OK, this took a while, but we finally have winners in the Flash on the Beach banner contest. Not just one winner, but two!

Strangely, we had just four entries. I guess because Flash on the Beach is such a great value, people don’t mind paying to go. Actually, if the contest included airfare to England, I think we’d have a lot more entries, but we gotta be realistic.

Anyway, one entry came in a little bit late, so got a consolation prize of a copy of a copy of Foundation ActionScript 3.0 Animation: Making Things Move! This was from Josh Csehak:

[kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.bit-101.com/fotb/fotb_josh.swf” height=”60″ width=”468″ /]

Then we have our two winners, first Derek Tram:

[kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.bit-101.com/fotb/fotb_derek.swf” height=”60″ width=”468″ /]

And then my personal favorite, from Colby Grenier:

[kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.bit-101.com/fotb/fotb_colby.swf” height=”60″ width=”468″ /]

Derek and Colby will both be going to Flash on the Beach!

A final mention goes out to Domenick and Chris for their Red5 video chat application banner. This thing is outrageous. Unfortunately, I think it went a bit beyond the bounds of the contest in terms of file size, external connections, etc. Anyway, you can check that out here:

http://www.infrared5.com/ir5/examples/red5/fotb/main.html

Thanks a lot to John Davey, the creator of Flash on the Beach, for his generosity in supporting BFPUG and making the tickets available.

I’m happy to announce that Joey Lott will be speaking at this month’s
BFPUG meeting. Joey should need no introduction - author of such books
as the ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook, Programming Flex 2, Advanced
ActionScript 3 with Design Patterns, Flash 8 ActionScript Bible, Flash 8
Cookbook, Programming Flash Communication Server, on and on.

The subject of his presentation will be styling and customizing Flex
application appearance, including compile-time and runtime CSS, style
precedence, custom preloaders.

Hope you can join us: this Wednesday, the 25th, 7:30 pm at the New
England Institute of Art, Brookline Village.