Austin Flex User Group

April’s meeting was pretty amazing.

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.

February’s meeting was a lot of fun – something like 25 people showed up and had a good time. Thanks again to the folks at Source360 for the space and the pizza.

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.

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 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!

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 of 2011.

For the Feb meeting, we would like to have:

• a formal presentation (we will email folks with a list of potential topics to choose from -OR- if you would like to present sometime this year, please let us know)
• a formal meeting location (update: Thanks to Source360 Group for hosting!)
• also please let us know if you’d like to sponsor food and/or drinks for the event
• meeting to be followed by “social networking” over beverages at a local establishment

Next Meeting:

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
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Presentation Topic: TBD (look for an email with potential topics to choose from)
Note: Don’t worry, there will be NO Valentine’s Day theme to the meeting.

P.S. Thanks to the folks who came out for the December gathering a the Gingerman. It was a good event to get to know folks and meet some new folks from the local Flash and ColdFusion groups. Hope folks are enjoying the swag and software they walked away with.

We’re joining up with the Flash Platform group on the 15th for a purely social meeting at The Gingerman and The Elephant Room.

We’ll be meeting at the Gingerman around 7:00 pm. We have some space reserved inside under the name ‘Adobe User Group’.

We’ll hang out for awhile and do some raffles/giveaways, and then head over to The Elephant Room at some point.

October’s meeting will be a Drink and Think at Opal Devine’s Marina up north.

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The starter topic will be the Flex Util classes. There are a lot of these classes, and they can be super handy – classes like XMLUtil, UIDUtil, ObjectUtil, ColorUtil.

If you’d like to do a little research before the meeting, you can just pull up the Flex language reference, and scroll through the list of classes in the bottom left, looking for any class names that end with ‘Util’.

There are a bunch. You can also look at the mx.utils pacackage – that contains the bulk of the util classes. You could probably also Google some key words.