Date: February 5, 2009
Time: 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Location: JPL, Directions

Our second meeting of the year will be Thursday, February 5th. Topics will include:

Character Animation by Chris Buchholz
Chris will be presenting on the animation side of Flash with character animation. He will show tips and techniques on how to bring your characters to life.

Chris Buchholz is a designer at JPL. Although he specializes in illustration, he also does a great deal of graphic design, and flash animation. Sometimes he dabbles in set design, and prop creation. Once he did some bookbinding, and he’s tried to make paper. But he really wants to be a painter, or a fruit stand manager. Chris Buchholz does not know who he is. For this meeting, he will speak as though he is a flash animator.

ActionScript Message Format (AMF ) by Winton De Shong
Winton DeShong will be presenting why and how you would use AMF to communicate with flash and flex applications instead of traditional methods, such as; SOAP, WDDX, and other custom XML technologies. In addition to demonstrating the client-side flash and flex code, Winton will show how simple it is to get up and running with AMF on the server-side with examples utilizing PHP (AMFPHP/ZendAMF) and ASP.NET (FluorineFx/WebORB).

Winton DeShong is an Interactive Developer at andCulture and a Freelance Web Developer. His work over the past several years has included the likes of Scripps Networks, State Farm Insurance,The Philadelphia Eagles, Frans Lanting, Lutron Electronics, Yahoo!, and many more. Recently, he has been focused on building an enterprise-grade Flex and ASP.NET Application for Mount Nittany Hospital with the team at andCulture. Winton has extensive experience with PHP, ASP.NET C#, Javascript, Flash, Flex, Web Services, MySQL/MSSQL, and other technologies.

FlashEff / CPFUG Banner Contest
We will be checking out the submissions of our FlashEff contest and raffle off a license of FlashEff Premium between the participants. We will extend the deadline to Thursday (day of our next meeting) if you haven’t yet turned in your submission. Check out the contest info here.

Please RSVP if you plan on attending. See you Thursday.

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I’m thrilled to introduce the start of a new Flash user group nearby. Susquehanna Valley FUG is an official Adobe user group supporting the Susquehanna Valley area (Lancaster and York counties). Their primarily focus is on Flex, Flash and AIR.

Their first meeting will be on Tuesday January 27th at 6:15 pm in Lancaster. Check out their site for details.

I will be attending the meeting on Tuesday. This is a great step in expanding the Flash Platform community in PA. We will most likely be connecting with SVFUG in the future for events and such. I encourage you all to go, meet new people, and learn, learn, learn.

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Date: January 8, 2009
Time: 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Location: JPL, Directions

Join us for our first meeting of 2009. I am looking forward to a great year for the group. Below are some of the topics that we will cover on Thursday.

Gaia Framework by Rich Hauck
Rich will present on the benefits and limitations with using the Gaia Framework, as well as give a step-by-step introduction on how to get started with building a website using Gaia.

Rich Hauck has been using Flash for 10 years and has worked in ActionScript and MXML for a range of clients, from Fortune 500 companies to small business startups. Rich recently moved back in into the Harrisburg area after completing a masters degree at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program. He is currently Creative Director at Hauck Interactive, Inc. and will be teaching digital photography at Harrisburg Area Community College in Spring 2009.

TweenLite Tweening Class by Shane Hoffa
Shane will briefly demonstrate how to setup and use TweenLite, the popular tweening class by GreenSock. TweenLite makes it extremely easy to animate objects and properties with just one line of code.

New Benefit!
Come Thursday to find out what we will be raffling off all year long!!!

Please RSVP if you plan on attending. I look forward to seeing everyone on Thursday!

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