March Meeting

February 23rd, 2010 Chris Griffith

March 3, 2010
6:00 pmto8:00 pm

We have two presentations planned for our March meeting!

First, Demian Borba will be talking about use FDT. For those who don’t know about this alternate editor for Flash/Flex development, here is a blurb from their site

FDT is the most powerful Flash development environment for Actionscript 2, 3 and MXML. The only editor built from the ground-up to support the needs of ActionScript developers, built by Flash developers for Flash developers. With highly efficient and time-saving features, FDT enhances your workflow while increasing your productivity.

He has also secured a copy of FDT to raffle off, so if you ever want to learn about this editor, this is the meeting for you.

Second, Chris Griffith will give a quick presentation on using the new itemRenderers in Flex 4.

Date: March 3rd

Time: 6:oopm – 800pm

Location: Art Institute San Diego, south building

Hope to see you there! Yes, we will have pizza!


March Meeting

February 23rd, 2010 Chris Griffith

We have two presentations planned for our March meeting!

First, Demian Borba will be talking about use FDT. For those who don’t know about this alternate editor for Flash/Flex development, here is a blurb from their site

FDT is the most powerful Flash development environment for Actionscript 2, 3 and MXML. The only editor built from the ground-up to support the needs of ActionScript developers, built by Flash developers for Flash developers. With highly efficient and time-saving features, FDT enhances your workflow while increasing your productivity.

He has also secured a copy of FDT to raffle off, so if you ever want to learn about this editor, this is the meeting for you.

Second, Chris Griffith will give a quick presentation on using the new itemRenderers in Flex 4.

Date: March 3rd

Time: 6:oopm – 800pm

Location: Art Institute San Diego, south building

Hope to see you there! Yes, we will have pizza!


Meeting recap

January 7th, 2010 Chris Griffith

Thanks to all that could attend, and sorry for the room mix up.

Here is a brief recap of the information that I presented at the start of the meeting:

Flash player 10.1 Beta 2 released (with debug versions!)
http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html

Flash Player & AIR Security Updates
http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb09-19.html

Adobe Flex 3.5 SDK Released
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=flex3sdk

Tour de Flex update with AIR 2.0 samples
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/tourdeflex/?sdid=ENQNT

Conferences
360Flex (March 7-10 San Jose, CA)
FITC – Toronto (April 25-27)
Flash and the City (May 14-16 New York City)
Flashbelt (June 13-16 Minneapolis, MN)

User Group Survey
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/JJ7R992

New Tools
Doc?
http://airdoc.be/home/

SourceMate
http://www.elementriver.com/sourcemate/

Again, thanks for coming out and staying late! See in February!

Chris & Kyle


December Meeting

November 27th, 2009 Chris Griffith

Come join us this Wednesday, our topic will be on the new WorkflowLab project, developed in part by our own James Polanco. WorkflowLab is a new AIR application that provides an easy way to learn about and share workflow best practices. It provides designers, developers and project managers with a common way to share information on specific project types including tasks, applications and instructions. The application includes a number of workflow starting points and enables users to easily share additional workflows. WorkflowLab is currently in development and an Alpha build is available for download. Rumor has it that other members of the team might be attending, including Doug Winnie.

In addition, we will have several software giveaways, so you better make plans to attend.

When: December 2nd, 6pm

Where: Art Institute San Diego, South Building


Meeting Reminder: Wednesday 6pm

November 2nd, 2009 Chris Griffith

This Weds, 6pm at the Art Institute San Diego (South Building) , Tom Gonzalez (@twgonzalez) will be speaking on Axiss/Data Viz. To get a running start on this topic, Tom wrote a great introduction to Axiss on O’Reilly’s InsideRIA.

I will also be giving a presentation on the design and development of the mobileMAX schedule application that was used during the recent Adobe MAX conference.

Hope to see you there!


November Meeting: Advanced Data Visualization with Flex

October 15th, 2009 Chris Griffith

November 4, 2009
6:00 pmto8:00 pm

Go beyond the standard Flex Charting to focus on creating innovative and compelling data visualizations used to solve a wide range of data visualization challenges. We’ll discuss various design patterns and techniques used for mapping data, defining layouts, and rendering customized visual outputs. We’ll take a deep dive with several examples and explore common design patterns you can use in creating your own innovative data visualizations.

We will also cover Axiis, an open source data visualization framework designed for beginner and expert developers alike.

Whether you are building elegant charts for executive briefings or exploring the boundaries of advanced data visualization research, Axiis has something for you.

Axiis provides both pre-built visualization components as well as abstract layout patterns and rendering classes that allow you to create your own unique visualizations.

Axiis is built upon the Degrafa graphics framework and Adobe Flex 3

Tom Gonzalez is the Managing Director at BrightPoint Consulting, Inc, a professional services firm specializing in data visualization research and development.

Tom is also a frequent public speaker on data visualization with Flex and an active member of the open source community.

You can reach Tom at - tom[at]axiis[dot]org

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Official Adobe Flex SDK 3.4 Released

August 28th, 2009 Chris Griffith

Although the Open Source version of the Flex 3.4 SDK was made available last week, the official release has been made, including updated Data Visualization components and the Automation Framework bits. You can download the parts from the Adobe site.

Note: The 3.4 release fixes some serious cross-site scripting problems!

The Flex team has also posted on the status of the Flex Data Visualization Components, if you use these components you should a take a moment to read it.


Debugging with Flex Inspector

August 26th, 2009 Chris Griffith

James Polanco, co-founder of DevelopmentArc will be demonstrating DevelopmentArc’s upcoming Flex debugging tool, Flex Inspector. This application is built on top of Adobe AIR and is intended to provide a Firebug-like experience that allows for real-time inspection and modification of Flex application properties and styles. During this presentation James will also cover some typical challenges with debugging Flex-based applications and discuss how Flex 4 will soon change how applications are designed, developed and debugged.

Afterwards we will have an open technical forum, so bring your questions!

When: September 2nd (Wednesday)
Time: 6pm – 8pm
Location: Art Institute of San Diego – South Building
7655 Mission Valley Road
San Diego , CA 92108


San Diego Java User Group meeting: “Integrating Flex with Spring and Hibernate”

July 30th, 2009 Chris Griffith

James Ward is speaking on “Integrating Flex with Spring and Hibernate”

Where: Sun Microsystems 

9515 Towne Centre Drive

San Diego, CA  92121

Tuesday, August 18th @ 7:00 PM

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Intro to Mate: Adobe Edge article

June 22nd, 2009 Chris Griffith

Brian Rinaldi wrote a great introductory article about Mate. He has created an example to show how you can build an application with Mate. The code is available for download and you can read the whole article here.

Our next meeting will feature Laura Arguello from AsFusion talking about the Mate Framework, so if you want to try out the framework before hand, this is a great tutorial. The meeting will be on July 1st at 6pm. It will be held at the Art Institute’s North Building.

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