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August Meeting

Tonight's meeting is not at our usual location. To celebrate summer we're having a game night at Games 'N At on the south side!

If you've never been before, Games N'At has a ton of games. From their site: "...unlimited play on pool tables, ping-pong basketball, pinball, driving games, shooting games, video games (a lot of old school classics), air hockey, foosball, bubble hockey..."

Thursdays are $10 all you can play until midnight. So, come ready to play for as long as you'd like. We'll meet at Games N' At at 6:30pm, but feel free to stop by later, too. Games N' At is also BYOB.

Thursday August 20th
6:30pm
Games N' At
google maps

RSVP to let us know you're coming.

July Meeting Redux

Thanks to everyone who came out tonight!

Josh's Unit Testing presentation:
source files (zip)

Val's Better Typography presentation:
slides
links:
Text Layout Framework demo page
Text Layout Framework download
NYT Reader 2.0 download

Other links discussed:
Color Scheme Designer
We Choose the Moon
INSPIRE

August 2008 Meeting

We had a good turnout last meeting. Val talked about the upcoming FlashPitt conference and brought pizza for everyone. There's a great lineup of speakers. Hope you can join us. If you haven't already, buy your tickets here. Early bird discounts still available til Sept. 5th.

I talked about creating dynamic Flash layouts using a static Stage positioning class. You can download the source code here. And for those that attended... yes, I fixed the html so it actually shows it working!

Felix Lloyd, president of Skill-Life, Inc. mentioned he is currently looking for Flash developers for their "CentsCity" product. You'll find the complete job listing on our Yahoo group site.

Also, Patrick and Isaac passed along this link to us. If you haven't yet seen the SMW Photography site out of the UK, take a look. Choose Visit Site and check out the cloth effect with the photos. Nice job.


- Wayne

PittMFUG Podcast 22 Now Available

Hey MFUGers! Podcast 22 is now available! We cover our last meeting and much, much more!

iTunes users: Click here.
Direct Feed URL: http://www.pittmfug.com/podcast/podcast.xml. If you don't listen to podcasts or subscribe you can always download the mp3 itself here.

July Meeting Redux

Thanks to everyone who came out last night. We had a lot more folks than we expected for a mid July meeting. Here are the files and links and such we discussed.

Easy Papervision Panoramic
Download the example files

Some of the links we looked at:
The photo from Flickr
Tutorial this example was based on
Full screen cube panoramic
More on full cube panoramics

Firefox Add-ons for Web Developers
Firebug
http://getfirebug.com/

Flash Tracer
http://www.sephiroth.it/firefox/flashtracer/

Web Developer
http://chrispederick.com/work/web-developer/

Mac related dev stuff you might want to check out:
http://www.hicksdesign.co.uk/journal/web-development-with-safari

PittMFUG Member Flash Poll

Hey all you MFUGers! We are in the process of gathering information from our members in order to provide an optimal experience at out meetings. Please take our anonymous survey and let us know your thoughts about Flash and ActionScript! You can access the survey here.