Houston Adobe Users Group > Event Calendar

MAX Roundup (1 Comment)

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:33:48 +0000

Event by Drew Shefman

Date and Time

November 5, 2009 from 4:00pm - 5:00pm

Address

Central Market
Community Room, 2nd floor
3815 Westheimer
Houston, TX 77027
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Speakers

Drew Shefman

Any other MAX attendees

Agenda

This is the time to share, If you weren't able to make it to MAX - come and listen to what the attendees who went learned.

If you went to MAX but had way more sessions on your must-see list than you were able to go to, come and share with the others about the import things that you learned.

We'll be showing the sneek peaks, as and hopefully some other cool things to come.

Flex and Excel integration and Beginners Guide to OOP in Flash

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 21:31:11 +0000

Event by Drew Shefman

Date and Time

September 17, 2009 from 4:00pm - 5:00pm

Address

Central Market
Community Room, 2nd floor
3815 Westheimer
Houston, TX 77027
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Speakers

Tim Baldwin

Drew Shefman

Agenda

Tim Baldwin is doing an intermediate level presention on "Reading and writing excel files directly in Flex using as3xls."

Drew Shefman is an introductory beginner level presention on "Understanding Object Oriented Programming as it relates to Flash and Actionscript"

Jeffry Houser online preso for Houston Adobe Users Group

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:49:55 +0000

Event by Drew Shefman

Date and Time

August 4, 2009 from 5:00pm - 6:00pm

Address

http://experts.na3.acrobat.com/flextras/
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Speakers

Jeffry Houser is the Brains behind Flextras, a set of interface Flex Components that save you time and help you create better Flex interfaces. Jeffry has a Computer Science degree from the days before business met the Internet and has solved a problem or two in his programming career. In 1999, Jeffry started DotComIt, an Adobe Solutions Partner specializing in Rich Internet Applications with Flex and ColdFusion.
Jeffry is an Adobe Community Expert and produces The Flex Show, a podcast that includes expert interviews and screencast tutorials. He also hosts the Flextras Friday Lunch Podcast, a weekly live Q&A session where you can get your questions answered. Jeffry has spoken at user groups and conferences all over the US, is the co-manager of the Hartford CT Adobe User Group, author of three technical books, and over 30 articles.
In his spare time Jeffry is a musician, old school adventure game aficionado, recording engineer, and he owns a Wii. Find more about Flextras at http://www.flextras.com, or check out his podcast at http://www.theflexshow.com, or you can read his personal blog at http://www.jeffryhouser.com

Agenda

Jeffry will be giving an online presentation

Bullet Proofing Flex Components [a intermediate to advanced presentation]

Transcoding/Video Compression in the Adobe Suite

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 23:27:40 +0000

Event by ODog417

Date and Time

April 15, 2009 from 9:00am - 10:30am

Call-in Details

http://realeyes.acrobat.com/fmsug/
Call in details will be available in the Connect room at the time of event.

Speakers

Andy Beach is the Director of Product Management at Inlet Technologies, where he drives strategic product direction and oversees all aspects of product marketing, management, and support. He is also the author of Real World Video Compression, published by Peachpit in April of 2008. Prior to joining Inlet, Beach served as the Director of Product Development at Magnet Media where he oversaw the creation of Zoom In Online, a website offering exclusive access to the latest in creative culture, entertainment, and technology through regularly published podcasts, internet video and blogs. He also co-founded New York-based interactive agency Last Exit, where he led several award-winning interactive projects for their clients in the entertainment and technology industries.
Beach brings significant expertise and experience in the field of Internet video, digital asset management and rich media solutions. His expertise in video post-production, compression, and interactive design has attracted clients worldwide, including: Microsoft, Major League Baseball, Apple Computer, Adobe Systems, British Design Council, V2 Records, Universal Music, Paramount Pictures, Showtime Networks, and Samsung.
Andy has spoken at industry conferences including Web Video Summit, NAB, WWDC, QuickTime Live!, and Production East, and has been featured in POST Magazine and TV Technology. He also taught digital film making and editing at the School of Visual Arts.

