Upcoming Events

• Have you developed any interesting or cool applications lately? Interested in sharing with your local San Diego developer community. Please contact us if you'd like to present at our next user group meeting.

Announcements

• Adobe releases ColdFusion 9
• Adobe releases LiveCycle Enterprise Suite 2 (ES2) plus two new companion LiveCycle products
  • Adobe LiveCycle Mosaic ES2
  • Adobe LiveCycle Collaboration Service
• Recommeded MAX Sessions you might have missed:
  • Model-Driven Development using FB4 and LiveCycle Data Services by Christophe Coenraets'
  • Flex for Mobile Devices by Ely Greenfield and Greg Burch
  • Advanced ColdFusion Caching Strategies by Rob Brooks-Bilson
  • ColdFusion for Java Developers by Mark Mandel
  • How not to code Flex by Jeff Tapper
  • Building Applications for iPhone with Flash Professional CS5 by Aditya Bansod

Tips, Tricks and Other Good Stuff

• All Adobe MAX Winners. Some favorites:
  • Piano Marvel by Rain
  • The Moon by Domani Studios
• FlexMeetup.com is looking for speakers
• Chris Griffith, the Co-Manager of our very own San Diego Flash User Group, developed the mobileMAX schedule application that was used by many at the show. Nice work!
• Is Microsoft interested in Adobe AIR?

Upcoming Event

• Topic: Adobe MAX 2009
• When: October 4 - 7, 2009
• Where: Los Angeles, CA
• Agenda: MAX 2009 will bring together thousands of designers, developers, and decision-makers to shape the future.

Announcements

• New Adobe TV Launched
• Adobe acquires Omniture for $1.8B
• Flex PMD in Adobe Labs for improving AS3/Flex code quality

Tips, Tricks and Other Good Stuff

• AXIIS -Open source data visualization for Flex
• Flash and Flex Developer’s Magazine - one of few magazines that target Flash and Flex development. It offers tutorials, product reviews, and articles from the industry’s talent. Recently, this up and coming magazine subscription has gone digital and completely FREE!
• Google Fast Flip - a new way to read news on the web

http://tv.adobe.com

It’s the first website in the world to deploy a video player built with the Adobe Open Source Media Framework (aka Strobe), and one of the first sites built using Adobe ColdFusion 9.

We have all seen the demos...Design in Photoshop, Illustrator or Fireworks and work with those designs in Catalyst and *poof* instant Flex application. But what if your application is extremely customized, or you need to develop and design at the same time? Doug Winnie (http://adobe.dougwinnie.com/), Group Product Manager for Web Tools and Workflow along with James Polanco and Aaron Pedersen, Architects and Founders of DevelopmentArc (http://www.developmentarc.com/) will discuss an alternate workflow using Catalyst from a different perspective, and will also show how that process has worked with a new Adobe project codenamed "Cascade".

Date: Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Time: 5:00 pm PST

Connect URL: http://experts.na3.acrobat.com/kcwebcore

Adobe MAX 2009 is in Los Angeles this year and is only six weeks away! Register here.

Upcoming Event

• Topic: 2009 Cloud Computing Conference
• Presenters:
  • John Igoe, Director of Advanced Service Technology, Dell's Services Organization
  • Ned Curic, Principal Platform Strategist, Microsoft
  • Peter Coffee, Director of Platform Research, salesforce.com
  • Alyssa Henry, Director of Amazon Web Services, Amazon.com
• When: Wednesday, September 9,, 2009, 7:00 am - 3:00 pm
• Where: Marriott - Del Mar, 11966 El Camino Real, San Diego, CA 92130
• Agenda: Join your fellow IT and technology professionals for San Diego's premier cloud computing event.

Announcements

• Adobe Flex 3.4 SDK released
• $10 off all Kelby live training seminars, DVDs, and online training
• ColdFusion 9 Sessions at Adobe Max 2009
• LiveCycle@MAX bundle for enterprise developers combines 1.5 days of introductory preconference training on LiveCycle ES (Enterprise Suite) with a full conference pass to MAX 2009

Tips, Tricks and Other Good Stuff

• Some amazing RIA applications:
  • Aviary - on-line image editor
  • FlashMoto - Flash CMS
  • Creately - Online Diagramming & Design
  • Konductor - CMS
  • Yooba - Flash CMS
• ColdFusion Resources for Beginners
• Flex Resources for Beginners provided by the Silicon Valley Flex User Group
• Adobe Posters as pdf for Flex, AIR, and AS3

Hope you can make it! Just think, you can relax at home, have a beer, and talk code...:-)

Date: Thursday, August 20, 2009
Time: 6:00 p.m.
Connect: http://experts.na3.acrobat.com/r48458810/
Dial-In Number: 1-219-509-8111
Conference Code: 988478

We will be featuring our first strictly on-line monthly meeting.  We're testing this format out to see if it will increase attendance.  It has always been a challenge to have a central meeting place that's convenient for all users since San Diego is such a large geographical area.  Rob will be sending out the Connect URL shortly. 

Also, please not that the meeting has been moved to Thursday, April 20th, from 6:00 - 8:00 pm.  Rob and I look forward to chatting with you all then.

Darius

Upcoming Event

• InsideMobile Conference - Wednesday, August 12, 2009, 10:00 am.  Learn how to use Flex and AIR with LiveCycle Data Services and ColdFusion. We will demonstrate using LCDS and BlazeDS’s powerful Data Management and Messaging features to push data into our Flex application from both databases and other unusual sources available to ColdFusion in real time. This session will focus on ActionScript and ColdFusion programming, so some experience in both of these is assumed. We will also extensively go through the configuration of these services from the ground up.

