Posted by brandonthedeveloper at December 18th, 2008
It’s that time again.
Just a reminder to my Flash and Flex friends that we (FDUG) are meeting tonight (12/18/2008) from 6 – 8 at ArtWorks in South Richmond.
I’ll be speaking about sharing External Font Libraries in Flash and Flex and Lou Barber will be talking about Loading External Content and Communicating with Loaded Objects. We’ll also have Lou’s wrap up of MAX 08 and the latest Adobe News.
Posted by brandonthedeveloper at August 21st, 2008
Just realized I hadn’t mentioned that as of last month, I’m officially the co-manager for our Adobe User Group – FDUG here in Richmond, Va. Lou Barber and I have some great presentations, speakers and a few surprises lined up for the coming months so stay tuned.
Speaking of FDUG, there is a meeting tonight (08/21/2008) from 6 – 8 at ArtWorks in south Richmond. Users at any level of interest in Flash, Flex or AIR should definitely attend. The meetings are casual and there is no fee.
Posted by brandonthedeveloper at August 20th, 2008
Just a quick reminder that the Flash Development User Group (FDUG) in Richmond, Virginia will be meeting tomorrow night – 08/21/2008 at ArtWorks in south Richmond from 6 – 8.
My old friend Kevin Power from the Martin Agency will be talking about programmatic animation in Flash and I’ll show some component skinning in Flex.
All levels and abilities are encouraged to attend. Come out and support Flash in Richmond!
Questions? Email me at brandonthedeveloper at gmail dot com.
Posted by brandonthedeveloper at July 16th, 2008
On July 17th, FDUG will welcome San Francisco based Adobe Platform Evangelist, Lee Brimelow!
Join us in welcoming Lee as he brings us a “Sneak Peak” at Flash CS4 and Flash Player 10 !! Straight from Adobe Headquarters! We will also have some pizza, drinks, and who knows…. Maybe even some software!!!
Lee Brimelow is a Platform Evangelist with Adobe and an award-winning interactive designer. He has worked in the past for companies such as America Online, Netscape, eBay, Stanford University, and frog design and has a passion for developing new and innovative ways of using the Flash Platform to create rich user experiences. He runs the popular technology blog at theFlashBlog.com, produces the free Flash tutorial resource at gotoAndLearn.com, and has a regular column on Flash in Layers Magazine. Lee is also the author of several titles for Lynda.com including Flash Professional 8 Video Integration and After Effects 7 + Flash 8 Integration.
Time: 6 – 8
Place: Artspace/Plant Zero, 7 E. 3rd Street in South Richmond – click for directions
Posted by brandonthedeveloper at January 16th, 2008
Just a reminder that the Flash Developer User Group will be meeting tomorrow night in Richmond, Va (6 pm, ArtSpace/Plant Zero www.artworksrichmond.com in South Richmond).
Lou Barber will be talking about Flash video and I’ll be building on my talk from last time about the capabilities of AIR using SQLite.
Hope to see everyone there. :)
Posted by brandonthedeveloper at December 29th, 2007
Sorry It’s taken a while to get these loaded up. :(
The Richmond Flash Developer User Group meeting on 12/13 was great. With only a weeks notice, we had a decent sized crowd show up to see a couple presentations and get up to speed on the happenings in the Adobe community during the last year.
Lou Barber talked about differences between AS2 > AS3 and I did a little presentation on the capabilities of AIR using Flex by creating a ‘Music Finder’ AIR app.
The ‘Music Finder’ allows users to search by artist connecting to an external service (using HTTPService) and returns a result set in the e4x result format. The user could then stream an .mp3 file from the results and download the .mp3 file using URLLoader, File and FileStream objects.
Music Finder project files and the Music Finder AIR app can be found at http://www.brandonellis.org/media/musicfinder.zip.
The project was created using Flexbuilder 3 Beta 3 and requires Adobe AIR Beta 3.
Thanks again to everyone that showed up on such short notice and we’re looking forward to our next meeting on Thursday, January 17, 2008 from 6 – 8 at Plant Zero/Art Space in south Richmond, Va.
Posted by brandonthedeveloper at December 11th, 2007
Hey Everyone in the Richmond, Virginia area – Lou Barber and I will be hosting the rebirth of the local Flash Development User Group.
“We will be holding a meeting Dec. 13 2007 at ArtWorks (www.artworksrichmond.com) from 6:00 pm to 8:00pm.
FDUG will then resume regular monthly meetings starting in Jan. ‘08!! We have a lot to talk about! Flash CS3, AIR, Flex, Flash Video, Flash Player 9, Flash Lite, and the list goes on….”
Come out and support the Flash/Flex community!
See you there. :)
Posted by brandonthedeveloper at December 1st, 2007
Hey Everyone in the Richmond, Va. area. Lou Barber and I are getting the local Flash Development User Group back on it’s feet. Lou is currently pointing the DNS to the new site and we are excited to get things moving forward. I’ll post more information as I get it but it looks as though we are shooting for an informal meeting on Dec. 13 at Plant Zero. If you wish to be informed/added to the mailing list, shoot me an email – brandonthedeveloper [AT] gmail.com.
