OC Flex

Topic:

The value of play and experimentation for designers and developers.

About Sean:

Sean Voisen is a teacher, programmer, designer and occasional philosopher who hails from San Diego, California. He has been engaged in an intimate love affair with the Flash platform for the past 11 years, but has been known to cheat on occasion with other technologies like Processing and Ruby. As an independent developer, Sean has had the good fortune to work with companies like Adobe, PayPal, Userplane/AOL, and Hallmark on projects built in AIR, Flex, Flash and Ruby on Rails. As an instructor at the Art Institute of California-San Diego, he has worked to share his hard-earned knowledge with the next generation of Flash designers and developers, and has learned a few new things along the way.

Summary

Topic: Play, Experimentation and Design: Thoughts for Programmers
Speaker: Sean Voisen
Date: Thursday August 7th
Time: 7pm
Location: FarHeap Solutions offices at
2601 Main St Suite 1200
Irvine, CA 92614

Pizza and refreshments provided by FarHeap Solutions.

This month we'll raffle a ticket for 360|Flex conference in San Jose.

Here are the presentation slides shown by Judah during our July meeting.

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Topic:

Custom components, states, transitions, and more

Spend a relaxing evening with Judah as he shares a few secrets on component development, states and transitions, states and transitions in components, trigger effects and the skinning features in Flex Builder 3. He will also be giving away 3 commercial components to the people who bring the most friends.

About Judah :

Judah Frangipane is a software engineer writing mostly in Flex and Flash. He is especially keen on UI design. He's worked in asp, jsp, php, .net, c#, java, vb, javascript, actionscript, flash, mxml, xml over the past 10 years (translation, hes had no life -ed.). He’s worked on creating Flash components and Flex components and applications. In addition he has been consulting for the last 3 years and teaching in between. He also sells Flex and Flash components at Drumbeat Insight.

Summary

Topic: Custom components, states, and transitions
Speaker: Judah Frangipane
Date: Wednesday July 2nd
Time: 7pm
Location: FarHeap Solutions offices at
2601 Main St Suite 1200
Irvine, CA 92614

Pizza and refreshments provided by FarHeap Solutions.

This month we'll raffle a ticket for 360|Flex conference in San Jose.

Topic:

SCUGE: Open Source Game Framework.

Iman Khabazian will discuss SCUGE, an open source game framework. SCUGE is a best practice based architecture for creating games.

About Iman:

Iman Khabazian is the Managing Director for IMAN IT, a web 2.0 incubator. In this role he has served as the Technical Director for Beanie Babies 2.0 virtual world. Prior to this he has managed developers, architected enterprise software, and written over 50 flash games for companies such as AOL and Dairy Queen. He is also the founder of the object oriented design forum and maintains the "May the source be with you" blog.

Summary

Topic: SCUGE: Open Source Game Framework
Speaker: Iman Khabazian
Date: June 5th
Time: 7pm
Location: FarHeap Solutions offices at
2601 Main St Suite 1200
Irvine, CA 92614

Pizza and refreshments provided by FarHeap Solutions.

We will have a big raffle this time, so come for a chance to win one piece of Adobe software of up to $2100 in value! You will also need to fill this survey to be included in the raffle, and be present to win. Please fill the survey before coming to the meeting, to make things quicker.

Wendi Turner is organizing a Flex Camp in Irvine. Having a Flex Camp so close to home is a great opportunity to get a full day worth of interesting talks either free or at a very low price (I am not sure what the plan for pricing will be). She is looking for volunteers to help out, so if you are interested, please contact her at: wenditurner <at> gmail <dot> com

There will be no meeting in May because we will not be in town. I'll be in Minneapolis presenting Mate, a new Flex Framework at cf.Objective() and later in the month in DC at WebManiacs. If there is interest, I can present it at the user group too.

See you in June!

Robert Cadena has provided the slides he showed in our last meeting. If you have any questions, please contact Robert at: robert [[at]] searchcoders [[dot]] com

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As a side note, we no longer manage the .com domain, so the information there is not up to date. Although it may look like the official website, it is only a mirror that contains spam links, so update your bookmarks!

Our next meeting will be Wednesday, April 9th. We will have Robert Cadena presenting about BlazeDS. Please note that this meeting is not scheduled in the normal "first Thursday of the month" to accomodate for the speaker's availability.

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Mansour Raad, the Senior Software Architect of ArcWebServices at ESRI, will speak at our next OC Flex meeting. This meeting is scheduled one week before our usual meeting date, but it will be a great presentation. In the words of Ben Forta, “[Mansour] is one of the most engaging and passionate presenters I have ever met.”

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