Archive for May, 2007

Win a free ticket to Flash on the Beach!

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007

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Hot off the presses! Announcing an exciting BFPUG member contest. You can win a ticket to Flash on the Beach! FOTB is one of the most talked about new conferences of 2006, and it’s coming back this year in November, in Brighton, UK. John Davey, the coordinator, is co-sponsoring a contest where you can win a free ticket.

Here are the rules:

1. You have to be a member of BFPUG. But, since we don’t have strict membership requirements, let’s just say that means you have come to at least one regular BFPUG meeting or one BFPUG Design Pattern meeting in the last 12 months.

2. Design a banner with the theme, “I am going to Flash on the Beach!” The banner would ideally be done in Flash, with some kind of animation, and be one of the following standard banner sizes:

Full Banner: 468×60
Half Banner: 234×60
Skyscraper: 120×600

3. Banner should consist of a single SWF file, self contained, so that anyone can put it on their site, and not have any external loading dependencies.

4. SWF should be no bigger than 50 kb in file size.

5. Submit the banner to me, Keith Peters, at kp - at - bit-101.com. We’ll post the entries here on the BFPUG site as they come in.

6. Contest starts… NOW! and ends on June 26th. We’ll announce the winner at the June meeting, June 27th.

Note that this is a conference ticket only. You’ll still have to find your own way across the Atlantic Ocean, and get a hotel room or find someone who will let you crash on their floor. So if you don’t think you can make it, stand aside and give someone who can actually go the chance.

May Meeting: Apollo Outside the Box

Thursday, May 17th, 2007

This month at the Boston Flash Platform User Group meeting, I will be delivering the presentation I did at FiTC last month, Apollo Outside the Box. The presentation got an overall feedback rating of 9.16 out of 10, so I guess it went over pretty well. Basically, the presentation is about making Apollo applications that aren’t the usual Flex-based kind of things that most people are coming up with. Games, screensavers, screen toys, widgets, etc.

See you there. Wednesday, May 23, 7:00 pm at New England Institute of Art.