Flash Oxford User Group: Archive

“Building native mobile apps with Flash” with...

“Building native mobile apps with Flash” with Jodie O’Rourke Wednesday 22nd February, 8pm Headington Hill Hall We are pleased to invite you to an evening discussing mobile application development with Jodie O’Rourke. His recent publication “Flash Mobile Application Development For Dummies” covers topics such as; mobile development life-cycle, creating content for your app, installing and test...

Feb 15th

Wednesday 23rd November - meeting

Meeting again at Headington Hill Hall we once again have so much to talk about I’m not sure where to start. There will surely be a lot of chat about AIR and Flash for mobile. We’ve also got our hands on an Arduino board and DMX kit that we will start to have a play with. And that’s not to mention chat about the “Back from Max” event and everything we never got ...

Nov 16th

Back from Max - London

Check out the “Back from Max” event at the Barbican Centre Nov 2nd? It has a choice of 2 sessions all afternoon on either gaming or enterprise. Best of all it’s for free! http://www.backfrommax.com/london

Oct 11th

New venue for meetings

We have just booked a great venue for meetings. Headington Hill Hall, on (as you might guess) Headington Hill. It has free parking in the evenings and has views over the dreaming spires. I think it should also give us a chance to open the group up to create a good mix of people from industry, the community and academia. http://www.brookes.ac.uk/conference_services/hall Initial dates booked...

Oct 6th

Flash on the Beach - 11th Sept 2011

If any of the Flash Oxford User Group members are planning on going to the Flash on the Beach conference this year, get in touch with me ( email @ flashoxford . com) as there are some special discount codes that will give you money off. Flash on the Beach is the best UK Flash conference. http://www.flashonthebeach.com

Jun 28th

Flash Oxford - June meetup

An informal social event at the Far From the Madding Crowd pub in Oxford. 22nd June at 7.30pm. Come allong for a chance to win a new CS5.5 suite.

Jun 16th

Flash Builder for PHP

Webinars for working with Flash and PHP - (UK local time) Introduction to Adobe Flash Builder for PHP - 18th May, 3:00 PM Building Mobile Applications using PHP and Flex - 25th May, 3:00 PM Create data analytics dashboard using PHP and Flex - 1st Jun, 3:00 PM http://events.adobe.co.uk/cgi-bin/event.cgi?country=uk&eventid=11124

May 17th

Meeting - May 18th

Flash Oxford’s May meeting is an informal social event at the Far From the Madding Crowd pub in Oxford. Flash Oxford for designers, animators and developers. Venue: Far from the Madding Crowd, 10-12 Friars Entry, Oxford OX1 2BY Date: Wednesday, May 18th Time: 7.30pm - 9pm. Venue link: http://www.maddingcrowd.co.uk/

May 9th

Flash on the Beach 2011 - Sept 11-14

Tickets are now on sale for… Flash On The Beach Conference - Brighton, UK - bringing together the best designers, developers and minds in the Flash, design and web community. http://www.flashonthebeach.com/

May 9th

May 11 – London - CS5.5 tour

If you want a first hand viewing of the new software then sign up for the CS 5.5 tour in London on May 11th. registrations at: http://www.cs5evolutiontour.com/

Apr 20th

Get the low down on CS5.5 with these links...

— Introducing Adobe Flex 4.5 SDK http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/articles/introducing-flex45sdk.html — Introducing Flash Catalyst CS5.5 http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashcatalyst/articles/introducing-flashcatalyst-cs55.html — Understanding the new workflows in Flash Builder 4.5 and Flash Catalyst CS5.5...

Apr 20th

Meeting - April 20th

Flash Oxford’s April meeting is another an informal social event at the Far From the Madding Crowd pub in Oxford. Flash Oxford for designers, animators and developers. Venue: Far from the Madding Crowd, 10-12 Friars Entry, Oxford OX1 2BY Date: Wednesday, April 20th Time: 7.30pm - 9pm. Venue link: http://www.maddingcrowd.co.uk/

Apr 13th

Meeting - March 23rd

Flash Oxford’s March meeting is another an informal social event at the Far From the Madding Crowd pub in Oxford. Coincidentally, this event is the day before the Flash Camp in Birmingham. Should we try to do one in Oxford? Come along and let us know what you think. Flash Oxford for designers, animators and developers. Venue: Far from the Madding Crowd, 10-12 Friars Entry, Oxford...

