Do you live in Switzerland?
Are you up for a great hands on session with Ryan Stewart and Mihai Corlan? Then you shouldn’t miss the Adobe Flex Mobile Tour 2011

You can register here, right now for a limited seat, so don’t miss the chance:

Hang on you don’t live in Switzerland but in another European Country? Don’t worry Ryan Stewart and Mihai Corlan will be travelling around Europe to show the latest greatest features of Flex for Mobile Devices. Mihai posted a tour list on his blog: http://corlan.org/2011/10/27/flex-mobile-european-tour-2011/

Don’t miss the great opportunity!

… it feels very bad, why? Just to mention a few reasons, the people, the scenery, the people, the snowboarding, have I already mentioned the people?
yep, besides Flash At The Lake 09 there was no conference that I loved so much, It was such an awesome time talking with some great cool people, it was a laid back conference with
lots of time for networking, snowboarding, and simply having fun. Let me recap for your what happened and how I experienced it.

Day T-1:
Yep, I’ve driven up to Stechelberg a day before the Conference officially started together with Mihai Corlan which I had the opportunity of picking up at the Airport and having
a very relaxed drive to the mountains with some very good talks not only geeky but very inspiring and fun. After arriving at the Location, people started to walk in ( there were already a few though ),
and we had a great time getting to know each other and to learn about what others do, very constructive and inspiring, if it wasn’t for the late night obligatory speaker snowball fight at 3am

Day 1:
First day on the slopes, first day of the conference, after a very relaxing snowboarding day with @riccastelhano, @masdennis, @starnut, @johanlopes and @agens as you can see here, the conference started late but very interesting with the opening speech of @mcorlan on Building Mobile Apps with Adobe AIR, followed by @agens speech on Making Flash Games where he showed an awesome ski jump game which attracted a sick amount of gamers, Peter also presented FunGrid an opensource flash game API, almost at midnight @mcorlan had the last speech of the day/night where he showed some great AIR/P2P examples as well some tips & tricks on his session Optimizing your Flash/AIR Application. Same as last night, it didn’t end very early and in this place I would like to thank Otto & and his service for keeping us awake with some booze and especially to stay awake with us at such late time.

Day 2:
Apart from the usual awesome weather in Stechelberg, just have a look at this awful pics, here, here, here, here, here, here, here and if you don’t have enough of it, here the complete Album. Everybody was pretty much on time to attend @masdennis awesome presentation on Messing with Actionscript and the Kinect then as the Dinner arrived, @fcolaco had a surprise prepared for us especially for visitors outside of Switzerland, the local yodeler group made a show for us and you shouldn’t miss this one, The Yodelers at gotoAndSki(); after their show, the conference continued its normal path and @starnut was up on the stage for his talk titled Hot Wireless Data Fudge where he speaks about all kinds of wireless communication while developing for AIR on mobile and on the desktop, again quite late it was my turn to present Developing for TV with AIR, where @fcolaco grounded me for not behaving don’t remember why though but I think it was okay to do so.

Day 3 & Last Day:
Yep, this pretty much sucks, everybody knew that this was the last day of the conference and everyone was sad about it as well, nevertheless, @dctrl @starnut and me decided to have a blast on the slopes and do some snowboarding the last day, which again was wonderful due to the awesome weather in the mountains, this time we had to start a bit earlier as some attendees were living that night.
First of all @trinefalbe stepped up the stage with her talk on Cognitive Psychology in Interactive Design a very very good talk which I really enjoyed and I recommend this one to all of you designing Flash Applications, Websites, or even if you are not a Flash Developer, have a look at it as soon as her video is online. After Trine we had to speed up things a little and instaed of having dinner @riccastelhano was up on the stage doing his talk on Flash + Arduino: a connection with Feelings, again a very inspiring talk with funny moments and great shows, as well it wakened up the electronical guy in me, just need to get my hands on a bunch of boards and start building my own stuff, I think our good friend Maciek “Feel happy like a pig in the mud” Wcislik aka @inoutin had the same thoughts like me.
Last but not least our very own SFUG co-manager @_sandro was up on the stage talking about Advanced Flash Accessibility a great talk as usual and how could it be different, Sandro released a new opensource library called JAcc that will help every flash developer enabling Accessibility in their Flash Projects. That was it gotoAndSki(); was officially over and everyone was feeling sad about it.

