new resource for you. Or even for those of you here in the Philly area, who just can't get enough Flash, and or want to take a short road trip out and enjoy the scenery - then this group is for you.
About the groups focus:
Adobe ActionScript products; primarily Flex, Flash and AIR, in the Susquehanna Valley area (Lancaster and York counties)
More info is available here:
http://groups.adobe.com/groups/f8d9c4add8/summary
Questions and contact info: Please contact Jason at jepperson at nxtbookmedia.com or call 717.735.9759.
The SVFUG's first meeting will be as follows:
Date and Time: January 27, 2009 from 6:15pm - 7:30pm EST
Location:
480 New Holland Avenue
Building 9
Lancaster, PA 17602
google map
Call-in Details: 717.735.9759
Agenda:
Inaugural Meeting:
Introductions: What we are? Why we are? What we intend to cover (what you'd like to see covered)? This will be our first meeting. We'll discuss what works best for all attendees. With all of our busy schedules it will be impossible for us to find a perfect date and time for everyone. But we're open to feedback, and we're looking forward to hearing from you.
[FOOD & BEVERAGE]
MAX: A number of our members recently attended Adobe MAX 2008 in San Francisco. We'll share what we saw and what we learned with the rest of the group. If you attended MAX this year, please let us know - we'd love to hear what you learned as well.
[OPTIONAL - if time allows]
Flex Builder: "Tips'n'Tricks", Jason (SVFUG Co-Chair) will review some tips and tricks that can help you be more productive in your coding with Flex Builder. Expect others to chime in as well...
So welcome to the community Jason Epperson and all new potential SVFUG members!
Posted: 01.13.2009 - 08:21am
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Flex Fundamentals
Our local sister group,
The Philadelphia Flex User Group is kicking off 2009 with the first of what may turn into a series of meeting that will focus on the basics and fundamentals of working with Flex. If you are coming from the Flash world, and just havent wrapped your head around Flex yet, or coming from an entirely different background, this might be one of the better meetings to attend. More details below:
Location: Wharton at UPenn, Room G60.
Date: Thursday, January 15th, 2009
Time: 7-11 PM
Prizes: Books, Shirts, etc
I don't even think this info has gone up yet on the Flex User Group site, as it came together over the holidays on the mailing list for the group - which you can sign up for here:
http://groups.google.com/group/phflex?hl=en
Also, don't forget our Flash focused mailing list available here:
http://lists.pfpaug.org/mailman/listinfo/pfpaug
Our next official meeting, is going to be near the end of the month, and will be a roundtable style event, which will focus on a recap of 2008, info from Adobe MAX 2008, and plans for 2009. More info to be posted later this week.
Posted: 01.13.2009 - 08:05am
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Resources for working with Flex, Flash, AMFPHP, Zend and BlazeDS
Joey Lott is speaking tonight at our meeting on the topic of AIR/Flash and Flex and it should be great. We will also have members of the local
Philly PHP Meetup Group joining us. Why you ask? Well there are a lot of cool things you can do by combining Flex/Flash/PHP. Originally there was a PHP Meetup sheduled for tonight as well that Christophe Coenraets of Adobe was going to speak on the topic of Flex/PHP and the recent announcements about integration of AMFPHP with the Zend Framework and other goodies resulting from Adobe and Zend working together. However that event got cancelled when Adobe heard that Joey was going to be in town on the same night, despite us trying to make it a joint event it just didn't work out for one reason or another.
So, what I wanted to provide for those of you from the PHP Meetup group (and our regular members) who were really interested in hearing what Christophe had to say on this topic, is a series of links to some great resources on that topic. Joey may even discuss some of this in his preso tonight - but I wanted to get these up for everyones benefit.
I want to get the links up as quick as I can as I am getting ready to run out to head down to the meeting, so I'll probably update this post with more details later tonight after the meeting - but here are some raw links to a number of related resources including some great videos and tutorials from Lee Brimelow of Adobe and GotoAndLearn fame.
