Miss the Atlanta Flash/Flex User Group meeting last night? So did I ... no worries. John always does a great job of recording the presentations with Adobe Acrobat Connect. Doug Knudsen is a talented Flex Application Developer and is also a very good presenter.

Here is the link: Douglas Knudsen of Universal Mind presents at the Atlanta Flash/Flex User Group

Come on out and support the Atlanta Adobe Flex User Group tonight. Doug Knudsen of Universal Mind will be presenting the methods he uses to proper debug your Flex and AIR coding. Some of the items he will be covering include, trace(), the Flex Builder debugger, ServiceCapture and Charles. For detailed information about this meeting, check out the Atlanta Flash/Flex User Group Site

Come on out and support the Atlanta Flex User Group tomorrow night! According to the latest email from John at fusionlink the place is going to be packed out. They have hit 100 RSVPs for this meeting so far and the space has 140 seats.

Remember, to pass the word around to friends and co-workers. If you are in one of the local schools, please pass the word along to students and faculty. A few minutes of your time can help drive the attendance even higher. Please RSVP on the site.

There are several door prizes that will be given away. Including: - a copy of Flex 3 (to be fulfilled after the launch of the product) - a copy of CS3 Web Premium - an iPod Nano - one FREE Pass to this year's CFUnited Conference - Two FREE Passes to the 360|Flex Conference in Atlanta (Feb 25-28) - and special Flex branded items

Bummer! The undisputed heavy weight champion of the ColdFusion world - Ben Forta - is live in Atlanta tonight giving demos of Scorpio .... and I am missing the show. However, between the live Acrobat Connect sessions that Adobe has been publishing and the 2007 MAX conference in Chicago, I am sure there will be plenty of information coming down the pipeline very soon.

Btw ~ Rumor has it that Scorpio will be on Adobe Labs around the end of this month!

With a re-newed interest in ActionScript and the technologies surrounding the Adobe Flash Player, I am soaking up every ounce of information that I can find. Although, I am in the midnight trenches right now cranking through  the FLEX 2.0 Training from the Source book, (will post a review at halfway point and end of book) I also have lunch breaks and other times where I can slam dunk a simple tutorial or learning module. One of the most interesting resources that I have found is the site forThe Silicon Valley Flex User Group. Using the power of Adobe Acrobat Connect, they are doing a great job of recording the meetings for playback. They are publishing a revolving 6-part series that will help you get started with Flex if you are new to the game! Here you can learn from some of the best in the business straight from the Adobe offices in San Francisco, CA.

Session 1: Flex Builder Tour, Using Base Components, Extending Components, Custom Components, Forms in Flex vs HTML/CFML, and more.
November 9, 2006 - Recorded Link:http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/p35665420/

Session 2: Debugger, HTTP/XML requests and more
December 14, 2006 - Recorded Link: http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/p49518575/

Session 3: Web Services (really this time!) and Events
January 11, 2007 - Recorded Link:http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/p62405098/

Session 4: Effects, States and runtime CSS
February 8, 2007 - > Recorded Link: http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/p69494882/

Bonus Session: Ted Patrick on Events
February 8, 2007 - > Recorded Link: http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/p51693102/