User Group Overload Ends with Tonight's XD Atlanta User Group Gathering
This week has been totally user group overload for me.
Tuesday we had Ryan Taylor present "Intro to Flash Player 10 and Pixel Bender" at the Adobe Flash Platform User Group of Atlanta. Ryan always wows us with his giant brain full of math. The part of his presentation that I thought was most interesting was his examples of Pixel Bender, the tool kit that lets you (yes, you. It looks like it's that simple) script filters and effects for Flash. Ryan has posted his presentation and demo files on his blog if you want to take a look.
Wednesday had me visiting the Atlanta ColdFusion User Group where I was pummeled by comments "Where the heck have you been?" and "You didn't RSVP!" Mea Culpa, my CF friends, I have been neglecting you badly. But tonight's meeting was a must-see event; John Mason gave us an overview of "BlazeDS for ColdFusion Developers" and he did so without showing a chat example (thanks for taking the high road, John). He replaced the unfortunately stereotypical chat messaging example with the much more pertinent ColdFusion error message widget example. John's presentation will be posted on his labs site.
Tonight should also be fun as Michael Hagel has arranged for the XD Atlanta User Group to have a "Summer Social Gathering" at STATS Atlanta, you know, the place where all the 360Flex parties were held (and the only place you could have seen me during 360Flex because I was too busy at work to attend sessions :-( ). It should be great. By the way, Michael, the site is looking great!
See you there!
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Tonight's Adobe Flash Platform User Group Meeting: Ryan Taylor and Flash Player 10
I am so glad that I know Ryan Taylor. Every now and then, Ryan will contact me and say "Hey, when would you like me to present?" I always seem to reply "Next month!"
Tonight, Ryan will be presenting some of the new features of Flash Player 10, currently in beta, at the Adobe Flash Platform User Group of Atlanta and Flash Meetup Atlanta meeting. You should attend.
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360Flex Atlanta + Adobe = Special Event
Yeah, if you live here in Atlanta you should already be attending this event because you're attending 360Flex Atlanta right? It's a great conference focused on your favorite RIA platform? All for only $480.00 (and you get to sleep in your own bed and miss out on those tiny airline seats with no leg room).
Well, if you can't gnaw off the business-hours ankle chain your employer welded to your desk, then here's your chance to mingle with people just like you! 360Flex has invited members of the Atlanta design and development community to a little get-together being held at Stats Sports Bar not far from where 360Flex Atlanta is being held. Yeah, that does mean adult beverages. Yummy.
So come out and see what's up. But you need to RSVP. Get your details here, here or here, but RSVP.
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Ben Forta, AIR and Flex: So Popular, Atlanta Had to Move Their Event
Ben Forta, AIR and Flex: So Popular, Atlanta Had to Move Their Event
As an update to my previous post, the Flex and AIR Pre-release Tour's Atlanta stop received so many RSVPs that the meeting site needed to be changed to accomidate the audience.
If you are planning to attend, please use this page for directions to the event.
I look forward to seeing everyone there.
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Atanta Stop for the Flex and AIR Pre-release Tour with Adobe's Ben Forta
UPDATED: 2008 - 01 - 18
Flex 3 and AIR are getting close to launch and in preparation, Ben Forta 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!
Event Information:
This event is on January 22, 2008 from 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
IMPORTANT: THE LOCATION HAS BEEN CHANGED!
South Terrace at Perimeter
115 Perimeter Center Pl NE
Atlanta, GA 30346
Driving Directions
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Ryan Taylor's Animation System at Last Night's AFPUGAtlanta Meeting
I wanted to post an entry about last night's Adobe Flash Platform User Group of Atlanta meeting featuring Ryan Taylor from Schematic so that other user group managers and conference organizers could learn more about Ryan. Ryan's presentation on his Animation System was excellent and I believe that everyone at the meeting got a lot out of the session.
Ryan began the presentation explaining the differences between timeline and programmatic animation, showing the advantages and disadvantages to both. Then Ryan went into the math of animating, which quite honestly is the most math I've endured since high school (and that was a long time ago). I was truly impressed with Ryan's confidence and knowledge when it comes to programmatic animation. He really understands what makes an animation work and relayed that to the audience well.
