Entries Tagged as 'events'

June 17th meeting

Wednesday’s meeting will be presented by Judah Frangipane. He will show you how to connect Flex or Flash to a wordpress backend without writing code. Use a Wordpress install as a CMS and Flash / Flex as a front end. He will also show you how to make websites (not the typical RIA types) using Flex. Go right from design to website in a few easy steps. No more spending time breaking down the design composition and then rebuilding it back up. Spend a few hours creating the site, not weeks. You will also hear the latest news on Flash and Flex.

May 20th Meeting

This month Chuck Stein presents Captivate and other e-learning frameworks. He’ll talk a bit about Articulate, Wildform Presenter, and Raptivity.
We’ve also got two other bonuses. Robert Reinhardt is speaking for 15 minutes to give a sort of sneak peak at what he’s covering at his upcoming workshop. And we also have two Flashbelt tickets to giveaway!

April 4/15 presentation

Hey All,

Tonight’s presentation at Flash MN will be Basic Enhanced Reality with Flash (Augmented Reality, Mixed Reality…pick your term)

A trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dalw1QWfBxo

I’m sure you’ve all seen the GE Smart Grid ad that promises a “Digital Hologram” (liars..this has nothing to do with Holograms)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NK59Beq0Sew

Victor and Yuichiro are going to walk you through the basics with the Boxheads shown in the trailer above as a primer to all things augmented reality with markers using the FLARToolKit 2.
http://saqoosha.net/2008/10/18/1585/

Here’s another good Augmented Reality video
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6523761027552517909&hl=en

And you can play with our Mixed Reality wild little animals here:
http://www.yuiees.com

Wednesday, January 21st Meeting

This coming Wednesday will be our regularly scheduled FlashMN meeting!

And this month, the speaker is… you.  That’s right, I hope you’re prepared, we’re doing a show and tell! :D

So, come with something you want to show or talk about for ten minutes give or take.  Either be it on the web, or on a laptop you can connect to the projector.

No December meeting

Just a reminder that there will be no December meeting.

Flex skinning - November meeting

November 19th, Judah Frangipane (yes, he’s back from California for now!), will be presenting on Flex skinning, among other things.  This will also be a perfect time for everybody to tell Judah how awesome Minnesota is and how he should stick around.

October meeting

This month the meeting date has changed.

Tuesday, October 14th, Dustin Tauer will be presenting CS4.  Don’t miss it!

Same time, same location.

August 20th Meeting

There have been many times in my life where I look at something that I
have wrapped, built, coded, or designed and said to myself, “Those
colors don’t look quite right.” At these times I usually hang my head
in shame and move on, not fully understanding the problem or knowing
where to look for a solution.

Thankfully for me (and hopefully for you too), John McCaffrey, a
Multimedia Design Instructor at Hennepin Technical College, will be
engaging our group in a presentation about how we can begin to address
the issue of “color” in our projects. His topic description follows:

“Making good color choices does not have to be hard. All it takes is a
plan. Learn just enough (and hopefully a bit more) color theory to be
dangerous.

Combining a bit of science, psychology, history, art, and modern
technology you will learn how we process color information. Armed with
this information you will be able to develop your own plan to use
color effectively.

We will examine how color is implemented in some of the different
design tools (Photoshop, Illustrator, and Flash). Learn how to manage
color between the different applications. Learn about the strengths
and weaknesses of each application when working with color.”

Please join us on Wednesday for John’s presentation!

When: Wednesday, August 20
Social: 6:30 PM
Presentation: 7:00 PM
Wrap up: 9:00 PM
Where: Easel Training, 23 Empire Dr., St Paul, MN 55103

Sincerely,
Toby Cryns
FlashMN
Vice-President in Charge of Sending Meeting Notices

Meeting - July 16th

The Asteroid’s Game From Scratch in 60 Minutes with sound effects and all, with ActionScript 3 and Flash CS3

I’ll create the Asteroid’s game from scratch in 60 minutes. No ActionScript experience required. If you’ve coded

before you can follow along and see how easy it is to make web based games with Flash CS3.
If you want you can bring your laptop and follow along or just hang back and watch.

The recorded meeting is located here: http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/p20254452/
The source files can be downloaded here: asteroids_src

Meeting: June 18, 2008 @ Easel Training in St. Paul

June 18th, we have an exciting event coming up this month. Robert Bilyk, the founder of Lodestar Learning™, will be presenting on flash learning resources in LMS systems.

There will also be a software giveaway this month!

For a recording, go to:

http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/p50256304/