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/

Just a friendly reminder that a week from today we’ll be hosting a special Flex / AIR event. All the details are located here: http://www.615flex.com/2008/01/14/join-the-615flex-user-group-for-this-cant-miss-meeting/.

Adobe’s RIA technologies enable you to rapidly build and deploy the most engaging applications across browsers and on the desktop. The 615Flex user group is hosting a special live event to share exciting new information on Adobe’s platform tools and technologies for building RIAs. You’ll see an exclusive user group video presentation by Adobe Chief Software Architect, Kevin Lynch, hear some important product news, plus get your hands on some exclusive schwag and other giveaways. Be part of the fun and excitement and join the rest of the Adobe developer community by participating in this very special event.

When:
Monday, February 25 at 7:00pm CST

Where:
Dealerskins Office
404 BNA Dr.
Suite 600 (Building 200)
Nashville, TN 37217

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

Come to the Flex and AIR Pre-release Tour and you could win!!!

Adobe emailed me with more details today. If you have not signed up for the event, please do so. Along with a copy of Flex Builder 3 (when it comes out), or Web Design Premium CS3, Adobe will also be providing a new ipod nano to be given out at the event. Additionally I have word that there will be Adobe SWAG to give out too.What do I have to do to win you ask? Print out your registration confirmation that you get via email after filling out the registration on the special events page. Next show up to the event. It is that simple.

This Just in….. Jan 22, 2008

Dealerskins has been great as a sponsor of the 615Flex group. We currently have our monthly meetings at there offices and they where the ones that secured the venue for the event. They came to me today and said that they would like to sponsor giving away iPod shuffles at the event, so the have purchased 4 shuffles that we will be giving away at the event along with the other cool stuff.

The Food for the event will be provided by The Dave Ramsey Show. Please give Dave your support by giving his radio show a listen. Pretty good stuff that we can all relate too.

The PA system for the event will be provided by Shuff’s Music in Downtown Franklin. Please support them if you need instruments or lessons.

John Walker at Aristo Works was very kind in donating his time to build us a PHP based registration page and also the app that will be choosing winners for the event. I wanted to do a cool Flex app for this but time just did not permit me build one. Thanks John!Adobe has also provided us with a budget and I will be spending that on providing Beer at the event.

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The Nashville Flex User Group has been going strong. We started up around July of 2007. It has taken a bit to organize but the last two meetings have been great.

At this time I am looking for presenters. If you know AS3 and Flex or anything  flex related we would really like to hear what you have to say and how you use this great technology.

What are the benefits of speaking at our meetings you say? Exposure of course. We will archive your presentation on our site, post an article about your presentation our blog and  your blog or site, and anything else we can do to help get you noticed. On top of that you get the satisfaction in knowing that are helping the Nashville Flex user group grow and it’s members excel in there learning of Flex and AS3.

If you are not local to Nashville…… that is ok! We have an acrobat connect account and you can do your presentation from anywhere in the world if you like.

Please contact Matthew Wallace (me) if you are interested in helping the group grow and present us with some great insight on Flex and related technologies.

Well if you missed the Adobe AIR Tour in Atlanta you may want to book mark and set your calendar for This Wed. the 20th of August 2007. Lee Brimlow (a great flash developer) who was not on the second leg of the Adobe AIR tour is doing a live eSeminare. Lee hosts a number of blogs and really encourage you guys to check out his stuff. I stubbled upon him first at a free tutorial site of his called gotoAndLearn. His other sites include theflashblog and theflexblog. Both really great resources.

Lee will be presenting (Transitioning to the Desktop). This will give you a good idea what is possible using Flex and the Adobe AIR Runtime (AIR)

I don’t know about the other guys that got to go the the Adobe AIR event but it really motivated me to want to develop and start moving my projects to the desktop as soon as possible.

If you guys get a chance you should really check this out. Register Here >>

Well the big Adobe Seminar in Atlanta is almost here. Hope to see you guys tomorrow. If you can come over an say hi at the event that would be great. Don’t know if any of you will be there that I have not met before but if so….. Here is the guy you are looking for!

I hope to have internet access during the event but I am not totally for sure that I will. I will try to post some stuff here on the blog during the event or shortly after. I will do my best to keep you guys informed of things. You may also want to check out my pownce account. I may try to post some stuff there during the event. pownce.com/mswallace

Oh, just incase some of you did not know about this event or even what it is. Here is the short of it. The On AIR Bus tour is 18 city road show throughout North America where you can learn how to bring your web applications to the desktop the Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR).

I’ve written about working with the File System API in AIR over on my blog. You can read the post here.

Flex Camp is a series of conferences designed to help you understand more about Adobe Flex and Adobe AIR. Stay up to date with the latest Flex Camp events on this page or on the

I just had a really good video conference with the Adobe reps that deal with the Flex User Group Managers. They are putting together what they are calling “Flex Camp in a Box”. They should have the info available by the end of the week they say and will give me more info as soon as they have it so that we can plan on having our own Nashville Flex Camp if we like.

Also there will be more information to follow but they are actually hopping to provide funding for the groups. They we possibly be supplying us with funds for renting conference areas, refreshments and possibly some SWAG. Soon as I know more I will post it for you guys.

In the mean time here are some links from http://flex.org showing some video from the Flex Camp in San Francisco in July of 07.

Keynote Presentation - Watch it | Slides in PDF

Keynote demos: Mixbook, Sliderocket

Flex and CS3 Integration - Watch it

What’s in Flex Builder 3 - Watch it

Getting Started with Flex and AIR - Watch it

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