Adobe lay on the drink and the prizes. There’s no entry fee and the only thing you’ll pay for all night is your food if you want some. The games are not played for money and the dealers are used to beginners and give tutorial help during the evening. It’s a great opportunity to learn poker with no risk and surrounded by friends and colleagues. It’s also a great opportunity to meet you peers, potential employers or potential employees (and you’ll get the chance to see how they operate under pressure).

Reed Professional Services have generously given us a ticket to Flash on the Beach to give away. Yes, just give away! They’re crazy here at Crazy ReedPS! They don’t want your name or your phone number or your bank account details or to know if “you know someone else” who does your job who IS available even though you’re not. Nope, none of that. Just email us here at Logic Bureau and tell us who you are, what you do and that you can go to Flash on the Beach on Monday 21st thru Wednesday 23rd and it’s yours. Obviously it does NOT come with travel or accommodation so don’t ask. We’ll pick a name out of the hat tomorrow evening and email the winner. This ticket will be in your name so it’s non transferable.

In case you don’t know, Flash on the Beach is sold out now so this is one of your last chances to go.

Incase you’re wondering who Reed Professional Services are, they’re not Reed Recruitment, but they are one of the sponsors at Flash on the Beach.

Mike and Andrew opened the meeting by telling us all about what they hoped FLUG would do and then opened the floor to the community to say what they’d like the FLUG to be. There were lots of valid and interesting requests. My personal favorite being a dance off format for Adobe and Microsoft evangelists to pitch their wares. Like a Presidential debate with beer and weapons. Works for me…okay, maybe that one only happened in MY head, but it’s a good idea right?

I think the group will work very well and the organisers are opening up the forum to employers as well as the community. They want to build a community in which networking is encouraged for the good of all members and the good of advancing the Flex platform in all it’s guises. The Logic Bureau employs this exact same approach so we have to say, we fully support the new Flex London User Group and it’s organisers.

If you weren’t there then get along to the next one. It’s well run, a great venue, the members are friendly and they genuinely want the community to drive the group. This is exactly the right sort of organic approach to get the best out of everyone and end up on the leading edge all the time. I think some really interesting stuff will come out of this group and there’s a definite drive to help developers who are new to Flex to learn from the old pros (that sounded ok in my head). We will definitely be attending FLUG on a regular basis.

We have built, and continue to build our team by offering them the Bureau’s focused, secure, flexible and well paid environment to work within, allowing and inspiring them to excel at what they are truly good at. All of our team members have some form of pedigree about them, even if they don’t qualify as senior partners…yet

Our teams are lead by senior partners, who represent the top 1% in the industry, and populated with the industry elite, many of whom are pre-release testers for leading software manufacturers, so we’ll be able to tell you about software releases and issues the instant they are known and out of NDA.

We are launching the Bureau’s blog in order to show case the new work we are doing (as soon as it exits NDA) and to give guidance and solutions to process, development and design issues in the community as we are asked or as we come across them. As it builds, it will cover topics such as development, design, process, best practices and more