The Future of Flash
Event posted on May 01 by Richard Humphreys

Title: The Future of Flash
Date and Time: May 16, 2012 06:30 PM - 09:00 PM (GMT-6 Central Time US & Canada, Guadalajara, Mexico City)

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Address: 35 W Wacker Dr Chicago, IL 60601
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Agenda:

AUG Chicago May Meeting
Wednesday, May 16th, 2012

The Future of Flash

Join the Chicago Adobe Users Group in welcoming Adobe evangelists Mike Chambers and Lee Brimelow to talk about the future of Adobe Flash.

Mike Chambers discusses the Flash Platform Roadmap, which details the short and long term changes in the Flash player, desktop and mobile AIR.

Lee Brimelow, Adobe Gaming Evangelist, shows us the future of Flash gaming in the browser and on mobile devices. Lee shows us that iOs really does love Flash.

Mike Chambers

Mike Chambers has spent the last decade building applications that target the web and the Flash runtime. During that time, he has worked with numerous technologies including Flash, Generator, .NET, Central, Flex, Objective-C, Cocoa, JavaScript and HTML5. He is currently the Director of Developer Advocacy for web platforms at Adobe. He has written and spoken extensively on Flash and Rich Internet Application development and is coauthor of the Apollo for Adobe Flex Developers Pocket Guide,Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) for JavaScript Developers Pocketguide, Flash Enabled: Flash Design and Development for Devices as well as Generator and Flash Demystified.

Lee Brimelow

Lee Brimelow, Gaming Evangelist for Adobe, has a background working for companies like AOL, Netscape, eBay and more recently Frog Design, but is most famous in the Flash community for his spectacular video tutorial site gotoandlearn.com and his informative blog at leebrimelow.com

NOTICE TO AUG MEMBERS:

This is being held in a different location and please bring photo id with you to the event.

Find out what Adobe has in store for the future of the Flash platform. Learn about the advances in Flash that make it even more attractive for game developers and interactive graphics in HTML5.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Since this is a special event, it is not on our usual day, time or location. This month we will be meeting at the offices of Leo Burnett @
35 W Wacker Dr
Chicago, IL 60601
21st floor

DO NOT RSVP THROUGH FACEBOOK. RSVP through Eventbrite only. and you MUST RSVP http://flashtourchicago2012.eventbrite.com/ and bring a photo ID.

There will be beer and pizza.
We look forward to seeing you there.

Game development with the power of Unity3D
Event posted on Apr 10 by Richard Humphreys

Title: Game development with the power of Unity3D
Date and Time: April 16, 2012 06:30 PM - 08:30 PM (GMT-6 Central Time US & Canada, Guadalajara, Mexico City)

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Address: 410 S. Michigan Avenue, #433, Chicago, IL 60605
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Game development with the power of Unity3D

Unity Game Engine is a growing force in game develelopment for the web and mobile devices. (Now with the ability to export using Flash Stage3D)

This month the Chicago Adobe Users Group is proud to bring you Andy Saia, Game Developer at Kaplan Higher Education to talk about this exciting technology. 

An introduction of the Unity3D game engine, as well as an in-depth overview of some of the most exciting features introduced in Unity 3.5 including pathfinding, flash runtime export, chrome native extension support, new particle system, light baking and much more.

Throughout the presentation Andy will be sharing workflow tips and tricks as well as demoing some of Unity’s built in collaboration features allowing you to easily incorporate Unity into your next project.

If games are the future of Flash, and Flash is now part of Unity3D, this is a must see.

Check it out at http://unity3d.com/

Andy's web site http://andysaia.com/

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Rapid Prototyping for Mobile Devices
Event posted on Mar 07 by Richard Humphreys

Title: Rapid Prototyping for Mobile Devices
Date and Time: March 19, 2012 06:30 PM - 08:30 PM (GMT-6 Central Time US & Canada, Guadalajara, Mexico City)

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Address: Ascend Training 410 South Michigan Ave. Suite 433 Chicago IL, 60605
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Speakers:

Brian Busche
UI Developer at Energy BBDO

About Brian:

Graduate of Startup Leadership Program, Chicago Chapter (http://www.startupleadership. com) 
Developed BankBadger, an online banking site intended to increase financial literacy for children.  The BankBadger site responds to mobile devices by detecting the type of device and serving up JQuery Mobile optimized content

Agenda:

Want to be a mobile app master? Learn how to quickly move from an idea for a mobile application to a working prototype. This month we have Brian Busche, UI Developer at Energy BBDO, to show us how it's done using jQuery Mobile and PhoneGap.

