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November meeting = this Thurs, Nov 17, 7pm – Opal Divine’s central

Based on Adobe’s announcements last week, folks are probably feeling a range of emotions and have some thoughts swirling around their heads. So let’s get together and discuss some of those thoughts — and try to peel back the layers … Continue reading

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Members getting noticed in the greater Adobe community…

A quick shout-out to a couple of our members who made their way into Remote Synthesis’ weekly “Cool Stuff with the Flash Platform” blog post a couple of weeks ago. Keith Casey of PHP Architect posted an interview with Adobe’s … Continue reading

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Thurs Feb 17, 7pm = “What’s New in Flash Player 10.2!?” and “Font Embedding Best Practices” (bonus = pizza + drinks)

Come join us this Thursday, February 17th, at Source360 Group’s office just south of the river. Source360 Group, an Adobe Solution Partner, has also graciously offered to sponsor pizza and nonalcoholic beverages for the event. You guys rock! Please let … Continue reading

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Get a Free BlackBerry PlayBook!! Plus Adobe is offering additional User Group prizes!

Okay, Austin Flexers! It’s time for all Austin Flex User Group members to get their PlayBook development hats on!! RIM is giving out free BlackBerry Playbooks to developers who submit an App for the BlackBerry® PlayBook™ tablet prior to its … Continue reading

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February 17, 2011 = First Meeting of 2011 (aka, a slow start to 2011)

Happy New Year Austin Flex folks! Coming off the holiday season, Ross and I realized we didn’t have time to get logistics together for a January meeting. So we’ve decided to make February 17th the first official Austin Flex meeting … Continue reading

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All MAX 2010 presentations available online

Adobe has done an awesome job of capturing all the MAX 2010 presentations so everyone can benefit from them. Here’s a link to recordings of the keynotes and sessions from MAX 2010: http://tv.adobe.com/channel/max/max-2010/ Specifically, here’s a direct link to the DEVELOPER … Continue reading

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Creative Suite 5 event tomorrow (Wed, May 26th) – hosted by Austin CFUG

Get your CS5 on!! May 26: 12-2 PM 4900 North Lamar, 78757 (Brown Heatly Building) Austin CFUG presents a special Adobe Creative Suite 5 event, free food and prizes. Grand prize is a Creative Suite 5 license! Must RSVP and … Continue reading

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Adobe Developer Week starts today! Free online webinars run M-F.

Free online seminars covering the new capabilities of the soon-to-be-released Flash Player 10.1, Flex 4, CS5, Catalyst, etc. Sign up here: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/event/index.cfm?event=detail&id=1489921&loc=en_us Topics & Presenters: Monday, 5/10: Welcome and Introduction to the Adobe Flash Platform: Ben Forta Building Multi-Screen Applications … Continue reading

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LiveCycle Data Services 3.1 and BlazeDS 4 Available (note: works with Flex 4 and Flash Builder 4)

With all the CS5, Flash Player 10.1, Flex 4, and Flash Builder 4 talk of late, this Data Services announcement may go unnoticed: Damon Cooper, Director of Engineering for LiveCycle Data Services at Adobe, talks about the release: http://www.dcooper.org/blog/client/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=17ACB261-4E22-1671-5E69DA5577AB6A3D Of … Continue reading

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“Better Software with Java and Flex” – The RIA Cowboy (aka James Ward) is coming to Austin on Tues, April 27th

James Ward, Adobe Technical Evangelist for Flex, will be presenting at the Austin Java Users Group meeting on Tues, April 27. James is sweeping through Texas this month (he’s in Houston tonight and Dallas tomorrow) and will be in Austin in just … Continue reading

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