This is in regards to the December 3rd, SilvaFUG Flash Platform Pitch Night at Plug and Play in Sunnyvale: http://ria.meetup.com/12/calendar/11326353/

Last week two practice sessions were held in San Jose and San Francisco with about 15 people combined. The coaching from Ed Dunphy and Ted Patrick was great (Ted even stepped up and gave an example pitch!) and very much appreciated. Both evenings were full of lively discussion around startups and the art of pitching. Much was learned by all.

However, at this time there are only 3-4 presenters that are preparing for the Pitch Night. The participants have expressed their desire to continue the practice session and so we will. This being said we need at least 5 presentations to make the evening worthwhile for everyone - so please step-up or push your startup-pals into the ring! We will conduct the practice sessions this week but will need to make a decision on November 25th as to whether or not to proceed with the pitch night on Dec 3rd.

This week's practice sessions:

• Tues, Nov 24th - 6:30 in the Kodak Room, 601 Townsend Street, San Francisco
• Coaches: Ed Dunphy and Esther Lee
  
• Weds, Nov 25th - 6:30 in the Albertus Room, 345 Park Ave, San Jose, West Tower
• Ted Patrick, Geoff Brown
  

1st Week in December:

• Dress Rehearsal at Plug and Play - Dec 1st
• Pitch Night at Plug and Play - Dec 3rd

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Best Regards,
Keith Sutton
keith_sutton100@...
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/keithsutton
Blog: http://keithsutton.wordpress.com/

Silicon Valley Flex User Group (SilvaFUG)
User Group Manager

Website: http://www.silvafug.org
Mailing list (with job announcements): http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/silvafug/
Events: http://ria.meetup.com/12/
LinkedIn Group (with job postings): http://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=2376098&trk=anet_ug_hm
Adobe Groups: http://groups.adobe.com/groups/7fef6a84aa/summary

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Best Regards,
Keith Sutton
keith_sutton100@...
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/keithsutton
Blog: http://keithsutton.wordpress.com/

Silicon Valley Flex User Group (SilvaFUG)
User Group Manager

Website: http://www.silvafug.org
Mailing list (with job announcements): http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/silvafug/
Events: http://ria.meetup.com/12/
LinkedIn Group (with job postings): http://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=2376098&trk=anet_ug_hm
Adobe Groups: http://groups.adobe.com/groups/7fef6a84aa/summary

Hi everyone,

We'd like to invite you all to a casual gathering. Details here:

http://www.eventbrite.com/event/488959491

- The Flex SDK, Flash Builder, and Flash Catalyst Teams

Since most facebook games kinda suck, we've launched a new company named "idle
Games" to dramatically change the way Facebook/Myspace/iphone games are played,
look, and interact socially. We are founded/funded by a Silicon Valley serial
entrepreneur who is also the founder of one of the largest online gaming
companies.  We have a very ambitious first game, and we're are looking for a
AS3/Flash/Flex Developer who wants to put their personal imprint on this new
platform. If you'd be up for talking about it, please forward your resume and
I'll follow-up immediately to discuss. I look forward to chatting.

Sr. Flash Developer
Responsibilities:
* Help build large-scale social games.
* Work effectively on a team of developers.
* Deliver high-quality code according to pre-defined specifications, style
guidelines and APIs.
* Contribute innovative game ideas
* Grow and adapt to changing technology

Qualifications:
* 5+ years experience building games and other Flash applications with a proven
track record of entertaining games
* Expert knowledge of ActionScript 3.0 and Object Oriented Programming with
Design Patterns
* Deep understanding of game design concepts
* Ability to implement kinematics and convincing physics in a platform-style
games
* Experience with tweening engines such as TweenLite
* Experience building XML-driven client-server applications
* Ability to interface well with Flash/Traditional Graphic Designers
* Understanding of mathematical concepts related to 2D computer graphics and
animation

Nice to Have:
* Experience creating games with isometric graphics
* Papervision / 3D graphics
* Pixelbender
* Flex and MXML
* Familiarity with CSS and JavaScript
* Experience with a remoting technology such as WebOrb.
* Facebook API
* Design Patterns
* Four-year college degree in Computer Science, Game Design or similar field.
philhaake@..., phil@...