RSVP through Facebook or Eventbritehttp://augmar2012.eventbrite.com/

Video Ninjas and New Places to Use Your Animation Skills
Event posted on Feb 06 by Richard Humphreys

Title: Video Ninjas and New Places to Use Your Animation Skills
Date and Time: February 20, 2012 06:30 PM - 08:30 PM (GMT-6 Central Time US & Canada, Guadalajara, Mexico City)

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Address: Ascend Training 410 S. Michigan Ave. Suite 433 Chicago, IL 60605
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Agenda:

Aug February Meeting
Monday, February 20th 2012

Want to be a video ninja?

Need to navigate the changing world of online video delivery? Allison Steinhauer explores how to deliver online video for you and your clients. Topics will range from low-budget, mobile compatible solutions using third party players like JWPlayer to comparing more robust, streaming options and modern, standards compliant options. 

Allison Steinhauer
Communications Art Director at Aon Hewitt

Still making animations in Flash?

Maybe you should be. Afraid that the end of the mobile Flash player means throwing away those hard learned animation skills? Not necessarily. If you know your way around a timeline, you could be at the forefront in creating animated graphics for both mobile-friendly, standards compliant, HTML5 canvas animations; or creating for the high-speed powerhouse of animation that is Stage3D. Rich Humphreys examines how to take an animation built in Flash and bring it to HTML5 canvas using the Easeljs library, then how to take the same animation to Stage3D using the Starling framework.

Rich Humphreys
Multimedia and Web Instructor

 

RSVP here or through eventbrite ( http://augfeb2012.eventbrite.com/ ) or our facebook page.

January meeting - Touch Screens are so 2007
Event posted on Jan 02 by Richard Humphreys

Title: January meeting - Touch Screens are so 2007
Date and Time: January 16, 2012 06:30 PM - 08:30 PM (GMT-6 Central Time US & Canada, Guadalajara, Mexico City)

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Address: 410 South Michigan Avenue, Suite 433, Chicago, IL, 60605
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Agenda:

Touch Screens are so 2007.

Xbox has the right idea with Kinect. They looked to the 2002 movie "Minority Report" and it's gesture driven touchless user interface. Now some of the best game experiences mirror this approach.

Now if we could just connect Kinect to Adobe AIR, designers and developers could be free to create all sorts of interesting and beautiful interactions and user interfaces. This was the goal of our Speaker this month at AUG. Ross Gerbasi, developer from 15letters.com, has written a series of Native Extensions for Adobe AIR that lets developers use the Microsoft Kinect SDK. 

First Ross is going to show off some of the many cool things Kinect and AIRKinect will let you do, then later he'll dive into how he got it to work and show us how to start taking advantage of it today.

This stuff is so cool, we are giving Ross the whole evening. We are positive both pixel pushers and code monkeys will both be inspired by the possibilities presented.

Perhaps hover events are not such a bad thing after all.

Speaker:
Ross Gerbasi

Location:
Ascend Training
410 S. Michigan Ave.
Suite 433
Chicago, IL 60605

RSVP here or through eventbrite (augjan2012.eventbrite.com) or our facebook page.

Web! Humbug! Ghosts of technologies past, present and future.
Event posted on Dec 06 by Richard Humphreys

Title: Web! Humbug! Ghosts of technologies past, present and future.
Date and Time: December 19, 2011 06:30 PM - 08:30 PM (GMT-6 Central Time US & Canada, Guadalajara, Mexico City)

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Address: Ascend Training 410 South Michigan Ave. Suite 433 Chicago IL, 60605
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Speakers:

David Moore from Digital Primates and Matthew David, author of several books on HTML5 and mobile web development.

Agenda:

November is for turkey, SEO and HTML5 workflow sanity.
Event posted on Nov 08 by Richard Humphreys

Title: November is for turkey, SEO and HTML5 workflow sanity.
Date and Time: November 21, 2011 06:30 PM - 08:30 PM (GMT-6 Central Time US & Canada, Guadalajara, Mexico City)

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Address: 410 South Michigan Avenue, Suite 433, Chicago, IL, 60605
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Agenda:

AUG November meeting

This month The Chicago Adobe Users Group brings you another two spectacular speakers. For beginners in web design and promotion we have a presentation on Search Engine Optimization with John-Henry Scherck from Digital Third Coast. For those of you already in the trenches, struggling to find a better way to get designers and developers to collaborate, we have a workflow strategy for making HTML5 apps presented by Sasha Dzeletovic, a Senior Consultant from Pathfinder Software.

**NEW**

We are also going to take a few minutes to talk about recent events regarding Adobe and Flash. Hopefully we can answer most of your questions. 

Lead the world to your door with better SEO

Have you ever wondered what makes a site rank for competitive terms in the search engines? Learn from Chicago’s leading search engine marketing firm, Digital Third Coast, on how to quickly and easily optimize sites to rank well in Google, Bing and Yahoo! John-Henry Scherck, an organic web strategist at DTC, will be discussing the most important factors when it comes to making a site rank #1. From creating a web page that targets a particular key phrase to high quality link building tactics that will boost your site’s rankings, this presentation will cover all the basics to help you bring in more search engine traffic, business leads and transactions for your site – including SEO workarounds for flash content.