Mar 16th

Flash Camp - 24th MARCH 2011 / 12PM-8PM /...

Well worth a visit… Flash Camp BIRMINGHAM Featuring: SEB LEE-DELISLE MIKE JONES JAMES WHITTAKER STEVE CARPENTER NIQUI MERRET MARK DOHERTY SANYU KIRULUTA http://flashmidlands.com/flashcamp/birmingham.html

Mar 16th

February 9th - 7.30pm - Flash Oxford meeting

Flash Oxford are kicking off 2011 with an informal social event at the Far From the Madding Crowd pub in Oxford on Wednesday February 9th. Over the past three years we have had some great speakers on cutting edge topics and look forward to many more in the future. At the first meeting of the year we will be planning future events and as ever chatting with and meeting other Adobe Flash users. ...

Jan 26th

Flash Camp London - 2nd December 2010

As a final event of this year Flash Oxford are going to hold a meeting out of town. Flash Camp London is an all day event at the Barbican Centre. So book your free ticket from the website below and drop us an email to let us know you are going too. This should be a great day out and we are promised some great speakers and updates from the MAX conference. http://www.flashcamp.co.uk/london/...

Nov 11th

Anyone Can Play Guitar

This has nothing to do with Adobe Flash, but is well worth a look, an awesome feature length film about the Oxford music scene. Featuring music and interviews with Radiohead, Ride, Supergrass and Foals. Get involved. http://www.indiegogo.com/Anyone-Can-Play-Guitar

Sep 22nd

Flash Camp Birmingham - Postponed until 24th March...

More info at http://www.flashmidlands.com/?p=482

Sep 1st

20% discount for Flash on the Beach 2010 →

John Davey (FOTB’s organizer) has kindly arranged a 20% discount off FOTB tickets which is offered to all the user group members. Register on the website: http://www.flashonthebeach.com/ Use the special Promo Code: ADUSRGRP

Aug 13th

Slapdash Competition Results

Thanks to all who were involved in the Slapdash competition. The winner of the Adobe Production Suite was Blaze Millward. You can view his animation on the following link. http://www.squaresanimations.co.uk/page12.htm Joe Rosa submitted a great idea for an open source project. Keep an eye on the following link to see it develop. http://code.google.com/p/x-docs/ Thanks finally to Eileen...

Jul 19th

Summer Social - July 22nd

This month we are having a social event in the pub. The Time: 7.30 - 9.30pm Venue: Far From the Madding Crowd pub, Oxford 10-12 Friars Entry Oxford OX1 2BY

Jul 19th

Flash Camp Manchester - Thursday 8th July 2010

Flash Camp Manchester is a completely free event organised by the Midlands Flash Platform User Group. Over an afternoon and evening, experts in Flash, Flex and AIR will share their knowledge through presentations and talks. Meet some of the Adobe team, Professionals, Community Leaders and network with fellow developers and designers. Whether you’re just getting started with the Flash Platform,...

Jun 23rd

CS5 launch party – Tuesday June 22nd at Malmaison,...

Join all the Oxford Adobe Groups for a social event to learn about the new Adobe® Creative Suite® 5 software. Adobe CS5 unleashes new ways to generate amazing work, collaborate effectively, and deliver virtually anywhere. We’ll have screen demos of CS5 software at work, presentations, and plenty of time for networking and chat. There’s a free drink for the first 30 and Flash Oxford are...

Jun 15th

Flash Oxford meeting 7.30pm, Thursday 20th May

Introducing the Open Source Media Framework with Jodie O’Rourke The idea behind OSMF is to reduce the complexity involved in developing media players (particularly video players), and in doing so, lower the barriers-to-entry to allow many more developers to create unique and engaging players. OSMF aggregates fixes for many of the problems that other developers have toiled over, meaning you...

May 13th

Flash Builder launch party Thursday - 22nd April,...

