The next meeting of the Maine Flash Platform User Group will be on July 8th at 6:00pm at the offices of Penobscot Bay Media, LLC, in Camden, Maine. Penobscot Bay Media has moved up the street to 51 Mechanic Street, Suite 300. This is the old Kodak Center building, for those familiar with the area. There is plenty of free parking next to the building.

We'll be discussing group objectives: what would you like to see us doing; are we meeting on the best night; can people make it to meetings in other towns, etc.

We'll also take another go round with what everyone is up to.

Finally, we'll roll the dice to see if we give away the big software package from Adobe. We'll start giving out tickets for the software drawings. Each meeting you go to gets you a ticket. When the drawing happens, you must be present and have the matching tiket to win. Giving a presentation will earn you more tickets (two or three depending on the length of the presentation). After the drawing takes place, all the tickets get tossed and we start fresh.

Hope to see you there!

Please contact Kirk Holbrook (kholbrook[at]gwi[dot]net), if you would like more information.

Join the Maine Flash Platform User Group for this "can't miss" meeting! Adobe announced the immediate availability of Flex 3 and AIR today.

Adobe's RIA technologies enable you to rapidly build and deploy the most engaging applications across browsers and on the desktop. The Maine Flash Platform User Group 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. We have a free copy of Flex Builder 3 to raffle, as well as a Sony Playstation Portable (Star Wars Edition), and some other cool things. There are even some limited edition t-shirts!

We will also roll the dice to see if we'll give away a big software package from Adobe.

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

Bring along some friends! If we have 50 or more in attendance, Adobe will provide an additional (and VERY nice) item to raffle.

Monday, February 25 at 6:00pm at the offices of Penobscot Bay Media, LLC, in Camden, Maine.

This meeting will take the place of our meeting in March. Hope to see you there.

The next meeting of the Maine Flash Platform User Group will be on February 12th at 6:00pm at the offices of Penobscot Bay Media, LLC, in Camden, Maine. Penobscot Bay Media has moved up the street to 51 Mechanic Street, Suite 300. This is the old Kodak Center building, for those familiar with the area. There is plenty of free parking next to the building.

We will be taking a look at some tips for animating with Flash. I saw a great presentation recently by Chris Georgenes, author of How to Cheat in Adobe Flash CS3. So, I thought we might all like to see Chris' presentation -- especially since we've been talking about Flex a lot lately.

We will roll the dice to see if we have a big software giveaway from Adobe (7 or 11 means we draw that night!). In December we talked about a few different ways to spice up the software drawings. After a vote, we decided to roll the dice each month (until we have the drawing). You must be present to win the big prize. So, no one will know ahead of time when the big drawing will be, unless it happens to be in June or December. We give away two packages from Adobe each year: one for January through June, and one for July through December. We did NOT roll a 7 or an 11 in January!

Please contact Kirk Holbrook (kholbrook[at]gwi[dot]net), if you would like more information.

Join the Maine Flash Platform User Group 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. The Maine Flash Platform User Group 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.

Bring along some friends! If we have 50 or more in attendance, Adobe will provide an additional (and VERY nice) item to raffle.

Monday, February 25 at 6:00pm at the offices of Penobscot Bay Media, LLC, in Camden, Maine.

This meeting will take the place of our meeting in March. We will have our regularly scheduled meeting in February on February 12th.

The next meeting of the Maine Flash Platform User Group will be on January 8th at 6:00pm at the offices of Penobscot Bay Media, LLC, in Camden, Maine. Penobscot Bay Media has moved up the street to 51 Mechanic Street, Suite 300. This is the old Kodak Center building, for those familiar with the area. There is plenty of free parking next to the building.

We will be taking a look at SlideRocket, a flex based presentation tool, similar to Microsoft PowerPoint. We'll also take a look at a few other announcements.

We will roll the dice to see if we have a big software giveaway from Adobe (7 or 11 means we draw that night!). Last month we talked about a few different ways to spice up the software drawings. After a vote, we decided to roll the dice each month (until we have the drawing). You must be present to win the big prize. So, no one will know ahead of time when the big drawing will be, unless it happens to be in June or December. We give away two packages from Adobe each year: one for January through June, and one for July through December.

In December, we raffled off a free Adobe software package. Kenton Williams walked away (figuratively speaking, as he had to download it later) with a free copy of Adobe Creative Suite 3 Production Premium.

Please contact Kirk Holbrook (kholbrook[at]gwi[dot]net), if you would like more information. This meeting could be shared via Adobe Acrobat Connect (formerly Macromedia Breeze), but I would need notice beforehand.

The next meeting of the Maine Flash Platform User Group will be on December 11th at 6:00pm at the offices of Penobscot Bay Media, LLC, in Camden, Maine. Penobscot Bay Media has moved up the street to 51 Mechanic Street, Suite 300. This is the old Kodak Center building, for those familiar with the area. There is plenty of free parking next to the building.