Agenda

Getting Video Ready for the Web
                Difference between broadcast & Web delivery
                What to look for
Codecs and Formats
                How they are different
                How these decisions effect delivery
Applications
                Encoding with Adobe Apps
                Encoding with 3rd party apps
                Automating Encoding

WebOrb by the creator! Mark Piller presenting; May7th; 5:45pm - 7pm; Central Market Meeting Room

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:05:20 +0000

Event by Drew Shefman

Date and Time

May 7, 2009 from 3:45pm - 5:00pm

Address

Central Market
Community Room, 2nd floor
3815 Westheimer
Houston, TX 77027
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Speakers

Mark Piller is the founder and Chief Architect of Midnight Coders, an innovative and forward-thinking company specializing in products for RIA development, testing, integration and analytics. Mark has over 15 years of software development experience. For the past six years he has been specializing in building software infrastructure products designed to integrate Flex, Flash, and AJAX applications with a variety of backend systems, including .NET, Java, PHP, and Ruby on Rails. Mark is very passionate about ease-of-use of software and prides himself in creating technologies that clearly demonstrate that quality.

Past presenting experience:
Adobe MAX 2007
Adobe AIR Bus Tour
WebManiacs 2007
Dallas Flex User group
Denver Flex User group
Silicon Valley Flex User group
Seattle Flex User Group
New York Flex User Group
Dallas TexFlex 2008

Agenda

Session will provide an overview of various techniques and approaches developers can use in day-to-day activities for Flex and Flash application development, testing and runtime optimization. You will learn about ActionScript code generator for remoting and data management use-cases, learn how to create real-time messaging applications, see a demo of remoting invocation debugger and AMF traffic visualizer. Finally, you will see a demonstration of user behavior tracking and analytics in a Flex application. The session provides a lot of coding samples and API reviews. It is targeted at a wide range of developers ranging from beginner level to very advanced. Parts of the presentation will be useful for management folks and they are welcome to attend as well.

Developer Strategies for working with designers

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:19:52 +0000

Event by Drew Shefman

Date and Time

March 24, 2009 from 3:45pm - 4:45pm

Address

Central Market - upstairs community room
3815 Westheimer Rd
Houston, TX 77027
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Speakers

Drew Shefman - Flash/Flex developer

Agenda

The presentation will focus on setting up your files so that both groups (Designers and Developers) can work in parallel with little or no overlap, especially in environments that are not using source control.

We will also talk about how to set up flash files with no or minimal actionscript, that can be loaded into a wrapper, AS or Flex project that will assign all of the necessary functionality.

If there is time, we will also discuss strategies for linking code to visual elements that is a little unconventional, but necessary if you have dozens to hundreds of files that might use the code, and it is impractical to republish all of those files when the code changes.

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Note: People have had difficulty finding the community room. Easiest way to find the room is to head toward the entrance closest to Westheimer, go inside the door and take an immediate left. There is a stairwell there. Go upstairs and then take a left to the catwalk. The community room is there.

Keywords

Designer / Developer workflow

February Meeting; Flex Dashboards and Editing Video in Photoshop

Thu, 05 Feb 2009 13:18:27 +0000

Event by briandusablon

Date and Time

February 24, 2009 from 5:30pm - 7:00pm

Address

Central Market upstairs community room
3815 Westheimer Rd
Houston, TX 77027
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Speakers

Tim Baldwin, from Enbridge Inc, will present some of his experiences creating a Flex dashboard.

Jim Goins, also from Enbrige, will talk about using Photoshop to edit video.

MAX & Adobe Learning Summit Conference Roundup

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:44:07 +0000

Event by Drew Shefman

Date and Time

December 2, 2008 from 5:00pm - 6:00pm

Address

Houston Area League of PC Users (HAL-PC)
4543 Post Oak Place Drive - Suite 200; Room A
Houston, TX, 77027
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Speakers

Drew Shefman

Brian Dusablon

and other conference attendees who are willing

Agenda

Discuss any new or cool information that we have gathered at recent conferences. There is sure to be information about CS4, Adobe's roadmap, etc.

Also, lots of great SWAG to give away.