Happy Thanksgiving! Try out my little Flex game at: www.flappit.com

Work out your holiday angst!

Kondra is looking for a senior engineer to join their team and help add to the
Flex expertise of the company.

Kondra is a small software consulting company with big customers. We recently
developed projects for eBay including a browser plug-in with over a million
users, a real-time auction bidding system, and technology used to launch the
eBay rewards program. Our customers also include Coca-Cola, who in addition to
developing the back-end for almost two dozen websites for, we also developed the
codes that Coke has used under their bottle caps for the last seven years. We've
done cross-platform virtual machines, operating systems, and power management
systems used in some of the largest data centers in the world. We recently
finished an embedded SNMP stack for a custom piece of hardware and launched a
website that handles over 30 million requests a day.

We are currently working on several very challenging projects that require the
expertise of a Flex guru. You will be responsible for helping to design,
architect, and implement features in a large scale Flex application.
Additionally you should be able to mentor other team members who are experienced
engineers but are new to Flex and need a jedi-master to help guide them along
their path. If you are a great engineer who has the skills required to call
yourself a jedi-master ninja guru Flex developer, then we want to talk to you!

Primary responsibilities for this position include:

* Development of polished and diverse user experiences for platforms ranging
from websites to custom desktop applications.
* Duties will include juggling multiple projects with overlapping timelines and
multiple deliverables, managing individual milestones while being able to flip
between a vast range of client work and target audiences.
* Working with other engineers to integrate front end user experiences with
various technologies.
* Helping mentor other team members who are learning Flex.
Required experience and competencies for this position are:
* Several years experience programming ActionScript and Flex applications with a
proven track record of delivering commercial products.
* Good written and verbal communication skills. This includes the ability to
interact with both engineering and business folks via email and conference calls
as well as face to face.
* Extensive user interface development and a strong understanding of user
experience best practices. You should have the ability to design and implement
an effective user interface for complex interactions.
* A solid understanding of design patterns and frameworks.
* Experience working with both XML and JSON.
* The ability to produce clean, well-structured, optimized and documented code.
* Demonstrated experience in J2EE/Java software development is a strong plus.
* BS or MS in Computer Science or related field.

If you want to play a big role in a small company and have an opportunity prove
on a daily basis why you are a Flex master, email your resume, with a link to
your portfolio to flexjob@....

This is in regards to the December 3rd, SilvaFUG Flash Platform Pitch Night at Plug and Play in Sunnyvale: http://ria.meetup.com/12/calendar/11326353/

Last week two practice sessions were held in San Jose and San Francisco with about 15 people combined. The coaching from Ed Dunphy and Ted Patrick was great (Ted even stepped up and gave an example pitch!) and very much appreciated. Both evenings were full of lively discussion around startups and the art of pitching. Much was learned by all.

However, at this time there are only 3-4 presenters that are preparing for the Pitch Night. The participants have expressed their desire to continue the practice session and so we will. This being said we need at least 5 presentations to make the evening worthwhile for everyone - so please step-up or push your startup-pals into the ring! We will conduct the practice sessions this week but will need to make a decision on November 25th as to whether or not to proceed with the pitch night on Dec 3rd.

This week's practice sessions:

• Tues, Nov 24th - 6:30 in the Kodak Room, 601 Townsend Street, San Francisco
• Coaches: Ted Patrick, Geoff Brown
• Weds, Nov 25th - 6:30 in the Albertus Room, 345 Park Ave, San Jose, West Tower
• Ed Dunphy and Esther Lee
  

1st Week in December:

• Dress Rehearsal at Plug and Play - Dec 1st
• Pitch Night at Plug and Play - Dec 3rd

--

Best Regards,
Keith Sutton
keith_sutton100@...
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/keithsutton
Blog: http://keithsutton.wordpress.com/

