Community developer events venues

The Werks

Events coming up

• Dec 1

  FlashBrighton: Frameworks For Flash Developers

  Hove, United Kingdom

  Richard Lord-Poirot stepped into the Edwardian sitting room, to discover that all the frameworks had arrived, as per his instructions. Together they represented the finest Flash Application Frameworks the world currently had to offer. Louis PureMVC paced about agitatedly. Miss Stephanie Mate was lounging on the chaise lounge, being served a gin & tonic by Robotlegs the butler. Fergus Cairngorm and Dr.

Past events

• FlashBrighton: Swingin' with Django

  Tue, 31 Mar 2009, 19:00 in Hove, United Kingdom

  Python is a dynamic and flexible OO programming language and Django is a popular web framework written in Python that allows one to build complex web applications on very tight deadlines. It makes working with relational databases super-simple and...

• FlashBrighton: E4X & XML

  Tue, 7 Apr 2009, 19:00 in Hove, United Kingdom

  E4X is an extension that adds a simple syntax to ActionScript for accessing XML documents. Like galloping thoroughbreds, XML documents can be thunderous, untamed beasts and ponying around with with childNodes[0].childNode all day won't bring much ...

• UX Brighton: Mental Models, Service Design & Problems with Convergence

  Tue, 14 Apr 2009, 18:45 in Hove, United Kingdom

  Speakers: Filip Healy & GiGi Demming from AmberlightFilip and GiGi are both principals at Amberlight Partners. Amberlight is a London based User Experience Consultancy. Clients include Apple, Microsoft, Sony and O2.Event details and (free)...

• FlashBrighton: Adobe Illustrator Demystified

  Tue, 21 Apr 2009, 19:00 - 22:00 in Hove, United Kingdom

  If you feel like our sessions have been getting so geeky that it just sounds like white noise, then we've got just the thing for you - an interactive workshop to get you up to speed in Illustrator!So bring along your laptop, along with an inst...

• FlashBrighton: Objective-C for Mac & iPhone

  Tue, 28 Apr 2009, 19:00 in Hove, United Kingdom

  Objective-C 2.0 is a programming language which adds object-oriented capabilities to the C language, and is used primarily on Mac & iPhone.'Case you hadn't noticed, Objective-C iPhone dev is totally da bomb right now; the cool kids are right o...

• FlashBrighton: Objective-C Workshop

  Tue, 5 May 2009, 19:00 in Hove, United Kingdom

  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 ju...

• FlashBrighton: Mario Klingemann's "Tinkerer's Box"

  Tue, 12 May 2009, 19:00 in Hove, United Kingdom

  Mario Klingemann is a true wizard of Flash! And he’s coming all the way from Munich JUST FOR YOU!!!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 dum...

• FlashBrighton: Geek Garage Sale

  Tue, 19 May 2009, 18:00 in Hove, United Kingdom

  Roll up, roll up for the one and only FlashBrighton Geek Garage 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, com...

• FlashBrighton: Away3D and 3D in Flash

  Tue, 26 May 2009, 19:00 in Hove, United Kingdom

  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.

• FlashBrighton: Schedule Planning Meeting

  Tue, 2 Jun 2009, 19:00 in Hove, United Kingdom

  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

• FlashBrighton: Adobe Illustrator Demystified part II

  Tue, 16 Jun 2009, 19:00 in Hove, United Kingdom

  Following on from Adobe Illustrator Demystified part I Yan Cowles returns to take us into more challenging and complex areas of the app.Sign up here to be sure of a place, places limited to 30...

• FlashBrighton: Projects Night VIII

  Tue, 7 Jul 2009, 19:00 in Hove, United Kingdom

  This week's session description comes to you in the style of a limerick: This Tuesday at cuddly FlashBrighton Is a free study night to enlighten Us on whatever we'd like To play with that night someCode + someGeeks = rightOn;* And here are the details in rude haiku form: Tuesday the 7th Of July at 7pm At 'The Werks' in Hove * - just to be clear: this Tuesday will be an informal study group with no agenda.

