Join a Flash Meetup

Last night I got the chance to attend my first Flash Meetup with the ActionScript Programming Pushes Us and it was GREAT. Everyone was very down to earth (Pompous know it all jerks really put a damper on things), the facility was great and the Organizer, Jesse Freeman, did a great job at sharing tips on work flow and different IDE's

I would suggest anyone in the NYC area to sign up for the meetings. They are free, informative and have good finger food =). Last night we covered the Flex Builder IDE and FDT. Out of those two I would definitely go with FDT, but the price tag will scare you away faster than another four years of Bush. It's going for a whopping $1000. Good thing for me I'm a PC user and I have FlashDevelop as a choice. I would say FlashDevelop could be an alternative to FDT if you don't want to bite the bullet and pay that price. It lacks some features of FDT or FDT just does it better, but the price I believe is really holding this editor behind.



Jesse also should us ANT script, which is like a shortcut to automate a series of tasks. He should us how to create directories for our projects and to build our applications with the click of a button. One of the best things I learned was how to access assets from an external SWF. This is such a handy thing to know how to do when it comes to dealing with fonts. I was having a problem with my girlfriends website ( KMJDesignz ) that it would lag in the beginning because it had to load in the fonts. With the techniques Jesse told me I got the website to work flawless and is up and running.

Back to the topic, I strongly recommend joining the meet up, there really isn't anything to lose. And the facility is great. Radical Media has a great office and good A/C. Click on the link at the bottom to register for the meet up. I believe the next one is in about a week. SO hurry up, join learn and share

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