Silicon Valley Flex User Group (SilvaFUG)
User Group Manager

Website: http://www.silvafug.org
Mailing list (with job announcements): http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/silvafug/
Events: http://ria.meetup.com/12/
LinkedIn Group (with job postings): http://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=2376098&trk=anet_ug_hm
Adobe Groups: http://groups.adobe.com/groups/7fef6a84aa/summary

--

Best Regards,
Keith Sutton
keith_sutton100@...
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/keithsutton
Blog: http://keithsutton.wordpress.com/

Silicon Valley Flex User Group (SilvaFUG)
User Group Manager

Website: http://www.silvafug.org
Mailing list (with job announcements): http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/silvafug/
Events: http://ria.meetup.com/12/
LinkedIn Group (with job postings): http://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=2376098&trk=anet_ug_hm
Adobe Groups: http://groups.adobe.com/groups/7fef6a84aa/summary

We're looking for a Sr. Flex GUI Developer for one of my clients in Santa Clara,
CA.  Please call me if interested.  The description is below my contact info. 
Thanks.


William Huynh
408.207.8158
willh@...


Sr. Flex GUI Developer to help define GUI workflows, screens, components and
behavior.  Develop Rich Internet Application (RIA) screens and components/
widgets using Flash and Flex technologies.

Job Functions:
1. Participate in SDLC Process includes design, coding, reviews, testing and
documentation.
2. Understand Hitachi Storage specific technologies
3. Enhance existing code to support new features.
4. Provide ongoing support and maintenance of developed code.
5. Interact with Product Management for GUI requirements, participate and review
GUI guidelines.
6. Develop and maintain test code for GUI screens and components

Primary Qualifications:
• BS in Computer Science or equivalent degree
• 7+ years of overall experience including
• 3-5 years of Flash experience
• 1-2 years of Flex experience
• Graphics Design experience and web usability experience are big plus
• String knowledge of HTTP protocol, AJAX Design patterns and Action Script
programming (including object oriented coding, events, class/package
structures).
• Strong grasp of Computer Science fundamentals (ie. data structures,
algorithms)
• Experience with Pure MVC, Cairngorm, and other Flex frameworks
• Knowledge of UI design principles & expertise in developing interactive
websites.
• Ability to maintain high Quality standards, be a self learner and have the
drive to Innovate.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
• Programming with Java and XML is a plus.

Hi Keith,
Have you heard of this? We'd like to use a mechanism like this in one of our products. Can you or any of your contacts shed some light on this?
Thanks
Pratima
If you sign up for NBA League Pass, you get a prompt from within Flash to install a plugin supplied by a third-party, namely the “Octoshape Grid Enhancement plugin”. It goes ahead and does a download and launches a native installer.
The mechanism has actually been there for a while but Octoshape is the first time that Adobe has allowed a third-party to distribute software this way.
Here’s more background:
<http://www.flashmagazine.com/news/detail/plugins_for_the_flash_player/>http://www.flashmagazine.com/news/detail/plugins_for_the_flash_player/
From the sound of it and the commentary from Adobe reps, it’s likely that the client uses some kind of verification or signing so that arbitrary people can’t take advantage of this thing, but it would be interesting to get confirmation on how this works.

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Best Regards,
Keith Sutton
keith_sutton100@...
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/keithsutton
Blog: http://keithsutton.wordpress.com/

Silicon Valley Flex User Group (SilvaFUG)
User Group Manager

Website: http://www.silvafug.org
Mailing list (with job announcements): http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/silvafug/
Events: http://ria.meetup.com/12/
LinkedIn Group (with job postings): http://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=2376098&trk=anet_ug_hm
Adobe Groups: http://groups.adobe.com/groups/7fef6a84aa/summary

Insight Global is looking for a Senior Flash/Flex Designer for one of our
clients here in San Francisco. The candidate will be working in both the
designing (Flash w/ Actionscript 3.0)and developing arenas, with more of an
emphasis on design. With that said, it is very important that the candidate be
well versed in FLEX development.
Must have at least 5 years of Flash experience.

