Here you will find any past Nashville Flex User Group meetings that have been archived for screen casting. That way if you missed the presentation you take it out of the fridge, warm it up in the microwave and snack on it later.

March 11, 2008 7:00 PM

This meeting was presented by  Scot Clausing. For more about Scot please visit his blog at blog.tsclausing.com

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

We had some issues with Acrobat Connect so Scot has been great enough to break this presintation down into some bit size chuncks and re-record them for us. You can check out the complete series on his blog. http://blog.tsclausing.com/cairngorm-series

Feb 12th, 2008: Thermo, Flex4 and MXMLG are slated to bring exciting new capabilities to Flex eventually, but what if you could use some of these new features in your projects today? At this months meeting, Ben demoed the Degrafa and OpenFlux frameworks. Degrafa is a declarative graphics framework (similar to MXMLG), which allows developers and designers to create rich, custom graphics without the need to know AS3 or the Flash graphics API. OpenFlux takes Degrafa a step further by introducing a new component model (similar to changes rumored to be in Flex4), which allows developers to create entirely new custom components with minimal effort.

Ben Stucki is an independent software developer in Nashville, TN. He might have had an average, every-day job selling retail electronics or installing cable, but he doesn’t. He designs and develops bleeding edge web applications using Flex 2, ActionScript 3, C#, HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Apparently he’s pretty good at it. He speaks at user group meetings just to rub it in.

Here is the screen cast archive of the meeting: http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/r68366536/

Dec 10th 2007:  John Mason came up from Atlanta Flex to present. John demonstrated 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 saw how to export an AIR application from Flex Builder 3 and also how it installs on a client computer. During the presentation, we saw some of the internal features of the runtime.

Meeting Archived at: http://labs.fusionlink.com/katapult/index.cfm?page=articles/introintoair