To celebrate the launch of Flash Builder 4, Adobe have sponsored this month’s meeting with free software prizes, T-shirts and pizza. We will be taking Flash Builder 4 for a test run. Let’s see just what Adobe have achieved with this new release in their drive to increase creativity and productivity. After a short overview of the ever-expanding Flash Platform, we will have a live demo...

Apr 16th

Slapdash Competition - Win over $2000 worth of...

As an Adobe User Group we are entitled to give away over $2000 worth of Adobe software biannually! Up until now we have done this through a raffle but this time we thought we could try giving people an opportunity to win it based on merit. Slapdash is (hopefully as the name suggests!) a competition for anybody to have a go at making something in flash without spending a lengthy amount of time...

Mar 21st

Flash Oxford meeting 25th March 7.30-9pm

This month we are doing a joint meeting with the two other Adobe User Groups in Oxford. Each will be running a half hour slot so hopefully there will be something for everyone. Flash Oxford will be reviewing Flash and Flex Developer magazine. A free PDF based magazine dedicated to our favourite software. Featuring articles on ever widening array of Flash products for animators, designers and...

Mar 20th

Flash Oxford, Friday February 26th -7.30pm

After an extended Christmas break the Flash User Group starts afresh this Friday. We have been working hard to come up with monthly themes to take us through the year. As ever we are hoping to cater for a wide range of Flash users and provide an opportunity for informally meeting other Flash users. We also will continue our regular software give-aways. This month we will look at Camtasia. This is...

Feb 23rd

December 17, 2009 from 7:30pm - 9:00pm

Presentation by BAFTA nominated animators, The Brothers McLeod + Christmas social event - pizza, beer, juice, films, free software! Bring your own (short) animation to show us all. The award winning, BAFTA nominated Brothers McLeod (Greg and Myles) have a track record in creating animation for TV, web, and film. They are represented by Aardman Animations as Commercials Directors and have...

Dec 11th

Friday November 20th - 7.30pm

Since the acquisition of Macromedia by Adobe, they have been busy integrating the Flash and PDF technologies. The best example of this is their LiveCycle Enterprise Suite platform. Livecycle is a J2EE server based platform for delivering improved user experiences and document automation. It is an area that runs in parallel with the main developments in the Flash platform so this session will be of...

Nov 11th

Wednesday October 21st, 7.30pm - 9.00pm

This month, the Adobe User Groups have Stephen Newberry, Technical Resources Manager at Adobe HQ (UK), coming to talk to us about all things Photoshop/Illustrator/InDesign. You can find out a bit more about Stephen at Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/stevenewberry There will be time for questions after his presentation, and the usual chat with likeminded creatives from the Oxford area. Venue:...

Oct 19th

Flash CS5 takes on iPhone →

If you can’t beat them join them. Apple didn’t put a flash player on the iPhone so Adobe have been working on a Low Level Virtual Machine compiler infrastructure for Flash. Expect to see the beta release before the end of the year with full Action Script 3 compatibility.

Oct 5th

Flash and Flex Developer magazine →

Check out this free magazine.

Sep 15th

Thursday 24th September, 7.30pm

Flash Oxford this month welcomes Charles Freeman. His work with rabbit.com has undeniably pushed the boundaries of the definition of multi-media. Have you ever imagined making phone calls from your web browser, possibly not, but he has. Join us to hear about how this concept went from idea to reality and how easily you can implement this technology for you own projects. Charles Freeman’s...

Sep 10th

Flash Oxford – Meetup - 7.30pm Friday 5th June...

For June we are planning an informal social meetup and are trying to arrange pizza and drinks. So do come along and meet other Flash & Flex animators, designers and developers. So if you are an internet professional or are just interested in the Flash platform this is the place for you. We will have a copy of Flash Catalyst and there will be a chance to get hands on and see if it really is as...

May 27th

Flash Camp Birmingham - 16th June

Flash Camp Birmingham is a completely free event organised by the Midlands Flash Platform User Group (Flash Midlands). Over an afternoon and evening, experts in Flash, Flex and AIR will share their knowledge through presentations and talks. For more information see the website: www.flashcamp.co.uk

May 18th

Flash Oxford, 12 months later…

A year has passed since Flash Oxford’s first meeting. I am glad to say it seems to keep getting bigger and better. I think this is mainly due to the continued support of everyone who attends, and by external speakers who are willing to share their passion for the “Flash Platform”. Thanks to everyone who has contributed to making this group work. Going forward I am keen to keep up the momentum that...

