July Meeting

June 23rd, 2008 Kyle

July 2, 2008
7:00 pmto9:00 pm

I would like to dedicate at least a portion of this meeting to discussing design patterns, and frameworks such as cairngorm and puremvc that make implementing some of the more common patterns a bit easier. So please feel free to bring along any books, websites, or any other information that you’ve found useful while learning about design patterns and we can all share our thoughts, experiences, ideas, etc. This topic has come up in past meetings and it seemed to be one that everyone was interested in, so I hope this will produce some good discussions and introduce all of us to some new ideas that will make our code better, our lives easier, and of course make us all rich and famous! =]

As always, if anyone has a specific topic they would like to speak on, please email me at kyle@sdfug.org.

What: July Meeting

When: Wednesday, July 2, 2008

7 - 9PM

Where:
Veoh Networks

10180 Telesis Court
San Diego, CA 92121


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When you arrive, there is a large open parking lot, feel free to park anywhere. I will be waiting for everyone down in the lobby at 6:50 and we will hang out and wait for the stragglers until around 7:10. The building is secured so I will need to be there to bring everyone upstairs to our offices. If you are running late, or find yourself stuck in the lobby, feel free to call my (Kyle) cell at 612.203.2825 and I’ll come down and let you in.

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June Meeting

May 28th, 2008 Kyle

June 4, 2008
7:00 pmto9:00 pm

It’s time for our June meeting. This month Dmitry from Cynergy Systems will be giving a presentation on their winning entry for the Phizzpop 2008 finales and discuss his experiences and perspectives doing work in both the Flex and Silverlight RIA landscapes.

Here’s a snippet from the press release regarding the application:
Held at South by Southwest Interactive (SXSW) in Austin, Texas on Monday, March 10th, 2008, Cynergy presented its application known as “ben”, a series of inter-connected, cross-platform applications that leverage the power of Microsoft Silverlight, Windows Presentation Foundation, Live Services, Twitter and VoIP technologies. “ben”, named for Benjamin Franklin, captivated the excitement of the crowd of over 500 attendees with a dizzying array of features culminating as the Cynergy team placed a call to Barack Obama from their Silverlight Facebook application using VoIP technology and left a message “Hello from SXSW” on the Obama campaign’s answering machine.

Time permitting, I’d then like to open up the floor and see if we can’t get some discussion going around Design Patterns and Test Driven Development. As always, if anyone has anything else they’d like to discuss or has a presentation they’d like to give, just shoot me an email to kyle@sdfug.org and we’ll get it all setup. I look forward to seeing you all next week!

When:

Wednesday, June 4th

7 - 9 PM
Where:

Veoh Networks
10180 Telesis Court, 4th Floor
San Diego, CA 92121

There’s plenty of parking in front of the building. Once you’re parked, just head up to the main entrance where I’ll be waiting to take everyone upstairs.

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May Meeting

May 1st, 2008 Kyle

May 7, 2008
7:00 pmto9:00 pm

Our May meeting is just around the corner. We currently have one presentation planned, Sean Voisen will be presenting on persistent data storage with AIR and MySQL-Lite. If anyone else has a topic they’d like to discuss, drop me an email ( kyle@sdfug.org ) and we’ll get it setup. Other than that we’ll keep the meeting loose and just discuss whatever topics happen to be on peoples minds (this is always fun and tends to lead in some interesting directions as well, so either way it should be a great meeting!). I look forward to seeing you all there!

When:

Wednesday, May 7th

7 - 9 PM
Where:

Veoh Networks
10180 Telesis Court, 4th Floor
San Diego, CA 92121

There’s plenty of parking out front, then just take the elevators to the 4 floor. Once you get off the elevators, I’ll have signs posted with arrows directing you towards the meeting space.

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April Meeting

March 18th, 2008 Kyle

April 2, 2008
7:00 pmto9:00 pm

Our April meeting is just few weeks away, and I am pleased to announce that we will be having Chuck Freedman, Director of Developer Platform @ Ribbit as a guest speaker! For those of you that haven’t heard of Ribbit, they have built a platform that allows you to bring telephony connectivity to your RIA’s. You can read more on their site at http://www.ribbit.com or sign up for a developer account and start playing now at http://developer.ribbit.com

An broad outline of Chucks Presentation:

- How to easily make and receive phone calls from Flex and AIR with Ribbit
- Other features of the API like messaging and contacts
- Cool example applications built with Ribbit
- Creating and sharing Ribbit projects
- Opportunities coding with Ribbit
- Sneak peak at the Ribbit Flash CS3 Component set

As if that wasn’t exciting enough, I am also very happy to announce that Veoh has moved to our new offices, and we will have a much larger, more comfortable space for our next meeting! The plan is to give Chuck as much time as he needs to present, and allow time for general discussion/QA, then just open it up and let the meeting head where it may! As always, email me at kyle@sdfug.org if you have any questions.

