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Pixel Bender

We'll hear from Kevin Goldsmith about Pixel Bender and what we can do with it in our Flex applications.

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Text Layout Framework

We did a deep dive into the Text Layout Framework and got to see some great demos of it's capabilities. 

Location

We meet at 801 N 34th St. Seattle WA 98103. That's in the Fremont neighborhood, by the canal, between the Aurora bridge and the Fremont bridge. The Adobe Conference Center meeting room is on the 1st floor of the Plaza building, downstairs from Blue Moon Burgers and Quiznos.

Check out the Location page for an interactive map to our location.

June 11th Meeting: Pixel Bender
Friday, 05 June 2009 09:56

PixelBenderThis months meeting will be an introduction to Pixel Bender for Flex developers.  Pixel Bender was a powerful addition to Flash Player 10 enabling developers to create their own filters and blends that run multi-threaded within the player. In this talk Kevin Goldsmith will give an introduction to the language and tools and show how you can use Pixel Bender in your Flex projects.

Learn more about Pixel Bender here: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/pixelbender/

Kevin Goldsmith is the Engineering Manager of the Adobe Image Foundation team, the creators of the Pixel Bender language and runtime used in Adobe products. Kevin has been working in new media and computer graphics for over 17 years at such companies as Microsoft, Silicon Graphics, (Colossal) Pictures, IBM, Agnostic Media and for the last five years, Adobe Systems.
 
Need a job or an employee?
Tuesday, 12 May 2009 14:24

There have been a lot of interest from recruiters and employers in general, looking for Flex developers lately.  The job market out there for Flex developers is really picking up!  If you are looking for a good position or you have a position to fill, use our Google group.

This is a great time to be a Flex developer, so make sure you have a resume ready and you let people know that you are available to work!
 
Meet EDGE Tech Corp
Friday, 24 October 2008 10:32

User group, meet EDGE Tech Corp.  They are our newest sponsor of the user group.

EDGE Tech Corp is a leading supplier of computer memory upgrades, portable computing products, storage devices, and other experience-enhancing technology solutions. EDGE's flash card lineup allows digital camera users to upgrade the devices' memory for maximum performance. The card line consists of various formats including Compact Flash, SD Memory Cards, SmartMedia, MultiMediaCard, RS-MMC, and xD Picture Cards. EDGE also offers Flash Drives, Digital Frames, and Portable Hard Drives.

They've set up a special discount for members of the user group on memory with the discount code seaflex-ug. Thanks EDGE Tech Corp!
 

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Did you know...

in FlexBuilder,

if you hold down the Ctrl key while hovering over a function call, you can click and it will take you directly to that function definition.

Group project

At our October 9th meeting, we decided to work as a group on finishing the Flex Code Jam project, the food bank resource locator.  If you'd like to be involved, use the contact form to ask to be added to the project.