AS3 Apex

In the spirit of consistency AS3 Apex will now conduct it’s meeting on every second Saturday of the month at 6pm at kayaks coffee house unless other wise noted.

Kayaks coffee house is located at:
276 North Skinker Blvd.
St. Louis, MO 63130

I hope this makes it easier on ever on who may have trouble remembering the dates for the events.

if this happens to create a large amount of conflict with your availability please post an alternative date that you would like to see.

- Josh Chernoff

First Thank you all who came to the first user group meeting. Sadly attendance was small. To help promote attendance for future meetings we will start a raffle for a free software package ever 6 months. All attendees will get their name and email added to the raffle for ever time they show to the meetings. Come this December we will draw for the first winner of an Adobe Creative Suite 3.3 Web Premium package worth $1,599. Also we should have a few books to give away at our next meeting. Maybe we will have a few fun games to win them.

Also due to overwhelming background noise the recording of the first user group meeting has been trashed. We now know what to address the next time around and will assure you that there will be a recording for later viewing.

Plus we are happy to announce that there will be a online meeting via adobe connect every month as well. At the moment the exact dates for our meeting have not been chosen yet but will be announce very soon.

And as a final reminder, Please stop by the forums for your 24 hour a day user group needs.

thanks
- Josh Chernoff.

I believe that flash is on it’s last leg out here in st.Louis due to the lack of properly trained AS3 developers or just the lack of their presents.

I will start by stating I wish to be a part of a community that thrives on ideas and networking.
At the moment St.Louis has nether for flash developers.

Recruiters are running ramped with unethical practices. Most agencies don’t know enough about Flash technologies to really harness their potential. And to top it all off there is a genuine lack of real enthusiasm for our industry in St.Louis. I hope to change all of that!

If your a Flash, Flex or Air developer you will only be helping your own career by contributing to this Action script user group in some way or form, be it time, money equipment, location, ideas or at the very least attending the user group.

So if you would like to see this user group continue please post a comment as to why you thing this is a good idea. Maybe you think it’s a bad idea, any way post your thoughts as it will decide the future of this user group.

- Josh Chernoff.

I’m at kayaks coffee house right now till about 9 pm to host the first ever AS3 Apex user group for st.Louis. At about 6:30 I will begin a presentation on Tools of the trade and talk about a few other as3 things. Even if you can’t make it down right now you can still view it from the front page as we are broadcasting live from kayaks coffee house located at

276 North Skinker Blvd, Saint Louis, MO 63130 http://www.google.com/search?q=kayaks+coffee+house&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a#

Hope to see you there and if you could please post your thoughts of the quality of the streaming view right now as we are testing and would like your opinions.

thanks – Josh Chernoff.

If you would like to attend tomorrows first AS3 user group meeting for st.Louis at 6pm please go to this link for more information.

http://www.as3apex.com/meeting/first-as3-user-group-meeting-in-stlouis-07-12-08-tools-of-the-trade/

This is a great step in the right direction. Thank you adobe for recognizing our user group

I have made a small and dirty video on how set up FlashDevelop to work with the flex3 sdk so you can create flex applications for free. This video is to get people in the right direction so when they come to the first meeting they should be able to use the ide to develop and test with. FlashDevelop has many other uses and I wil be going over as many as I can at our meeting.

Till then feel free to watch this video and get started today using flex and Air for free.

Video Link: http://www.as3apex.com/videos/flashdevelop_demo.html