At the end it was one of the best conferences I’ve attended in the past, not only because there was some snowboarding involved, no, @fcolaco and @almeidavid_made a great conference in the swiss alps porting the concept from norway to switzerland, I had a blast meeting all these people, which now became friends, I can’t describe well enough how the conference was, I think the best would be to check out the tweets from the first week after the event by then you will be mad that you didn’t attend this event but you will know where you are going to be next year when it’s time for gotoAndSki(“switzerland”); 2012.

Below some of the tweets that I think really explain how the conference was:

I guess good networking is when you think “I miss this guys” instead of just “I made this business contacts”. Damn #gotoAndSki nostalgia…
@fcolaco

Blog: Two thumbs up for #gotoAndSki(‘Switzerland’) http://www.trinefalbe.com/?p=690
@trinefalbe

Walking through the streets of Lisbon. “Need to catch fresh air”, my brain says. I guess it’s a #gotoAndSki secon… http://picplz.com/FvSV
@imhugo

Me too! RT @RicCastelhano: may I return to the Swiss Alps ?? May I, please? Pretty please? #gotoandski aftermath
@jenschr

Just 17 more days to gotoAndSki(); the swiss edition in Stechelberg, a good time to present what I’m going to talk about during my session called “Developing AIR for TV”.

During these 45 minutes, you are going to learn how to develop AIR content for Television, starting from a simple videoplayer using the new StageVideo classes (StageCraft) to a simple Remote Controlled Slideshowviewer, up to a P2P multiplayer game which can be played with different control devices like the TV remote that comes along with your TV device or with any Android 2.2 with Adobe AIR powered Device. All these examples and a few more hints on optimization and design considerations are being showed during this session.

I hope to see a bunch of you up in the mountains of beautiful Lauterbrunnen, gotoAndSki(); tickets are limited to approx 100 attendees, and as far as I know there are not much comfort tickets left, so if you want to experience an awesome event with the beautiful swiss alps and a bunch of flash / flex guys having fun in the slopes, then jump right over to the gotoAndSki(); site and book your ticket now.

See you there!
Tiago

The next SFUG (Swiss Flash User Group) takes place on the 5th of January 2011 at the Publicis Office in Zurich, To begin the new year with a bang, we are having Michael Fretz present his newest project involving Arduino and Android, sounds like fun. Myself is presenting a new tool I’ve been working on called Vinayaka, if you want to know more about it, either pop by on the 5th of January or switch on to our live streaming.

Topic 1: Vinayaka ( Tiago Dias )

Topic 2: Arduino & Android ( Michael Fretz )

When: 5. January 2011 / 19:00-22:00
Where: Publicis Werbeagentur, Stadelhoferstrasse 25, 8024 Zürich

More information about SFUG can be found on:
Adobe Groups
SFUG Site

The next SFUG (Swiss Flash User Group) takes place on the 1st of December 2010 as usual at the Publicis Zurich office.
If you want to see a cool multiscreen application running on various devices then pop by and enjoy the evening with us.

Topic 1: Showcase Giroflex  (Marcel Vogt / Tiago Dias)

Topic 2: TBA

When: 1. December 2010 / 19:00-22:00
Where: Publicis Werbeagentur, Stadelhoferstrasse 25, 8024 Zürich

More information about SFUG can be found on:
Adobe Groups
SFUG Site

The next SFUG (Swiss Flash User Group) takes place on the 4th of November 2010 with a bunch of interesting topics:

Topic 1: Adobe MAX 2010 review  (Marcel Vogt & Tiago Dias/ Publicis

Topic 2: Android AIR Development ( Sandro Ducceschi & Marcel Vogt/ Liip & Publicis )

Topic 3: Giroflex Multiscreen Case ( Tiago Dias & Marcel Vogt/ Publicis)

When: 4th. November 2010 / 19:00-22:00
Where:Publicis Werbeagentur AG, Stadelhoferstrasse 25, 8024 Zürich

More information about SFUG can be found on:
Adobe Groups
SFUG Site

The next SFUG (Swiss Flash User Group) takes place on the 6th of October 2010 with an awesome reivew of this years Flash on The Beach by Sandro and a very interesting and for sure useful talk about Android AIR development by Marcel.
Hope to see you all there.

