Come along next Tuesday and help shape the FlashBrighton schedule for the next few months. We have exhausted our current crop of sessions and need to arrange some new ones. With your help we will be able to produce the following rich & fruity FlashBrighton compote which, with care, should be good for at least 3 months:

FlashBrighton Compote

Ingredients:

YOU
1 full schedule
1 large room
A projector
A handful of Tuesday evenings
2 kilos of mixed talks
A selection of fresh geeks
Various munchies
A few trips to the pub
Enthusiasm
A dash of magic

Add the talks and the Tuesday evenings to the schedule. Take care to layer them so that Project Nights occur once a month and that a broad smorgasbord of Flash flavours occur throughout. Ensure you include at least one Big Screen Bonanza. Once the schedule is completely full, funnel it through the projector into the large room, ideally at The Werks. Add the geeks, the munchies and the trips to the pub and season with a little enthusiasm and a dash of magic. Bring to the boil and simmer for 3 months, or until the schedule is completely empty.

Serve and enjoy. Feeds up to 200 geeks, with talk of jam and crusty cobs.

Sign up for the schedule planning meeting on Upcoming now!

In the beginning was the word and the word was ‘PaperVision3D’ and God looked and He saw that it was good. But God came to Adam and Eve in the Garden of 3D and found them eating of the forbidden fruit of the ‘Away3D’ tree and He said unto them ‘There is only one 3D package in Flash and it is the mighty PaperVision3D’ and saying this cast them out of the Garden forever.

They came in time to a fertile plane and built a high city from Away3D triangular polygons. But God was greatly angered and send a wave of PaperVision3D websites to flood the market. They increased until they covered the entire face of the Internet. But God took pity and blessed Adam’s descendent Rob ‘Noah’ Bateman and said unto him ‘Never again will I curse the Internet with a glut of PaperVision3D’ and He instructed Rob Bateman to construct an Away3D boat which would carry him and all Away3D websites to safety over the flood. And when the flood subsided Rob’s boat lodged high on an Away3D mountain and God said unto him ‘be fruitful and fill the Internet with Away3D. I will make you, Rob Bateman, Lead Developer and Co-Founder of Away3D. This will be my covenant with you’.

And Rob said unto God ‘My Lord, you have saved the world from a mighty flood of PaperVision3D websites, I will do this for you. I will highlight the recent optimisations in Away3D that take advantage of Flash Player 10. I will showcase some of the collaborations happening within Away3D and I will show practical examples of Away3D in action. And I will show exciting work in progress from inside the Away3D production team’.

The Lord was greatly pleased and He looked again and He saw that Away3D was good (just as good as PaperVision3D anyway) and He said unto Rob ‘Go to FlashBrighton, next Tuesday at 7pm, and show them Away3D and how powerful it is. And make sure they sign up for the event on Upcoming‘. And Rob said ‘I will my Lord, for soon I shall fly to the sweet by and by, away from a world without PaperVision3D’.

Roll up, roll up for the one and only FlashBrighton Geek Jumble sale.
Grab yourself a bargain with rumours of items like a PS2 guitar controller for £4, an epson printer for £8, wireless router for just £3!!! As well as a multitude of books, computers, games and other geeky objects.

The sale will be held at The Werks in Hove.

If you want to bring along things to sell or swap please mail the list to let us know.
http://groups.google.com/group/flashbrighton

If you want to just come along, sign up on our upcoming page :
http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/2677082/

Mario Klingemann is a true wizard of Flash!

With but a deft sweep of his fingers across the keyboard, he can dazzle and amaze you with fiendish acts of ActionScript that will leave you dumbstruck.

What devilry is this, you ask, is he man or magician? How can Mario the Marvellous achieve the miracles he does, conjuring dynamic pattern recognition from video streams, bewitching api mashups and complex particle systems in “140 characters or less”? And what does he have hidden up his sleeve next? Will he cut Aral Balkan in half, escape from a secure Flex app, or make Silverlight disappear in a puff of simulated smoke?

Roll up, roll up everyone, because next week this prodigy of prestidigitation is coming to Brighton just for FlashBrighton to perform amazing feats of code magic before your very eyes. With nothing but a laptop to aid him Mario will hypnotise Flash and induce it to execute functions you never thought it possible of. Prepare to be flabberghasted as Mario opens his tinkerer’s box of tricks, intones from his book of digital spells and rouses the very spirit of the Flash Player.

Mario is no comedy hypnotist, when you wake up you’ll be able to cast Flash spells like him. Come along to The Werks next Tuesday and after the show you’ll be amazing people with your ActionScript voodoo too.

ALAKAZAM!

A hands-on introduction to the Objective-C language. We’ll have some experts around to help, you just need to bring your laptop and dive in. It’ll suit you if you came to last week’s Objective-C session, know a bit of Objective-C already or are just brave and game for a go without any experience. Whatever happens, we are all guaranteed to learn a lot.

We don’t know yet what we’ll be making, that’ll be decided on the night. Nothing too complicated, that’s for sure, the session is aimed at beginners.

So, sign yourself up on Upcoming and we’ll see you next Tuesday

Next week: OMG Mario Klingemann is coming over from Germany just for us !!! Keep your diary OPEN; that is an order!