Thanks to everyone who attended the AIR/Flex 3 Release Party last night. I think this was the largest turn out we have ever had for any of our events. It was great to see so many new people as well! Those of you not on the mailing list should signup! There is a form on the right side of the page that will allow you to subscribe to the mailing list. Don’t forget the next meeting will be on March 20th, 6:30pm at New Perspective.

30onAIR
Don’t forget about submitting your 30onAIR videos! You don’t have to do it at an MFUG meeting. You can upload your own at anytime. Just be sure to tag it properly (follow the directions). Be on the lookout for MFUG members you know up there! Details and videos at 30onAIR.com.

Pictures
I took a bunch of photos at the party last night. You can view them here: http://flickr.com/photos/55758862@N00/tags/release/. I figured I would throw a couple of the prize winners on here as well:

As you may have heard, Adobe has announced the release of Adobe Flex 3 and Adobe AIR 1.0. Now that the cat is out of the bag, this will be the focus of our Feb. 28th special meeting! Adobe is sponsoring this meeting with food, giveaways and a raffle copy of Adobe Flex Professional.

Flex 3 is a feature-packed release, adding new UI components like the advanced datagrid and improved CSS capabilities; powerful tooling additions like refactoring; and extensive testing tools including memory and performance profiling, plus the addition of the automated testing framework to Flex Builder.

Adobe AIR is game-changing in so many ways, delivering rich applications on the desktop, enabling access to the local file system, system tray, notifications and much more. Now you can write RIAs on the desktop using the same skills that you’ve been already using to create great web apps including both Flex and AJAX.

Don’t miss out on this opportunity to see and hear about this highly anticipated release of Flex 3 and AIR at this meeting.

On top of all that we’ll have free food and lots of prizes to give away. Don’t forget to RSVP if you haven’t already. There will be one prize drawing just for folks on the RSVP list, and you don’t want to miss out on that, right?

Date:
Thursday, February 28th

Time:
6:30pm

Place:
(The usual place)
New Perspective building
2949 Smallman St.
Pittsburgh

There is no meeting tonight. We’ve moved our meeting to next Thursday, the 28th when we will be having a special event meeting.

Details on the special meeting are here (More details about the meeting will be posted soon)

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Tonight Kevin Hoyt visited the Pittsburgh MFUG and CFUG groups and gave a presentation on Flex 3 and all of the new features that are available. He also gave a brief overview of the newer features in the Adobe Integrated Runtime. What I found most interesting was the descriptions that he gave of the Flex workflow, how Flex fit into the Adobe family and how easily Flex and Flash can work together. Those of you who didn’t show, and there were many of you, missed a great presentation. Kevin gave away a copy of Flex Builder Pro, the Adobe Web Bundle, and iPod and a lot more. You can get some pictures of the event here.

Remember, we are having an event this February 28th for a special event! Make sure you show up! You can get more details here.