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The Silicon Valley Flex User Group was founded in April 2006, during Flex 2 Public Beta 2.
We are over 474 members strong. We are in full swing with a monthly meeting (average size of 30 people) and active Yahoo! group. We will be meeting on the second Thursday of the month at alternating locations.
If you would like to join, help out, or sponsor us, please
visit: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/silvafug/
or contact User Group Manager, Tom Ortega.
Member Blogs:
Tom Ortega - http://lordbron.wordpress.com
Jen Larkin - http://www.blivit.org/blog/
Tariq Ahmed - DOPEJAM | CFLEX |
Sith Sigma | Flex In Action
Ted Patrick - http://www.onflex.org/ted/
Matt Chotin - http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mchotin
Sean Corfield - http://corfield.org/blog/index.cfm?
Brendan Meutzner - http://www.meutzner.com/blog/
Doug McCune - http://dougmccune.com/blog/
Ali Mills & Luke Bayes - http://www.asserttrue.com/
H. Paul Robertson - http://probertson.com/
Todd Rothe - http://toddrothe.com
Josh Tynjala - http://joshblog.net/
Esrians - http://blogs.esria.com/
360|Flex Indy - May 18 - 20, 2009
If you're serious about Flex, then you NEED to come to this event!
360|Flex is a 3-day event where you can get 40+ session on Flex, AIR and ActionScript!
Click here to find out more.
Twenty-Sixth Meeting!
When:
Thursday, December 11th 2008
Training - 6:30 pm to 7:30 pm
Year End Party - 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm
Where:
Location:
Kojak Room
Adobe Systems Incorporated
601 Townsend Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/maps/sf_map.html
Connect URL:
http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/silvafug/
Here's the meeting announcement:
Training - Open Topic
Bring your hard hitting questions and Tom will try to show you how to do them. He may not know it all, but he'll teach you what he can.
Other Details - Hoiday Party:
We'll continue our tradition of having a year end party. This will be one extended social hour to catch up with everyone and have people show us what they're working on. Please bring a new, unwrapped toy for a child to be donated to Toys for Tots.
Pizza and drinks will be provided by Esria, the offical "Food and Drink Gods" of Silvafug. While the holiday treats will be provided by Rick Carnal via his employer, Universal Mind.
RSVP fugrsvp@gmail.com
Free Flex Training - Sessions Series I:
Beginner Series - This will be a revolving 6-part series. We'll redo the 6 parts over and over, getting better each time.
Session 1: Flex Builder Tour, Using Base Components, Extending Components, Custom Components, Forms in Flex vs HTML/CFML, and more.
November 9, 2006 - Playback Link: http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/p35665420/
Session 2: Debugger, HTTP/XML requests and more
December 14, 2006 - Playback Link: http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/p49518575/
Session 3: Web Services (really this time!) and Events
January 11, 2007 - Playback Link: http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/p62405098/
Session 4: Effects, States and runtime CSS
February 8, 2007 - > Playback Link: http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/p69494882/
Free Flex Training - Sessions Series II:
Beginner Series - This is our second pass through the series. Hopefully this series will be smoother and better than the series I, but sill have the same general topics.
Session 1: Just the Basics - Flex Builder, MXML, ActionScript and basic programming concepts. This session is good for those coming to Flex from HTML, CF or with no programming skills. Java Developers and Eclipse users may find this session too basic and boring.
April 12, 2007 - Playback Link: http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/p52237644/
Session 2: Custom Components - It will cover some basic concepts about custom components, both MXML and ActionScript varieties. You'll learn how to make simple to medium level custom components in this two hour session. If you want to learn about components and find out what they are, this is for you.
May 10, 2007 - Playback Link: http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/p43983013/
Session 3: Charting Basics - It will cover some basic concepts about charting and explore some of the built-in charting options.
June 14, 2007 - Playback Link: http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/p12713466/
Session 4: Flex Component Kit for Flash CS3 - It will cover how to create a component in Flash CS3 and then bring it into a Flex Project.
July 12, 2007 - Meeting Link: http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/p44852420/
Free Flex Traning - Advanced Sessions:
Silvafug Speaker Series - This will be an evolving series. When speaker of Silvafug speak on advanced topics, I'll post the connect recordings here.
Ted Patrick on Events
February 8, 2007 - > Playback Link: http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/p51693102/
Doug McCune on Custom Components
May 10, 2007 -> Playback Link: http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/p91877802/
Brendan Meutzner on Advanced Charting
June 14, 2007 -> Playback Link: http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/p91762371/
Alan Musselman on Fireworks CS3
September 13, 2007 -> Playback Link: http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/p31528397/
Grant Straker on Moving ZoomFlex from homegrown framework to Cairngorm
October 11, 2007 -> Playback Link: http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/p49294102/
Ali Mills and Luke Bayes on Flex Frameworks
October 11, 2007 -> Playback Link: http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/p12266504/
Jeremy Olsen on Automated Testing
November 8th, 2007 -> Playback Link: http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/p85557655/
Clint Modien on Unit Testing with AIRRunner
November 8th, 2007 -> Playback Link: http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/p10792968/
