Choose a topic...

We're now scheduling the meeting topics and speakers for the second half of the year. This is your chance to let us know what you'd like to learn about, or who you would like to see present for the group.

Some members have already told me their interest in learning more about:

- Flash Video
- Flex

This is your chance to choose a topic for an upcoming meeting.

Let's the comments begin!

Last Night's Meeting Recorded..

We recorded the meeting last night, you can watch it at your leisure here:

http://adobechats.breezecentral.com/p17586297/

Watch for a new format called mini-meetings that we'll be having bi-weekly that will focus on more specific areas within products included in the Flash Platform. These meetings will be held using our Breeze account and should be a great opportunity to share resources and knowledge.

Adobe Developer Week

Adobe Developer Week

Be our guest at a week of free online seminars exclusively for developers!

Learn about the Adobe Engagement Platform, including Flex, LiveCycle, and other Adobe technologies, during Adobe Developer Week. This free, week-long event features live, online sessions presented by Adobe technology experts. See live demos and have your questions answered by the experts during interactive Q&A sessions.

Featured Sessions Include:

Keynote session on the Adobe Engagement Platform
Building Applications with Flex Builder 2
ColdFusion as a Flex Back End
Building Applications with Adobe LiveCycle and Flex
ActionScript 3 for Flash & RIA Developers
Plus 10 additional sessions
For maximum flexibility, you need only register for the individual sessions that fit your needs. Don't miss this must-attend developer event. link to register

The Adobe Engagement Platform
Presenter: Todd Hay - Director, Platform Marketing & Developer Relations

Built around Adobe PDF, Adobe Flash, and HTML technology at its core, the Adobe Engagement Platform blends the strengths of Adobe technologies and open standards to provide a versatile foundation for extending the reach of information, processes, and services to customers, partners, and employees anytime, anywhere, and in any medium. Attendees will learn about the technologies that make up the Engagement Platform, as well as understand how Adobe technologies can be used together to create intuitive, rich content, documents and applications.

Building ColdFusion Powered Flex Applications
Presenter: Ben Forta - Sr. Technical Evangelist

Flex revolutionized the client side of your application, but what to use on the backend? Discover how ColdFusion 7 and Flex 2 have been built to complement each other, via Flash Remoting, Flex Data Services and ColdFusion event gateways, Flex Builder plug ins, and more.

ActionScript 3.0 for Flash & RIA Developers
Presenters: Emmy Huang - Product Manager & Gary Grossman - Principal Scientist

ActionScript is the primary programming language of Flash and Flex. If you're new to ActionScript 3.0, discover how this important update further advances the language to offer developers a fully object-oriented programming model, increased performance, and new language features for the next generation of rich internet applications.

Flex and Ajax - Better Together
June 16, 2006 | ColdFusion App Developer, Community, Flash App Developer, Internet Application Architect, IS/IT Manager, Java App Developer, .NET/ASP App Developer, Web Application Developer

Presenter:James Ward - Systems Engineer & Jorge Taylor, Manager, Engineering

In this session you will learn how to use Adobe's tools and AJAX together to easily build new rich web pages or enhance old ones. Or, take it beyond the web page and easily build rich web applications using the Flex framework, Eclipse based IDE, and server components. You will also learn how to easily build RIAs which connect to SOAP and RESTful web services.

Meeting tonight

Hi All,

Just a reminder that there is a meeting tonight at the WCC in Room BE 240 from 6:00 – 8:00pm.

R Blank will be giving a presentation on the E! The Vine application that his company created. You can read more about R at his website – http://www.almerblank.com

You’ll have the chance to tune into the meeting tonight with us at WCC or from the comfort of your own home / better internet connection.

Below is the Breeze Meeting URL, login as guest. I won’t be in the meeting room until around 6:15.

http://adobechats.breezecentral.com/r33524236/

Submit your work for the Adobe Customer Reel

Submit your work for the 2006 Adobe Customer Reel by June 30. http://www.adobe.com/motion/customerreel.html

Adobe invites you to submit your work for possible inclusion in the 2006 Adobe Digital Video and Audio Customer Reel! This is a chance to showcase the work you produce using Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe Encore DVD, Adobe Audition, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, and other Adobe products! We want to see your work and show it to others in the industry so they can see how creative our users are—and see the possibilities of Adobe's Digital Video and Audio products.

Adobe plans to introduce the reel at SIGGRAPH in Boston this August. Over the next year Adobe will also present the reel at tradeshows, seminars and industry events worldwide. This reel also proudly plays in the lobby of Adobe's headquarters—reminding all that some of the coolest products at Adobe are the ones that make images move.

If you are able to grant us the additional right to distribute your materials as part of the Reel for the purpose of promoting Adobe products and services, your work may reach an even wider audience! To be included in versions of the Reel that are played on the Adobe web site and shared with customers and partners, be sure to check the option on the last page of the Non-Exclusive License Agreement.

NTSC Beta SP is our preferred format, but we can also accept Digibeta, miniDV, miniDV (DV, HDV, or HD), and uncompressed movie files (QuickTime and AVI) on data DVDs. We cannot accept PAL, and would prefer to use authored DVDs only if no other option is available, as compression means the finished quality will be less than ideal. This year, we plan to produce the reel in 16:9 format as well as 4:3, so if you have both options available, please send them both to us.

Please tell us which Adobe products you used and a little about the project(s) you’re submitting by filling out the contact sheet. If your work has audio, please make sure that you have the rights for Adobe to use the audio or indicate that we need to use copyright free music.

To submit your work:

1) Print and fill out the Contact Infosheet: http://www.adobe.com/motion/pdfs/2006_dvreel_contactinfo.pdf.

2) Print and complete 2 copies of the Non-Exclusive License: http://www.adobe.com/motion/pdfs/2006_dvreel_license_agreement.pdf

3) Send your reel, both copies of the Non-Exclusive License (one copy will be sent back to you), and the Contact Info sheet to:

Attn: Adobe Customer Reel

Meredith Yeary

Adobe Systems, Inc.

801 North 34th St.

Seattle, WA 98103

We can't guarantee that your work will be included but we make every effort to include as broad a range of work as possible. Submissions in past years have come from Istanbul, New York, Tokyo, LA, Paris, Poland and virtually everywhere in between, and have represented everything from experimental films and self-promotions to commercials, broadcast graphics, and film compositing projects. We’d love to see what you’ve been working on, so please send your reel to us!

If you have any questions, please email us at customerreel@adobe.com.

Remember, the submission deadline is June 30. Thanks again for your support!

Sincerely,

The Adobe Digital Video and Audio Product Teams

Photoshop Sout 2 Nuts at WCC

Info at:
http://photoshopsoup2nuts.com/content/blogcategory/38/101/