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The time has come for our first annual PhysExtravaganza! The winner can take home up to $2100 in software from Adobe* with the 2rd prize being a month’s subscription to Lynda.com (I’m still searching for other potential prizes). Here are the rules:

1. Develop a Flash project (game, experiment, useful tool, etc.) using an open source physics library such as the following (source is usually provided at the links):

* Box2d: http://box2dflash.sourceforge.net/
* APE: http://www.cove.org/ape/
* FOAM: http://code.google.com/p/foam-as3/
* Fisix: http://www.fisixengine.com/
* WOW: http://seraf.mediabox.fr/wow-engine/as3-3d-physics-engine-wow-engine/

2. Release the source code to the group
3. Comment the source code reasonably well
4. Show off your project at the meeting
5. Win the popular vote of the group (I will be the super delegate in case of a tie)

At the meeting, I will spend the first 45 minutes presenting on Box2d. The rest of the time will be used to start a project from what you’ve learned or finish up a project you’ve started on. Around 7:45 we’ll demo all the projects and put them all to the vote with the winner being one happy camper. At the very least everyone will walk away with free food, drinks, and physics source code for future projects.

The meeting details are as follows:

uFlash will be held Tuesday May 27th @ 6:30pm at RED Interactive in downtown Salt Lake City.
Pizza and drinks will be provided thanks to RED.

RED Interactive
http://ff0000.com/
230 S 500 W
Salt Lake City, UT 84101
Google Map with street view looking at the building- http://tinyurl.com/65ezlg

If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to ask. I’ll be sending out reminders each week before the meeting.

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John Lindquist

This month Brent Arnold will be presenting on best practices for video tutorials and other video tricks. Jacob Wright will then follow up with custom metatags in flex as well as how to use the proxy class.

April 17th
6pm
mediaRain

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See you there!

Just a reminder…

Join uFlash for this “can’t miss” meeting!

Adobe’s RIA technologies enable you to rapidly build and deploy the most engaging applications across browsers and on the desktop. uFlash is hosting a special live event to share exciting new information on Adobe’s platform tools and technologies for building RIAs. You’ll see an exclusive user group video presentation by Adobe Chief Software Architect, Kevin Lynch, hear some important product news, plus get your hands on some exclusive schwag and other giveaways.

Be part of the fun and excitement and join the rest of the Adobe developer community by participating in this very special event.

This meeting will happen on Monday, February 25 at 6:00PM

As usual, we’ll be meeting at mediaRAIN

Mark your calendars now, as the Flex 3/AIR Pre-release User Group tour is stopping in Salt Lake City!

Adobe Evangelist Kevin Hoyt will be visiting us on January 23, 2008. This meeting will be a joint meeting of uFlash and FlexUserGroup.org.

Here are the basics so far:

January 23, 2008
6:30 PM

Neumont University
Salt Lake City Campus
10701 S River Front Pkwy Room 200
South Jordan, Utah, 84095

More details coming soon, but so far there will be lots of prizes, food, a big software raffle, and some great Flex / AIR info.

Mark your calendars now!

Don’t forget - we’re meeting THIS THURSDAY!

Our presenter will be Joe Snow of Helius. A quick summary of his presentation is below.

We’ll be meeting at the mediaRAIN offices, at 6:00PM.

Introduction to the Flash SWF File Format

Understanding the SWF file format and the flash compiler can increase your working knowledge for flash application development. We’ll go through the basics of the Adobe SWF file format documentation together and compile a custom SWF file. We’ll demonstrate some real world examples to expose search engine text and replacing outdated copyright text in an existing SWF file.

If you want to get a head start, begin the free licensing process for Adobe’s SWF and FLV File Format Specification http://www.adobe.com/licensing/developer/

Also, Helius has generously agreed to help sponsor this week’s meeting, and will be providing some pizza and drinks. So… please let us know if you’ll be attending so that we can have an idea of how much food to get.

Just drop me a line at josh@joshbuhler.com to let me know you’ll be there.

Just a quick reminder, in case it’s not obvious, but we will NOT be meeting this Thursday - we’ll be meeting next week, on Thursday, November 29.

Our presenter will be Joe Snow of Helius. A quick summary of his presentation is below.

We’ll be meeting at the mediaRAIN offices, at 6:00PM.

Introduction to the Flash SWF File Format

Understanding the SWF file format and the flash compiler can increase your working knowledge for flash application development. We’ll go through the basics of the Adobe SWF file format documentation together and compile a custom SWF file. We’ll demonstrate some real world examples to expose search engine text and replacing outdated copyright text in an existing SWF file.

If you want to get a head start, begin the free licensing process for Adobe’s SWF and FLV File Format Specification http://www.adobe.com/licensing/developer/

Don’t forget - our meeting on Papervision 3D & using displacement maps is TONIGHT!

We’ve got a lot to cover tonight, so don’t be late! As usual, the meeting will start at 6:00 PM, at the mediaRAIN office.

255 S. Orem Blvd.

(Directly behind the Pep Boys on Orem State Street)

This week’s meeting promises to be a good one. Ellis Elkins will be talking to us a bit about using Flash’s built-in displacement maps & some other neat visual effects.

Then, John Lindquist will be continuing his intro to Papervision3D, from where he left off at last week’s UDFUG meeting.

For those who weren’t there last week, (or were, and just need the links), here is a list of the source files from the last meeting, and what we’ll be covering at the next meeting.

Source files from where we left off:

http://flexyouras.com/tutorials/Papervision3D/InsideTheBox/InsideTheBox.swf - (Drag mouse and use arrow keys to move around)

http://flexyouras.com/tutorials/Papervision3D/InsideTheBox/InsideTheBox.rar

We’ll be covering two things:

1. Importing materials from a .fla library to map to 3d objects
2. Importing 3d models from 3ds max

And a demo of what we’ll try to build in the meeting:

http://flexyouras.com/tutorials/Papervision3D/uFlashMax/uflash.swf - (Drag mouse and use arrows to move around (you can also use the spacebar to ‘fire’ a cube)

As usual, we’ll be meeting at the mediaRAIN offices, directly behind the PepBoys on State street in Orem. The meeting starts at 6:00pm

Just a quick reminder for tonight’s meeting. Scott Stoddard of SpiritOnin.com will be speaking to us about his game development experience with Flash. This should be a good meeting, so don’t miss it if you’re interested in developing games for Flash.

As usual, we’ll be meeting at 6:00 PM, at the mediaRAIN offices in Orem.

Within the family of Flash CS3, Flex 2/3 and the Flash 9 player, there is an abundant amount of ways to deal with data, both local and remote. Making the right decision as far as what technologies to use can make pinnacle difference in the success of your application. On Thursday’s meeting, we will have an open forum to discuss what options are available and what have proven to work best. This is everybody’s chance to teach and learn. Bring your solutions on how you deal with these different areas:

· Displaying Data (What components do you use or have challenges with?)

· Managing Data (XML, JSON, Array Collections, etc: What have you found works best?)

· Sending and Receiving Remote Data (PHP, ASP, Remoting, etc: What server technology do you use, and in what format do you send it in?)

· Sending and Retrieving Local Data (Shared Objects, Local Connection, External Interface, Zinc, Apollo: What do you use?)

· Alternative AS3 Options (GZip, AMF3, Zip Archives: What are some of the new AS3 formats you have chosen to use to distribute data?)

The meeting will be held this Thursday at the MediaRain office at 6:00 – 8:00 pm.