NEWS UPDATE !

In addition to Gaia Online, we have a new supporter:

Organic, this means fun is guaranteed for everyone 😉

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After years of waiting an inspiring and great Flash event returns to San Francisco and we want to celebrate and share the excitement with you around FITC with CODAME

If you are a geek, designer or developer join CODAME, a San Francisco party for the tech industries greatest creative minds, packed together on a roof deck with the brightest Bay Area Art Geek regulars.

CODAME is an invitation only exclusive gathering, space is limited.
Monday, 16th of August, 2010 (day before FITC starts) at 8pm til midnight.

Final confirmation and exact location will be sent some days before the event, only to registered people.

Starpause, André Michelle and TrustFundKilla (LostScience) will be playing some tunes on the roof-top. Local art tech artist projects will be also on display.
Plus, amazing location- private roof-top downtown San Francisco – with superb view included. This event will be simply a blast !

We have some amazing local volunteers helping. If you want to help too, show your work under the stars or have a cool idea for the event. Contact me!

Powerflasher is one of the main sponsors for this event celebrating one year anniversary in USA as a Digital Interactive Development company.

We are looking for more to enhance the quality and quantity of food and drink. We would need some more sponsors to buy enough drinks and snacks for everyone, if you know someone, have an idea, Contact me!

Thank you so far for the following supporters:

Gaia Online Founded in 2003, Gaia Online is the leading online hangout for teens and young adults. More than eight million visitors come to Gaia Online every month to make friends, play games, and participate in the world’s most active online community. Gaia Online provides a fun, social environment that inspires individuality and creativity. With everything from art contests to discussion forums on poetry, politics, celebrities and more, to fully customizable profiles, digital characters and cars, Gaia Online is a place where teens can create their own space and express their individual style. They are hiring, so look out !

Organic is a leading digital communications agency that uses a consumer-empathy-based approach, combined with a holistic view of the digital landscape, to design and build exceptional interactive experiences that effectively engage and persuade customers.  Founded in 1993, Organic has offices in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Detroit, London and Toronto.  Adweek ranked Organic as the number one interactive agency in their 2007 interactive agency report card. Organic is a part of Omnicom Group Inc.

Mypressi has become the rockstar of the espresso world with the first handheld device that can make a perfect shot of espresso with water or, more relevantly, any other liquid. They will be pulling amazing shots at the CoDaMe Party. Stop by for some super smooth ‘spro-based cocktails. And remember, always code responsibly.

Influxis powers interactive Flash applications and the best parties for the community 😉 The team will have its own bar and serving very hot cool cocktails during CODAME, I hope you can handle it!

FITC knows how to build amazing flash events! FITC has been generous to support CODAME by offering major discounts if you decide to support CODAME too, we need more more drinks and food for hungry flash developers & designers.

If you think you can help, can be a supporter or should be simply invited, contact @BrunoFonzi

Is your Flash/Flex User Group actively looking for speakers and sponsors?

Powerflasher FDT is big on education and we’re ready to help you organize presentations on the latest innovations in Flex/Flash development from experienced and motivated speakers as well as other topics that your members are looking for – with no added marketing fluff.

Joining our User Group Support Program is easy. Just click here to sign-up and you’ll receive program details, assistance finding quality speakers and the Powerflasher FDT newsletter.

We’re already supporting a number of User Groups worldwide and would be thrilled to have your group in our program. Please send an email if you have any questions before signing up.

We look forward to working with you to make the Flash/Flex community more remarkable.

We’re on the lookout for speakers from around the globe to present on Flash/Flex, ActionScript, MXML or haXe topics. If you would like to join our network of speakers and be introduced to User Group leaders and event organizers in your region.

FAQ:

Q: What is the goal of the program?

A: More speakers doing more presentations at more regional events. We want to help connect  user group leaders and speakers, showcasing speakers and their areas of expertise and helping groups get the speakers and topics they want. We also want to work to increase the presentation skills of participating speakers and help provide resources and future speaking opportunities for them.

Q: What are the advantages of the FDT Speaker Program?