May 18th

Andrew Shorten from Adobe tells the latest...

Andrew Shorten works for Adobe as a Platform Evangelist and has offered talk about Flex, Flash and AIR and the opportunities these technologies present to enrich web and desktop experiences. He will be presenting an update on the Flash Platform, showing an early build of Flash Catalyst and demoing some of the new features in Flex Builder Gumbo. You can find out more about Andrew at his web-site...

Apr 7th

Next meeting 24th March - Away3d and the future of...

Hosted by Rob Bateman, a Flash developer who has been integral to the creation of Away3d a realtime 3d Flash engine. He will provide an overview of this exciting open source project and discuss examples of work created using Away3d. This session should be of interest to coders and animators interested in cutting edge Flash development. For more information on Away3d check out Rob’s blog at...

Feb 24th

Flash Camp London '09 is on February 26th, 1-8pm. →

Flash Camp London ‘09 is a FREE, community-run event for everyone interested in the Adobe Flash Platform.

Feb 2nd

Next meeting 4th February – 7.30pm

This month the Oxford Dreamweaver and Flash groups will combine to look at panoramic photography. Paul Forsey will provide a brief overview of taking and making 360 degree panoramic photographs using a digital still camera, Adobe Photoshop and Realviz panoramic software. This will include an introduction to field technique, organizing your workspace and the kind of equipment required for...

Jan 28th

Opportunities in 2009: MIDAS Production Awards

The MIDAS (Moving Image in the Digital Age) Production Awards provide production support and equipment for 5 projects that look to push digital media production to new boundaries. The projects can be drama, documentary, animation or experimental based and will need to demonstrate an original narrative that imaginatively engages with audiences in the digital world (eg. viral/phone/web/other). It...

Dec 23rd

Next meeting 7th January - 7.30pm

Julian Scott, Games Producer at Long Animal Games talks about monetizing. How to generate income form your online content. This session should be of interest to internet and online game developers as well as producers of online video content. Venue: OFVM – Film Oxford, 54 Catherine St, Oxford, OX4 3AH For more details contact John Twycross - jt@flashoxford.com.

Dec 16th

Links from our last meeting

Thanks to everyone who came to our last meeting. I have tried to summarize the websites we looked at. If I missed yours off then do let me know. Art http://transportermix.com/ Games http://longanimalsgames.com http://armorgames.com/play/2757/retardo-and-the-iron-golem http://www.altitude24.co.uk/page10.htm Video ...

Dec 15th

Flash Oxford - Christmas Party - 10th December...

The next meeting will be the Flash Oxford Christmas Party. There will be a $2500 free software prize giveaway. We will also be having a “Show and Tell” session where we are asking everybody to showcase a Flash website. This can be one you have made or one that someone else has made and you think is great. So bring along a URL as well as some party snacks and drinks if you fancy it. Look forward to...

Nov 3rd

7.30pm, October 1st - Next meeting - CS4 Launch

Something Big? CS4 should we swallow the hype. Adobe are gearing up to pull the covers off their latest offering, Creative Suite 4. We will be checking out what is new in this update of their primary software bundle. What is so big about it? Should we all part with our hard earned cash to buy it? Will it revolutionise our workflows and make our lives easier? Venue: OFVM – Film Oxford, 54...

Sep 15th

Box 2D - Download →

Box2DFlashAS3 is an open source port of Erin Catto’s powerful c++ physics library. If you want to try this for yourself then check out this link. Thanks Tim for showing us this.

Sep 15th

Planet of the Forklift Kid →

Planet of the Forklift Kid is a whimsical physics-based platform puzzle game, based on the Box 2d engine.

Sep 15th

Crayon Physics Delux →

Crayon Physics Deluxe is a 2D physics puzzle game, in which you get to experience what it would be like if your drawings would be magically transformed into real physical objects.

Sep 15th