Tonight we had one of our best meetings to date.  We did a BarCamp style meeting tonight and everyone brought some great topics to talk about.  Thanks to Sebastian for showing us the Flash clock, Frank for showing PhotoSynth, and Matt for showing us his Arduino project, Barduino.  An extra thanks to everyone for also sitting through my muddled talk about testing.

As always thanks to Zach and Darryl for providing the projector and screen.  No topics yet for the next couple months, but watch the blog for more information.  If you’d like to see a presentation on a particular topic or would like to give one, please feel free to drop us an email or leave a comment here and we’ll try to get it on the list.

See you next month!

Our April meeting will be tomorrow night, 04/16/09, at 7:00 PM and will be quite the smorgasbord.  Sebastian is going to be giving a tutorial on how to build a simple clock in Flash and I’m going to be giving a show and tell about the basics of testing your code.  If anyone else would like to give a short preso, BarCamp style, feel free to come out; we will have the projector and screen available I believe.  Tommorrow’s meeting promises to be very informal and may run short, so at the very least come out to socialize and meet fellow developers in the Brevard area.

See you tomorrow and don’t forget about BarCamp Orlando this weekend!

Thanks to Sebastian, Zach, Darryl, and Frank for making it out to the January meeting.  Sebastian gave us a great overview of the Flash IDE and how to work with Flash from a timeline perspective.  Sebastian showed us a cool example of a simple MP3 player he created, that made it easy to understand the benefits and challenges that Flash developers face.  He also gave us some great examples of issues with fonts that designers had to overcome when working with Flash as well as Adobe Illustrator.   If you weren’t able to make it out check out the Meetings page for the primer and code.

See ya next month.

At our last meeting, I mentioned that we would be presenting something using Adobe Flash. There were a few different concepts that I thought about demonstrating. Some new ideas and some projects that never came to fruit. After a late night attempt at a new project and lost files from the dead projects, I decided to present a project that I’ve completed and is currently in production.

This application takes an available mp3 file and makes it playable via a Flash SWF. The only required software is the Adobe Flash IDE that can be installed as a 90 day trial.

At this meeting we will discuss the Flash IDE, where Actionscript code is placed in a timeline based envirinment and how your HTML can send variables to the embeded SWF object on a web page.

I apologize for the exremely late primer, and I hope to see you all tonight at Charlie & Jake’s.

NOTE: Code is available here.

Thanks to Sebastian, Chris, Sarah, Derek, Doug, and Darryl for coming out to the December meeting last night. Also a special thanks to Kim from Veredus for sponsoring our meeting and hanging around so late; the beer and food was great! I’d encourage everyone to visit our SVN repository and download the AIR bundle that was created from last night’s meeting, if you haven’t already. If you’re interested in learning about application sandboxes and non-application sandboxes by example, the source for this month’s project may help. We’ve also got simple examples of how to write to the file system and use the network monitor available for those who are interested.

Next month Sebastian will be taking the reigns to present on a Flash/Flex topic. We will also be moving our next meeting back to January 22nd, due to some conflicts in schedule for myself and Sebastian. Sebastian’s a great designer, so if you’re look for a different perspective on the topic, this may be the meeting to attend.

Thank you to everyone who has found the time to join us for our meeting since we started in August. I hope RAnDOM can continue to service your needs as a community in the new year. Happy holidays and see you in the new year!