Hello All, great news Flash Camp is coming to Philadelphia this November. You can read all about it here: http://flashcamp.pfpaug.org/ and you can follow updates on twitter: @flashcampphilly
Many thanks go out to Robert Hall from the Flash group for doing all the leg work in setting this up. It’s going to be a great opportunity to hear some great speakers and to meet with local members of the Flash/Flex community. The event is going to take place after Adobe’s MAX conference, so there will be a lot of new information to discuss.
I’d also like to thank all of the great companies that are sponsoring the event: http://flashcamp.pfpaug.org/sponsors/
Here is the low down on the event:
Agenda:
Flash Camp Philadelphia is a full-day event featuring top industry experts on the Adobe Flash Platform from both inside and outside Adobe, with a special focus on presenters from the Philadelphia area. Come advance your Flex and Flash skills, meet members of the Adobe team and network with local companies and fellow developers. Sessions will be geared towards developers and designers with little to advanced levels of experience with Flash, Flex and ActionScript and other Adobe technologies. There will be plenty of giveaways, raffles, swag, continental style breakfast and lunch. It should be a blast for everyone in attendance.
You must register for this event at the following URL:
http://flashcamp.pfpaug.org/
Speakers:
Ryan Stewart, Jamie Kosoy, Dan Mall, Darron Schall, Elad Elrom, Alex Hillman, Geoff DiMasi Chris Stanchak, Chris Scott, along with others to be announced soon.
Location:
Philadelphia University
Kanbar Campus Center
4201 Henry Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19144
Just a reminder that 360 Flex New Jersey is coming up this Friday.
moreThis 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/
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”
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.
moreAt this month’s meeting Peter Armstrong, who is going to be in town because he is speaking at the Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise Conference, will be giving a presentation on integrating Flex with Ruby on Rails.
We will be raffling off one free copy of Flex Builder 3 Professional as well as two copies of Peter’s Book, Flexible Rails: Flex 3 on Rails 2
Date: Thursday, March 27
Time: 7PM – 10 PM
Loc: New Horizons, King of Prussia
Directions: 3604 Horizon Dr, King of Prussia, PA 19406
Speaker Bio:
Peter Armstrong has been developing rich client applications for over 7 years and has worked with Flex full-time since July 2004, including being part of the team that won the 2006 Adobe MAX Award for RIA/Web Development. Before becoming a Flex developer, Peter was a Java Swing developer for a Silicon Valley BPM startup. On the Ruby on Rails side, Peter has been tracking Rails since mid-2005 and is the organizer of The Vancouver Ruby/Rails Meetup group.
Peter is also a frequent speaker on using Flex and Rails together, including presentations at The Vancouver Flash/Flex Meetup, a RailsConf 2007 BOF, The Vancouver RIA Developer Camp and Rails to Italy in Pisa. He lives in the Vancouver, BC area and works as an independent consultant doing Flex, AIR and Rails development, training and workshops through his company Ruboss Technology Corporation.
moreJoin the Adobe user group community (Flash, Flex and ColdFusion) for this “can’t miss” meeting Monday night at 7PM!
Adobe’s RIA technologies enable you to rapidly build and deploy the most engaging applications across browsers and on the desktop. The Philadelphia user groups are hosting a special live event to share exciting new information on Adobe’s platform tools and technologies for building RIAs. You’ll see an exclusive user group video presentation by Adobe Chief Software Architect, Kevin Lynch, hear some important product news, plus get your hands on some exclusive schwag and other giveaways.
Be part of the fun and excitement and join the rest of the Adobe developer community by participating in this very special event.
