| November 4, 2009 |
| 6:00 pm | to | 8:00 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
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.
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
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
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.
