We’ll have two presentations, this month, both about 30 minutes long.

The first will be on the use of video in Flash/Flex, courtesy of Kyle Glossy. If you didn’t catch Kyle’s presentation last year on his work with Adobe Consulting and the NFL, you missed something – don’t let it happen again!

The second will be on how the event model works in ActionScript , presented by Ross Henderson. Anyone who has sat down and talked with Ross can tell you he’s just _brilliant_. Unbelievably brilliant. The presentation will probably be pretty bad, though. BUT, there will be beer and so forth afterwards, so it’ll be worth sitting through.

As usual, a lot of topics were covered, much was learned, some networking was accomplished, and two of us discovered that Bump may or may not work across platforms, while being jeered for using Bump by the rest of the group.

We also decided that it was time for the group to step up a level or two. So, next month’s meeting will feature two half-hour presentations, and we’ll be doing and Adobe-type event in the near future.

As it stands, right now, we’ll see a presentation on video, and one on events. That’s unofficial at the moment, but it’ll be nailed down in a week or so when the September meeting’s info is posted.

Except this month. This month is has been too Summery to put together a meeting, so we’re just going to meet at the Gingerman (see sidebar for directions).

Inevitably, we’ll talk about some really fascinating aspects of Flex, as this is what happens when people in this group sit down and start talking.

Resuming in September, meeting will look more like this:

• 7:00 to 8 or 8:30 – Presentation of some sort at Unicast’s offices, downtown
• 8 or 8:30 until whenever – Hang out and talk about really cool things (or nothing) at the Gingerman

Corey Butler gave a very informative overview of the ExtJS framework at the Unicast offices – in a quiet room, on an actual projector, and everything. Then we headed over to the Gingerman for a couple hours of great conversation, beer, and one piece of pizza.

The informal conversations are always pretty amazing in this group – seriously, if you want to become a better developer, just come and listen to other people talk about what they’re doing. The presentation was great, too. Very useful for anyone interested in developing a Flex-similar experience in native HTML.

Check out the PPT: ExtJS Presentation

Corey Butler will be presenting on a JavaScript approach to rich internet applications, called ExtJS. The presentation will start around 7:15, once we get up there and get settled. Please plan to get to the offices around 7:00, as Security is rather formal (but the people are nice) – we will be congregating in the lobby until about 10 after, and then heading up to the offices as a group.

If you arrive late, it won’t be the end of the world, but please try to get there by 7:00-ish, if you can.

Around 8:30, or so, we’ll head over to the Ginger Man to continue the conversation.

For information about parking and security at the Unicast offices, see the Parking and security at Unicast page.

We mostly talked about localization and internationalization, architectural frustrations in particular projects, and making a living as a freelancer.

And we had some beers, which was nice.

Next month we’ll pick back up with topical discussion. If I can work out the logistics, we’ll have some speakers on the topic of alternative technologies, and we’ll be in a conference room with a projector, etc.

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 be present to
win!!

Feel free to invite non-CFUG members, will be showing an overview of Creative
Suite.

RSVP HERE!!
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=123030281058217

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Some good reading on Modules:

http://www.beauscott.com/2008/02/20/using-flex-modules-to-load-dynamic-applications-at-login/

and

http://lowpitch.com/blog/modulemanager-and-imoduleinfo-loading-flex-modules-dynamically/

and

http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/help.html?content=modular_1.html

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 with the Adobe Flash Platform and Adobe Creative Suite 5: Paul Trani
• New Features in Adobe Flex 4 Framework: Deepa Subramaniam
• New Features in Adobe Flash Builder 4: Andrew Shorten

Tuesday, 5/11:

• Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5 for Developers: Doug Winnie
• Building Mobile Applications with Adobe Flash Professional CS5: Create a Game: Paul Trani
• What’s New in Adobe Flash Builder for Java Developers: James Ward
• New Features in Adobe Flash Player 10.1: Lee Brimelow

Wednesday, 5/12:

• Creating Sexy Applications with the Adobe Flash Platform: Designer-Developer Workflow: Serge Jespers
• A Basic CRUD Application with Zend AMF and Adobe Flex 4 Ryan Stewart and Kevin Schroeder
• Adobe Flash Builder 4 and Adobe ColdFusion 9: Terry Ryan
• Advanced Features In Adobe Flex: Ely Greenfield

Thursday, 5/13:

• AS34J: ActionScript 3 for Java Developers: Chet Haase
• Adobe Flash Platform and Salesforce.com: James Ward
• Adobe Flash Builder for Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 Users: Ryan Stewart
• What’s New in Adobe® Flash® Builder™ for PHP Developers

Friday, 5/14:

• Using Advanced Features with Adobe Flex & PHP: Ryan Stewart
• Adobe ColdFusion 9 and Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5: Terry Ryan
• Adobe Flex and BlazeDS Integration with SpringSource: Christophe Coenraets and Jeremy Grelle
• Building Desktop Applications with Adobe AIR 2.0: Ryan Stewart