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.

July Meeting

Our July meeting is this Thursday, July 17th. We have two presentations booked for this month's meeting:

Easy Cheesey Panoramic, Val Head
If you've been put off by the complex looking code behind Papervision3D examples, this presentation is for you. Val will show how much the easier it is to work with Papervision3D now that the BasicView class is around. She'll walk you through building a simple panoramic with a whole lot less code than you'd expect.

Development++, John Kramer
With the zillions of firefox add-ons out there, how do you know which ones are worth your time? Kramer will give you his list of useful add-on tools, both for Flash and Web development.

Meeting details:
Thursday July 17th
6:30pm
at New Perspective

This is new! If you know you're coming, email pittmfug@gmail.com to RSVP.

FYI: We'll be holding the meeting upstairs. If you arrive after 6:30pm the front doors will be locked and you'll have to call or text the number posted on the door to get in.

Flashpitt 2008

Tickets for Flashpitt are on sale! Early Bird tickets are $110, but we have less than 30 left!

Confirmed speakers for the event include Big Spaceship, Julian Dolce, Stacey Mulcahy, Criag Swann and more! Check out our speakers page for the full listing.

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Flashpitt 2008 speakers and tickets

Tickets for Flashpitt2008 are on sale and there are still early bird tickets left! Check out http://www.flashpitt.com/register to get your tickets.

We've also started to announce our speakers list, and it's definitely a great list so far. Speakers confirmed for Flashpitt2008 include: Big Spaceship Julian Dolce, John Lindquist ,Stacey Mulcahy, Ben Pritchard, Jose R. Rodriguez and Craig Swann.

Our speakers are coming from places like: Big Spaceship, Papervision3d, Schematic, Fuel Industries, Pixelfumes, New Perspective, JRVisuals and CrashMedia.

Our speakers page will be updated with the remaining speakers as they are confirmed.

If you were at the last meeting and haven't used your PittMFUG discount code yet, now is the time! We're down to less than 10 tickets avialable for that discount code.

PittMFUG Podcast 21 Now Available

Hey MFUGers! Podcast 21 is now available! We cover our experience at FITC Chicago and the last meeting! Come, listen to our chats about Flash, Flex 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.

PittMFUG June Redux

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:

June Meeting

Our June meeting is this Thursday, June 19th. We have two presentations planned for this month's meeting:

Code for the Future: Compiling Flash 10 code with terminal and the Flex 3 SDK, Ben Pritchard
Does that sound hard and confusing? It's really not. Ben will show you how to pull off publishing code for the beta Flash 10 player. Now you can play with cool Flash 10 things like 3D space without waiting for the public beta of the Flash 10 IDE.

Making Flash CS3 Skinnier, Wayne Lincoln
Need a custom video player right this second? Wayne will demo how easy it is to skin the FLVPlayback component's controls and have a custom video player in no time at all.

Meeting details:
Thursday June 19th
6:30pm
at New Perspective
google maps

FYI: We'll be holding the meeting upstairs this month. If you arrive after 6:30pm the front doors will be locked and you'll have to call the number posted on the door to get in.

Software Giveaway this Month!

That's right, the bi-annual software drawing is upon us again. We will be holding a drawing for CS3 software suite of your choice*. Drawing will be from the last six months of meeting sign-ins and you must be present to win.

Showing up for this week's meeting will also get you on the list for the next software drawing. That makes it even more worth it to come out.

*Master Suite is not one of the options, but everything else is fair game. You get to pick!

Flashpitt 2008 Tickets on Sale

Tickets for Flashpitt are now on sale! The first 50 tickets are available at the early bird price of $110.

We've also updated the site with more details about the event. Check out our list of sponsors, the basic schedule and more location details.

Suggestion Box

Do you have a topic you'd like to see covered at a PittMFUG meeting? Do you want to present at a PittMFUG meeting? Send an email to pittmfug@gmail.com and let us know what's on your mind.

FITC 'Last Call' Contest

The first 10 people who answer the skill testing question "What does FITC stand for?" get a free ticket to FITC Chicago, June 22 - 23 at the Doubletree Hotel Chicago (formerly the Chicago City Centre Hotel).

Deadline to enter is Thursday, June 19 at midnight!

To enter, go to http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?key=pBk-8Hvbj8g-tQLuXWg_Gaw&email=true

Winners will hear back by end of day Friday, via e-mail.

For complete event details, go to http://www.fitc.ca/chicago.