Update - Fundamentals of Flex II
on March 9th, 2009 by Derek Wischusen
This month’s meeting on the Fundamentals of Flex will take place at Villanova on the 10th.
In the meeting I am tentatively planning to cover the following:
Working with the list components (Lists and Datagrids)
Creating custom item renderers and item editors.
The application event life cycle
The component event life cycle
Meeting Details
Date/Time: Wednesday, March 10th, 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Location: Villanova. Technical Services Building on Lancaster Pike (Rt 30). First Villanova building past the intersection of rt 320 and rt 30.
I promise to remember to bring the books/shirts/prizes this time.
Tonight’s Meeting Postponed
on February 25th, 2009 by Derek Wischusen
My sincere apologies for this, but I think I am going to have to postpone tonight’s meeting. I came down with a pretty strong flu-like illness last night and I don’t want to spread it around to anyone else. I am hoping to reschedule the meeting for some time next week.
moreMeeting - Fundamentals of Flex II
on February 22nd, 2009 by Derek Wischusen
This month’s meeting on the Fundamentals of Flex will take place at Villanova on the 25th.
In the meeting I am tentatively planning to cover the following:
Working with the list components (Lists and Datagrids)
Creating custom item renderers and item editors.
Working with ViewStacks and Tabs (with a brief intro to Deep-linking)
The application event life cycle
The component event life cycle
These are just suggested topics. If anybody has a suggestion for a different topic that you would like to discuss, please let me know.
Meeting Details
Date/Time: Wednesday, February 25th, 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Location: Villanova. Technical Services Building on Lancaster Pike (Rt 30). First Villanova building past the intersection of rt 320 and rt 30.
I promise to remember to bring the books/shirts/prizes this time.
Meeting Tonight - Fundamentals of Flex
on January 15th, 2009 by Derek Wischusen
Just a reminder that our meeting on the Fundamental of Flex is
tonight.
Location: Huntsman Hall building on the Penn Campus. Entrances at 3730
Walnut Street, Philadelphia and between 37th and 38th on Locust Walk. Room G60.
Date: Thursday, January 15th, 2009
Time: 7-10 PM
Prizes: Books, Shirts, etc
Philly Flex UG - Joey Lott Speaking on AIR/Flex/Flash at Next Meeting - October 22nd, 2008
on October 19th, 2008 by Derek Wischusen
The renowned and prodigious author Joey Lott will be coming to Philadelphia to share his wealth of knowledge on Flex and AIR.
Please RSVP if you are planning to attend.
Meeting Topic:
Introduction to Adobe AIR For Flex (And Flash) Developers
Date:
The meeting will take place on 10.22.08 - October 22nd
Time:
7pm
Prizes: I have several O’Reilly t-shirts to give away. As well as copies of Programming Flex 3, Learning Flex 3, and Getting Started with Flex 3.
Location:
Philadelphia University - Tuttleman Auditorium - There will be light refreshments, snacks, sodas, water available prior to the meeting in room 109 next to the auditorium. Thanks to Philadelphia University for the gracious hosting and refreshments.
Directions:
School House Lane and Henry Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19144-5497
Tel: 215.951.2700
For directions/location info visit: http://www.philau.edu/directions/
An interactive map of the campus highlighting the Tuttleman Auditorium can be found here: http://www.philau.edu/UniMap/index.htm
Transportation from Center City
Also our good friend Tony Profeta of PDA Media will be arranging a get together in the city for a joint SEPTA field trip meetup at 5:30-6pmin front of the Clothespin (15th and Market) building to help our center city dwellers without cars, etc. to be able to participate and attend the meeting. Its a short bus ride from center city to the location, so no excuses for not coming out. 
Topic Details:
Want to know how to use your existing Flex and/or Flash skills to build applications for the desktop using Adobe AIR? In this presentation we’ll look at what AIR is and is not, and we’ll look at the key features of AIR. We’ll go beyond the standard marketing presentation for AIR and instead focus on what is possible using AIR and what it takes to get up and running using AIR.
About the Speaker:
Joey Lott is the author or co-author of “Flash 8 Cookbook”, “Programming Flash Communication Server”, and “ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook” (all O’Reilly titles). Joey has worked in the Internet industry since 1996 including co-founding RightSpring, Inc. and consulting for YourMobile/Premium Wireless Services (J2EE B2C application) and Ads.com (leading the development of a J2EE B2B application). He has been teaching Flash and ActionScript since 1999.
