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Andrew Shorten – Platform Evangelist

Thursday, May 7th, 2009

Last night’s session was our most popular yet, with Andrew Shorten from Adobe speaking for over an hour on the forthcoming Catalyst and Flex releases.

There are definitely some interesting times ahead for designers seeking to use Flash. It’s always been a bit of a headache for designers to get their heads around interactive interfaces using Flash Pro.

Here’s a quick list of some of the links Andrew talked about :

For some of these tools, you’ll need a free Adobe ID. Once you’ve got one of those, don’t forget to access our Group page too on Adobe, to subscribe to updates, RSVP to our events etc.

Thanks to everyone for making it a great night, and many congratulations again to Dan Govender for winning the $2,000 of Adobe software. Commiserations to everyone else.

Next month’s meeting is June 5th, a Friday for a change. There is talk of making this an out and out social, with food! What do you think?

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Next meeting: May 6th

Monday, April 20th, 2009

Andrew Shorten from Adobe tells us about the latest developments for Flash and Flex – May 6th at 7.30pm

Andrew Shorten works for Adobe as a Platform Evangelist and has offered to 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 demo-ing some of the new features in Flex Builder Gumbo. You can find out more about Andrew at his web-site http://ashorten.com .

Venue: OFVM – Film Oxford, 54 Catherine St, Oxford, OX4 3AH
Starts at 7.30pm
Location: http://tiny.cc/ghNTd

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Next meeting – 4th February

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009

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 successful hardcopy and online applications. Paul Forsey is an artist/designer based in West Berkshire.

Following this theme, John Twycross from Live Pictures will take a look at how to use panoramic photographs in Flash. He will conduct a review of both the “360g Flash Panorama” and “FlashPanos” open source engines for Flash. There will also be a brief round up of commercial flash extensions that are available.

Venue: OFVM – Film Oxford, 54 Catherine St, Oxford, OX4 3AH

Location:  http://tiny.cc/ghNTd

Come along, it’s always free! 7.30pm at OFVM.

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7th January 2009 meeting

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008

Adobe User Groups – January 7th 2009

Venue: OFVM – Film Oxford, 54 Catherine St, Oxford, OX4 3AH

Flash User Group

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

(see http://flashoxford.com for more information)

Dreamweaver User Group

Google Maps. Alun Ward will run through some sample implementations of Google Maps on web sites: how, what, where and why.

Also this month:

Exhibition invite: Alun Ward, manager of the Dreamweaver User Group, will be performing his art work Transporter Mix at the OVADA gallery in Oxford from January 7th to 10th 2009. Some Adobe products were harmed during the creation of this piece. Come along to the evening event on Thursday 8th (6 – 8pm). www.transportermix.com

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End of year wind-up report

Thursday, December 11th, 2008

The last session of 2008 was a fun social, with software giveaway, Adobe swag handout, drinks, and show-and-tell from quite a few members.

John showed us one of his favourite sites: www.bestflashanimation.com which highlighted the great Flash www.cigaretteisdead.com site.

Alun talked about his installation/performance piece Transporter Mix coming to the Ovada Gallery, Oxford in January. Apart from shameless self-promotion, he also showed us kuler – the free Adobe site and downloadable AIR package that allows you to create colour harmonies and export swatches, as well as share these with other users.

Mark showed us his video in an Intel online video competition – go and vote for it (until the end of next week) at http://blog.digitaldragrace.com/articles/2008/12/09/user-battle-1-about-begin/

Glenn showed us one of his favourite Flash sites at www.gotmilk.com, and the Adobe Edge newsletter – with links to a Volkswagen anniversary website, created in Flash by the company Achtun

Julian showed us one of his own Flash games, at his site http://www.longanimalsgames.com/
He’ll be talking more about his Flash game creation experience at the January meeting.

Blayze showed us a game he developed for company Altitude24 www.altitude24.co.uk

Stephen had been to Adobe Max in Milan, so talked us through what happens at one of those events. You’ve missed Milan now of course, but if you’re travelling east, you can still catch Max Tokyo http://jp.max.adobe.com/

Lesley won the Flash User Group software raffle – congratulations – spend the dosh wisely!