• FlashBrighton: Ruby On Rails: the Webapp meat to your Flash gravy

  Tue, 21 Jul 2009, 19:00 in Hove, United Kingdom

  Ruby On Rails is a popular framework for building web applications. But upon my soul, a knowledge of 'Ruby on Rails' - or, by the somewhat more unseemly monicker by which it goes amongst enthusiasts, 'RoR' - will indubitably make your digital labours considerably less fractious. Indeed, if you will permit me what i feel is a particularly illustrative metaphor, one might say it could act as the 'meat' for your Flash 'gravy'.

• FlashBrighton: Genetic Algorithms

  Tue, 28 Jul 2009, 19:00 in Hove, United Kingdom

  Genetic Algorithms - or "GA's" - are a class of algorithms inspired by evolutionary biology. The session will be led by Plug-in Media's Alan Owen. He will introduce you to the concepts such as 'optimisation algorithms', 'particle swarms', 'optimisation methodologies' and 'neural networks'. Alan has previously studied Biology and Evolutionary & Adaptive Systems, so knows his stuff.

• FlashBrighton: Visualising Complexity

  Tue, 4 Aug 2009, 19:00 in Hove, United Kingdom

  Gather round children, as we tell you a ghoulish story about science, complexity and goblins! Once upon a time, in a land far, far away across the great ocean, there lived a beautiful and clever princess called Kristin Henry. The land where she lived was vast and bounteous, but it was beset by cruelty and confusion. Dark, twisted forests of information covered the landscape, and were haunted by evil 'Spam' goblins. No one dared venture into the spooky woods and maps were unknown.

• FlashBrighton: Processing.js with Brendan Dawes

  Tue, 18 Aug 2009, 19:00 in Hove, United Kingdom

  Brendan Dawes woke with a start.He was troubled, a man with a past. He'd been working with 'Flash' for years now, he'd been at it so long he wasn't even sure what version he started with anymore. The past was hazy, as if the city rain has washed it clean from the streets. Once the whole neighborhood was crawling with Flash, so much so that you never even noticed it. 'Ubiquitous', that's what it was. The word came back to him like a bad hangover.

• FlashBrighton: Bugfixing Other People's Flash

  Tue, 25 Aug 2009, 19:00 in Hove, United Kingdom

  Niqui Merret brushed the creepers aside and pushed further into the dense code. She was the point man for Bugfixers XXIV Flash Corps and had been leading the line since God knows when. She knew well that in the jungle of other people's ActionScript the canopy is so thick that the light only filters through in pale shafts. She took a step forward, the muddy nook sloshed against her thighs. Forgotten slicks of AS2 napalm drifted across the surface, burning fresh sores into old wounds.

• FlashBrighton: Projects Night IV

  Tue, 1 Sep 2009, 19:00 in Hove, United Kingdom

  Seb held the clipboard firmly in his left hand and crisply addressed the group. 'OK team, great to see you all again' he beamed. 'Let's all gather round, pull our chairs into a circle... that's it! Ooh, careful Niqui, you nearly bumped poor Owen there! We wouldn't want 'Health & Safety' coming in and ruining the party now would we?' Everyone squirmed uncomfortably in their sweaty plastic seats. Jo's shoulders slumped.

• FlashBrighton: The Flash Games School of Wizardry

  Tue, 8 Sep 2009, 19:00 in Hove, United Kingdom

  Iain Lobb-Lupin brushed aside the potions and scrolls that covered the old desk and planted a curious rectangular metal object at its centre. It was folded at the centre and one of its faces displayed a shining surface covered in mystic icons. 'This Harry' he said, gasping for breath 'is a "laptop"'. He wiped his brow. "S'Muggle technology, essentially a primitive binary encoder, but I've added some Hogwash touches, which should help guard against Voldemort's spells'.