Speaker:
John-Henry Scherck
Organic Web Strategist

Stop collaboration insanity!
A better workflow for making HTML5 apps

Sasha will present a workflow for creating HTML5 apps that allows designers and developer to remove friction in collaboration and lets them focus on creating great experiences together.

For designers, he will show how you can organize your design in Adobe Illustrator so that a developer does not have to interpret your design and you don't have to keep slicing your design for production.

For developers, he will show how you can code straight against this design by pairing SVG with JavaScript.

This workflow integrates well with Git source code versioning so it's friendly to remote collaboration and big teams.

As a result of saving this time and effort, you can let your craft shine.

Speaker:
Aleksandar "Sasha" Dzeletovic
Senior Consultant

Aleksandar "Sasha" Dzeletovic is a senior consultant at Pathfinder Software in Chicago. He departed his designer roots 12 years ago to immerse himself in Flash and make designs come alive. While mastering the art of programing, he keeps realizing how quintessential design is in the digital world. A firm believer in "Design is how it works", he tries to bring engineers and designers together by lowering the barriers between them.

Sasha's blog:
http://pathfindersoftware.com/author/sasha-dzeletovic/
Twitter: @sashadzeletovic

Sorry. No actual turkey at this month's event.

A two session evening with InDesign expert Laurie Ruhlin
Event posted on Oct 07 by Richard Humphreys

Title: A two session evening with InDesign expert Laurie Ruhlin
Date and Time: October 17, 2011 06:30 PM - 08:30 PM (GMT-6 Central Time US & Canada, Guadalajara, Mexico City)

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Address: 410 South Michigan Avenue, Suite 433, Chicago, IL, 60605
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Speakers:

Laurie Ruhlin

Laurie started out teaching Quark and Illustrator in the early 90's. She has been an Adobe Illustrator user since 1988 (version 88), Photoshop version 3, QuarkXPress since 1990, version 2.0, and InDesign since it was released in 1998, version 1.0! In the past, she has taught 16 different applications, including Vector: Illustator, Freehand and CorelDRAW!; Raster: Photoshop, PhotoPaint and Painter; Desktop Publishing: QuarkXPress and PageMaker, and Presentation programs: PowerPoint, Persuasion and Harvard Graphics.

She is an is an Adobe Certified Expert, Adobe Certified Instructor in both InDesign and Illustrator. She consistenly is involved in many projects that allow her to bring a wealth of real-world knowledge to the classroom. Laurie has been teaching for Ascend since 1998

Agenda:

Session 1: Print Production Power Tips

• Styles - Paragraph, Character and Object what are they are when do I use them?
• CS5 Graphics tips
• Multiple place and Gridify
Rounded corners and effects
Place and control multi layered PSD and IL files

Session 2: Multimedia InDesign

• Create an interactive photo flip book as a SWF file
• Interactive PDFs, with hyperlinks, buttons and transitions
• Adding you SWF file using Dreamweaver

Talking 'bout Android
Event posted on Sep 13 by Richard Humphreys

Title: Talking 'bout Android
Date and Time: September 19, 2011 06:30 PM - 08:30 PM (GMT-6 Central Time US & Canada, Guadalajara, Mexico City)

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Address: Ascend Training 410 S Michigan Ave Suite 433 Chicago, IL
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Speakers:

John A Mahady, lead consultant at Andrew Information Services, has been working primarily with MySQL, PHP, JQuery, CSS, and Drupal. His projects, across numerous industries, have been  team based with his specialists and client employees.

Agenda:

This Monday, September 19th, join Aug Chicago, The Chicago Area Adobe Users Group, as we set our focus on the Android mobile platform. Our guest speaker, John A Mahady, be sharing his insight on the ever increasing role of Android based SmartPhones and Tablets  in the IT marketplace.

John's presentation will focus on Android as a platform for developing business applications. John plans to cover the current state of Android in the business marketplace and where he sees it moving. John will go over what you need to know to get started developing for the Android platform and discuss the tools you need to start getting comfortable with including Java, XML, SQLite and Eclipse. John will address the role of native apps versus mobile websites and how to choose the proper solution for your needs. He will also cover the various avenues available for distributing your Android apps. You wont want to miss this one.

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October 2009 "Introducing the GAIA Framework for Flash"
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MAX 2009 Sessions are Available
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October Dreamweaver CS4 presentation file
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Chicago Flash Camp 2010
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15th Anniversary meeting
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James Ward speaks at Chicago Flash Camp 2010
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