We have a new member of the group who is in Ocean Springs. She's asked me if anyone will be attending Novembers meeting who might be able to car pool with her.

If you are, or a friend of yours is, in or near Ocean Springs and could carpool, please comment here or contact me by email or Twitter @SteveHoward999 @GulfCoastAUG

Steve

I wonder if some people had difficulty finding us in the new meeting location at JD? Sorry for the confusion that the location change may have caused, but we should be meeting in this new location at JD campus each month from now on. If you planned to attend last night but didn't find us, please contact me so that we can make sure you know how to find us next time.

I showed some demos of the new Flash Catalyst public Beta 1. Those who attended were very impressed at how easy Catalyst makes it to set up and create complex, interactive interfaces with basic transitions etc.

I've been busy over the last few months and so I have not managed to put in all the time that I would have liked into learning catalyst, so I cheated and showed demos from Lynda.com and InsideRIA.com.

I've attached a brief PowerPoint file to this blog post and the PowerPoint includes links to the demos I used. Please take the time to download the PowerPoint and check out the links. These will help you get up to speed with Flash Catalyst and show you most of the features in the current build. If you have not already seen a Flash Catalyst demo you will be impressed at the power of the tool!

Resources:-

Amy has an FAQ for Flex 3, posted here:  http://www.magnoliamultimedia.com/flex_examples/Amys_Flex_FAQ.pdf

Samsung Mobile Innovator web site http://innovator.samsungmobile.com/index.do

Sneak peek tutorial on Flash Catalyst (thermo) http://www.digitalbackcountry.com/flashcatalyst/tutorial01/screencast/index.html

great keynote by Adobe's CTO, Kevin Lynch, at Web2ExpoSF 09 http://blip.tv/file/1951449 - Flash Catalyst demo. Watch it. now.

Draft Flex Gumbo Chapters posted to Adobe open source site: http://blogs.adobe.com/pdehaan/2009/03/draft_flex_gumbo_chapters_post.html

Adobe TV - improved Developer Productivity in Gumbo (Flex 4) http://tv.adobe.com/#vi+f1472v1054

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Next month's meeting will be Wednesday May 6th, in Gulfport at Grace Healthcare, 6pm until 7:30. Exact address will be posted shortly.

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We had another great meeting tonight. Don't forget to post questions, requests, suggestions for a meeting topic, ideas for presentations etc etc - you can either reply to this post, or pos to a new thread in the discussion area of this User Group site.

We chatted about a lot. Now's your chance to learn a little more:-

• Adobe Open screen Project http://www.openscreenproject.org/
• 'Getting started with the new features in Adobe Captivate 4' webinar from Adobe. Friday, March 6. http://tinyurl.com/baxdam
• TopStyle 4 beta 2. Download it here http://svanas.dynip.com/topstyle/beta.html
• Introduction to Adobe's Mobile Platform http://www.webkitchen.be/2009/02/18/video-tutorial-introduction-to-adobes-mobile-platform/

To those of you who made it - thanks for attending. I hope you found the meeting useful. There was certainly plenty of chat, so I think we have the makings of a great group.

If you have any questions, comments, requests, demands, feedback, please post to the discussion group here, or if you want to contact me personally, you know how to get me on Twitter. You can also find my email address in my Profile link.

Next meeting will be in a month - that should be Wednesday 4th April. We are planning to find a location in the south of Harrison county, perhaps at JD, but definitely somewhere around Gulfport/Biloxi. I'll post an announcement here as soon as a location is confirmed.

Hey everyone,

I see we picked up a few more members recently. I'd be grateful if you coul dupdate your profile when you have a moment. I don't need your life story or anything, but at least enough to know who you are and where your interests lie - design, development, corporate, educational, games, applications, etc. Anything that helps the Group understand how it can best serve YOU.

Thanks  :-)

Steve