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Meeting Date: August 25, 2010 from 7:00pm-8:00p,

Meet us at UAT (http://www.gotoandstop.org/?page_id=9) from 6:30 to 6:55 in time for seating and networking.

Meeting Summary

Jeremy Heckathorn will be going  over OSMF (Open Source Media Framework), building a media player, what OSMF can do and the meaning of the word “plugins” in OSMF.

Mark the date on your calendar. More info will be made available before the meeting. We may be having this one earlier since AZCFug will not be meeting that day so be sure to check back.

Meeting Date: April 28, 2010 from 7:00pm-9:00p,

Meet us at UAT (http://www.gotoandstop.org/?page_id=9) from 6:30 to 6:55 in time for seating and networking.

Meeting Summary

Join us for a special Flash Builder Release Party. We will be showing
off some of the latest features and giving away a copy or two of Flash
Builder. We will have a special speaker and more details in the up and
coming days.

Mark the date on your calendar. You don’t want to miss this one!
You have to be present to win the software.

Pizza and drinks will be provided.

Meeting Date: February 24, 2010 from 8:00pm-9:00p,

Meet us at UAT (http://www.gotoandstop.org/?page_id=9) from 7:30 to 7:55 in time for seating and networking.

Meeting Summary

Learn how Shutterfly has combined Java and Flash technologies into a system that leverages the best qualities of both environments. This presentation will provide a comparison of the platforms’ strengths and weaknesses, the ‘what’ and ‘why’ of our highly-scalable integration approach, and the development practices that delivered a project to serve 20 million users and multiple petabytes of images efficiently.

Meeting Date: September 23, 2009 from 8:00pm-9:00p,

Meet us at UAT (http://www.gotoandstop.org/?page_id=9) from 7:30 to 7:55 in time for seating and networking.

Meeting Summary

Are you tired of server configurations? Are you tired of mapping web services just to communicate to your Flex app? Are you tired of creating database tables and SQL queries to retrieve information? If so… come out and see how Flex with the Grails Framework might be the perfect solution for you.

During this meeting we will introduce a new way to create RIAs using a RAD framework called “Grails”. Using  the Grail’s plugin  architecture, we will install the Flex Remoting components, setup a simple database using “GORM”, and build a simple Flex Application to save and retrieve data from the database.

For anyone interested in getting their feet wet on the server side or might be a CF person looking at learning a thing or two about Java, this is the perfect meeting for you. Grails is a “Java” based framework, but you use a language called “Groovy”. Groovy is very similar to Javascript and it is very easy to learn. I recommend this meeting for all levels of Flex, PHP, or CF developers! If you are a Rails person… you might not like it.

Meeting Date: May 27th, 2009 at 8:00pm

Meet us at UAT (http://www.gotoandstop.org/?page_id=9) from 7:30 to 7:55 in time for seating and networking.

Meeting Summary

Lukas Ruebbelke will be going through the fundamentals of styling a Flex application. He will cover CSS styling, the Flex Component Kit and Degrafa. The objective of the discussion is to present concrete examples and tips to spare an application from looking like a stock Flex application and really enhance it with a custom look and feel.

Presenter: Lukas Ruebbelke

About the Presenter:

Lukas Ruebbelke is a Senior Software Engineer at Shutterfly.com. He has been developing Flash and Flex applications for seven years and loves the intersection of design and functionality that the Flash platform offers. He has spent a significant amount of time learning other disciplines to complement his Flash endeavors such as C#, ColdFusion, Photoshop, Illustrator, etc. Lukas is a Certified Flash Developer, Sun Certified Java Programmer and an Enterprise Microsoft Certified Professional Developer. Lukas is hoping to become a certified ninja in the near future.

Meeting Date: March 25, 2009 at 8:00pm

Meet us at UAT (http://www.gotoandstop.org/index.php/meeting-directions/) from 7:30 to 7:55 in time for seating and networking.

Meeting Summary

Steve Mathews will be presenting an introduction to Design Patterns. He will start out with a discussion about how to start using OOP and Design Patterns in the real world, and then move into three examples, (Abstract Classes, the Decorator Pattern and the Factory Pattern).

Presenter: Steve Mathews

About the Presenter:

Steve Mathews is Senior Technical Lead at Flypaper Studio. He is a developer with over ten years experience with a sick obsession for Flash. Steve has also branched out into other languages like Java and C#. His programming career began with his obsession for hacking his Commodore VIC 20 till morning cartoons came on. Steve has a BA in Multi-Media from UAT, and loves keeping up on the bleeding edge of technology. In his dream world he would do nothing but R&D.

Blog: http://artjumble.com/blog

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/mathews

Twitter: http://twitter.com/crappydog

We will be giving away a couple books on Design Patterns.

Meeting Date: February 25, 2009 at 8:00pm

Meet us at UAT (http://www.gotoandstop.org/index.php/meeting-directions/) from 7:30 to 7:55 in time for seating and networking.

Meeting Summary

Jason Crist will be discussing his Facebook AS3 API that is currently available on code.google.com.  He’ll go over how to use it to connect to the Facebook servers (both locally when debugging as well as running the application from within a Facebook Application Page).

Once a connection is made we’ll go over some simple examples of getting information such as a list of a user’s friends, their albums and some other stuff.

Then we’ll dive into the nitty gritty of the API that you don’t NEED to know to use it.  We’ll talk about a couple of design patterns that are being used (and used to be used).  Because Design Patterns are awesome.

Presenter: Jason Crist, Senior RIA Developer

About the Presenter:

Jason Crist is a 9th degree black belt ninja from Central Kentucky.  Wait, no he’s not.  Well, he’s from Kentucky but he’s not a 9th degree black belt ninja.  He’s been hacking on the Flash platform since version 4.5 and used to use it to make art.  Since he figured out that the left side of his brain was way stronger than his right he’s been using his geek powers for the forces of good.  He uses the Flex Framework (a lot) to earn his daily bread but finds that it gets in his way and misses the “good ‘ol days” of just straight-up ActionScript development.  Jason works for Tickets.com building some pretty kick-ass tools.

Jason had the unique opportunity to be involved in the Facebook “F8″ event in San Fransisco where the platform was first opened up to developers.  His “Flipbook” application (developed at Terralever) was the first 100% Flash application created for the Facebook platform.  Work from that application grew into an API that allowed AS3 to communicate directly with the Facebook servers.  It’s an open-source project on Google Code.  Please help.

Giveaways

We will be giving away several “AZFPUG Gift Bags” which will include some cool Adobe swag, Flex 3 pockets references, ActionScript 3 cheats, and much, much, more.