FlashPDX.org

I’ll be away for most of this month on business trips and won’t be able to host a UG meeting this month. However, there will be a meeting in October. Thanks to all those who attended the last meeting!

Ryan Taylor, senior software developer at Schematic and co-author of the forthcoming Adobe AIR Bible, will present a session via Acrobat Connect covering Pixel Bender and Flash Player 10.

Session description:

Flash Player 10 is upon us and with it comes an exciting array of powerful new features. The presentation will kick off with a walkthrough of how you can get started developing for Flash Player 10 using a recent build of the Flex SDK. From there, explorations of some of the core new features will take place, including the new Vector type, drawing API, and foundational 3D support. The night will end with an introduction to Pixel Bender, Adobe’s powerful new pixel shader language. Demonstrations of Pixel Bender kernels as Shaders for fills, filters, blend modes, and generic number crunchers in Flash will take place.

When:

Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Doors open at 6:30p and that the presentation will start at 7pm

Where:

Portland State University’s new Extended Studies location
1515 SW 5th Ave. (Corner of SW Market and SW 5th Ave)
Room 1053, 10th Floor
Parking entrace on SW Market, and walk-in entrace on SW 5th
PSU will validate parking
Trimet MAX line stops right by the building

Many thanks to Jennifer Portis at the Professional Development Center of PSU for making the room arrangements.

Please RSVP by emailing Robert Reinhardt.

Online URL:

You can watched the recorded presentation here:

http://experts.na3.acrobat.com/p69457424/

Rachel Luxemburg at Adobe just updated the UG list for Portland to reflect the new site and name for the Flash UG:

http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/usergroups/search_results.cfm?findType=1&loc=en_us&country_id=D6D8274E-1954-4FEA-87FD8F85B651B29A&state_id=30B90C20-7BC9-4ED2-A6DF65E957044562

Thanks Rachel!

I’ve officially established this new URL, flashpdx.org, as the home for the Flash PDX user group. I’ve arranged to host meetings at the new Extended Studies offices of Portland State University in downtown Portland, and will have the next meeting at the end of August. I’m working to make sure that the 3rd Tuesday of every month is the regular meeting date. If you have speaker/topic suggestions, please let me know.