Requirements:
1) Flash Experience
2) Actionscript 3.0
3) Rich Media Application
4) FLEX
5) Individual who is a software developer or flash designer  with action script
6) Must have an online portfolio. Key design exercises
7) Worked in a start up or fast passed environment
Plus:
1) Great Design Work

Our client is seeking a Flash Designer / Developer to join their growing design
team to work on a variety of website, software, hardware, and other user
experience efforts. We are looking for someone with the talent to create elegant
solutions, the skills to prototype complex behaviors and sensibility to design
beautiful motion, in addition to the passion to help us create innovative
experiences for their users. This is a full time, on site position, located in
their San Francisco office reporting to the Senior Design Manager. Works with
product team and other designers to go through the design process and works with
the development team.

Please contact me if interested.
I look forward to speaking with you!



Sheena Clarke | Insight Global, Inc.
160 Spear Street  Suite 1130
San Francisco, CA 94105
phone (415) 848-5720
sheena.clarke@...
www.insightglobal.net

• Tues, Nov 24th - 6:30 in the Kodak Room, 601 Townsend Street, San Francisco
• Coaches: Ed Dunphy and Esther Lee
  
• Weds, Nov 25th - 6:30 in the Albertus Room, 345 Park Ave, San Jose, West Tower
• Ted Patrick, Geoff Brown
  

• Dress Rehearsal at Plug and Play - Dec 1st
• Pitch Night at Plug and Play - Dec 3rd

--

Best Regards,
Keith Sutton
keith_sutton100@...
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/keithsutton
Blog: http://keithsutton.wordpress.com/

Silicon Valley Flex User Group (SilvaFUG)
User Group Manager

Website: http://www.silvafug.org
Mailing list (with job announcements): http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/silvafug/
Events: http://ria.meetup.com/12/
LinkedIn Group (with job postings): http://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=2376098&trk=anet_ug_hm
Adobe Groups: http://groups.adobe.com/groups/7fef6a84aa/summary

At this point anything and everything is possible. High rates /
interesting work; low rates / crappy work; low rates / demanding work;
high rates / complete idiocy, etc.

Low rates: <= $60/hr
High rates: >=$150/hr

Mike

 

You can probably leverage the enterFrame or render events, although performance may be affected. You also could use mouseUp/mouseDown and keyUp/keyDown. Too bad there is not a specific event for this.

Doug Kadlecek


On 11/18/09 11:47 AM, "technusiast" <technusiast@yahoo.com> wrote:

 
 
   

Hello,

Would anyone know of any existing component, or can suggest an implementation approach, for a text-based Flex component that dispatches some sort of event when a portion of the text is selected.

I need a component that can show text (text field, text input, label, text area, etc) and dispatch an event if when a portion of its text value is selected/highlighted by the user.

My research has so far come up with a cut, copy, paste, and selectAll events, but not one for a partial text select.

I'm thinking of the following approach: add event listeners for mouse down and mouse up positions.  Then based on these, determine the text that is most likely highlighted/selected.

Thanks,
Henry

 
   

Douglas Kadlecek
415-921-8808
doug@dkware.com

The best way to get a regular job is to create it yourself. In today's
regulatory environment, there are many and growing disincentives for companies
to add employees, particularly in california. For someone with a little sales
presence, this fact opens some interesting opportunities.
Chuck Brooks
FutureWare SCG

 
 
   

Hello,

Would anyone know of any existing component, or can suggest an implementation approach, for a text-based Flex component that dispatches some sort of event when a portion of the text is selected.

I need a component that can show text (text field, text input, label, text area, etc) and dispatch an event if when a portion of its text value is selected/highlighted by the user.

My research has so far come up with a cut, copy, paste, and selectAll events, but not one for a partial text select.

I'm thinking of the following approach: add event listeners for mouse down and mouse up positions.  Then based on these, determine the text that is most likely highlighted/selected.

Thanks,
Henry

 
   

Hello,

Would anyone know of any existing component, or can suggest an implementation
approach, for a text-based Flex component that dispatches some sort of event
when a portion of the text is selected.

I need a component that can show text (text field, text input, label, text area,
etc) and dispatch an event if when a portion of its text value is
selected/highlighted by the user.

