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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://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/
360|Flex Conference
If you're serious about Flex, then you NEED to come to this conference!
360|Flex is a 3-day conference where all the best from the Flex community come to share the knowledge. Over 30+ Flex sessions, plus free hands-on training for a mere $480!
The next one is August 17 to 20, 2008 in San Jose, CA. This will be at eBay's beautiful North Campus. Click here to find out more.
Twenty-First Meeting!
When:
Thursday, May 8th 2008
Free Flex Training - 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm
Pizza - 7:30 pm to 8:00 pm
Silvafug Meeting - 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Where:
eBay Building 11
2161 North First St
San Jose, CA 95131
Directions: http://tinyurl.com/5gkcxr
Connect URL:
http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/r61254436/
Here's the meeting announcement:
Sorry for the late notice!
For the training portion, we have some AIR goodness. H. Paul Robertson will provide a a 2 hour hands-on session. He will wrap up his "AIR Windows, Menus, and the System Tray" training that he began last week. Come get your AIR training on!
For our speaker, we have:
Integrating Flex with Java using JBoss Seam
Felipe Albertao and Darius Zagrean
JBoss Seam is a fantastic open source Internet framework for Java. We
will provide a quick intro to Seam, and then we will explain how easy
it is to integrate Flex using Exadel Flamingo (the "glue" between Flex
and Seam).
Even though Seam is Java-based, the talk will be primarily about Flex
and remote calls. If you are not a Java developer but are considering
back-end framework alternatives for Flex, this talk is for you. If you
are a Java developer and and looking for a solution to integrate Flex
with J2EE or EJB, this talk is for you too.
Felipe and Darius work together at Boulevard R, a
startup that has developed an online process to create actionable,
unbiased financial plans prepared by experts. Their talk is directly
drawn from their own experience at Boulevard R, where they use this
same set of technologies.
RSVP for the training and/or the meeting at fugrsvp@gmail.com
Pizza and drinks will be provided by Esria, the offical "Food and Drink Gods" of Silvafug.
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/