• FlashBrighton: Motor2D Physics Engine 101

  Tue, 15 Sep 2009, 19:00 in Hove, United Kingdom

  Motor2 is 2D physic engine spun-off from Box2D, written from the ground up in AS3Alistair Macdonald stormed into the dressing room, tie swinging. 'Listen ye cretins' he roared 'a fitba pitch is flat, not fuckin' 3D. Ay've told ye a mil'yun times, PLAY THE BALL ON THE FUCKIN' GROUND!' His raw Glaswegian accent ripped through the room. The star striker Seb Lee-Delisle looked down at his muddy boots and smirked.

• Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Flex But Were Afraid to Ask

  Tue, 6 Oct 2009, 19:00 in Hove, United Kingdom

  Nick Kuh will demo Flex features such as bindings, runtime css, modules, code libraries,developing with ActionScript & MXML, Spark components, skinning in Flex 4 and demo an AMF Flex AppNick Kuh, the Fool, danced into the Queen's bed chamber, twirling an aphrodisiac Flex potion lightly between his playful fingers. "Madam, I have come by for perchance that you might like this soothing... uh, orange juice.

• FlashBrighton: Practical Typography

  Tue, 6 Oct 2009, 19:00 in Hove, United Kingdom

  This session will offer practical insights into typography, dispel some of the myths that have grown up around the subject and touch on terminology, grids, readability & how to pick the fonts. Aegir Hallmundur is a freelance designer and typographer living & working in Brighton. It had been a quiet Tuesday afternoon in A&E before the ambulance arrived.

• FlashBrighton: Character Animation & Lip-Syncing

  Tue, 13 Oct 2009, 19:00 in Hove, United Kingdom

  Fiona Sutton-Harper admired herself in the plate glass windows of the towering office block. Sexy but professional, that's the look she needed. She arranged her emerald scarf with precision: looped once, hanging just below the waistline. Satisfied, she sasheyed into the foyer and across to the pristine white reception desk, curls bouncing. "I'm here for the interview with Flashy Magazine, for the 'Character Animation' role" she beamed, perfect pearly-whites gleaming.

• FlashBrighton: Robot Wars II

  Tue, 3 Nov 2009, 19:00 in Hove, United Kingdom

  Joe Chung strapped the dermatrodes across his forehead and clicked in the countdown. 3, 2, 1... The digital perfections of the Matrix swiftly replaced the grimy bedsit. He keyed some familiar coords and the scene shifted quickly to a large, flat circular space, skinned in cybersteel: the Robot Wars arena, his old fight-to-the-death ring for AS3bots made for his FlashBrighton partners. Bennett's broken bot still lay wrecked in the centre of the space.

• FlashBrighton: Making a Flash game in 10 days

  Tue, 10 Nov 2009, 19:00 in Hove, United Kingdom

  The hobbit Tim Baggins stared into the deep, dark wood, and curled his toes nervously. Dusty cobwebs hung from the twisted boughs and not a single shaft of sunlight penetrated into the gloom. The air hung thick and motionless like treacle. 'We're not going in there... are we?' He turned and looked up at the dwarf king Owen, son of Thráin.

• FlashBrighton: Flash, Perl & iPhone MashUp

  Tue, 17 Nov 2009, 19:00 in Hove, United Kingdom

  His uniform immaculately pressed, Paolo Fierro entered the debriefing room, holding his officer's cap tightly across his chest. The room was large, oak lined, and mostly empty except for an line of military portraits, a US flag draped in the corner, and a imposing wooden desk, behind which sat his commanding officer, General Jack Ryan. He saluted the General crisply. 'Sir!' Ryan looked up distractedly. 'At ease Fierro' he said, putting down his fountain pen and leaning backwards.

• FlashBrighton: Planning Meeting

  Tue, 24 Nov 2009, 19:00 in Hove, United Kingdom

  It was a cold night in Preston Park, but nothing would dampen the spirits of the multitude that had travelled to be there. Anticipation was high as the cry of 'LEE DE LISLE, LEE DE LISLE' ran through the crowd. Backstage Vice President-elect Joe Summers nudged her running mate in the back, whispering 'Come on Seb, get out there and give them what they want.' Straighting his tie in the mirror, Sebastian smiled back at Joe's reflection, turned, and advanced onto the platform.