My research has so far come up with a cut, copy, paste, and selectAll events,
but not one for a partial text select.

I'm thinking of the following approach: add event listeners for mouse down and
mouse up positions.  Then based on these, determine the text that is most likely
highlighted/selected.

Thanks,
Henry

Now that I've been laid off from Adobe (along with 700 others), I would like to
seek Flex consulting opportunities, and one possibility is with web
designers/developers wishing to offer their clients value added components.

My question is that I heard you don't want for example three separate Flex apps
on one web page, as it results in three instances of the Flash Player generated,
or something like that.

So is it necessary to group multiple Flex components into one Flex app to each
web page? This can limit placement of Flex components on a web page, because the
web page will not be completely done in Flex, as the page must be searchable.

Any insight on this, particularly from Alex and others on the Flex product team
at Adobe.

Anyone new to Flex needs help on Flex components/applications, I'm available:
glafrance@...

Thanks!
Greg

 

  By the way at which station do we get-off? Just wanted to know in case
  I miss you guys. Please let me know.

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Vivian Richard <kanpsack@gmail.com> wrote:

  I will also get to this train from Sunnyvale... Any one else???

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Christopher Luebcke <cluebcke@yahoo.com> wrote:

 

Just confirmed, will be on the same train up. Hilarity is sure to ensue. See y'all then.

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From: Rev. Dan Tripp <doktahworm@gmail.com>
To: silvafug@yahoogroups.com
Cc: silvafug <ria-12@meetup.com>
Sent: Thu, November 19, 2009 11:24:23 AM
Subject: Re: [silvafug] For those coming to the Flash Builder for CF developers tomorrow in SF

 

If you take CalTrain, please consider joining other Fuggers for our mini hack-and-yack- fest on the way up.  I'm planning to be on train # 319 which leaves the SJ Diridon station at 7:03 and will likely be in one of last cars towards the end o' the train... just look for big guy with a Todd Snider hat and a psychotic-looking beard.  If you'd like to meetup with us but can't find us, please call me at (408) 391-9890.

I'm really looking forward to this!  Thanks Roundpeg/Chris!  :)

- Dan

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Christopher Luebcke <cluebcke@yahoo. com> wrote:

 

Hi all, forgive the spam and hit delete if you're not coming. If you are (and you should if you can, it's free and cool), a few notes:

1. If you're coming from the South Bay or Peninsula, consider taking Caltrain. The northbound schedule is here: http://www.caltrain .org/timetable. html#weekday- northbound . The Caltrain depot in SF is at 4th and Townsend, 3 blocks from Adobe's site. Yeah, it's 3 long SoMa blocks, but no more than a 10-15 minute stroll.

2. A correction to the setup instructions - you should install ColdFusion Builder Beta as a standalone, not as a plugin to an existing Flash Builder Beta (or Eclipse) install. People on Windows have experienced crippling problems installing it as a plugin (hey, it's installing a beta plugin into beta software, people), and while it seemed to work on my Mac, the best bet is just do it as a standalone. It'll be a heavier load on your system and you won't have the convenience of just being able to switch perspectives, but that's better than not being able to use it.

If you've already installed CF Builder as a plugin, never fear; you can just re-run the same installer and select "Standalone". You don't even need to uninstall the plugin version first. Easy pleasey.

3. Speaking of those setup instructions, you are going to go through them all before coming, right? Including the MySQL setup, right? We'll be on site at 8:30, ready to help people who've encountered difficulties with the setup, but it'll go a long way towards avoiding downtime for the whole session if you've already done the setup beforehand.

Feel free to contact me with any questions you might have, including any difficulties with setup. We (roundpeg) did the same session on Tuesday in Newport Beach and it was great. I haven't done much CF development in the last, oh, decade or so, but CF 9 and CF Builder have some amazing new tools (Hibernate integration, code generation, full remoting support, and a lot more) that are really making me look at it again as a viable application development platform.

Hope to see you there,

Chris Luebcke

Director, Technology

roundpeg, inc.