Alright, sorry for the somewhat late notice but August has flown past us. Hope everyone had a great Summer and a good Labor Day weekend. We have a really exciting Meetup lined up for next week so we hope you can all make it over.

First up, Jeremy Patterson will be doing a demo that includes Powerflasher FDT, one of the leading alternative development environments for ActionScript, Flash, and Air. Jeremy's conversational demo will "... go over the landscape of editors to touch on why editors such as Flex Builder, FDT, and potentially intelliJ are taking things to the next level with the incorporation of tools that make Fowler style refactoring easier. So, it's kind of a discussion of refactoring as an idea, but then highlighting the tools that make the process easier." A lot of the tools and concepts that he will talk about may be familiar to developers but designers should also be interested in the demo to see how these things impact or improve the designers workflow. Jeremy is an excellent developer, design, and instructor so this is going to be a great presentation.

Second up, at 7:30, we are really excited to have Frank from PowerFlasher, developers of FDT, joining us on a call from Germany to let us know all about the latest release of FDT and answer our questions. FDT is a plugin for the Eclipse development platform that gives you a robust set of tools including code complete, refactoring, code formatting and a lot more for ActionScript development. FDT has been around the Flash community for a few years now but their latest release has really made it a contender for one of the best ActionScript development environments. This is a great opportunity to get answers right from the source about this great alternative to the Flash and Flex development environments so bring your questions. Also, Frank has graciously offered some significant discounts on FDT to everyone that attends next weeks Meetup.

http://fdt.powerflash...

As usual, drinks and food will be provided. This is going to be another great Meetup so make sure you RSVP and spread the word.

Thanks.