THERMO!

This month we will be combining our meetup with the other Flash/Flex meetups in town for a special treat: a sneak peak at Adobe's upcoming Thermo!

Don't know what Thermo is? The best way to show you is, of course, video. Here's a link with Adobe's MAX presentation movies embedded, you are guaranteed to drool: http://aralbalkan.com...

Thermo is all about revolutionizing your Flash/Flex workflow, providing tighter integration between the beautiful graphics your art team creates and the thousands-plus lines of code your engineers crank out. It makes other Adobe files first-class citizens of your Flex application.

Imagine importing a Photoshop- or Illustrator-native file, but the layers actually have meaning and you can turn a graphical element into a working control (a text field, button, etc) in a simple click. This new workflow means that the artist alone can come much closer to making an application sing, and the coders get to start with most boilerplate code already written so they can focus on the "special sauce" for your particular application domain.

The venue will be packed, as 4 (maybe more?) separate meetup groups will be combining for this very special event. Our members should show up ready to learn and do some serious networking as this meetup will represent virtually all of the organized Flash and Flex professionals in the Atlanta area.

Flex is flash that doesn't suck.