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.