We will be diving in to Flex again. Several members have expressed interest in learning more about Flex, so we'll be looking at various aspects of Flex over the coming months. We'll be taking a look at skinning and CSS in Flex this time.

We will be having a drawing for an Adobe software package at our December meeting. Also, please join us to see, and borrow from, our ever-increasing group library.

Please contact Kirk Holbrook (kholbrook[at]gwi[dot]net), if you would like more information. This meeting could be shared via Adobe Acrobat Connect (formerly Macromedia Breeze), but I would need notice beforehand.

The next meeting of the Maine Flash Platform User Group will be on November 20th at 6:00pm at the offices of Penobscot Bay Media, LLC, in Camden, Maine. Penobscot Bay Media has moved up the street to 51 Mechanic Street, Suite 300. This is the old Kodak Center building, for those familiar with the area. There is plenty of free parking next to the building.

Note that I had to move the meeting date this month. Our December meeting will be on the second Tuesday -- December 11th.

We will be diving in to Flex again. Several members have expressed interest in learning more about Flex, so we'll be looking at various aspects of Flex over the coming months.

Remember, the more meetings you attend, the better your chances of winning a free software package from Adobe. The next big drawing will be at our December meeting. Also, please join us to see, and borrow from, our ever-increasing group library.

Please contact Kirk Holbrook (kholbrook[at]gwi[dot]net), if you would like more information. This meeting could be shared via Adobe Acrobat Connect (formerly Macromedia Breeze), but I would need notice beforehand.

The next meeting of the Maine Flash Platform User Group will be on October 9th at 6:00pm at the offices of Penobscot Bay Media, LLC, in Camden, Maine. Penobscot Bay Media has moved up the street to 51 Mechanic Street, Suite 300. This is the old Kodak Center building, for those familiar with the area. There is plenty of free parking next to the building.

We will be discussing a bunch of news from Adobe this week from the MAX conference in Chicago. Chris Backiel will be sharing some first-hand info. And we'll take a look at some of the new things out from Adobe this week.

Remember, the more meetings you attend, the better your chances of winning a free software package from Adobe. The next big drawing is scheduled for December. Also, please join us to see, and borrow from, our ever-increasing group library.

Please contact Kirk Holbrook (kholbrook[at]gwi[dot]net), if you would like more information. This meeting could be shared via Adobe Acrobat Connect (formerly Macromedia Breeze), but since it's a limited demo kind of thing, in-person would be a better experience.

The next meeting of the Maine Flash Platform User Group will be on September 11th at 6:00pm at the offices of Penobscot Bay Media, LLC, in Camden, Maine. Penobscot Bay Media has moved up the street to 51 Mechanic Street, Suite 300. This is the old Kodak Center building, for those familiar with the area. There is plenty of free parking next to the building.

We will be discussing what we'd like to see and do over the next few months. A couple of ideas to be thinking about: developing a site for a fictitious company, or even better a site for a local non-profit; setting up a code day for charity (does the local animal shelter need a new app?) where we invite a bunch of coders to do something for a good cause; FlexCamp: can we get enough developers to host a Frozen North FlexCamp in Feb (or thereabouts)? Any other ideas? Maybe a few minutes to touch base with each other informally on what we've been up to lately.

Remember, the more meetings you attend, the better your chances of winning a free software package from Adobe. The next big drawing is scheduled for December. Also, please join us to see, and borrow from, our ever-increasing group library.

Please contact Kirk Holbrook (kholbrook[at]gwi[dot]net), if you would like more information. This meeting could be shared via Adobe Acrobat Connect (formerly Macromedia Breeze), but since it's not really a code-share, demo kind of thing, in-person would be a better experience.

Well, we had a little bit smaller turnout for the ColdFusion 8 Release Party, than the one we had for Adobe CS3, but we had a good time.

We watched a great, pre-recorded presentation by Jason Delmore, ColdFusion Product Marketing Manager at Adobe. It was an overview of CF8 and had some nice code examples, too. FYI Ben Forta's pre-recorded presentation had some technical problems, so we could not use it.

Chris Backiel was the big winner of the night. He takes home a free copy of ColdFusion 8 Standard (thanks Ed!). John Root won a free copy of Foundeo's Image Effects for CF8 (thanks Pete!). Bruce Bird took home a Power Squid, and we also gave away a couple computer games and some USB flash drives. Thanks to everyone who showed up. And thanks to Ed and Adobe for the budget to get the extra food and prizes.

Thanks also, to Marsee at O'Reilly and Cheryl at Friends of Ed/Apress for supplying some extra books for raffle. Everyone took home a free book, and we had some left over for the group library, too.

Remember, the more meetings you attend the better chance you have of winning some great Adobe software. All are welcome.