Thanks to everyone who showed up for our April meeting.

Jazz in the Digital Age
Tom N. had mentioned “Jazz and the Digital Age”. You can read more about it here:

Sunday April 19 2009, 3:00 pm
Carnegie Library Music Hall, Homestead
510 E 10th Ave Homestead
Map

Carnegie Mellon School of Music presents “Jazz and the Digital Age”

Hear one of Carnegie Mellon’s Jazz Ensembles, directed by David Pellow, perform a new arrangement by Dr. John Wilson for jazz band, soloists and digital string orchestra.
The “orchestra” is five Carnegie Mellon music students recorded onto 20 digital tracks that will be
time-stretched to synchronize with the live band. The performance will also feature a high-end 8-channel sound system. This is the result of Professor Roger Dannenberg’s project, which is sponsored by Microsoft through the Computational Thinking Center.

There will be additional “digital jazz” with electronic performances by Tomas Henriques on digital valve instrument controller, and Dannenberg on trumpet with computer processing.
Herniques is a visiting scientist in the School of Computer Science.

David Pellow, music director

This performance is sponsored by WDUQ FM 90.5. Research for this concert’s technology made possible by Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science and Microsoft.

Free Admission

Ben’s Presentations
You can download Ben’s Presentation slides (including links) here.
Want to try out Fractal 4D? You can download the AIR installer here.

Val’s Presentations
You can learn more about using the Color Picker Component over at Val’s blog:
http://www.thisisportable.com/blog/2009/03/25/quick-bit-of-code-using-colorpicker-component-as3/

Stay tuned to her blog for updates showing you how to work with Flash as a background element in your HTML as well!

April Meeting

The PittMFUG meeting is this Thursday April 16th at 6:30pm

So, it’s finally Spring. About time, huh? In honor of the awesomeness that is warmer weather, we’re changing our meeting format for this month.

Our April meeting will feature a mini-presentation format. We’ll be covering a whole lot of topics for just a few minutes at a time. Perfect for getting that little bit of extra info or learning about something entirely new.

Also, we’re bringing back “Show Cool Stuff Time”. The first 15 minutes of the meeting are dedicated to sharing cool sites, inspiring blog posts or whatever else has caught your interest this month. Everyone who brings a link to show at “Show Cool Stuff Time” will get an extra raffle entry.

We have four mini-presentations planned, and we’d like to have more. If you have something you’d like to show or demo for a quick five minute mini-presentation, email pittmfug@gmail.com to let us know.

Full Screen Flash Under HTML, Val Head

One ColorPicker Component, Two Things Changing Colour,Val Head

Working with the Proximity Manager Class, Ben Pritchard

Working with the JPEG and PNG Encoder, Ben Pritchard