AGENDA

19:00 Doors opening

19:15 News and Updates

19:30 Techtalk: “Flash and the Quest for Accessibility” (de/en) - Sandro Ducceschi (Liip AG)

Beschreibung: Sandro hatte die Möglichkeit, für das Postfinance EventManager Flash Spiel, Accessibility im grossem Stil zu implementieren. In diesem Talk erklärt er uns was es bedeutet Accessibility in einer Flash/Flex Applikation einzubauen, was es für Hürden gibt und wie man Accessibility meistert.

This session will be in German or English depending on the audience.

20:15 Break

20:30 “WM und Grill“ - grillieren im Garten der Publicis mit Bier und WM-Übertragung

21:15 Networking and Socializing

LOCATION

Publicis Werbeagentur AG
Stadelhoferstrasse 25
CH-8024 Zürich

It’s a free event. No registration necessary. Just come by and join us!

AGENDA

19:00 Doors opening

19:15 News and Updates

19:30 Techtalk: “AS3 Performace Tweaks (revisited)” (de/en) - Sandro Ducceschi (Liip AG)

Last time, Sandro couldn’t make it to the meeting, so we’re having a second try on his talk

Even though performance in AS3 is supposed to be up to 100 times faster than in AS2 it has remained an issue - especially when developing Flex applications that provide quite a bunch of performance devouring concepts.

In his talk, Sandro will tackle every day performance issues with AS3 and reveal best practices on how to get a grip of memory consumption and CPU cycles.

This session will be in German or English depending on the audience.

20:15 Break

20:30 Showcase: ”Megaphone” (de) - Tiago Dias and Marcel Vogt (Publicis AG)

Megaphone is a phone call controlled, real-time, multi-player gaming platform for big screens in public spaces.

Tiago and Marcel will present its features in detail and show two demo games: a quiz and a multi player version of the arcade classic “Snake”.

This session will be in German.

21:15 Networking and Socializing

LOCATION

Publicis Werbeagentur AG
Stadelhoferstrasse 25
CH-8024 Zürich

It’s a free event. No registration necessary. Just come by and join us!

AGENDA

19:00 Doors opening

19:15 News and Updates

19:30 “RESTfulX - Flex on Rails “ - a talk by Rafael Beck (19m2.ch)

RESTfulX, as created by Diama Berastau, is a framework that brings the design principles and productivity of Rails to Adobe Flex and AIR development and makes integration with RESTful Web Services as simple as possible. Depending on your project and the services needed, using RESTfulX can save you lots of time.

In his talk, Rafael will present basic examples on how to get started with RESTfulX and will reflect on his experiences with this framework.

This session will be in German.

20:15 Break

20:30 “AS3 Performace Tweaks“ - a talk by Sandro Ducceschi (Liip AG)

Even though performance in AS3 is supposed to be up to 100 times faster than in AS2 it has remained an issue - especially when developing Flex applications that provide quite a bunch of performance devouring concepts.

In his talk, Sandro will tackle every day performance issues with AS3 and reveal best practices on how to get a grip of memory consumption and CPU cycles.

This session will be in German or English depending on the audience.

21:15 Networking and Socializing

LOCATION

Liip AG
Feldstrasse 133
CH-8004 Zürich

It’s a free event. No registration necessary. Just come by and join us!

AGENDA

19:00 Doors opening

19:15 “as3Signals - A New Event System“ - a showcase by Michael Heimann (indieas.org)

as3signals is a rather new project started by Robert Penner also known as the creator of the tweening classes. He presented an alternative approach to the default AS3 event system, inspired by C# events and signals/slots in Qt.

The talk will cover the basic usage of this interesting new event framework. But it also tries to point out pros and cons considering the usage in existing projects, the handling of native events or the performance.

This session will be in German or English depending on the audience.

19:45 Break (Code Battle Preparations)

20:00 Code Battle: “Script Action Challenge” - everyone!

For the first time we are going to have a Flash code battle at a SFUG meeting and we would like to invite all of you to participate, so make sure to bring your own notebooks!

But what is it going to be about?

The idea behind this is to find and discuss various solution approaches to a given problem aka the “Script Action Challenge“ so we all can learn and improve our coding skills - and of course there is a prize waiting for the best/most effective/most innovative approach.

So, how will this thing be rolled out? Here are the rules:

1. A problem aka the “Script Action Challenge“ will be presented to all participants at the beginning of the Code Battle.

2. The contestants have one hour to develop a solution approach for the given problem.

3. Any tool may be used.

4. Any library may be used.

Got it? So, pack in your notebooks, sharpen your wits and pick up the “Script Action Challenge” here at the 32nd user group meeting. Looking forward to having all of you!

21:00 Code Battle Results - Solution Discussion and Award

LOCATION

Publicis Werbeagentur AG
Stadelhoferstrasse 25
CH-8024 Zürich

It’s a free event. No registration necessary. Just come by and join us!

AGENDA

19:00 Doors opening

19:15 News and updates

19:30 “Schweizr.ch - a piece of Swiss history” - a showcase by Michel Wacker (Liip AG)

Schweizr.ch is a Flash based oral history plattform of Switzerland. Anyone can register to write or record stories and post them to a geo location in Switzerland so they appear on the map and create a vivid mosaique representing the diversity of the stories Switzerland has to share.

Schweizr is the first project Liip decided to fully implement in Flex. It uses Google Maps, tons of custom components, Flex specific features and even an iPhone App. In his talk Michel will discuss these features among the many lessons learned in the process of creating this project.

