RIA Development with Adobe Flex and Flash

ABOUT THE MEETUP SESSSION

Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5 software is the new RIA interaction design tool for creating Rich Internet Applications. You can transform Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and Fireworks artwork into expressive, fully interactive projects without writing code, and leverage the reach and consistency of the Adobe Flash Platform. In this session Rob Huddleston (Adobe Certified Instructor and published author) will be giving us an overview of Adobe Flash Catalyst. Some of the topics will include:

Overview of Flash Platform and Catalyst’s Place in the Designer/Developer Workflow
Creating Interactive Designs
Transforming Static Artwork into Interactive Components
Using Pages and States
Smoothing Animation
Round-trip Editing with Adobe Illustrator CS5
Publishing to SWF and AIR
Adding Design-time Data
Using Layout Tools
Working with Video and Media
Integrating with Adobe Flash Builder

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Rob Huddleston has been developing web pages and applications since 1994, and has been an instructor since 1999, teaching web and graphic design to thousands of students. Rob is an Adjunct Professor in the Interactive Media program at the Art Institute of California, Sacramento. He is an Adobe Certified Instructor, Adobe Certified Expert, and Certified Developer, serves as an Adobe User Group Manager, has been named as an Adobe Community Professional for his volunteer work answering user questions in online forums. He also helps users as an expert moderator on Adobe’s Community Help system. Rob lives in Northern California with his wife and two children. Rob is the author of XML: Your visual blueprint™ for building expert websites using XML, CSS, XHTML, and XSLT; HTML, XHTML and CSS: Your visual blueprint™ for designing effective websites; Master VISUALLY: Dreamweaver CS4 and Flash CS4 Professional, ActionScript 3: Your visual blueprint™ for creating interactive projects in Flash CS4 Professional, the Flash Catalyst CS5 Bible and the forthcoming Web Design: Your visual blueprint™ for creating expert Web sites. You can visit Rob’s blog at http://www.robhuddleston.com

SESSION DATE, TIME, AND LOCATION

May 17th - 12:30 - 1:30pm Eastern - this session will be delivered online live with Adobe Acrobat Connect so you can join us from the convenience of your work office or home.

http://www.meetup.com/onlineflashplatform/

SESSION SKILL LEVEL

This session will be of interest to all levels of Flash designers and developers. Since Adobe Flash Catalyst is a new software solution, there is plenty to learn for Flash professionals of all levels.

ONLINE FLASH PLATFORM MEETUP

Flash Professional CS5 will be shipping soon and it is packed with new features. In this session, industry leader and published author Tom Green will introduce some of the key features in the CS5 release including:

The New Text Layout Framework
Code Snippets
3 Party Classes and Code Introspection
Springs in Bones
Video Tools
Deco Tool
Interface Changes
FXG Format, and
Uncompressed Fla or XFL docs

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Adobe Flash Expert Tom Green

Tom Green has been involved with Post Secondary education for over a decade and an active member of the international, national and local New Media Communities. He is currently a Professor of Interactive Multimedia at the Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning in Toronto, Canada. Tom has an an impressive resume of nine books in seven years, a ton of speaking engagements, online tutorials, and plenty of successful Flash projects under his belt. Tom is a Adobe Community Expert, Community MX partner, and a really fun guy to hang around with at the Adobe MAX Conference!

Tom’s professional publications include:

Foundation Flash CS4 for Designers
Foundation Flash CS3 for Designers
Fireworks CS3 Essential Training
From After Effects to Flash: poetry in motion graphics
Foundation Flash 8 Video
Flash Professional 8: training from the source Release

SESSION DATE, TIME, AND LOCATION

May 3rd - 12:00 - 1:00pm Eastern - this session will be delivered online live with Adobe Acrobat Connect so you can join us from the convenience of your work office or home.

For more information join the Online Flash Platform Meetup Group at:
http://www.meetup.com/onlineflashplatform/

SESSION SKILL LEVEL

This session will be of interest to all levels of Flash designers and developers. However, since this is a Flash CS5 new features seminar, it is assumed that the attendees will have some experience working in previous versions of Adobe Flash Professional.

ONLINE FLASH PLATFORM MEETUP GROUP

Join us for a free Adobe Flex Training Seminar - ‘Your Flex App Looks Like Poo’ - with Garth Braithwaite
Monday - April 19th, 2010

ABOUT THE SESSION

Garth is a well informed and very entertaining guy - in this online session we will be discussing design roles and give you some good ideas on how to take your Rich Internet Applications to the next level. We will be exploring skinning Workflows, skin requirements, creating custom preloaders, and overhauling the application interface.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Garth Braithwaite is a Senior Flex Developer at Rain where he specializes in Interaction Design in HTML/CSS/JS and on the Flash Platform. Additionally Garth hosts RIA Radio, a weekly podcast for O’Reilly and InsideRIA; co-authored The Flex 4 Cookbook; speaks at conferences like Flash and the City, 360|Flex, and MAX; and teaches. Garth is an Adobe Community Professional (ACP), an Adobe Certified Instructor (ACI), and an Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) for: Flex, Flash, Illustrator, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, and InDesign. He can be found on twitter as GarthDB.

REGISTER FOR THIS EVENT
For more information and to register for this online event, please join the Online Flash Platform Group.