I got something special from Adobe today that some of you will really like keeping at your desk and you can only get it by showing up to UG meetings.
A Quick Reference guide for Flex, AIR, and Actionscript. One of them could be yours. All you have to do is show up to meetings and you may be picked to get one.
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.
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
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
At the Dec. 10th meeting we will be having a guest speaker form the Atlanta Flex group. I would like to have a really good turn out for this meeting. John Mason will be coming up on his own expense so it would be great if we could come out and support his presentation.
John will be demonstrating the new Adobe Integrated Runtime (aka AIR, also formerly known as Apollo). With AIR, you can now deploy your Flex or AJAX code into a fully functional desktop application. We will see how to export an AIR application from Flex Builder 3 and also how it installs on a client computer. During the presentation, we will see some of the internal features of the runtime including:
- File system API
- SQLite engine
- Clipboard drag and drop
- Offline/Online functionality
- AIR security model
As time permits, we will also review some of the common gotcha’s with AIR development and deployment. It?ɬ¢?¢‚Äö¬¨?¢‚Äû¬¢s a great time to be a Flex developer. With AIR, you can easily increase the scope of your work using your current RIA skill set.
Acrobat Connect URL for meeting: http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/r99106993/
About the Speaker:
John Mason works at FusionLink, a ColdFusion and Flex hosting company based in Atlanta, Georgia. He has been programming with ColdFusion since 1996 and Flash since 2001. John was a contributor to the CFDJ and actively posts on several ColdFusion, Flash and Flex related lists. He recently became an Adobe Flex Champion, but he also holds an Adobe ColdFusion Advance Certification. He earned his BS and MBA from Georgia Southern University. Currently, he enjoys working on his Flex certification and building beta applications in AIR.
Meeting will be held at DealerSkins in Nashville at 6:30 on Dec 10th. On a side note Dealer Skins has offered to sponsor the 615Flex group by allowing us to use there Venue for all of our Monthly meetings. I know that this is a drive for some of you but this is a great offer so we don’t have to keep jumping from place to place, so we will be meeting at there offices until further notice.
Don’t forget this is the meeting that I will be giving someone there choice of Adobe Software. If you have been to at least 3 meetings over the last 4 months you are eligible to win.
I’ve written about working with the File System API in AIR over on my blog. You can read the post here.
