The great software giveaway of June was tonight! As you saw, we also received a nice new shipment of swag from Adobe! Thanks to everyone who attended the meeting.

Thanks again to the sponsor of the night, Conviva.com. You should check into a career at Conviva if you are a super talented Flash/Sliverlight Developer or even a great web-oriented professional. You can download this PDF which contains their current list of open positions. Remember to check out the PittMFUG Yahoo Group for job listings and more as well!

The Files
Wayne
Skinning the FLV Playback Component

Ben
Publishing Content for Flash Player 10 Using the Flex 3 SDK

I thought I’d share some pictures from the night’s festivities too:

Hey all you MFUGers! Great meeting last night. We covered a lot of Perlin Noise at the meeting and as promised, here are the files from the presentations:

Val’s Files
Noise and Particles

Ben’s Files
Fire!!!

We look forward to seeing you guys at the next meeting. We plan on having the big software raffle for real this time . You must be present to win! See you in June.

Thanks to all of you who attended the meeting tonight! As promised, here are the files from the presentations:

Joe Kromer
ActionScript 3 Migration Tips

Josh Sager
File Uploads Using PHP and Flash

Ben Pritchard
Using Tweener

Mick Rose
TweenLite

Thanks to everyone who came out for the March meeting last week. Here’s the files that were covered in the two presentations on Thursday night:

Brian’s files: drawing letters

Wayne’s file: writing pOOP

Great meeting last night guys! Thanks to everyone who attended. You can access the files from the presentations last night below. Also, don’t forget that we have two meetings in February as well.

Val’s Custom Events with ActionScript 3
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View Val’s Google Presentation

Josh’s Many Things Flash
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Ben’s Motion Parallax in Flash
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Wow – what a great meeting! Standing room only in the room at the last PittMFUG meeting. We had some great presentations from Max and Joe and then afterwards the giveaways started!

The Winners
Terri won the Grand Prize of $2100 worth of Adobe Software

and Joe won the O’Reilly Book Pack!

We also handed out a bunch of new Adobe Swag at the meeting as well. If you guys are interested in more photos from the event you can view them on the MFUG Flickr page or my Flickr page.

The Files
Max Kaufmann – Flash and Flex Files
Joe Kromer – Creating Screensavers with Flash and Zinc

In the Meantime
Don’t forget about our UG Holiday party on December 13th – more details to follow!

The last meeting was a great one! Wayne and I are very happy about the level of attendance lately! We had an action-packed meeting covering many different areas. You can access the files from the demos you saw below. I also added some links to topics of discussion at the meeting. Hope to see you next month!

Ben’s Files – FZip
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Josh’s Files – Debugger
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Jeremy’s Files – Overriding
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Wayne’s Files – AE Puppetry
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Links
Spinning Girl Links
Great Flash Player 10 (Astro) Sneak Peeks

Hey all you MFUGers! What a great meeting it was. It was great to see a lot of new folks there as well.

For those you who couldn’t make it we covered creating AIR applications using Flash CS3, Working with the Flash 9 Player Update 3 and Quicktime files, Creating kiosks using HTML, Flash and AIR and we even talked to and watched Josh Sager live from Flash Forward. You can access files from the meeting below:

iFreelance
Here is the iFreelance installer. I have not released this yet so feel special :p. This is an MFUG exclusive. It still has some bugs but I think I am done with the development for now. I’d love feedback.
Download iFreelance AIR App

The PittMFUG Wallpaper

Some of you liked the wallpaper I had last night. It is a quick PittMFUG wallpaper I made yesterday. If you are interested you can download it.
Download the PittMFUG Wallpaper

Val’s Presentation Files: Flash Player Update 3 – MovieStar
Val’s files are available here.

Ben’s Presentation Files: AIR Apps with Flash CS3
Ben’s files are available here.

Isaac’s Presentation Files: AIR-based Kiosks with HTML and Flash
Isaac’s files are available here.

Web Links and Other Items of Discussion
We also talked about some other very cool things last night like:
Image Seam Carving Flash-based Demo
and
Image Seam Carving Youtube Video

Hey all you MFUGers! Great meeting last night. Wayne and I were very happy with the turnout and flow of the meeting over all. Don’t forget that there is not a meeting next month! We will be at the Adobe AIR Bus tour at the Heinz History Center on August 17th! Registration is free and it looks like it will be an awesome time. If you haven’t registered yet, do it now! ( http://onair.adobe.com/schedule/cities/pittsburgh.php) Make sure you put the word out at work and to all your friends!

You can download the files from the presentations on AIR Applications Using HTML and Parsing XML with AS3 here.

Thanks to everyone that showed up for the AS3 Primer class. I hope you guys enjoyed the new swag as well. As promised, you can access the Primer files below. Heather also emailed me a nice version of the AS2-AS3 Migration sheet. You can download there here:

AS3 Primer Files
AS2-AS3 Migration Sheet

Those of you with more questions on the DisplayObject can read more here.