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

Posted on May 10, 2010 by macglossy

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 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
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May meeting info

Posted on April 22, 2010 by austinFlex

UPDATE: Our seed topic for May’s meeting will indeed be “Modules”. This specifically refers to creating and using Modules in Flex development, but any conversation about modular development practices and experiences will be welcome.

Also, let’s go ahead and plan to meet at Opal’s on 6th again. That seems to be a good spot, overall. But again, please let me know if always meeting downtown is preventing you from coming to meetings.

May’s meeting will be on the 20th. Not sure about topic, yet – maybe we’ll pick back up with how to use Modules to make your life easier.

Location to be determined. Let me know if you have an opinion or request. As it stands right now, I’d say there’s a 75% chance of meeting at Opal Divine’s again, and a 25% chance of meeting at the CSC building at Congress and Colorado.

If continuing to meet downtown makes it difficult for you to come to meetings, let me know (public at rosshenderson dot info).

Stay tuned for the exciting decisions for May’s meeting…

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

Posted on April 22, 2010 by macglossy

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 note:
Alignment with Flex 4 and Flash Builder 4
The LiveCycle Data Services 3.1 supports the released versions of Flex 4 and Flash Builder 4.

If you are wondering about what LiveCycle Data Services 3.1 and BlazeDS 4 are really all about, be sure to attend the Austin Java User Group presentation next Tuesday night.

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April meeting recap

Posted on April 16, 2010 by austinFlex

It was a small group this month, but it was another great meeting. Thanks to those who made it out in the pouring rain.

I had to leave early, but got a lot out of the conversations and show-and-tells on iPad/iPhone development, modular design, and Phillipe’s product. I’m sure I missed some great stuff.

If you haven’t heard, James Ward will be in town next week speaking at the Java User Group (see post).

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

Posted on April 13, 2010 by macglossy

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 over a week.

Per the Austin JUG site: “This session covers the fundamentals of using Flex, Java, Spring, EJB, Hibernate, and BlazeDS to build rich and highly interactive software for the Web and the desktop.”

If you have any interest in how Flex integrates with Java, you should definitely check out the meeting.  More details can be found at the Austin Java Users Group site:

http://www.austinjug.org/index.jsp?p=events-20100427

More info on James Ward:

http://www.jamesward.com/

http://twitter.com/jlward4th

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Changes to Apple’s iPhone developer agreement

Posted on April 10, 2010 by austinFlex

A couple of posts I think are helpful in framing the recent changes (or are they proposed changes?) to Apple’s iPhone Developer agreement (yay, Twitter). If anyone has other links that would be useful to share with the group, let me know and I’ll ad them to this post.

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April meeting upgrade

Posted on April 8, 2010 by austinFlex

An excellent change of plans for this month’s meeting. Instead of dealing with Modules this month, Brendan (Meutzner) will be giving a presentation on the ability to author and export Flash content to the ipa format for iPhone/Touch and iPad applications.

The presentation will include running through a basic app, how to setup a developer account with Aple, and the compiling of app to ipa format.

Not that Modules are unimportant – not at all – but with the impending release of CS5, and the recent release of the iPad, this is the hotness.

Incidentally, check out this upcoming pad running Android (and supporting Flash Player): http://is.gd/biZqh

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April Meeting

Posted on April 7, 2010 by austinFlex

A lot of folks showed up to last month’s meeting, so we’re going to stick with the downtown Opal Divine’s location for this month. Check the sidebar for address and map.

We haven’t had any presentations for awhile, so this month we’ll start things off with a short basic presentation about Modules.

If anyone who is planning to be at the meeting has depth with Modules and would be willing to follow the short and basic presentation with a more in-depth presentation, please let me know (public at rosshenderson dot info).

Alternatively, if you are someone who does not have experience with Modules, but would like to take this opportunity to get smart about them and present your findings to the group next Thursday, also let me know.

Everyone else, please bring your own experience and/or questions about Modules, and modular approaches in general – what they are, why they are useful, how you implemented, etc.

Remember, the monthly topics are mostly intended to just get things started, and are meant to be something that you can spend prep on in 0 – 15 minutes. If you even want to prepare, that is.

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Flash Platform t-shirts

Posted on April 1, 2010 by austinFlex

Adobe shipped 12 Flash Platform t-shirts to us, and we’ll pass them out first-come-first-served at April’s meeting.

We’ve got 1XXL, 4XL, 4L, and 3M.

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March meeting recap

Posted on April 1, 2010 by austinFlex

Thanks to everyone who showed up for the March meeting. We had about a dozen people, and a lot of interesting conversations.

Some rough notes about resources and things to know about, from the March meeting, follow below. This is just meant as a list of things to kind of browse through. Some of the items have URLs and descriptions, some you’ll have to Google.

Please let me know if you have anything you’d like to add.

balsamiq.com — Mockup application
Flex4 for free for the unemployed on FB
stackoverflow.com — Knowledge exchange
lynda.com — great source for video tutorials
bytearray.org

Aptana and NetBeans as potential development environments for Mac
Flex Bugs and Butterflies blog

Farata Systems
Gorilla Logic
Alex Harui
Tinic Uro
iamDeepa
Christophe Conraets

APE — actionscript physics engine http://cove.org/ape

Books
Flash Math Creativity
Coders at Work (codersatwork.com)
Flex Cookbook

Alice and Scratch programming languages, as good introductions to object oriented programming

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