Date: Monday, February 25
Time: 7PM – whenever
Loc: Independents Hall
Directions: 32 Strawberry Street, Philadelphia, PA
Park on the street if you’re lucky, otherwise there are several garages in the immediate area that you can easily use.
moreThere are going to be several Flex/AIR related sessions at the upcoming Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise Conference that is going to be taking place in March here in Philly. They include:
Rails on AIR: Best Practices for using Flex 3 and Adobe AIR with Ruby on Rails 2 (Peter Armstrong, Founder Ruboss Technology Corporation)
Flex for the Java Developer (Peter Paugh, Java Developer)
Rich Internet Applications – Beyond the Buzz (James Ward, Technical Evangelist for Flex at Adobe)
Space for the conference is relatively limited (400 seats), so if you are interested in attending you might want to sign up soon.
Here is the official description of the conference:
The third annual Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise Conference (http://www.phillyemergingtech
Subjects covered include Java and Lightweight Development, Open Source Software, SOA/Integration, Web 2.0, Agile Practices, Ruby on Rails and more. You will listen to experts like Obie Fernandez, James Ward, Dan Allen, Chris Richardson, Brian McCallister, Dan Diephouse, Max Calson and others walk you through from the very basics to the very difficult task of harvesting open source in today’s ever changing world. Lucinda Holt, CEO, Commerce360 and one of the keynote speakers is looking forward to the conference. Says Holt, “Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise has quickly become the go-to high-tech conference in the Boston to Washington D.C. tech corridor. Centrally located in Philadelphia, the conference offers not only a great educational experience, but a community forum where people connect and collaborate.”
The cost is $175 for two days of 5 very full tracks
moreThis is a follow up to my earlier post on the Flex/Air Pre-release tour that is going to be coming to Philly later this month. We now have the location for this meeting all locked down and I am happy to say that it is a really great spot. This is the same venue and location where the CS3 Launch Event was held last year. The details are below.
Date: Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Time: 7:00 – 10:00 PM
Location: University of the Arts
211 S. Broad Street – Terra Building
8th Floor – Connelly Auditorium
Click here to register for the event on event brite.
Thanks to Ethan Murphy at the University of the Arts and Robert Hall at the Philly Flash Platform User Group for all their work in securing the location for this event.
moreIn January Adobe is going to be rolling through Philly on their Flex 3/AIR prerelease user group tour. The event details are below. Please RSVP via the link below if you are planning to attend.
Speaker: Dave Gruber, Adobe Flex Group Product Team
Date: Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Time: 7:00 PM
Location: University of the Arts
211 S. Broad Street – Terra Building
8th Floor – Connelly Auditorium
Click here to register for the event on event brite.
Here is the official description of the event:
Flex 3 and AIR are getting close to launch and in preparation, Dave Gruber from the Adobe Flex/AIR product team is coming to Philly in January to show off the great new features and help prepare us for this exciting launch.
Flex 3 is a feature-packed release, adding new UI components like the advanced datagrid and improved CSS capabilities; powerful tooling additions like refactoring; and extensive testing tools including memory and performance profiling, plus the addition of the automated testing framework to Flex Builder.
Adobe AIR is game-changing in so many ways, extending rich applications to the desktop, enabling access to the local file system, system tray, notifications and much more. Now you can write desktop applications using the same skills that you’ve been already using to create great web apps including both Flex and AJAX.
Don’t miss out on the opportunity to see and hear about this highly anticipated release of Flex 3 and AIR during this special pre-release tour. Plus, in addition to giving away some one of a kind Flex/AIR branded schwag, we will also be raffling off a copy of Flex Builder 3 Professional (pending availability) and a full commercial copy of CS3 Web Premium at this event!
Here is a little background info on Dave:
Dave Gruber is a Group Product Marketing Manager at Adobe Systems focused on Flex developer adoption. He has a long history in product management and marketing with web technologies, joining Adobe with the recent acquisition of Macromedia. Dave spent several years driving the successful ColdFusion business at Macromedia and Allaire and has played other key roles in the creation of Flash Remoting and Central. Prior to Allaire, Dave was the Director of Systems Engineering for Bright Tiger Technologies, an award-winning pioneer in guaranteeing Web site up-time and fast response which was acquired by Allaire in 1999.
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