Viewing by month: November 2008

December Meeting: Laura Arguello & Nahuel Foronda

Our next meeting is one week from today, on Friday, December 5th, and we have another great evening of Flex learning in store for attendees. We are very excited to announce that our presenters will be Laura Arguello and Nahuel Foronda, the experts from AsFusion and authors of the Mate (pronounced "Ma-tay") Flex framework.

Laura and Nahuel will be presenting on developing Flex applications using Mate, which is a tag-based, event-driven framework. Mate has been rapidly growing in popularity among Flex developers, and is frequently praised as being a very approachable, easy to learn framework that is also very flexible and powerful.

If time allows, there will be a hands-on portion on the agenda, so please bring a laptop with Flex Builder installed if you wish to participate (we do have a few configured workstations available in the meeting room as well). We hope to see you all there!

Web Directions North Conference

Any CFUG members who are interested in advancing their knowledge of web design and development outside the realm of ColdFusion may want to attend the Web Directions North conference held this upcoming February in Denver, Colorado. They look to have an interesting lineup of prominent speakers from the industry, and offer both hands-on workshops as well as sessions of interest to both designers and developers, followed by a group ski trip to Breckenridge.

Kalen Gibbons Flex Workshop Online

Kalen has posted a great tutorial online about his flex workshop he did this month at our CFUG.  The meeting was great and Kalen had great materials.  You can now find his resources in our resources page.

If you are just starting with Flex, give his tutorials a shot!!

Flex Workshop Tomorrow!

Our next meeting is tomorrow, November 7th -- as previously announced, the main event is a beginner's Flex workshop led by Kalen Gibbons. We asked Kalen to write a brief bio to introduce himself:

I've been working with ColdFusion since 2004, although only part-time; mostly doing consulting jobs for supplemental income while making my way through college. I graduated Magna Cum Laude from Cal Poly Pomona last June with a degree in Computer Information Systems. At that time I started working at ESRI, where I've had the opportunity to work with ColdFusion and Flex more extensively. I'm passionate about programming and I hope to never stop learning and advancing my skills. That's why I feel blessed to be able to work every day with the technologies that I love.

We've also got a couple of updates:

First, barring unexpected difficulties, it looks like we will be able to provide a few workstations with Flex Builder installed (this is a requirement for the workshop). Please do bring a configured laptop if you are able to do so, but if this is not possible then you should still be able to participate. Anyone who does not want to join in on the hands-on portion is also welcome, of course -- come and watch, if you prefer.

Finally, the big software raffle just got a little more interesting. We're giving away a copy of the just-released CS4 suite(!), and we've decided to let the lucky winner choose which Premium edition they would like to receive. That's right folks, if you are the fortunate victor you will be awarded your choice of CS4 Design Premium, Production Premium or Web Premium!