A: We realize that some speakers are already well-connected and may not need as much assistance in making connections. For them the program becomes a way to showcase their speaking activities as we add event history and group reviews to speaker profiles. We will help less-experienced speakers gain more community exposure and establish a track record for conference speaking events.

Q: Who can participate?

A: This is open to any speakers wishing to present on Flash/Flex, ActionScript, haXe and MXML topics.

Q: How does this compare with other speaker lists?

A: Our goal is to make this much more than just a list. Additional steps such as peer/group event ratings, speaker training opportunities, and additional speaking opportunities are all things we’re working towards.

Q: Who benefits?

A: User groups benefit by being able to find speakers in their “region” that they might not be aware of. Speakers benefit from increased exposure with the community and a way to share their willingness to speak on specific Flash/Flex topics. At the end of the day, we hope that the overall community benefits.

Q: How do I add to the list of topics?

A: Just send us an email request or simply fill the following

The community has been screaming for haXe support in FDT. We are thrilled today to announce the public alpha release of the FDT haXe plugin!

Developed in collaboration with Powerflasher and Influxis, the FDT haXe plugin provides developers a powerful tool for authoring the haXe multi-platform language. Our goal is to provide the best haXe coding experience and that it feels like coding in the AS2, AS3 or MXML editor of FDT: same shortcuts, same syntax coloring, same coding comfort.

Here’s a feature overview of the public alpha version:

• Live error checking
• Autocompletion (variables and functions)
• Syntax coloring
• Code editing features
• Open Type
• New Class/Interface/Enum wizards

You can follow our development progress on Twitter @FDThaXe

Watch the first live demo of the FDT haXe plugin I showed at Flash Camp Manchester in the recording from Adrian Parr starting at minute 38 here.

Getting started with the FDT haXe plugin (alpha version)

Installation

1. Download the latest version of FDT4 Beta release here
2. Go to http://haxe.org/download and download the installer for your OS.
   
3. Run the installer.
4. Start up FDT 4 and select Help > Install new Software
5. Select the “FDT Plugins Site” update site. (If it is not included in your drop down menu, enter: http://fdt.powerflasher.com/plugins in the “Work with” text input and hit return)
   
6. Select “FDT haXe Plugin” from the plugin list, hit finish and follow the final installation steps.
   

Setting up the haXe Plugin

1. First of all you need to configure the haXe SDK: Go to Preferences > haXe SDK and insert the haXe installation directory
   
2. Now create a new “Empty AS3 Project”, name it “Hello haXe” and click Finish
   
3. Right click the src folder and select New > HaXe Class (if you don’t see it select Window > Reset Perspective from the Menu)
   
4. Call the new Class “HelloHaxe” and click Finish
5. Right click the Project and select “Add HaXe Project Nature”
   
6. Click Next and set the Type to “Flash9 SWF”, the output file to “bin/HelloHaxe.swf” and the Main Class to “HelloHaxe”
   
7. Extend Sprite and add the constructor and the static main function. The final class should look like this:
   

That’s it, you’ve successfully set up your first FDT haXe Flash project!

Start Coding

Start adding code in the constructor for example:

Please note, the SWF is compiled on every Save, no specific launch configuration is available yet. This is our first Alpha release, please bare with us !

For any feedback, feature requests, improvements, bugs and other issues we encourage you to use our community driven tracking website to make the haXe support in FDT the greatest ever.

We would also advice to subscribe to the haXe mailing list, it is a very active group with smart people and interesting topics.

On the behalf of the FDT Team and Influxis, I hope you are as excited as we are and enjoy the first available version of the FDT haXe plugin,

Michael Plank

Yesterday’s Flash Camp in Manchester was a big success! A huge number of attendees, 7 great sessions and very nice prices to win, including 2 tickets to Flash on the Beach 2010.

In my session I demonstrated all the great new features of FDT 4 as well as the alpha version of our upcoming FDT haXe plugin. View and fee free to download the slides of my PDFBook presentation here.

I’ve also uploaded some pictures to Flickr here.

A big thank you to all the organizers of this fantastic Flash Camp!
Looking forward to the next one,
@Michael_Plank