Meeting Time: 6:00pm on Tuesday August 26th
Location: Railinc Corporate Headquarters, 7001 Weston Parkway, Suite 200 Cary, NC 27513
We had a great showing in July for our first RDAUG/Triangle User Experience co-meeting! In August, we'll be teaming up with the TUE yet again!
RDAUG will be presenting on Papervision 3D.
Papervision3D is a realtime 3D engine for Flash. This means you can import 3D models, create a 3D scene and make it completely interactive using regular Actionscript 3 with the help of the PV3D framework. We'll talk through the basics, give you enough information to get you started, and then we'll show how to use the open source/free 3D package called Blender to create some simple 3D assets for Papervision. We'll also show you how to use Photoshop CS3 Extended to edit you're textures.
And then, the Triangle User Experience will be presenting on Flex and Maps. Working with Google, Yahoo, MapQuest, and ESRI maps within Flex applications. - presented by Adrian Pomilio
Please RSVP for this meeting by commenting in this post, thanks!
Hello All,
I'd like to first take this opportunity to welcome Troy Stratton as the RDAUG co-manager. Troy's been very active within the group, and wants to see us grow, so I'm glad to be working with him! In fact...I'm copying his notes on what we are shooting for in RDAUG between the monthly meetings.
Anyway, we're really excited regarding the turn out and the discussions we had during our last meeting.
It is now time to start gathering topics that people want to learn and projects people would like to start up as an incubator system. During our meeting, we talked about hack night, incubator projects, and learning sessions (hands on training, homework assignments, mini meetings).
1) Hack Night: we need to know how many people are interested
in this topic and what night works for everyone... include topics you
would like us to cover such as Actionscript Array Collections
2)
Incubator Projects: if you are interested in having people work with
you on a project... let us know. There were many interesting projects
brought up during the meeting, and we are sure there are many people
willing to jump on the projects with you, but the group needs to know
what projects are available to work on.
3) learning sessions: please let us know what you want to learn or if
you have an area you feel comfortable teaching. We need your input to
know what we should be discussing at our meetings, like "What currently
works for you and what doesn't," since we are in an experimental
stage. Based on your input, we will know if we should break this area
down to mini meetings, user group topics, hands on training, etc, but
we need your input to make it happen.
We heard several topics of interest in the last meeting including Flex, Illustrator, and Ajax, and I'd like everyone to know that our group has a Lynda.com account. I can't give you folks the login info, but I can take requests for tutorials and lesssons from the site. Lets get this ball rolling. We are very eager to meet everyone again, learn more, and just have fun. Please comment in this post if you'd like to request a topic for a hack night, request a lesson from lynda.com or otherwise, have a project you'd like help or feedback with, etc.