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.

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/register/

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.