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.

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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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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’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.

Nov. 12th 2007 meeting will be presented by the “Dynamic Duo” Byron McClain and Ryan Kettrey. The Title of the presentation will be “Primitive Shapes, Database Access Layers: A Convenient Truth”. Not really much else that I can say about that! All I know is I had lunch with Byron and he seamed to be really sharp as in his understanding of SQL and building RIA’s with ASP.NET will cut you like a razor blade. As for Ryan…. I don’t know much about him other than that cool little “Vector Graphics in Flex” example that he did for us on the list.

I At the meeting we will be showing stuff in the box of Adobe Crap that you can pick from if you build an app for the group. Also Don’t forget we have just one more meeting in Dec. that will allow you guys to be in the Drawing for Adobe Software. !!!!

Meeting will be held at Byron and Ryan’s office in Brentwood. Magellan Press - Check here for directions.

Here is a little more about Byron and Ryan:

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Oct. 8th meeting will be presented by Deke Smith. The Title of the presintation will be “An Interduction to CSS is Flex”. This will be great for Designer and Developers. Understanding the Flex Framework and how you can skin your projects will help us all develop great looking Flex apps.

As we get closer to the meeting we will be posting a link to the Acrobat Connect Link that we will be using during the presentation if you can’t make it out to the meeting live, but remember if you attend at least 3 meetings between now and Dec. Meeting you will be entered to win Adobe Software.

Meeting will be held at AristoWorks office in Nashville. Check here for directions.

Here is a little more about Deke:

Deke Smith began his career as an art director. His career in new media
began when he used a program called Director from a company then called
Macromind and became excited about the potential of the new media.
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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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