Adobe Flash Platform User Group of Atlanta - Flex 2

Flex Stuff: AFFUG Meeting Tonight, Free Training, and the Cookbook

Wed, 19 Sep 2007 10:27:00 -0400

One post, three good subjects!

Tonight's AFFUG Meeting

I am honestly very excited about tonight's Atlanta Flash and Flex User Group meeting featuring John Mason presenting Unit Testing and Test Driven Development (TDD) for Flex & ActionScript 3.0. It happens to be coinciding with my frustrating efforts of getting some unit testing implemented at Roundbox Global. I hope that John is ready for all my crazy questions, 'cause I have quite a few.

Free Flex Training

Yeah, that's what I said it! Thirty days of free access to 17 hours of online Flex training from Total Training. Click the link, fill out the form, enter the code (it is on that page). It's that simple. Just remember, your first one is free...

Add Content to the Flex Cookbook

O'Reilly is calling you out!

Are you doing any development work (including skinning and UI design)
with Adobe Flex? Here's your chance to be a contributor to an Adobe
Developer Library book to be published in 2008, Flex 3 Cookbook.
Adobe's got a terrific site for Flex developers of any stripe to show
their best stuff, and O'Reilly and Adobe are partnering on a book that
will include some of the best contributions from the site. Each
contribution uses the classic O'Reilly cookbook
"Problem/Solution/Explanation" format; if you've got strong material to
show the rest of the world, it couldn't be easier to write up your
material in the online fields, and join the cookbook party. Flex
developers are in very short supply in an exploding market, so here's
your chance to show your stuff to the rest of the community!

What?!? You mean you didn't know about the Flex Cookbook Beta?!? Just remember that this is a problem and solution site — you have to have both to post.

Upcoming Flex Online Seminars for September/October 2007

Mon, 17 Sep 2007 13:19:00 -0400

Flex and .NET: Anatomy of a Data Driven Application
Presented by Mark Piller of Midnight Coders
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
12:00 P.M. EST

See the magic happening in front of your eyes; learn how to use the .NET skills you already have to create new and exciting Flex-based interfaces for a data-driven application. In this fast-paced technical session you will learn the following:

Techniques for working with data using Flex and .NET
Review of available code generation tools
Review of data synchronization mechanisms

Flex 3 Beta—See What's New!
Tuesday, October 9, 2007
2:00 P.M. EST

Get a head start in the game and attend this seminar to learn about the new features of Flex 3. We'll go over improvements to the compiler, new components in Flex 3, refactoring, performance improvements, integration with Adobe Flash® CS3, the new profiler, and more. Don't fall behind. Sign up today.

Basic Application Architecture for Flex Newcomers
Presented by Tom Bray of SearchCoders
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
12:00 P.M. EST

This seminar will provide a gentle overview of the fundamental concepts involved in creating Flex applications that are easy to maintain and extend. If you get the basic idea behind Model, View, and Controller but you're not sure how to implement it in a Flex app, this seminar will make it clear. If you've looked at Cairngorm but it seems too complicated, this session will help you understand the reasoning behind it. Sample applications and tips on how to build his Flex chat widget can be found on Tom's blog at www.tombray.com.

Attend an online seminar and you'll be entered to win a copy of Flex Builder 2.*

Questions?
Please send us an e-mail.

Flex and .NET: Anatomy of a Data Driven Application

Tuesday, September 25, 2007
12:00 P.M. EST

Flex 3 Beta—See What's New!

Tuesday, October 9, 2007
2:00 P.M. EST

Basic Application Architecture for Flex Newcomers

Tuesday, October 16, 2007
12:00 P.M. EST

Tuesday, May 8: Stacey Mulcahy presents Actionscript 2 to Actionscript 3 Migration

Tue, 08 May 2007 10:23:00 -0400

I wanted to bump this event up for everyone in the Atlanta area. Tonight, Stacey Mulcahy will be presenting "Actionscript 2 to Actionscript 3 Migration" presentation that she originally presented at last month's Flash in the Can.

Please RSVP.

eSeminar: Thinking in Flex

Mon, 19 Feb 2007 15:52:00 -0400





	After ten years of virtual hibernation, java developers have turned their attention to improving the user experience. With this change, we can expect the quality of web-user interfaces to improve at a very fast pace. In "Hybridizing Java," an entry on recognized industry leader Bruce Eckel's blog, Bruce writes, "While amazing things have been accomplished within the confines of JavaScript with technologies like Ajax, JSON, GWT etc., these are nonetheless confines. We bump up against their limits every day, and those limits are not going away.... I believe that to solve the user interface problem, we need the equivalent of a domain-specific language dedicated to the user experience. For me, Flash-based technologies like Flex are the best solution to this problem." Adobe® Flex™ 2 offers a series of unique features that can help improve the user experience. These features include vector graphic support, video and audio streaming, publish and subscribe messaging, and a JIT compiler for improved performance. Attend a 60-minute eSeminar in which you will learn why Bruce and so many other Java developers are excited about Flex. If you'd rather check Flex out on your own, download a 30-minute test drive that will give you an understanding of how Flex works and what it can do.			Flex for the Java Developer Thursday, February 27 2:00 P.M. EST Speakers: Bruce Eckel Author, Thinking in Java Weblog James Ward Flex Evangelist, Adobe Systems


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