Now things are still in the works, but I am very pleased to announce Joey Lott “hopefully” will be presenting for AS3 Apex in October. For any of you who are unfamiliar with Joey’s work there is a not so small list of links for you at the bottom.
Now before this meeting can happen our user group needs a new location for this event per request of Joey. So I am calling you the community to help out and donate a location for this event. If you can help please write me at josh@gfxcomplex.com or just post a reply in this blog post with a way that I can contact you.
And once again for any of you looking to learn a thing or two about Action script here is a list of books and tutorial that Joey created for you. Take my word for it, he is a great presenter and knows Action Script inside and out. If you don’t believe just have a look for your self.
Online Content:
Lynda.com video Tutorials made by Joey Lott
Community MX Tutorials
Books:
ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook
Advanced ActionScript 3 with Design Patterns
Flash 8 ActionScript Bible
Programming Flex 3
Programming Flex 2
Macromedia Flash MX
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
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
Date:
07-12-08
location:
kayaks coffee house
http://www.kayakscoffee.com/home.html
276 North Skinker Blvd.
st.Loius MO, 63130 Map
Time:
6pm
Come and join us for our first meeting about the tools of the trade. I will be presenting about the different ways you can make and use AS3 and as well why each different way is best in their own way. This will be a perfect time for any one who is new to Action script to come and learn as well if you have been using flash for years I will be showing a few things that you may have never seen before. I will also be showcasing Arthropod which is a great new AIR application for debug tracing.
Also if you didn’t know I will be broadcasting this meeting live on the front page.
the bad news is this time around I can only support 30 people at a time since flash media servers needed to broadcast are not cheep. If you would like to donate some money to upgrade our flash media server to support more live connections please paypal it to josh@gfxcomplex.com. Even Then the meeting will be recorded for later viewing available to all.
As a action script coder you have some choices you may not have known about. One of which is my personal favorite named FlashDevelop found at http://www.flashdevelop.org. One of the great things about this coder IDE is that you can easly create a flash, flex or Air project complete with code hinting of custom classes. the other really cool function of this IDE is how it can make getters and setters as well as Event Listener methods just by selecting the var or eventlistener and using Ctrl+Shift+1. The other really great thing about this IDE it’s completely free. There is also a great snipit and template system.
Now as you may already can tell this IDE is a stronger alternative for the Flash IDE where as people who use Flex my feel they can already do most of the things that FlashDevelop provides in the flex builder. Even then you can’t go wrong with FlashDevelop since you can compile with the flex SDK or the Flash IDE from with in one place.
