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Flex/Flash Builder 4 Release Event

on March 30th, 2010 by Derek Wischusen

As I am sure you have all no doubt heard Flex 4 and Flash Builder 4 have been released.  On April 28th our own hometown favorite Adobe Evangelist Terry Ryan will be giving a presentation on all the latest features available in the Flex 4 framework and the Flash Builder 4 IDE.  We will be holding this meeting jointly with the Philly Flash, ColdFusion, Illustrator, and Photoshop Adobe User groups, so it should be a great community event.

Event Details:
When: Wednesday, April 28th @ 6:30pm
Where: Wharton’s Jon M. Huntsman Hall, Room G65 3730 Walnut St.
SEPTA: Trolley to 36th or 37th street stations
Parking: Closest: 38th & Walnut

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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.

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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.

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Meeting – 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.

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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

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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.

Books by Joey:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_1?_encoding=UTF8&search-type=ss&index=books&field-author=Joey Lott

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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.

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Seeking speakers, members, sponsors

on November 23rd, 2007 by Derek Wischusen

We’re looking to get the Adobe Flex User Group in Philly up and running. So, if you are interested in Flex/AIR and you’d like to join the group, please sign up using the form in the sidebar to the right.

We are also actively looking for speakers.  If there is a topic that you would like to give a talk on, please shoot me an email (dwischusen [at] gmail.com) or post a message on the group’s discussion list (after you’ve signed up).

Lastly, we are seeking sponsors, so if you might have any interest in sponsoring the group, please let me know.  Right now sponsorship would primarily entail providing a consistent location for the group’s monthly meetings.

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