New Meeting Location: Veoh Networks
10180 Telesis Court, 4th Floor
San Diego, CA 92121

There’s plenty of parking out front, then just take the elevators to the 4 floor. Once you get off the elevators, I’ll have signs posted with arrows directing you towards the meeting space.

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SDFUG - February Meeting

January 29th, 2008 Kyle

February 6, 2008
7:00 pmto9:00 pm

SDFUG’s February meeting is just around the corner. If you would like to present, please email kyle@sdfug.org with the topic you would like to present on. Otherwise we will try and keep this meeting a bit more loose, let some people share their work, and have more time for general discussion.

Date: February 6, 2008

Time: 7 - 9PM

Location: Veoh offices.

7220 Trade St. Suite 115

San Diego, CA 92121

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360|Flex Atlanta, GA February 25-27, 2008

January 24th, 2008 admin

February 25, 2008toFebruary 28, 2008

360 Flex is just around the corner. This year you’ll find over 30 sessions in three different tracks: Custom Components, Application Development and Integration, PLUS they’re offering a free, full-day hands-on training session on Sunday to kick everything off! You get all this, plus the company of fellow geeks, and a nice break from the office, and all for the low price of $480! I will be attending this event, so if you’re going, feel free to email me and we can try and meet up in Atlanta!

So what are you waiting for? Head on over to http://www.360conferences.com and get signed up!

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Join SDFUG for this “can’t miss” meeting!

January 17th, 2008 Kyle

March 5, 2008
7:00 pmto9:00 pm

As you may have heard, Adobe has announced the release of Adobe Flex 3 and Adobe AIR 1.0. Now that the cat is out of the bag, this will be the focus of our March 5th special meeting! Adobe is sponsoring this meeting with food, giveaways and a raffle copy of Adobe Flex Professional.

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, delivering rich applications on the desktop, enabling access to the local file system, system tray, notifications and much more. Now you can write RIAs on the desktop 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 this opportunity to see and hear about this highly anticipated release of Flex 3 and AIR at this meeting.

Who: You and everyone else you know! If we get over 50 Attendees we will be raffling off a copy of Adobe CS3 Web Premium, so bring some friends!

What: See above!

When: Monday, February 25, 2008 from 7-9PM

Where: Veoh Networks

7220 Trade St. Suite 115

San Diego, CA 92121

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Why? The better question is why not! Exciting info. from Adobe, food, drinks, giveaways, what else could you ask for!

RSVP: kyle@sdfug.org with subject “Secret Meeting Atendee.”

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Flex and AIR Pre-release Tour with Adobe’s Ted Patrick!

January 3rd, 2008 Kyle

January 24, 2008
6:00 pmto9:00 pm

When: Thursday, January 24th from 6:00PM - 9:00PM
Who: Ted Patrick, Adobe Platform Evanglist Team
Topic: Flex 3 and AIR
Where: Adobe in Carmel Valley (Map)
10590 West Ocean Air Drive
Suite 300
San Diego, CA 92130
Cost: FREE!!!
RSVP: kyle@sdfug.org

About the Event:

Flex 3 and AIR are getting close to launch and in preparation, Ted Patrick from the Adobe Flex/AIR product team is traveling to select cities 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!

Make sure to drag everyone you know out to this one guys. If we want Adobe to bring these tours and events down to San Diego, then we need to show them some love with a huge attendance!

About the Speaker

Ted Patrick is a Technical Evangelist for Flex at Adobe Systems. He worked with Flash since FutureSplash Animator and watched its evolution from animation to application.

Ted helped Macromedia/Adobe with the development of ActionScript 3, AVM2, ASC compiler, and Flash Player 9 for some 18 months prior to Flex 2?s release.

Prior to joining Adobe in May 2006, he provided consulting services at PowerSDK Software and Cynergy Systems.

Ted is a serial entrepreneur having successfully started-up 4 times and raised over 7 Million in VC funding for companies he founded.

3 companies have been successfully sold to other businesses and one was sold to a publicly traded company in 2001. Ted is actively involved in the Flex development community and works at Adobe to define the future of rich media.

Please RSVP to kyle@sdfug.org with “Flex 3 attendee” in the subject

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January Meeting

December 24th, 2007 Kyle

January 9, 2008
7:00 pmto9:00 pm

The meeting for January has been scheduled for Wednesday, January 9th from 7 - 9PM. The Art Institute is unable to host the meetings at this time, so for the time being we will be holding the meeting at the offices of Veoh Networks (location posted below). To help boost attendance and to kick off the new year we will also be hosting a raffle at this meeting, so be sure to tell all of your friends and fellow geeks to come out!

What: January meeting

When: January 9th, 7 - 9PM

Where: Veoh Networks

7220 Trade St. Suite 115

San Diego, CA 92121

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