Editor's Picks = My biggest anticipation is Wed's FBI agents discussing Cyber-crime and also Thurs Computer vision & Face Recognition. Day by day its: Friday Flash Camp Sat MicroCenter MS-Powerpoint Tips & & Tricks Sun CWE lug Mon & Tues UMSL's 2 day class Advanced UNIX Scripting Wed SLUUG StL UNIX general mtng FBI agents discuss Cyber-crime next Thurs StL lug Computer Vision & Face Recognition ===================================================================================== And the details... ================================================================================ Friday, September 9 ================================================================================ 9:00am Flash Camp When Fri, September 9, 9am – 5pm Where Webster University The 3rd Flash Camp St. Louis! Come and learn the latest and greatest about the Flash Platform from locally and nationally recognized leaders. We have 4 confirmed FAFTA speakers this year, as well as some top talent from around the country. It's being hosted at Webster University this year, with a lot more space and better accommodations. The sessions are geared towards Flash, Flex, AS3, Mobile and UX. All the details are here: http://www.flashcampstlouis.com 2 Tracks. 12 Speakers. Designer. Developer. Mobile. UX. Experts on the Adobe Flash Platform from both inside and outside Adobe. Come advance your Flash, Actionscript and Flex/AIR skills, meet members of the Adobe team and network with local companies and fellow developers. Sessions are geared towards designers and developers with beginning to intermediate level of experience with ActionScript 3, Flash, and/or Flex and AIR. There will be plenty of giveaways, swag, and a yummy lunch and warm cookies will be provided. 9:00am Flash vs HTML5 showdown Speaker: Paul Trani 10:00am Exploring a Designer and Developer Workflow Speaker: Aaron Pedersen Designers and Developers have long sought the holy grail: a seamless workflow between both disciplines that allow each to stretch their creative legs and at the same time, not step on each others toes. However, such a workflow does not yet exist and both disciplines have struggled to keep projects on time, under budget, and keep the other happy along the way. Software, such as Adobe’s Creative Suite, can help alleviate many of the pain points by creating workflows between products. However, tools can only solve part of the problem. Designers and developers need to work together to create their own workflows that provide an environment that allows for parallel design and development. In this session we will examine one such workflow called the ‘Designer and Developer Contract’. This workflow will focus on wireframes as the contract between both disciplines and explore how a single document can be used by everyone on the project team. Topic TBA Speaker: Danielle Cooley 11:00am Topic Enterprise Your Apps Speaker: Jeff Roberts Designing for Mobile Speaker: Dee Sadler So you want to create mobile applications? This session will walk you through the ins and outs of creating graphics for mobile. Resolutions, tips and tricks to making the graphics as sharp as possible. Using Photoshop vs Fireworks, how device central can help you, wireframing, and much more. 12:00pm Lunch 1:00pm How to use Flash with Facebook Speaker: Ben Bishop Failing faster, failing forward: Collaborative design as a development activity Speaker: Christina York Rarely do the best ideas come first and from one person. Collaborative design is a great way to get a lot of good and bad ideas out there early and improve the quality of your software/product. This session will demonstrate techniques for two types of collaborative design: design studios with team members and stakeholders and participatory design activities with end users. 2:00pm Where We've Been, Where We're Going - Look at the past 5 years of the design industry and where it might be going in the next 5 Speaker: Brad Nunnally Over the past five years, the world of user experience and design has changed greatly. We've been able to adapt and grow as we faced down many challenges in the ever changing world of technology. But, are we ready for the next five years? If not, what can we do as design professionals to prepare ourselves for the "next big thing" that will rock the technological world. Come hear how we can use what we've learned to help prepare for the future, and get a glimpse at some of the technologies that we might be designing for before you know it. Building Flex Apps for Mobile - iOS and Android Speaker: Jason Hanson You can have it all. Use your existing knowledge of Flash, Flex, and ActionScript to build mobile apps. Build once and deploy for iOS, Android, and Blackberry tablets. The recent and exciting updates to the Adobe AIR runtime and the new tooling in Flash Builder 4.5.x provide the tools you need to build your app and deliver it via the app markets for Android, iOS, and Blackberry tablet. Yes, build in Flash and deploy to an iPhone & iPad app you can sell in the market. We will walk through what you need to get started building your own apps. I will show how to deploy to multiple platforms. I will also go over a sample starter projects that Abobe has provided, that you can use as a starting point so you can hit the ground running writing good code that will scale well. 3:00pm Rage against the Framework Speaker: David Ortinau We love the Flash platform for rapidly building awesome experiences. As our projects become more complex we look to frameworks like Flex for a boost with rich components and data support. The Flex framework is extremely powerful and often frustrating. Implementing expressive UX can seem near impossible at these times, but we need not settle for lesser UX. In this session we'll talk briefly about the principles of Interaction Design models, and then take a practical look at common leverage points where we can inject our interactions to create better experiences. Adobe Edge for flash designers Speaker: Jacob Heberlie 4:00pm Topic TBA Speaker: Ben Stucki Keywords flashcamp mobile UX AS3 Flex Flash Flash Platform more ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10:00am