Announcements

• Adobe ColdFusion 9 Beta (formerly Centaur) released
• Adobe ColdFusion Builder Beta released as eclipse-based IDE for building ColdFusion applications
• Adobe Flex 4 SDK released
• Adobe relases three new Solution Accelerators for LiveCycle ES
• Adobe Stratus released as Peer to Peer (P2P) applicaiton development model
• Adobe Flash Platform Blog released
• Adobe PatchPanel Technology released as a new way to easily create Actionscript / Flex apps that can deeply control the Creative Suite products.
• Adobe Wave released as a new way to get all your notifications from a single application.
• Cairngorm Plug-in for Flex Builder 3
• Google releases Map API for Flash with 3D perspective.

Tips, Tricks and Other Good Stuff

• Using hprof with Coldfusion to troubleshoot slow code issues
• Mercator.swc for creating geo apps in Flash/Flex that don't need to have data reloaded.
• Enterprise Flex Security best practices
• Gartner Report on ColdFusion 8
• tLearn Object Oriented ColdFusion on this new site
• Augmented Reality with Ben Forta

Start your downloads here: http://labs.adobe.com/

This coming Monday (July 13) at noon US EDT we’ll be having an extra special session of the online CF Meetup (coldfusionmeetup.com), where Adobe has offered to host a special two-hour session, “Centaur and Bolt Uncensored", the Ultimate Centaur/Bolt User Group Tour event, with Terry Ryan of Adobe.

More at http://www.meetup.com/coldfusionmeetup/calendar/10841349/

Here’s the most significant part of the description, but there’s more info there:

“…while Adobe has been doing Centaur/Bolt user group tour event over the past few weeks, at each meeting they’ve shared more and different things. This event will be the capstone tour event, revealing all the features shared to this point, and more. Adobe ColdFusion Evangelist Terry Ryan assures me that nothing will be held back as he talks about both Centaur and Bolt.

WHEN:  July 8 - 10:00am PT (Los Angeles) / 1:00pm ET (New York)

CONNECT URL: http://experts.na3.acrobat.com/techweds2009/

So the Flex SDK is open source now, but what does that mean to you? You are a Flex developer but you have never even looked at the code powering the Flex SDK.  This session is focused on Flex veterans as well as beginners who want to get their hands dirty with the inner workings of the Flex SDK. This session will equip you with the knowledge to get started developing for the Flex framework itself.

We will cover the following topics:
- Resources to learn about the inner workings of the Flex SDK (Coding Conventions, Specs, etc...)
- Subversion, ANT, Mustella... What they are, and how they are used with the Flex SDK.
- Obtaining the Flex SDK source code.
- Setting up Flex Builder for working with the Flex SDK.
- Common pitfalls when getting set up.
- Finding bugs to fix
- How to run check-in tests.
- How to submit a patch, creating diff files.
- Getting involved in the community.. BugQuash, reviewing patches, spring cleaning the bug system.

This session will be presented by Nate Beck, one of the creators of BugQuash. Nate is an active member the Flex community, and has first-hand knowledge of the excitement and addiction that is contributing to the Flex SDK.

Upcoming Meetings

• NO USER GROUP MEETING FOR JULY!! See you in August.
• InsideMobile Conference - Monday, July 26 & 27, 2009, San Jose, CA.  Get the basics of developing on major mobile platforms such as iPhone, Blackberry, Windows Mobile, Android, Palm webOS, and Symbian

Announcements

• RTMP Specification is now open-source.
• First Android phone with Flash Support - HTC Hero
• O’Reilly InsideRIA - Overview of Flex 4 (Gumbo)

Tips, Tricks and Other Good Stuff

• New ColdFusion Local Scope
• Top 10 Changes in Flex 4
• ESRI - Sample Flex Viewer is on Tour de Flex
• Installing and Configuring A Subversion(SVN) Server on Win2003
• AS3Commons Project released - creating and maintaining reusable ActionScript? 3.0 components.
• Flash Builder 4 demo - Dashboard with Google App Engine

The June 15th meeting of the San Diego Adobe Developers User Group will be held at the offices of Intuit. Because Intuit is a secure facility, all attendees will need to RSVP no later than Thursday, June 11 in order to receive a badge and be admitted to the building for the meeting. If you plan to attend, please go to the Adobe Groups page for SDADUG and RSVP for the event.

Announcements

• Tour de Flex - Tour de Flex is an AIR desktop application for exploring Flex capabilities and resources, including the core Flex components, Adobe AIR, data integration, and a variety of third-party components, effects, skins, and more.
• Tour de LiveCycle - An AIR desktop application designed by the Adobe Evangelist team to serve as both an introduction to Adobe LiveCycle ES and an extensive reference tool.
• Adobe Max 2009 - Early Bird Registration.
• Submit your great applications for an Adobe Max Award. The contest opened on May 26th and will close on July 31st.
• New from Acrobat.com Labs, Presentations -- Create presentations right from your browser.
• 16th Annual Southwest Computer Conference - Town & Country Resort and Conference Center, San Diego

Tips, Tricks and Other Good Stuff

• ColdFusion Content Management Systems and E-Commerce Enabling Solutions
• Flash and Flex Developers Magazine - A great resource for Flash and Flex developers.
• HexoSearch - The world's first search engine dedicated to ActionScript.
• Regular Expression Library - A library of over 2520 regular expressions.
• If you ever wanted to know one of the reasons OO programming was developed, read this fascinating article regarding OO programming from the inventor of C++, Bjarne Stroustrup.