Development tidbits, struggles, revelations, and still some Flash

Please join us for a very special Las Vegas user group and Vegas Flex joint meeting at New Horizons (map) 7:00 PM Thursday January 24th, where our presenter will be Ryan Stewart, Adobe’s Rich Internet Application Evangelist. Our topics will be the features of the upcoming releases of Flex 3 and Adobe AIR. Everyone is welcome! Please bring friends and coworkers who might be working with (or interested in working with) Adobe technologies.

Did we mention the schwag giveaway? – A copy of Adobe CS3 Design Premium and a copy of Flex 3 when it is released. Everyone in attendance will be entered into the raffle.

Please join us for a very special Las Vegas user group  and Vegas Flex joint meeting at New Horizons (map) where our presenter will be Ryan Stewart, Adobe’s Rich Internet Application Evangelist. Our topics will be the features of the upcoming releases of Flex 3 and Adobe AIR.  Everyone is welcome!  Please bring friends and coworkers who might be working with (or interested in working with) Adobe technologies.

Did we mention the schwag giveaway? – A copy of Adobe CS3 Design Premium and a copy of Flex 3 when it is released. Everyone in attendance will be entered into the raffle.Â

Flex 3 is a feature-packed release, adding new UI components like the advanced datagrid and improved CSS capabilities; powerful tooling additions like refactoring; and extensive testing tools including memory and performance profiling, plus the addition of the automated testing framework to Flex Builder.

Adobe AIR is game-changing in so many ways, extending rich applications to the desktop, enabling access to the local file system, system tray, notifications and much more. Now you can write desktop applications using the same skills that you’ve been already using to create great web apps including both Flex and AJAX.

John Grden will be our special guest for Wednesday night’s LV Adobe user group. John will be joining us via Connect and giving our users a demo on Papervision3D. The meeting will be starting at 7pm at New Horizons at 7674 West Lake Mead Blvd Suite 250.

If you can’t make it in person, be sure to join us online at : http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/vegasaug/ Type in your name and enter as Guest. Cya there!

If there is enough interest, we’d like to bring John out here to Las Vegas to do one of his two-day Papervision3d workshops. If that would appeal to you, be sure to let us know at the meeting or drop me a note in the comments here.

Come join the VegasAUG.org year end meeting on December 12th, at 7:00 PM for a very special presentation on the open source Papervision3D! If you work with Flash, Flex, ActionScript or are interested in interactive 3D experiences, this meeting is for you.

Our presenter will be John Grden who is a member of the open source Papervision3D team. John Grden will be joining us via Adobe Connect to demo his Papervision3D Flash CS3 Component. John’s PV3D component allows Flash CS3 designers and developers to leverage the Papervision3D open source 3D engine using a design-time component. He’ll provide information about the Papervision3D project and how to work with 3D models, materials, and animation.

I’m looking for a new toy to develop Flash for.   Ideally what I’d like is the iPhone, but with Flash on it. Since that hasn’t happened and not sure it will happen, I’m looking for either a phone or mobile device (device needs wireless) that has a touch screen, can run Flash (either Flash Lite or Flash player), and can run Flash full screen SWFs directly from the phone/device without having to navigate with a browser.  Â

Can someone make a recommendation or two?  I’ve seen the LG Prada phone, but I’m unsure if you can develop for it w/o a browser.  I’ve also looked over the Nokia N800 series devices.  Thanks in advance.

Get’m while they’re hot. The new betas for Flex 3 and AIR are on labs.adobe.com

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flex/

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/air/