Gary from OFVM talked about the MIDAS production awards. They’re being expanded this year to include new media work. This might include games and web site projects as well as the more traditional time based media. If you think you could benefit from free access to OFVM’s resources (cameras, kit, expertise, connections), get in touch with Gary at OFVM – production@ofvm.org and read more at http://www.ofvm.org/

All this plus general chit chat, eating of doritos, popcorn, drinking of beer and wine, and our biggest attendance yet.

Thanks to all who came along, and see you on January 7th for the first meeting of 2009.

Alun

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Christmas Meeting and Party – 10th December 2008

Thursday, November 20th, 2008
The next meeting will be the Adobe User Groups 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 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 seeing you there. As ever the group is open to anybody who works with or is interested in Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Flash and Action Script. The evening will kick off at 7.30pm at OFVM film makers, Oxford.

User Group on Adobe site

Adobe have set up a site for all their User Groups – you can log in with an Adobe ID (free), and add ideas, job posts, events etc, as you like. It’s brand new, so still in testing, but it’s worth checking out if you’re looking for User Groups in other areas too.

http://groups.adobe.com/groups/6c54b074f9/summary

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Next meeting : December

Monday, November 3rd, 2008

Date: December 10th

Time: 7.30 – 9.30

Location: OFVM

Our next meeting is the last for 2008, and will be a combo Christmas party for the Flash and Dreamweaver User Groups + show-and-tell. Bring along any projects your working on using Adobe software and talk about them. If you need any special facilities, let us know beforehand. If you haven’t been to a User Group meeting before, this is your chance to meet informally.

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CS4 launch event – October 1st

Tuesday, September 16th, 2008

Adobe CS4 is coming here

Adobe announced Adobe Creative Suite 4 on September 23rd 2008. Come along to the next User Group meeting to see more in-depth analysis of what it contains. You might come away with useful knowledge, a new T-shirt, new contacts, or just a sense of childlike wonder.

When: Wednesday October 1st, 7.30 – 9.30 latest

Where: OFVM – Film Oxford, 54 Catherine St, Oxford, OX4 3AH

Let us know you’re coming at Upcoming Events

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Second ODUG meeting report

Friday, September 5th, 2008

Alun gave a quick presentation on Spry, and how to use it in Dreamweaver to create a picture gallery web app. John won the $2,000 software raffle, congratulations John, and very kindly donated it to OFVM, our generous hosts.

Here are the notes from the presentation.

Q. Where to get Spry?

It comes with Dreamweaver CS3, as Spry version 1.4

A. http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/spry/

Updated to 1.6.1 prerelease 25 Feb 2008, supports AIR

Download the framework, which includes examples and documentation, or just download the updater for Dreamweaver CS3

Adobe Spry home page with demos and examples.

Adobe online tutorial:

www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/spry_photo_album.html by Dan Booth, Adobe

This includes the data framework, sample photos and XML data file.

Lynda.com online video tutorials (not free)

Dreamweaver CS3 with CSS Essential Training by James Williamson (502)

(Chapter 11 is focused on Spry)

More advanced: Dreamweaver CS3 Projects: Creating Custom Spry Widgets with James Williamson (589)

Some sample AJAX (dynamic javascript) examples, which could be used for a photo gallery:

Don’t forget, the next meeting is on 1 October 2008 – sign up for the event,  this will be a special Adobe launch edition.

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First meeting report

Friday, August 8th, 2008
Last night’s meeting was a simple introduction to the Dreamweaver group to prospective members, mainly explaining the benefits of Adobe User Groups. Many thanks to those who made it, and stuck with us all the way through from the Flash session to the end!
Alun ran through a quick overview of Dreamweaver CS4, a free beta of which is available from the Adobe site.
The beta is free until launch for registered owners of Dreamweaver CS3.
Adobe Media Player IconWe walked through a couple of the videos Adobe have provided, explaining some of the new features in CS4 : Live View, Related Files, and Live Code.
These videos can be viewed either on the Adobe TV web site, or by installing the Adobe Media Player and browsing for the DreamLabs channel. Go straight to the first in the series of six videos: Related Files, and carry on browsing the TV site to view the rest.
In passing, Alun talked about the YUI (pronounced Why-You-I) Code Library, which you can find at http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/
and Adobe’s own AJAX framework, Spry.
We talked a bit about possible topics for future sessions, and these included web accessibility, Spry and AIR – which would integrate well with the Flash User Group’s interests. We’re also probably going to be able to cover Photoshop and Illustrator, so designers and pencil-pushers don’t feel left out!
Next meeting is September 3rd.

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