Topic 1: Flash On the Beach Review  (Sandro Ducceschi/ swfjunkie.com)

Topic 2: Android Air Developement – part1( Marcel Vogt / Publicis )

When: 06. October 2010 / 19:00-22:00
Where: Publicis Werbeagentur, Stadelhoferstrasse 25, 8024 Zürich

More information about SFUG can be found on:
Adobe Groups

Below the presentation that Marcel Vogt and me gave on the 34th SFUG Meeting which took place at Publicis on the 20th of April 2010. For further reference or any questions please let me know and I will try to help you out as good as I can.

The Connect recording of our session can be found here http://bit.ly/dbZBIz

Enjoy and see you next time at the 35th SFUG Meeting on the 25th of May 2010.
Details and topics will be announced soon.

The next SFUG (Swiss Flash User Group) takes place on the 20h of April 2010 with the long awaited talk by Sandro about performance tweaks in AS3 and last but not least myself and Marcel Vogt are showcasing two demo apps we built using the the megaphone platform.

Topic 1: AS3 Performance Tweaks ( Sandro Ducceschi / Liip AG )

Topic 2: Megaphone (Tiago Dias & Marcel Vogt / Publicis Werbeagentur BSW AG )

When: 20. April 2010 / 19:00-22:00
Where: Publicis Werbeagentur BSW AG, Stadelhoferstrasse 25, 8024 Zürich

More information about the single topics  can be found here: http://www.sfug.ch/?p=168

More information about SFUG can be found on:
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The next SFUG (Swiss Flash User Group) takes place on the 16h of March 2010 with an awesome topic on restfulX by Rafael Beck and a very interesting and for sure useful talk about performance tweaking by Sandro.

Topic 1: RESTfulX – Flex on Rails  (Rafael Beck/ 19m2.ch)

Topic 2: AS3 Performance Tweaks ( Sandro Ducceschi / Liip AG )

When: 16. March 2010 / 19:00-22:00
Where: Liip AG, Feldstrasse 133, 8004 Zürich

More information about the single topics  can be found here: http://www.sfug.ch/?p=162

More information about SFUG can be found on:
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The next SFUG (Swiss Flash User Group) takes place on the 18th of February 2010 with a great talk by Mich Heimann on AS3Signals, a new Event System created by Robert Penner, its an alternative approach to the current Event System inspired by C# Events. Last but not least we are going to launch our first Actionscript Code Battle where the aim is to find and discuss various solutions to a given problem

Topic 1: “AS3 Signals  – A new Event System” (Mich Heimann / indieas.org)

Topic 2: Actionscript Code Battle

When: 18. February 2010 / 19:00-22:00
Where: Publicis Werbeagentur BSW, Stadelhoferstrasse 25, 8024 Zürich
More information about the single topics  can be found here: http://www.sfug.ch/?p=157

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The next SFUG (Swiss Flash User Group) takes place on the 15th of December 2009.

Topic 1: “First Steps with Pixel Bender” (en) – Tiago Dias (Publicis Werbeagentur AG)

Topic 2: “Interactive Spaces with Adobe AIR and Bluetooth” (de) – Andreas Lorenz (dctrl – interactive media GmbH)

When: 15. December 2009 / 19:00-21:30
Where: Publicis Werbeagentur , Stadelhoferstrasse 25, 8024 Zürich
More information about the single topics  can be found here: http://www.sfug.ch/?p=141

More information about SFUG can be found on:
Adobe Groups
SFUG Site