SCORCC-DTP Desktop Publishing =============================================================================== Saturday, September 10 =============================================================================== 8:30am Hiatus - T3 Techies Teaching Techies ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 12:00pm DBUG - Data Bytes Users Group WhenSat, September 10, 12pm – 3pm Where12863 Willowyk Drive, St. Louis, MO DescriptionSee http://dbug-stl.tripod.com/Home.htm Thornhill Branch Library, 12863 Willowyk Drive (off Fee Fee Road), St. Louis, MO ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2:00pm MC-Clinic - MS Powerpoint Tips & Tricks WhenSat, September 10, 2pm – 3pm Where87 Brentwood Promenade Ct., Brentwood, MO 63144 DescriptionVenue: Micro Center In Store Clinic FREE in-store computer technology clinic, see http://www.microcenter.com/instore_clinic/sign_up.html to sign up. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6:00pm ASEMO - Astronomical Society of Eastern Missouri WhenSat, September 10, 6pm – 10pm DescriptionSee http://asemonline.org/ for current information. * Regular General Meeting* =============================================================================== Sunday, September 11 ============================================================================== All day Patriot Day ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1:00pm CWElug Central West End Linux Users' Group WhenSun, September 11, 1pm – 4pm Where1610 S. Big Bend Blvd. St. Louis, MO 63117 (map) DescriptionVenue: Scott's Office http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug/ (which may not actually be current). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2:00pm MC-Clinic - MS Powerpoint Tips & Tricks WhenSun, September 11, 2pm – 3pm Where87 Brentwood Promenade Ct., Brentwood, MO 63144 (map) DescriptionVenue: Micro Center In Store Clinic FREE in-store computer technology clinic, http://www.microcenter.com/instore_clinic/sign_up.html =============================================================================== And an overview of next week... =============================================================================== Monday, September 12 =============================================================================== 8:30am UMSL - Advanced UNIX: Script Files - Day 1 WhenMon, September 12, 8:30am – 4:00pm Where12837 Flushing Meadows Dr., St. Louis, MO 63131 Description http://www.cetc.umsl.edu/catalog/unix.html Linux was developed as a version of UNIX, for use on personal computers. Its syntax, kernel compilation, and environment are very similar to other versions of UNIX. Students interested in Linux can take the UNIX series of classes to learn the basics of the operating system. Advanced UNIX: Script Files (Prerequisite: Intermediate Commands of UNIX/Linux or equivalent experience.) This course covers the design and use of UNIX script files for custom applications. Topics include the consideration of the Bourne shell and C shell as programming languages, user-defined variables (including arrays), numeric variables, operators, assignment statements, and input/output operations. Learn the standard programming concepts, such as conditional statements, loop statements, and recursion, in the context of shell programming. Sample programs will be discussed to demonstrate techniques of using UNIX commands. Fee: $399 Two-Day Class Meets 8:30am-4:00pm (13 hours) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1:00pm SCORCC-GM - General Meeting 6:00pm BDPA - Black Data Processing Associates 6:30pm stlRUBY - STL Ruby Users' Grp 7:00pm MWG - MidWest Geeks 7:00pm stlGD - StL Game Developers =============================================================================== Tuesday, September 13 ============================================================================== All day SecureWorld Expo All day Patch Tuesday 8:30am UMSL - Advanced UNIX: Script Files - Day 2 8:30am STLSUG - St. Louis Sharepoint Users Group 1:00pm STLSSUG -St. Louis SQL Server User Group 5:30pm GAMUG - Gateway Area MacIntosh Users Group 6:00pm CCSL - Computer Consultants of St. Louis 7:00pm LUCI-NB - Linux Users Central Illinois (Newbie Mtg) 7:30pm ARCH - Arch Reactor =============================================================================== Wednesday, September 14 =============================================================================== All day SecureWorld Expo 8:00am St. Louis ACT! Users Group 1:00pm SCORCC-G Geneology SIG 6:00pm JCMS - Joomla CMS 6:30pm SLUUG St. Louis Unix Users Group =============================================================================== Thursday, September 15 =============================================================================== 7:30am IT Advancement Council 1:00pm WCORCC - General Mtg 6:00pm stlMD - St. Louis Mobile Dev 6:30pm stlLUG -Linux Users' Grp "Computer Vision with OpenCV" 6:30pm STLJS - Saint Louis JavaScript Meetup 7:00pm PHP - St Louis PHP Users Group 7:30pm SLRCFA - St. Louis Radio Control Flying Assoc. 7:30pm STL Wordpress Users Group =============================================================================== Friday, September 16 =============================================================================== All day Balloon Glow 1:00pm NCORCC - North County Older Residents Computer Club 7:00pm SLARC - St. Louis Area Radio Club 7:30pm SLAS - St. Louis Astronomical Society ============================================================================== Saturday, September 17 =============================================================================== All day Great Forest Park Balloon Race 10:00am Great Forest Park Balloon Race 10:00am ROBOMO - StL Area Robotics Grp 2:00pm MC-Clinic - MS-Win Live(TM) Essentials 4:00pm SILUG-ME - Southern Illinois Linux Users Group ============================================================================== Sunday, September 18 =============================================================================== All day StrangeLoop 2011 Conference 10:00am Great Forest Park Balloon Race 2:00pm MC-Clinic - MS Windows Live(TM) Essentials