Flash and AMFPHP 2 part tutorial:
http://www.gotoandlearn.com/play?id=78
http://www.gotoandlearn.com/play?id=79
BlazeDS for remoting:
http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/blazeds/BlazeDS/
Lee Brimelow Overview of ZendAMF:
http://theflashblog.com/?p=441
Other PHP Related posts by Lee Brimelow:
http://theflashblog.com/?cat=22
AMFPHP Related resources:
http://www.amfphp.org/resources.html
The Zend Framework:
http://framework.zend.com/
Working with Flex and PHP in Eclipse:
h
ttp://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/articles/flex_php.html?devcon=f1
Zend, Google Maps, AS3 and BlazeDS:
http://coenraets.org/blog/2008/05/google-maps-collaboration-using-googles-new-actionscript-api-and-blazeds/
Video of Lee Brimleow Integrating Flex and PHP
http://theflashblog.com/?p=437
An overview of the Flex/BlazeDS Stack:
http://sebastien-arbogast.com/2008/07/22/the-fle
pring-and-blazeds-full-stack-on-adobe-developer-connection/
http://www.gotoandlearnforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=19638
Wade Arnold - Zend AMF Overview:
http://framework.zend.com/wiki/display/ZFPROP/Zend_Amf - Wade Arnold
http://devzone.zend.com/article/1371-AMFPHP-Now-Supports-Adobe-Flex
More to come soon!
Posted: 10.22.2008 - 12:43pm
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Joey Lott Speaking on AIR/Flex/Flash at Next Meeting - October 22nd, 2008
The next meeting
Philadelphia Flex User group meeting should be quite appealing to Flash developers and members of the Flash Platform group.
The renowned and prodigious author Joey Lott will be coming to Philadelphia to share his wealth of knowledge on Flex and AIR.
Please
RSVP if you are planning to attend.
Meeting Topic:
Introduction to Adobe AIR For Flex (And Flash) Developers
Date:
The meeting will take place on 10.22.08 - October 22nd
Time:
7pm
Location:
Philadelphia University - Tuttleman Auditorium - There will be light refreshments, snacks, sodas, water available prior to the meeting in room 109 next to the auditorium. Thanks to Philadelphia University for the gracious hosting and refreshments.
Directions:
School House Lane and Henry Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19144-5497
Tel: 215.951.2700
For directions/location info visit:
http://www.philau.edu/directions/
An interactive map of the campus highlighting the Tuttleman Auditorium can be found here:
http://www.philau.edu/UniMap/index.htm
Transportation from Center City
Also our good friend
Tony Profeta of PDA Media will be arranging a get together in the city for a joint SEPTA field trip meetup at 5:30-6pmin front of the Clothespin (15th and Market) building to help our center city dwellers without cars, etc. to be able to participate and attend the meeting. Its a short bus ride from center city to the location, so no excuses for not coming out. :)
Topic Details:
Want to know how to use your existing Flex and/or Flash skills to build applications for the desktop using Adobe AIR? In this presentation we'll look at what AIR is and is not, and we'll look at the key features of AIR. We'll go beyond the standard marketing presentation for AIR and instead focus on what is possible using AIR and what it takes to get up and running using AIR.
About the Speaker:
Joey Lott is the author or co-author of "Flash 8 Cookbook", "Programming Flash Communication Server", and "ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook" (all O'Reilly titles). Joey has worked in the Internet industry since 1996 including co-founding RightSpring, Inc. and consulting for YourMobile/Premium Wireless Services (J2EE B2C application) and Ads.com (leading the development of a J2EE B2B application). He has been teaching Flash and ActionScript since 1999.
Books by Joey:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_1?_encoding=UTF8&search-type=ss&index=books&field-author=Joey Lott
Posted: 09.29.2008 - 5:48pm
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Reminder - Next Meeting September 25th - Its Going to be Brilliant -
Mark this one on your calendar! Our next meeting will be a joint meeting with the
Philadelphia Flex User Group, and the
Philadelphia ColdFusion User Group:
It’s Going To Be Brilliant!
Be one of the first to see the
next big thing from Adobe (Adobe Creative Suite 4) on September 25th, 2008. Join in to see and hear first hand how something very special will help you get to brilliant faster. Save the date and get a good look at what’s to come.
Also - as a fun experiment, got something cool you've built recently in Flash, Flex or AIR? Let us know, and well set aside 5-10 minutes per person (depending on the # of respondents) to demo your app and answer questions, the best app/demo wins a bonus prize.
Date: Thursday, September 25th
Time: 7pm-9pm
Location: Philadelphia University, Main Campus, Kanbar Campus Center Performance Space
School House Lane and Henry Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19144-5497
Tel: 215.951.2700
For directions/location info visit:
http://www.philau.edu/directions/
An interactive map of the campus highlighting the Kanbar Campus Center can be found here:
http://www.philau.edu/UniMap/index.htm
Posted: 09.22.2008 - 10:56am
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Full-time Flash Developer Wanted at I-SITE in Old City Section of Philadelphia
I have yet another local position for a full-time Flash developer that my friends at
I-SITE a great firm in the Old City section of Philly are looking to fill. Read the rest of the entry for details and contact information. They also have a need for a contract based PHP developer, details following the Flash position.
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Posted: 09.04.2008 - 09:14am
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