RIA Development with Adobe Flex and Flash

Join us at the Atlanta Adobe® Flex User Group meeting this Wednesday night at the echoEleven offices - Adobe Authorized Training in Atlanta, Georgia. Below is a summary of the topics and speakers, but you can find out more detail at the Atlanta Flex User Group Meetup site.

Alan Queen on Dynamic Audio with Adobe® Flex/Flash/Air

We’ll explore the new capabilities for audio in Flash player 10 and discuss how these new features can be leveraged to create everything from music synthesizers to full blown multi-track audio sequencers.
We’ll also take a deep dive into the code on how to draw audio waveforms, and how to play and mix multiple audio streams in real time.

Kenny Bunch on Building Media and Video Applications.

We will explore some of the potential entertainment based applications that can be built with the Flash player. The exploration will utilize samples from Playstation, Adult Swim, and others as a basis for discussion. In addition, we’ll take a look at how the Dreamsocket Media Framework provides a foundation for delivering these types of apps.

The Adobe User Group of Atlanta February 2009 Meeting
Ann Fracas and Phil Lee present Adobe Acrobat Tips and Tricks

About This Meeting:

Feb. 19, 2009 - Learn how easy it is to streamline your paper-based business processes and transform piles of paperwork into secure, productive, interactive electronic forms. Some of the topics that will be covered include the following:

• Reduce Paper
• Reduce Travel
• Improve Processes
• Decrease risk
• Secure your Intellectual Property
• “I didn’t know Acrobat could do that!”

Who Should Attend:

• Adobe Creative Suite 3 and 4 Users
• Adobe Acrobat 9 Users
• People Who Create and Manage Documents
• InDesign Users Going Digital
• and anyone who uses Adobe Software

About The Presenters:

Ann Fracas:
Ann is an Acrobat Specialist for Adobe Systems, Inc. working with accounts to leverage existing Acrobat products, understanding the advantages of the new features, maximizing the licensing options, and strategically grow the footprint of Acrobat within the account to help businesses reduce risk, improve processes, react to market changes more quickly, and impact their bottom line.

Phil Lee:
Phil is an Acrobat Specialist for Adobe Systems, Inc. working with accounts to leverage existing Acrobat products, understanding the advantages of the new features, maximizing the licensing options, and strategically grow the footprint of Acrobat within the account to help businesses reduce risk, improve processes, react to market changes more quickly, and impact their bottom line.

More info at the Adobe User Group Atlanta Website

Feb 18, 2009 Meeting Details
Date: Web., Feb 18, 2009
Pizza & Schmoozing: 6:00 PM
Meeting Time: 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM
Location: EchoEleven Offices
Dress: Anywhere from casual to business formal
Price: FREE!
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Extending Flex 3 Components
Presented by Matt Boles

Start your learning of how to customize both functionality and appearance of built-in components through this session.  You will see now to manually add objects to the display list, as well as how to override built in methods to alter component functionality.

Concurrency Approaches in Flex and Air
Presented by Charlie Hubbard

As the Flex platform matures, our ability to write more complex programs increases.  As complexity increases, so does the need for long running computations.  Technologies like Air force us to solve these problems without the aid of a server.  While Flash, on the surface, seems to be missing things like threads to solve running concurrent jobs there are techniques for handling this.  In this talk we’ll explore those techniques for handling long running computations on the Flash platform.  We’ll look at classic computational problems such as fractals, and more common place problems like parsing large XML and JSON data in Actionscript, and Search Engine Optimization SEO Strategies .  We’ll also talk about the future possibilities for Actionscript in this area.

About the Speakers:

Matt Boles is the Technical Lead for the Adobe Partner Enablement group and has been developing and teaching courses on Flex since the 1.0 release. Matt has a diverse background in web development, computer networking, and teaching in both professional computer classes and the public schools. He coauthored the Flex Training from the Source books for both Flex 2 and Flex 3, and was also a coauthor on the Certified ColdFusion Developer Study Guide. He has also developed official Allaire/Macromedia/Adobe curricula in the Flex, ColdFusion and Flash development content areas.

Charlie Hubbard is a 10+ year veteran of the software industry, blogger, open source project contributor and project creator.  His days are filled as a Senior Software Engineer at Nexidia working on a grid based approach for searching audio.  In his free time he enjoys working with Ruby, Java, Flex, Javascript, and has been known to make a film every once in a while.  Charlie and his wife live and work in Atlanta.
Atlanta Flash/Flex User GroupThe Atlanta Flash and Flex User Group is a non-profit organization gear to increasing the awareness and development of Adobe’s Flash, Flex and AIR product lines. We are an official Adobe User Group and are also one of the first Flex user groups worldwide. Our monthly meetings are on the third Wednesday of every month, and membership is FREE!

Benefits of being a member:
- MAX Conference Discounts
- Flexmanic Conference Discounts
- Flex|360 Conference Discounts
- Certification Discounts
- Free software giveaways
- Free and/or discounted books
- Door prizes

Resources:
- Discussion List

Miss the local Atlanta ColdFusion User Group meeting last week? No worries, you can check out the Acrobat Connect recorded session online at: Document-driven Applications with Adobe ColdFusion 8 and PDF - Josh Adams

Come on out and support the Atlanta ColdFusion User Group meeting. Josh Adams is a great presenter and ColdFusion Engineer at Adobe Systems and an all-around nice guy.

Tonight’s session topic will be on Document-driven Applications with ColdFusion & PDF! This will be a great time to visit of you have not yet been to a CFUG meeting in the Atlanta area. For more info and RSVP, check out the local CFUG website.

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