Adobe Flex User Group Tour – San Diego

February 11th, 2012 Chris Griffith

March 8, 2012
6:00 pmto8:00 pm

Adobe promised at the end of last year, to visit local user groups to discuss recent announcements regarding Flex and the Flash Platform.

Please RSVP here: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/2948187107

Our headliner will ber Greg Wilson, Group Manager Enterprise Platform Evangelist at Adobe Systems as our headliner.  Also joining us will be a representative from the Spoon team.  You’ll hear about the future of Flex from Adobe and Spoon’s perspectives, a little about Adobe’s HTML5 vision, and have plenty of time for questions and answers.  

This meeting will clarify any changes to Flex and Flash including updates on the runtimes and tooling. Additionally, you’ll learn about the Apache process directly from the team managing the Flex SDK, including what it takes for a project within the Apache Software Foundation to maintain a thriving community. This meeting will be the best place to get accurate and up-to-date information about anything related to Flex.

Agenda:

  • 6:00 – Networking & Socialization
  • 6:30 – Panel Begins

More information about Adobe’s Flex User Group Tour (including other cities and dates) can be found on this page.

More information about Spoon’s Flex User Group Tour (including other cities and dates0 can be found on this page.


Hello Sencha: HTML5 Applications

February 8th, 2012 Chris Griffith

February 22, 2012
6:00 pmto8:00 pm

Ted Patrick will walk you through Sencha’s frameworks for building mobile and desktop applications using web technologies including HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS. We will cover the framework’s foundation (OOP+MVC), standard libraries, containers, components, xtype rendering, and most importantly cross-browser support. Bring an open mind and a laptop, we will be building applications from scratch; feel free to follow along. Sencha provides frameworks, tools, and services for building professional applications with HTML5.

Pizza, Drinks and Prizes! Spread the word!

Please RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/event/2931150149

 

About Ted:

Ted Patrick currently holds the position of Director of Developer Relations at Sencha. He works with developers to create applications using web technologies including HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS. Prior to Sencha, Ted worked at Barnes and Noble on NOOK Apps and on Flash & Flex at Adobe Systems. Along the way, he founded 4 companies as an entrepreneur, raised vc funding, and sold 1. Ted loves to write software. No, He really, really, loves to write software. So much he can hardly think of it as work. Ted especially loves to help solve the hard strategy problems in combining business and software. The past 2 years have been filled with learning the ins and outs of the Android Operating System and how best to write software for phone-tablet form factor devices (IOS/Android). Lately, Ted dove head first into building apps using HTML5. When he is not writing code, you will find him either spending time with his family or scuba diving.

 


Webinar: Moving from Flex to HTML5 and Sencha

January 31st, 2012 Chris Griffith

Sencha is hosting a webinar on February 14 about moving from Flex to their HTML/JS based solution. http://pages.sencha.com/flex-to-sencha-webinar.html?ls=Website&ss=Events

Learn how to easily build rich, cross browser applications with HTML5 and Sencha. Join us for an online webinar on February 14, 2012. Sencha has the desktop and mobile frameworks that give you a smooth migration to HTML5 application development.

This should be a good introduction to the technology as we look for possible options for building the next great thing!


Open Forum: Flash-ageddon and beyond

November 17th, 2011 Chris Griffith

December 5, 2011
6:00 pmto8:00 pm

No agenda. Let’s meet at Chevy’s for some food and drink as we discuss the future of our group and the whirlwind of recent events.

Please RSVP (http://sdfug.groups.adobe.com/index.cfm?event=post.display&postid=39576) so we can make sure we get a table for everyone!

Plus, we do have some software to raffle off!