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November 21, 2006
December 20th Meeting recap
Last night's meeting went pretty well. We had a modest turn out, which was good considering there was no reminder email sent out last week. It's good to see how committed our members are :)
As usual there was beer and some good flash chatting. Michael Warf gave off a great talk about sIFR, a framework that allows developers to replace text styles at run-time with much nicer flash alternatives. This was followed by some social time, and then Lanny McNie's AS2-AS3 Migration talk that gave everyone an idea of what converting Flash 8 projects to Actionscript 3 would be like, and provided an overview of some of the key changes most developers will have to deal with. As promised, the source files for the talk can be downloaded here.
The end of the night was capped off with a draw for a copy of gskinner.com's Combo Panel Pack, which includes the popular gProject panel, along with the brand new Panel Pack 1 panel set. The winner was Leejay Dunphy. Please email lanny (at) gskinner (dot) com if you do not receive your prize.
Thanks to everyone who showed up. Just a reminder that there is no EFUG for December, so we will see you all on the 15th of January for some more flash goodness!
Posted by Lanny at 09:58 AM | Comments (0)
November 09, 2006
Next Meeting: November 20
On Monday, November 20th at 7:00, anyone who's anyone will be gathering at Guru Digital Arts College (address and map to the left) to enjoy some world-class presentations for the last eFug of 2006. We won't be meeting in December due to Jesus' birthday, so this is your last chance to get your fill of fug. For starters:
Michael Warf (devbox) will explore the history of flash text replacement via sIFR, show real world examples of the technique and show current explorations with sIFR 3 alpha.
CSS / JS / Flash Mashup - Exploring sIFR 3.0 Alpha
Typography on the web still sucks, Why not get the goodness of antialiased custom fonts, the flexibility of CSS and the magic of javascript to bring love and positivity to your projects. Fight back with Flash 8 text rendering engine, multiple colour support and more!
Following the usual 15-minute intermission for networking and brewskies:
[Insert Witty Title About AS3 Here]
Lanny McNie of gskinner will be introducing us to ActionScript 3, the new object-oriented programming paradigm commonly associated with Java and C++. Lanny has been coding in AS3 for almost a year now, and will be sharing what he has learned along the way. He will also be showing us how to migrate our AS1 / AS2 projects to AS3.
Mark it in your calendar - hope to see you there!
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