July 2nd, 2009
Meeting Date: August 26, 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
Session will provide an overview of various techniques and approaches
developers can use in day-to-day activities for Flex and Flash application
development, testing and runtime optimization. You will learn about
ActionScript code generator for remoting and data management use-cases,
learn how to create real-time messaging applications, see a demo of remoting
invocation debugger and AMF traffic visualizer. Finally, you will see a
demonstration of user behavior tracking and analytics in a Flex application.
The session provides a lot of coding samples and API reviews. It is targeted
at a wide range of developers ranging from beginner level to very advanced.
Parts of the presentation will be useful for management folks and they are
welcome to attend as well.
Presenter:
Mark Piller
Mark Piller is the founder and Chief Architect of Midnight Coders, an
innovative and forward-thinking company specializing in products for RIA
development, testing, integration and analytics. Mark has over 15 years of
software development experience. For the past six years he has been
specializing in building software infrastructure products designed to
integrate Flex, Flash, and AJAX applications with a variety of backend
systems, including .NET, Java, PHP, and Ruby on Rails. Mark is very
passionate about ease-of-use of software and prides himself in creating
technologies that clearly demonstrate that quality.
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July 2nd, 2009
Meeting Date: July 22, 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.
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May 28th, 2009
Meeting Date: June 25, 2009 from 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Meet us at UAT (http://www.gotoandstop.org/?page_id=9).
Meeting Summary
The Adobe ColdFusion team is hitting the road to discuss Centaur, the next version of ColdFusion, and Bolt – code name for the highly anticipated first ColdFusion IDE from Adobe. Learn about exciting new features and discover how Centaur and Bolt will accelerate your ColdFusion application development.
Come learn about the newest features in the Flex 4 framework, Flex Builder 4 and the newest Adobe product — Flash Catalyst. See product feature demos, and learn how the new Flex framework powers both Flash Catalyst and Flex Builder to speed the development and testing of rich Internet applications and content.
Presenter:
Ryan Stewart (http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/)
Please RSVP for this event to (ron-period-haberle-at-gmail-period-com) to receive additional chances to win an Adobe Software Suite.
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May 14th, 2009
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.
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March 11th, 2009
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.
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January 28th, 2009
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.
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January 8th, 2009
Meeting Date: January 21, 2009 at 8:00pm
Meeting Summary
Are you confused with the new event model in AS3? Are you looking for ways to make your code more flexible and easier to read? Do you struggle with controlling the flow of your apps?
Come out and learn some basic techniques for building event driven applications in Flex. See event driven architecture put into action to control state and flow of your applications. You will see several different events from the “mx.events” package in action, as well as “custom” events created for special needs. See how to implement your own event classes to decouple parts of your application.
The demo and code samples for this presentation will cover mostly event handling, but will also touch upon basic uses of “mx:states” and “mx:transitions”.
Presenter:
Ron Haberle, Senior Software Developer at iMemories
Co-Presenter:
Bob Wohl, Senior Flasher Developer at LimeLight Networks
Meet us at UAT (http://www.gotoandstop.org/index.php/meeting-directions/) from 7:30 to 7:55 in time for seating and networking.
Giveaways will include the follow O’Reilly sponsored books (subject to change):
- ActionScript 3.0 Cook
- Programming Flex 3
- Learning ActionScript 3
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November 10th, 2008
So, Joey had an emergency. It is out of his control and ours so he had to cancel. 
I know…sucks but there are more important things he had to handle. Wish him best if you know him.
The meeting is still on. What we’ll do is just turn it into a showcase meeting. Everyone gets 5 to 10 minutes (pending how many involved) to showcase a product or project.
We are still going to give away the free CS4 Suite. Come out and get it! 
Hopefully you guys still come out and enjoy yourself. Please spread the word.
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October 16th, 2008
Next Meeting
You can read more details on the Joey Lott meeting here. Remember no meeting in October.
Free Adobe CS4 Suite
Normally we run some sort of contest but this year we are simply GIVING IT AWAY! That’s right. You can get a 100% free, legit copy of one of the Adobe CS4 Suites, minus Master Collection.
Pick the suite you want, show up, and be prepared to win!
Update: Only 1 copy will be given away by way of raffle tickets.
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October 16th, 2008
We are bypassing the October meeting in lieu of the special Joey Lott meeting on November 10.
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