Tampa Flash, Flex and AIR Developers Group

Tampa Bay Adobe Developer Event this Thursday!

GWilson — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 23:20:13 +0000

James Ward and Christophe Coenraets are in Tampa this week working with me on some big plans for 2010 and we thought it would be great to put together an informal event for the local Tampa bay developer community:

When: Thursday, Jan 21 6:30pm-8:30pm
Location: Taverna Opa Tampa - Channelside - next to Splitsville - http://tavernaopatampa.com/info.html
Map: http://bit.ly/5kF4aR (Google Maps)

No slides and no presentations - just informal chat/Q&A

IMPORTANT PART –> Beer is on James, Christophe and me for the first hour! How can you resist now?!

Between the 3 of us and some of our local friends, we can answer questions on a wide variety of topics:

General questions about Flex, AIR, LiveCycle Data Services, BlazeDS, ColdFusion and more
Connecting applications built on the flash platform (Flex, AIR, etc.) to backend systems such as .NET, Java, PHP, ColdFusion, etc.
What’s new in LiveCycle data services 3.0
What’s new in ColdFusion 9 and ColdFusion Builder
What’s coming in Flex 4, AIR 2.0 and Flash Player 10.1
Everything you wanted to know about Augmented Reality
How to compute the volume of a cone and other mathematical puzzles (just making sure you are still reading )
What’s the deal with the announcement last October about Flash and iPhone?

Bring your developer friends!

Thanks!

Greg Wilson
Adobe Systems, Inc.
http://gregsramblings.com
http://twitter.com/gregorywilson

Flash Camp Orlando - Friday, May 29th 2009 - BE THERE!

GWilson — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 22:33:57 +0000

The folks at Universal Mind are putting together the next Flash Camp and it’s going to be in Orlando! Registration is discounted for the next 28 hours. Go to http://www.flashcamporlando.com/ for more details and to sign up.

We’re working on a killer speaker and topic list. Our last Tampa meeting had over 60 attendees. I’m hoping most of you can join us in Orlando. It’s an all-day flash/flex/AIR fest

Final Agenda for Wednesday Night 3/4/09 meeting

GWilson — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 02:00:54 +0000

This is going to be a good one. Agenda:

6:00pm - 6:10pm - Greg Wilson, Adobe Evangelist - Kickoff and Introductions
6:10pm - 6:40pm - Ben Forta, Adobe Director of Evangelism - MAX Recap and CF News/Update
6:40pm - 7:10pm - Kevin Hoyt, Adobe Evangelist - Building desktop apps using Adobe AIR and HTML/JS
7:10pm - 7:40pm - Kevin Hoyt continues - Thinking outside the box - Fun with Flex and Hardware (cool stuff)
7:40pm - 7:50pm - Break
7:50pm - 8:20pm - Jeremy Grelle, SpringSource - building Spring-powered Flex applications - a MUST SEE for Java developers (more topic info here)
8:20pm - 8:45pm - Q&A and giveaways!

We plan to start promptly at 6pm, so be there! There is no cost to attend, but an RSVP is requested to rsvp@tffadg.com.

Directions / Map - http://tinyurl.com/aitampamap

Jeremy Grelle, SpringSource joining us next week…

GWilson — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 03:47:16 +0000

Jeremy Grelle, Senior Software Engineer at SpringSource and technical lead of the Spring BlazeDS Integration project will be talking about building Spring-powered Flex applications at next week’s meeting. Jeremy is a frequent conference speaker and noted expert on building next-generation Java web applications with Spring. Christophe Coenraets, fellow evangelist, recently blogged about this in detail and did a segment on Adobe TV about it.

So, we have quite the lineup and something for everyone! Ben Forta, Kevin Hoyt and now Jeremy Grelle. Basically, this means that I can just sit back and relax instead of presenting. Woot!

See ya in a week!

Greg Wilson

TFFADG March 4th Meeting - Final Details

GWilson — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:27:28 +0000

The second meeting of the Tampa Flash, Flex and AIR Developers Group will be held on Wednesday, March 4th, 2009 at 6pm in the Atrium of the Art Institutes of Tampa. The Art Institutes of Tampa is located at 4401 N. Himes Avenue, Tampa, Florida.

Google Map: http://tinyurl.com/aitampamap

From Greg Wilson, Adobe Evangelist:

Speakers:

I am happy to announce that Ben Forta, Director of Platform Evangelism (and my boss!) will be speaking at this event. Anyone that has traveled with Ben quickly discovers that he is practically a celebrity, especially in the ColdFusion world… so… we’ve also invited the local Tampa ColdFusion User Group to join us!

Also joining us will be Kevin Hoyt, Adobe technical evangelist extraordinaire. Kevin is a very frequent speaker on multiple topics including AJAX, Flex, AIR and many other topics. You’re guaranteed to see something cool from Kevin.

Between the three of us, we plan to cover a lot of topics, including the following:

Flash 10 - what’s new, what’s cool
ColdFusion Future Sneak Peek
Flex 3.2
Flex 4 preview
Catalyst (formerly Thermo) preview
AIR 1.5
Connecting your Flex/AIR applications to the backend
LiveCycle Data Services
BlazeDS
BlazeDS and Spring Integration
Much much more

We plan to start promptly at 6pm, so be there! There is no cost to attend, but an RSVP is requested to rsvp@tffadg.com. For more information, please visit www.tffadg.com.

See you there!

Greg Wilson, Adobe Flash Platform Evangelist
http://GregsRamblings.com

Flex Camp Miami, March 6th

jdesetto — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 16:27:36 +0000

Flex Camp Miami will be on March 6 and is a full day event with some of the top names in the Flex community and it is only $30 for the entire day with lunch included. The web site with the agenda and registration information is at www.flexcampmiami.com.

The Tampa Flash Flash AIR Developers Group has also been offered an additional $10 off the registration for this event. Use event code TampaFlex when registering. This code expires next Friday, February 27th, so sign up soon. Discounted hotel information for attendees coming soon.

TFFADG March 4th Meeting

jdesetto — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 22:20:29 +0000

Google Map: http://tinyurl.com/aitampamap

Greg Wilson, Sr. Technical Evangelist for Adobe, will recap the Adobe MAX Conference, held recently in San Francisco, highlighting Flex 4, Flash Catalyst, and more.

Like our first meeting, Greg will give a high level talk appropriate to developers currently working with Adobe technologies, those that are working in competing technologies, and business managers with application and new media development responsibilities.

There is no cost to attend, but an RSVP is requested to rsvp@tffadg.com. For more information, please visit www.tffadg.com.

1/22 Meeting Postponed; Multiple Speakers Booked

jdesetto — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 21:50:37 +0000

The Tampa Flash Flex AIR Developers Group meeting scheduled for Thursday, January 22nd, has been postponed.

Stay tuned for details of the new time and date, as we are currently planning an expanded format that will feature multiple speakers and, by popular demand, a larger venue to showcase all the newest technologies from Adobe.

FLEX Job Opportunity

scarey — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 13:06:27 +0000

It has been brought to my attention that Sunshine Learning Systems is looking for a senior Flex developer. Below is the description and contact info:

I have an immediate need for at least 1 senior FLEX developer for the next 2 months (possibly much more).

I am in Tampa right now and would be happy to interview any candidates for these opportunities. The applications we are working on are all Mapping applications on top of web services. Many different industries. Here is my info:

Name: Keith Hardwicke
Company: Sunshine Learning Systems
Position: Executive Project Manager
Phone: 650-488-4389

Quick Survey

scarey — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 21:18:05 +0000

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