At the top of our game in st.Louis
I just made a video tutorial that shows you how to:
This is really simple and really smart if you need to have multiple fonts in your application.
FYI: once again for best video quality use the fullscreen button.
Not only will I be showing the group today Flash’s CS4 IDE, but I will be also doing so via the built in Connectnow that lets you share your screen with people. The nice thing about this connect now is that it will be a great way to get help or give help when needed on a project.
Feel free to hop on now as I will be testing and playing with it before the meeting. I would also like your input on the quality and use before the meeting if possible.
https://connectnow.acrobat.com/joshchernoff
Thanks
- Josh Chernoff | AS3 Apex
Oct 8th at 6pm join the AS3 Apex group for a hands on look at the new version of flash.
kayak’s is located at:
276 North Skinker Blvd.
St. Louis, MO 63130
This is just a reminder that today Joey Lott will be presenting for AS3 Apex and the Flex and Fuse the arch user group at 3pm. You can get more info on this at http://www.as3apex.com/as3/joey-lott-is-coming-to-stlouis-on-october-4th/
Hope to see you there.
- Josh Chernoff.
I give credit to BigSpaceShip for this idea found at this post. Thanks your guys rock!
The thing that has always bugged the heck out of me is the naming convention for loop iterator variables.
Example: loop One would be named “i”, I always thought because it was i for iterator. What about the Second loop named “j”. Whats that stand for? and what do you name the Third loop if there is one? Well if your like me that always kinda confused you and felt convoluted.
Now here’s the cool new idea, use “i” as in Roman Numerals.
Example: loop One would be “i”, loop Two “ii”, loop Three “iii”, ect….. Now that makes sense!
Not only can you quickly identify what loop iterator your looking at but you now have a reason for name the next iterator if you need to.
I know this is not ground breaking or big news but it’s this type of thinking AS3 needs more of and I will continue to promote it so long as I see it.
[UPDATE]::::: Meeting will now start at 3pm NOT 6pm::::: [UPDATE]
Come to a joint event with AS3 Apex and Flex and Fuse the Arch for a night with Joey Lott. There is limited space available so please RSVP by emailing me at josh@gfxcomplex.com And for you who may not know Joey Lott he has written a few O’reilly books such as Action Script Cook book and some online video tutorials about Action script over the years.
The event will be at the Drive Agency, located at 1617 Locust at 3pm on October the 4th.
Hope to see you there.
- AS3 Apex, Fuse and Flex the Arch.
Here a fun little experiment that takes screen shoots of the video at 1 millisecond cycles then breaks it down in to it’s rgb channels then makes a color histogram of it.
See it here http://gfxcomplex.com/labs/histogram.html
You can download the source here. http://gfxcomplex.com/labs/histogram.zip
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
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.