This session will be in English.

20:00 Break

20:15 “Sourcemate - Flash Builder’s new sidekick” - a tool presentation by Weyert de Boer (nothing from outer space)

Sourcemate is a new third party plugin designed for Flash Builder 4 that’s supposed to simplify and support anything a developer has to deal with in the battle of creating applications - well, except for getting coffee maybe.

In his talk, Weyert will take a close look at the potential the current beta of sourcemate has to offer and will show us, whether Element River rightly refer to their baby as “the new must-have companion tool for serious Flash Builder developers”.

This session will be in english.

20:45 Socializing and networking

LOCATION

Liip AG
Feldstrasse 133
CH-8004 Zürich

It’s a free event. No registration necessary. Just come by and join us!

19:00 Doors opening

19:15 News and updates

19:30 “First Steps with Pixel Bender“ - a talk by Tiago Dias (Publicis Werbeagentur AG)

If you were lucky enough to attended James Ward’s mind blowing session about “Number crunching with Pixel Bender” at Flash at the Lake 2009, you should have an idea what Pixel Bender is all about. In case you didn’t have a chance to work with this amazing tool, yet, make sure not to miss Tiago’s session, since he’ll show us how to get close and comfortable with Pixel Bender. Don’t worry, he’ll be gentle and leave out the rough stuff: Simple examples and common pitfalls will help you get your feet off the ground so you can start adventuring yourselves.

This session will be in English.

20:15 Break

20:30 “Interactive Spaces with Adobe AIR and Bluetooth” - a showcase by Andreas Lorenz (dctrl - interactive media GmbH)

Ever wanted to use a mobile phone as a remote control of an AIR Application within Interacitve Spaces? Here’s your chance to learn how: In his presentation, Andreas will reveal the prototype of a case study for a commercial AIR application that provides location based services based on Bluetooth, WIFI and RFID. The final application is scheduled for spring 2010.

This session will be in German.

21:15 Socializing and networking

LOCATION

Publicis Werbeagentur AG
Stadelhoferstrasse 25
CH-8024 Zürich

No entry fees. Just come by and join us!

Speaker:
Sandro Ducceschi     / Liip AG

http://groups.adobe.com/posts/3f39ba1cf0

1. Showcase: “Postfinance Eventmanager” - Sandro Ducceschi (Liip AG)

“Eventmanager” ist ein aufwändig produziertes, Adobe Flash basiertes Spiel im Auftrag der Postfinance, dass den Benutzer in die Rolle eines Eventmanagers bzw. einer Eventmanagerin schlüpfen lässt: Innert 200 Spieltagen müssen für einen fiktiven Event ein Gelände geplant und bebaut, Sponsoren platziert und Künstler rekrutiert werden - und all das unter strenger Einhaltung des Budgets.
Eingebettet ist das Spiel eine FluxCMS basierte Community Seite und eine Reihe vonMoodle und Flash basierten E-Lessons, die den verantwortungsvollen Umgang mit Geld vermitteln.

2. Review: “Adobe MAX 2009″ - Tiago Dias (Publicis AG) und Marcel Vogt (Publicis AG)

Anfang Oktober findet die Adobe MAX 2009 in Los Angeles statt. Da Adobe in diesem Jahr keine MAX Messe in Europa plant, werden Tiago und Marcel sich auf den weiten Weg in die Stadt der Engel machen, um in der Menge zu baden und Neuigkeiten rund um die Adobe Produktserie aufzusaugen. Wir freuen uns auf einen spannenden Bericht über neue Features, neue Produkte und natürlich brühwarmen Klatsch und Tratsch aus der Adobe Gerüchteküche. ]]> http://www.sfug.ch/?feed=rss2&p=132 http://www.sfug.ch/?p=130 http://www.sfug.ch/?p=130#comments Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:57:26 +0000 admin http://www.sfug.ch/?p=130

1. Showcase: “Talkmaster” - Marcel Vogt (Publicis AG)

“Talkmaster” ist ein Publicis internes Projekt, das die Markenwahrnehmung auf Grund repräsentativer Umfragen visualisiert. Technische Komponenten sind Adobe Flash, Ruby und PHP.

2. Showcase: “Typefinder”ist ein Tool, geschrieben in Actionscript welches im Frühjahr von Studenten (Christian Flepp, Mario von Rickenbach, Philipp Läubli) der ZHDK entwickelt wurde. Das Werkzeug erlaubt einem Gestalter die Auswahl und den Vergleich von Schriften nach formalen Kriterien. Thema des Vortrags wird sein: Aufbau der Software, Deployment (automatische Fontkompilierung mittels Pyhtonscripts), Funktionen von Typefinder, sowie die weiteren Entwicklungena)

good weather: BBQ aka Grillen
Please bring your own food, Publicis will take care of the beer! There are several shops vis-a-vis to Publicis that sell grilling goods.

b) alternatively or additionally: Discussion “ActionScrap 3.0 - did AS3 fail?”
Recently there has been a huge discussion on the Internets and in the Flash community whether AS3 as a language failed to improve developing Flash Applications or just made it more complicated. An article on FlashDen summed the topic up quite nicely: http://blog.flashden.net/general/reactionscript3/

What are the pros and cons of ActionScript 3.0? Do you think it helped to improve ActionScript Development in terms of simplicity or sophistication (or other aspects)? These are the questions we’d openly discuss with you, if the wheather locks us up inside - or maybe even with a grilled steak on your plate.