If you guys didn’t get to go to the Cold Fusion meeting it was really good. If you get a chance please have a look at the presentation when you get a chance. Pretty cool stuff.

The Presentation will basically show you how to set up your AIR project to be able to call Remote Objects in Cold Fusion. If you are not a Cold Fusion programmer I bet some of you savvy programmers out there could get this working with say AMF-PHP or some other AMF project like that.

http://mmusergroup.adobe.acrobat.com/p83838845/

Alright guys…… I launched a new web site yesterday. Some of you that are in my contacts list via gmail may have already gotten an invite so if you did then you can disregard this post.

First up thanks to all of you that make this user group possible. Without it I think my skills as a developer would not be where they are today for sure. In an effort to get more exposure in the languages that I develop in and also to allow for opportunities for you guys to teach, learn, and grow in the development community, I have started Coder Resource.

If you are sick of yet another Social Network I totally understand. My goal here is to leverage this site to open more opportunity for the local user groups and individual programmers that have not yet found a local community to be a part of. This may also open opportunities for meeting developers that are willing to come and teach us some new things or in the case of some of you that are really good at what you do….. you may find that other groups or businesses may want you to come and teach them some of your kick ass ninja coding skills !

The site is set up in a way where you can do a couple of things. There is a blogging feature so that you can write a small blurb and link back to your own site if you like or write a full blown article. I don’t really care as long as you 1. benefit from using it and 2. the community comes away with some little bit of info that helps them all. There is also a video feature for posting small clips if you like of something that you figured out. If you have a longer video tutorial I would encourage you to link to your own server if it is a fairly large file.

The other feature of the site that I like is you can set up your own group so if you do join and you don’t see a group for your specific language interest then please start a group. I have already set up a CF, Flex, and PHP group. I know some of you are .NET programmers and I am sure there are some other programming interests out there that I don’t know about.

Again thanks for taking the time and I hope this new site benefits you in some way. Let me know your thoughts and suggestions if you have any at all.

http://coderresource.com

Alright, our meeting on March the 11th 2008 was really cool but the Acrobat Connect recording didn’t work out so well, so Scot was kind enough to re-record and break the presentation down into separate videos for us.

At this presentation Scot started us on a series about the fundamentals of using Caingorm and MVC in Flex. I have to admit that this was a bit over my head and I had no desire to learn anything about Cairngorm, but I think once you listen to Scot explain it, I think you will catch on and may beside you would like to  start using this framework as part of your development strategy.

As you sharpen your Development skills you will find that OOP (Object Oriented Programing)  is a much better way to code your applications. You may or may not want to use Cairngorm for this but watching this series should give you a good idea of whether or not you would like to or not.

Check out the first part of Scot’s searies by going to this link. http://blog.tsclausing.com/cairngorm-series

Scot will be continuing his series at the next meeting of April 8th 2008 so brush up for that by watching the first part over the next few weeks.

Our good friends in the Nashville ColdFusion User Group are hosting a meeting with Zach Sepek. Should be cool. This should be worth your time for sure. Even if you are not a ColdFusion Developer. Please join us if you can. Please RSVP Arron West at rsvp@ncfug.com

WHAT:
Zach Stepek on ColdFusion and AIR

WHEN:
Tuesday, March 18, 2008

WHERE:
Dealerskins Office / Adobe Connect

We’ll be meeting at Dealerskins (directions below) and having pizza
at 6:00pm CDT, with Zach’s talk kicking off at 6:30pm CDT via Adobe Connect.

Dealerskins Address:
404 BNA Dr. Building 200, Suite 600
Nashville, TN 37217

Map:
http://tinyurl.com/36gw67

Next meeting will be presented by Scot Clausing. For more about Scot please visit his blog at blog.tsclausing.com

Acrobat Connect URL will be http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/r83536615/

Cairngorm Fundamentals
MVC Flex applications with Cairngorm

1) What is Cairngorm?
2) Why use a MVC framework like Cairngorm?
3) How is the MVC pattern carried out in a Flex + Cairngorm application?
- Model:Â Role of the ModelLocator & Model Objects
- View:Â Role of View Components & Event Objects
- Controller: Role of the FrontController & Command Objects
4) Build an example Flex + Cairngorm app from scratch w/ group input
5) Practical tips going forward

Meeting will start at 7:00 PM at DealerSkins. Here are the directions.