Jul 17 2010

Conference

Barcamp Auckland 4 Recap

The excellent Barcamp Auckland 4 event happened today, organized by Ludwig Wendzich and team. 190 attendees came together to discuss topics around web development, design, UX, UI, mobile, and business. Here are a few notes from a selection of talks: Nigel Parker, from Microsoft (a sponsor), showed some deep zooming examples using Silverlight (from Seadragon [...]

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Jul 10 2010

Conference

CHINZ 2010

The 11th Annual ACM SIGCHI NZ Conference on Computer-Human Interaction was held on July 8 at Massey University. This was a great opportunity to see some of the work academics outside of AUT were doing. In particular, the University of Auckland had a showing. Two things that may be of note for a Flash developer [...]

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Jul 09 2010

Workshop

Emerging Researcher Workshop 2010 – research funding, scholarships, awards

University of Auckland had an interesting workshop this week for PhD students and Postdocs. The workshop had sessions covering securing funding, communicating research, networking, career advice and related information. The following are some research funding, scholarships, and awards links from the event: COS (Community of Science) Funding Opportunities – Provides a database of worldwide funding [...]

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Jul 08 2010

AS3 | Flash Builder | Flash Platform | Flex | News | Tools

July 2010 Auckland Flash Platform User Group Recap

This is old news now, but as per my personal tradition I wanted to post a short recap of the Flash Platform User Group meetup that happened July 1. First to present was Michael Andrew, who demoed FlexPMD, an auditing tool for ActionScript/Flex projects. Essentially the tool provides a set of recommendations of how your [...]

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Jun 04 2010

AS3 | Flash Platform | Flex | News

June 2010 Auckland Flash Platform User Group Recap

This month’s Auckland Flash Platform User Group Meetup began with a show-and-tell by the group’s usual host, VisFleet. CTO Aisha Fenton explained the business-side of VisFleet’s vWork software, a web-based task management application that allows a dispatcher to disseminate jobs to remote workers, who can log in via an iPhone app. Aisha provided an overview [...]

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Apr 28 2010

Flash Platform | News | Tips | Tools

Auckland Adobe CS5 Roadshow

Under the slogan of design without boundaries, work faster, and streamline critical processes, the CS5 Roadshow kicked off at Skycity Convention Centre in Auckland today. The hosts for the day were Michael “Stod” Stoddart, Mike McHugh, and Paul Burnett. The event covered a broad-range of tips, tricks, and new features of CS5. Questions could be [...]

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Apr 27 2010

Flash Builder | Flash Platform | Flex

April 2010 Auckland Flash Platform User Group Recap

Last Thursday’s April meeting of the Auckland Flash Platform UG (once again held in the VisFleet offices) kicked off with UG manager Campbell Anderson demonstrating the new features of Flash Builder / Flex 4. Of particular note was Campbell’s demonstration of SourceMate, a Flash Builder companion that adds various code generation, refactoring, and metadata features. [...]

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Mar 18 2010

AS3 | Flex | News

March 2010 Auckland Flash Platform User Group Recap

Last night I attended the March meeting of the Auckland Flash Platform UG, held in the spacious offices of VisFleet. This was a great opportunity to freshen my knowledge on what’s happening in the Flash world. There were two presentations, with a break in the middle for the traditional developers meeting pastime of pizza and [...]

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Feb 25 2010

News

February 2010 Auckland Web Meetup Recap

A new year. A new venue. A new format. Well, not completely true, it is a new year, but the February Auckland Web Meetup has met at the Vodafone NZ headquarters before and has tried the 20×20 format before. But this was a new venue and new format for my experience with the group. Most [...]

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Oct 22 2009

Drupal

October 2009 List of Useful Drupal Modules

This is a wonderful list of useful Drupal modules compiled by Lee-Yan Marquez (argentofchange.com) from the discussion in last week’s Auckland Drupal Meetup group: Content Management date The date module is a flexible date/time field type for the CCK content module. Content Aggregation & Distribution feedapi FeedAPI aggregates feeds on a Drupal website by generating [...]

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