Way back in November last year I did a presentation at the London Flash Platform Usergroup. I ran through a quick intro to Linux, what makes it different, and why you may (or may not) want to try it out, as well as giving a demo of my Beryl desktop.

I also showed how to install the (back then brand new) Beta Linux Flash Player, and how to set up a completely Open Source Flash development environment using Eclipse, MTASC & ASDT.

I had a lot of fun doing the pres, and gave out a whole stack of Ubuntu CD’s afterwards. The slides were supposed to go up on the LFPUG site at the same time as the video, but that all got rather delayed… so I thought I’d post my slides here instead. Better late than never

Download “Getting Flash on Linux” presentation slides
(The useful Flash info is from about slide 17 onwards)

Edit - the video is up on the LFPUG site too now, bit dark but check it out…

Just a reminder, next LFPUG is Thursday 25th Oct @ The Bear, Farringdon, be sure to register on the site to be in the prize draw, I won a pass for Flash on the Beach last month…result

Tink’s posted details of the next London Flash Platform User Group, graciously hosted this time by AKQA (I’m told they are supplying the beers too… good work fellas!)

There’s gonna be two interesting sounding talks this month, one on localization techniques by Dave Williamson (be interested to hear how he handles the really tough stuff like non-Latin and R-to-L languages) and Tink will be running through some of the new features in the recent Flash Pro 9 Actionscript Preview.

Dont forget to sign up on the site, and I’ll see you there…
(except you of course Liam, ya football playing nancy )

(Update: it was of course Stuart Eccles not Stefan Richter who did the Rails talk, my bad!)

Wanted to say thanks to Stuart Eccles and O’Reilly for the copy of Agile Web Development With Rails I won at the LFPUG the other night.

I already owned the PDF version and it’s always nice to have a the ‘real’ version to flick through. It goes without saying that this is the book to get when you want to get started with Rails, and will remain a handy reference long after you’ve finished reading it. The second version is available now as a constantly evolving ‘beta’ PDF. Kinda like ‘Agile Authoring’

There seemed to be a lot of interest in Rails at LFPUG, I’ll try to get proper posts up on some things Stefan didn’t have time to mention, for instance I use RadRails which is an extremely cool Eclipse plugin, and there’s a new Live CD that may be worth a play with.

Stay tuned…

Well done to Tink for organising the first ever ‘London Flash Platform User Group’ (or just lfpug if yer l33t), which went off with a bang last night in the Play bar on Old st.

I counted around 30 people there, not bad for a first event, and everyone seemed to enjoy the relaxed atmosphere. Was nice to have a beer while watching the presentations!

I’ve got some photos and video that we’ll put up on the site at some point soon, but for now, here’s a PUG cos, well, he’s cool, init