OC Flex

Mansour Raad, the Senior Software Architect of ArcWebServices at ESRI, will speak at our next OC Flex meeting. This meeting is scheduled one week before our usual meeting date, but it will be a great presentation. In the words of Ben Forta, “[Mansour] is one of the most engaging and passionate presenters I have ever met.”

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The Creative Group is looking for a Flex 3 developer for a 2-3 week project. The candidate must have both design and development skills. The first part of the project will be taking the front end design of the website and designing it in Flex. The second part of the project is Flex-enabling the entire application.

If you are interested, contact Kimberly Clements at 949-476-3199 or via email: kimberly.clements [at] creativegroup.com

Also in Orange County, Roundpeg, Inc is looking for Flex Developers to join their team at their Newport Beach office. You can read the full description at LA Flex website.

Here's the source from the example Evan Gifford walked us through during his presentation. It was an AIR application that ties into Flickr. Sorry for the lag time getting this up. Thank goodness one of the members reminded me to get it posted.

Download the source here. 

We skipped last months meeting, but we think this months will make up for it. On February 7th Doug McCune is coming to town to speak about “Using Flex Open Source Projects.” Doug is a huge advocate of open source libraries and he's always showcasing the possibilities of what you can achieve in Flex using them. In addition to discussing the various open source libraries out there, he'll be showing how you can implement them in your own Flex projects. Should be a can't-miss event. You can check out his blog at dougmccune.com.

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Flex 3 and AIR are getting close to launch and in preparation, the Adobe Platform Evangelist team is traveling to select cities to show off the great new features and some brand new demos.

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Here are some links to various topics that were discussed during the last OCFlex meeting surrounding the topic of Adobe AIR. It was a great turnout once again. Thanks to Evan Gifford for a great presentation. We should have his sample files up soon.

AIR on Adobe Labs
AIR Application Showcase
AIR Marketplace
O2 Apps : AIR Applications
Apollo Hunter : Share AIR Applications
35+ AIR Examples for JavaScript Developers

Flex 3/Adobe AIR Prerelease Tour : Los Angeles

DryerFox
AIR Example: HTML Editor
Lee Brimelow: Transitioning to the Desktop with Adobe AIR
onAIR Bus Tour

Someone asked if we could post the link to the resources that were shown at the first meeting. Here it is. 

We settled on a location for the next OCFlex meeting. 'Bout time, right? Here's the finalized info:

Topic: Adobe AIR
Speaker: Evan Gifford
Date: December 6, 2007
Time: 7pm
Place: ASFusion Office
5 Park Plaza, Suite 200
Irvine, CA 92614

A couple of notes about getting there:

• The main building door is closed after hours. There will be somebody there to open it for you, but if you are late, please call 949-474-1763 so that somebody can come down and open it.
• There is a special elevator that goes only to the second floor. You need to take that one. It is on the right if you come from the back door, on the left if you come from the front.
• You can park on the back of the building. There is no parking fee after hours. 

See you there! 

For the next OCFlex meeting on December 6th we'll have one of our own members, Evan Gifford, speak about Adobe AIR. He'll be giving an overview of AIR, talking about it's capabilities and walking through some examples.

Evan Gifford is a senior Flex developer who's been whipping up RIAs since the days of Flash 4 and Macromedia Generator. He is the guy who started  the “community supported cairngorm goodness“ found at cairngormdocs.org, wrote the first true “TreeGrid” component for Flex and received an honorable mention at Adobe MAX 2007 for a Flex/AIR/LiveCycle project at Verizon Wireless.

If you are at all interested in learning more about Adobe AIR, this next meeting should not be missed. We're planning on changing the location to allow for the larger attendance we experienced at last month's meeting. We're working out the details for the new location, so stay tuned. We'll post location info next week.

OCFlex Meeting
Topic: Adobe AIR
Date: December 6, 2007
Time: 7pm
Location: TBD

The first meeting of the Orange County Flex User Group was a success! We had a great turnout of around 30 people. We hadn't anticipated that many people showing up so things were a little cozy in the space we were in. The meeting was all about introductions. We introduced each other, the user group's goals, and Flex.

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