360 Flex New Jersey
on September 23rd, 2008 by Derek Wischusen
Just a reminder that 360 Flex New Jersey is coming up this Friday.
morePhilly CS4 Event
on September 23rd, 2008 by Derek Wischusen
This Thursday the Philadelphia Flash Platform Adobe User Group, the Philadelphia Flex User Group, and the Philadelphia ColdFusion User Group will be holding a joint meeting to celebrate the launch of the next iteration of the Adobe Creative Suite (CS4)!
It’s Going To Be Brilliant!
Be one of the first to see the next big thing from Adobe (Adobe Creative Suite 4) on September 25th, 2008. Join in to see and hear first hand how something very special will help you get to brilliant faster. Save the date and get a good look at what’s to come.
Also - as a fun experiment, got something cool you’ve built recently in Flash, Flex or AIR? Let us know, and well set aside 5-10 minutes per person (depending on the # of respondents) to demo your app and answer questions, the best app/demo wins a bonus prize.
Date: Thursday, September 25th
Time: 7pm-9pm
Location: Philadelphia University, Main Campus, Kanbar Campus Center Performance Space
School House Lane and Henry Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19144-5497
Tel: 215.951.2700
For directions/location info visit: http://www.philau.edu/
An interactive map of the campus highlighting the Kanbar Campus Center can be found here: http://www.philau.edu/
Meeting Location Confirmed
on September 4th, 2008 by Derek Wischusen
This month’s meeting will be at:
Huntsman Hall at Wharton (UPenn)
Room: JMHH 260
We have the room starting at 6:30, so feel free to stop by early.
If you think that you might arrive after the presentation starts (7:00 PM) please send me an email with your name so I can get it added to a list that we will need to give to building security.
There are several parking decks/lots in the area.
I hope to see you there.
Many thanks go to Terrence Ryan for helping to reserve this meeting space.
moreComparing Flex Frameworks
on September 3rd, 2008 by Derek Wischusen
I am pleased to announce that next Thursday, September the 11th, Yakov Fain will be coming to Philadelphia to give a talk on “Comparing Flex Frameworks.” Yakov recently gave this talk at the NYC Flex Group and from what I hear it turned into a very lively debate, so come prepared with your thoughts on Flex frameworks.
I am still trying to confirm the location, but we are hoping to have this talk at the same location as last time (the Wharton building at UPenn). In any case, the meeting will be in the city. I will do a follow up post as soon as I’ve confirmed the location.
The talk will begin at 7:00 PM and should end before 9:00 PM.
Here is a synopsis of what his talk will cover:
Comparing Flex Frameworks:
The goal of any framework is to make the process of software development and maintenance easier. There are different ways of achieving this goal. Some people prefer working with frameworks that are based on the Model-View-Controller pattern, while other like dealing with class libraries of components. Each approach has its pros and cons. During this session we’ll go over the same application that was built using architectural frameworks Cairngorm, PureMVC and Mate frameworks. If time permits, we’ll cover a CRUD code generator called Clear Data Builder.
About the speaker:
Yakov Fain works as Flex and Java architect at Farata Systems, a company that provides consulting and training services in the metropolitan New York area. He authored several Java books, dozens of technical articles. Recently he co-authored book , “Rich Internet Applications with Adobe Flex and Java: Secrets of the Masters” in Spring 2007 that was shipped to over 60 countries. Sun Microsystems has nominated and awarded Yakov with the title Java Champion. He leads the Princeton Java Users Group. Yakov teaches Java and Flex part time at New York University.He hold MS in Applied Math. He’s a co-author of the upcoming OReilly book “Enterprise Application Development with Flex”
Philly Flex Meeting - Chris Scott
on July 8th, 2008 by Derek Wischusen
Sorry for the delayed post, this meeting was just planned recently. Our next meeting will be THIS thursday, July 10th at Huntsman Hall at Wharton.
This week the illustrious Chris Scott (of ColdSpring fame) will be presenting on the Swiz Framework for Flex development. Swiz aims to be simple and effecting, offering developers tools to build Flex applications in a true MVC paradigm. You can read more about Swiz at http://code.google.com/p/swizframework/.
This weeks meeting will also be a joint meeting with the Philadelphia ColdFusion user’s group.
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