January: We’re taking January off.

February: Back to monthly meetings. We’re probably going to go back to the meet-at-a-bar-or-restaurant format for awhile. Post on the mailing list, or leave a comment here if you have thoughts on that.

But before doing that, let’s spend a little time on a very practical topic that many folks have expressed interest in: “Psuedo-Threading in Flex”

So we have 2 topics this month:
1. “Recursive Psuedo-Threads in Flex” — Taylor Brown has volunteered to show us what he’s done to get “psuedo-threading” to work in Flex. Please bring your own thoughts and examples as others have mentioned they’ve implemented their own variants as well.
2. “Perception vs Reality, A Discussion” — Wow! A lot can happen in a week! Let’s get together to discuss. Beers will surely accompany this part of the program.

Thursday, Nov 17
7-9 pm
Opal Divine’s Freehouse
700 West 6th Street

The August meeting will be back at the Source 360 offices (see sidebar for address and map). We’ll be meeting on Thursday, the 18th.

Terry Ryan (terrenceryan.com) from Adobe will be presenting on Mobile Flex. Should be a pretty exceptional meeting, so double apologies for the late notice/reminder.

It’s an honor to have Terry Ryan join us this month. It’s always special to have an Adobe employee fly in to present, but the fact that he’s willing to do it in the middle of August makes it that much more impressive!

We had 15-20 folks last month so we’re looking forward to another solid turnout this month! As if Terry’s presentation isn’t incentive enough, keep in mind that Source360 will be providing pizza and beer! (maybe that will help entice some of you North Austin folks to make the short drive down MoPac)

Hope to see everyone there.

When:
Thursday, August 18
7:00pm – 9:00pm

Location:
Source360 Group office
The Palisades building
3006 Bee Caves Road, Suite A300
Top corner of building closest Bee Cave Road

The presentation will cover the scope of the Flex development for the Pervasive Data Integrator version 10 product where all of the GUIs were written using Flex. It will highlight some Flex issues and solutions encountered during development.

These include:

- Multi-tab vs modules vs MDI Interface app
- Need for REST functions (Get, Post, Put, Delete)
- Embedded font
- Action Script timeout issues
- Line drawing performance
- Nested datagrid

Remember that we’ve switched from third Thursdays to third Wednesdays – so the meeting is Wednesday, 6/15.

Also, our upcoming schedule is looking pretty good:

July’s meeting will be up north at Pervasive Software – the topic that evening will be a show and tell of what Pervasive is doing, which should be very interesting. A description of the presentation from Nikki Peckham, the Director of Integration Engineering at Pervasive:

The presentation will cover the scope of the Flex development for the Pervasive Data Integrator version 10 product where all of the GUIs were written using Flex. It will highlight some Flex issues and solutions encountered during development.

These include:

- Multi-tab vs modules vs MDI Interface app
- Need for REST functions (Get, Post, Put, Delete)
- Embedded font
- Action Script timeout issues
- Line drawing performance
- Nested datagrid

August’s meeting will feature Adobe’s Nick Hippe talking about Mobile (and possibly FMS, as well).

September we hope to schedule Taylor Brown to talk about multi-threaded-like logic in AS3.

The presentation is linked, here.

Flex Localization

Taylor Brown was planning to share how his You Need A Budget application runs semi-threaded processes, but we’re going to have to reschedule for late summer or early fall.

As usual, there will be pizza and beer provided. Thanks to Charles and the rest of Source360 Group for sponsorship and location.

Charles gave a presentation on model-driven development with a fairly new Adobe tool called the Adobe Application Model plugin (it’s an Eclipse plugin).

The rest of us were astounded to watch client-side and server-side code – including hibernate – reliably generated from a visual interface. There’s some good information here.

He also gave a second presentation on Adobe’s new ‘web experience management platform’ called CQ5. It was only slightly less impressive than the model-driven development tool.

On top of that we had kind of a lot of pizza and beer.

There will be some links posted here fairly soon – to the style compiler Zack Gordon mentioned, and to notes on font embedding.

We’re also working on topic/speaker for March’s meeting – should be sending out an announcement soon.

Please let us know if you’ll be joining us on this thread so we can get an informal headcount for food.

Presentation Topics:
1. What’s new in Flash Player 10.2!? (presented by Kyle Glossy)
– We’ll cover the new FP10.2 Features (StageVideo, new Full Screen, etc.) & how to use them and still support FP versions <10.2
2. Font Embedding Best Practices (presented by Ross Henderson)
- Talk will cover some of the nuances of Font Embedding in Flex apps, highlighting differences such as Flex 3 vs Flex 4, CSS vs AS, MX vs Spark, compile-time vs runtime, etc.

Date: Thursday, February 17 @ 7:00pm
Location: Source360 Group office
The Palisades building
3006 Bee Caves Road, Suite A300
Top corner of building closest Bee Cave Road

See y’all on Thursday!