November Meeting This Thursday!

The PittMFUG meeting is this Thursday, November 20th.

We have two presentations planned for Thursday night:

Bluetooth Role Call, Ben Pritchard
Ben will demo roomware, a cool open source server with AS3 APIs. If you have a bluetooth device bring it to the meeting and make sure it's set to discoverable! This is an intermediate to advanced session.

Birds of a Feather Animate Together, Val Head
Nothing says working together like a cliche rhyming title, right? Val will show one way to use Flash and After Effects together to get effects you can't get with Flash alone. This is an intermediate presentation.

If you know you're coming, email pittmfug@gmail.com to RSVP.

Meeting details:
Thursday November 20th
6:30pm
at New Perspective
google maps

FYI: We'll be holding the meeting upstairs. If you arrive after 6:30pm the front doors will be locked and you'll have to call or text the number posted on the door to get in.

PittMFUG, FlashPitt and MFUGers Val and Joe in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette

Visionary PittMFUG members, Joe Kromer and Val Head, had a great article written about them in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette. The article mentions their involvement with the PittMFUG as well as information surrounding the countdown to FlashPitt 08. Go read the article when you get the chance!

Local New Media players to host conference
Saturday, September 27, 2008

September Meeting Reminder

We wanted to remind everyone that the September meeting is not tomorrow, it's next Thursday September 25th. We've moved the date to bring you a special meeting.

Be one of the first to see the next big thing from Adobe on September 25th. Join in to see and hear first hand how something very special will help you get to brilliant faster. Save the date and get a good look at what's to come.

We even have a nice new box of swag to give away at the meeting, so you don't want to miss this one!

Meeting details:
Thursday September 25th
6:30pm
at New Perspective
google maps

August 2008 Meeting

We had a good turnout last meeting. Val talked about the upcoming FlashPitt conference and brought pizza for everyone. There's a great lineup of speakers. Hope you can join us. If you haven't already, buy your tickets here. Early bird discounts still available til Sept. 5th.

I talked about creating dynamic Flash layouts using a static Stage positioning class. You can download the source code here. And for those that attended... yes, I fixed the html so it actually shows it working!

Felix Lloyd, president of Skill-Life, Inc. mentioned he is currently looking for Flash developers for their "CentsCity" product. You'll find the complete job listing on our Yahoo group site.

Also, Patrick and Isaac passed along this link to us. If you haven't yet seen the SMW Photography site out of the UK, take a look. Choose Visit Site and check out the cloth effect with the photos. Nice job.


- Wayne

PittMFUG Podcast 22 Now Available

Hey MFUGers! Podcast 22 is now available! We cover our last meeting and much, much more!

iTunes users: Click here.
Direct Feed URL: http://www.pittmfug.com/podcast/podcast.xml. If you don't listen to podcasts or subscribe you can always download the mp3 itself here.

July Meeting Redux

Thanks to everyone who came out last night. We had a lot more folks than we expected for a mid July meeting. Here are the files and links and such we discussed.

Easy Papervision Panoramic
Download the example files

Some of the links we looked at:
The photo from Flickr
Tutorial this example was based on
Full screen cube panoramic
More on full cube panoramics

Firefox Add-ons for Web Developers
Firebug
http://getfirebug.com/

Flash Tracer
http://www.sephiroth.it/firefox/flashtracer/

Web Developer
http://chrispederick.com/work/web-developer/

Mac related dev stuff you might want to check out:
http://www.hicksdesign.co.uk/journal/web-development-with-safari

PittMFUG Member Flash Poll

Hey all you MFUGers! We are in the process of gathering information from our members in order to provide an optimal experience at out meetings. Please take our anonymous survey and let us know your thoughts about Flash and ActionScript! You can access the survey here.