Finally, after getting us the background that we needed to understand what his Animation System offered, Ryan demonstrated the many things that you can do with very few lines of code. Built in ActionScript 3.0, Ryan's Animation System can use either the Enter Frame Event or a Timer to control animations. I loved seeing that you can write one line of code to animate an on-screen object in ways that would normally take many, many more lines. By the end of his demonstrations I could clearly see the time and money that can be saved using this system. Finally, Ryan showed showed the presentation that John Grden used at MAX last week that combined PaperVision3D with Ryan's Animation System. It was very interesting.
Ryan's Animation System is currently at v2.0 and can be found here. Ryan said that the system has an MIT License and developers may do what they want with the code. Ryan has also gone to to trouble of documenting the system and providing all of the demonstration files within the code download.
Thanks, Ryan, not only for presenting but for giving back to the community.
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Reminder: Programmatic Animation on Tuesday at the AFPUGAtlanta
I wanted to remind everyone about Tueday's Adobe Flash Platform User Group of Atlanta meeting featuring Ryan Taylor presenting Programmatic Animation. Please register for this meeting.
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Upcoming Flex Online Seminars
Leif's Note: Repeating what I've posted on the Adobe Flash Platform User Group of Atlanta site earlier today, as more people read my blog than the user group's blog.
There are some new Flex online seminars coming up that you should know about.
The titles are:
- Flex and .NET: Anatomy of a Data Driven Application
- Flex 3 Beta--See What's New!
- Basic Application Architecture for Flex Newcomers
All three of these hour long seminars look very interesting and should be enough to get anyone started with their respective topics. I highly recommend that anyone who has not had a chance to play with the current Flex 3 Public Beta and who can't attend MAX next month consider attending the Flex 3 session.
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Reminder: Adobe Flash Platform User Group of Atlanta Meeting Tuesday, September 11
I just wanted to remind everyone about the Adobe User Group of Atlanta September 2007 Meeting is this Tuesday, September 11, at 7:00 PM. ( event | location | registration ).
Tonight's meeting features Toolbox No. 9's Jason Rhoades putting together Rich Media Advertising and Eye Wonder's Erin Coker showing you how to get it published.
Please register for this event so we know to expect you.
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September 2007 Adobe Events for Atlanta
We love getting everyone motivated for the Fall. Here's what is on tap for you in September and October! We're not saying that you have to go to all of these events. We just want you to know what is coming up so you can plan to attend an event or two and reconnect with your community after a long, hot Summer.
Adobe MAX 2007
October 1 -3, 2007
Chicago
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They have turned the asylum over to the crazy people! Or, as the speaker list suggests, the Adobe MAX 2007 conference has been turned over to the designers and developers. This year's MAX is shaping up to be a must attend event. Mark October 1 - 3 on your calendar and get your ticket soon! And if you use Ted Patrick's magic $400 discount code, BFF755, you can save some bucks! Register now before the discount ends on September 10. Don't forget to list your favorite user group manager when you register — Michael Hagel, John Mason, Paul Olmeda, Teddy Payne or Leif Wells!
Adobe Flash Platform User Group of Atlanta
Tueday, September 11, 2007 - 7:00 PM
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Ever wish you were in the Rich Media advertising game? Ever think it might be easy to get there? The folks at EyeWonder have arranged for Toolbox No. 9's Jason Rhoades to show us how Rich Media Advertising with Flash CS3— ads containing animation and video — are in the reach of Flash designers and developers everywhere.
Adobe eXperience Design User Group of Atlanta
Thursday, September 13, 2007 - 7:00 PM
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Design Patterns! Designers have heard about them and read about them. See what Roundbox Global's Brian Hochhalter says about what you can do with them.
Atlanta Flash and Flex User Group
Wednesday, September 19, 2007 - 6:30 PM
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Ever build an application that needed to be rapidly developed and wish there were ways to test builds just as rapidly? John Mason is going to show us the way by using Unit Testing and Test Driven Development (TDD) for Flex & ActionScript 3.0.
Adobe User Group of Atlanta
Thursday, September 27 - 7:00 PM
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We've felt guilty about not providing proper Illustrator meetings for quite some time. This month we make up for it by having Dee Sadler present the New Features of Illustrator CS3. Want to see what you are missing since CS2? Want to see the new features working? Want to see new work flows? Here's your chance!
Also Upcoming:
Atlanta ColdFusion User Group
Wednesday, October 3 - 6:30 PM
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Atlanta ColdFusion User Group
no meeting currently scheduled
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