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August 2010 Meeting

August 13th, 2010

Meeting Date: August 25, 2010 from 7:00pm-8:00p,

Meet us at UAT (http://www.gotoandstop.org/?page_id=9) from 6:30 to 6:55 in time for seating and networking.

Meeting Summary

Jeremy Heckathorn will be going over OSMF (Open Source Media Framework), building a media player, what OSMF can do and the meaning of the word “plugins” in OSMF.

Mark the date on your calendar. More info will be made available before the meeting. We may be having this one earlier since AZCFug will not be meeting that day so be sure to check back.

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April 2010 Meeting: Flash Builder Release Party

April 19th, 2010

Meeting Date: April 28, 2010 from 7:00pm-9:00p,

Meet us at UAT (http://www.gotoandstop.org/?page_id=9) from 6:30 to 6:55 in time for seating and networking.

Meeting Summary

Join us for a special Flash Builder Release Party. We will be showing
off some of the latest features and giving away a copy or two of Flash
Builder. We will have a special speaker and more details in the up and
coming days.

Mark the date on your calendar. You don’t want to miss this one!
You have to be present to win the software.

Pizza and drinks will be provided.

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February 2010: Shutterfly – Integrating Java and Flash

February 17th, 2010

Meeting Date: February 24, 2010 from 8:00pm-9:00p,

Meet us at UAT (http://www.gotoandstop.org/?page_id=9) from 7:30 to 7:55 in time for seating and networking.

Meeting Summary

Learn how Shutterfly has combined Java and Flash technologies into a system that leverages the best qualities of both environments. This presentation will provide a comparison of the platforms’ strengths and weaknesses, the ‘what’ and ‘why’ of our highly-scalable integration approach, and the development practices that delivered a project to serve 20 million users and multiple petabytes of images efficiently.

Presenters: Guru Hariharan, Stephen Kuenzli, Paul Shannon and Lukas Ruebbelke

About the Presenters:

Guru Hariharan is the Sr Director of the Photobooks division and
the Head of the Phoenix Development Center for Shutterfly.com (SFLY).
Prior to SFLY, Guru worked at Amazon.com (AMZN). His most recent
assignment at Amazon was the manager of the Amazon WebStore business.

Prior to WebStore, Guru worked with multiple organizations at Amazon
including demand generation for Amazon Services, World Wide supply
chain and retail buying and pricing systems. Guru holds 5 patents in
ecommerce. Guru is also a social entrepreneur and runs an online free
trade marketplace, EqualCraft.com. Guru has a Master’s degree in
computer engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.

Stephen Kuenzli is a Photobooks Team Lead at Shutterfly, Inc and is responsible for the design, implementation, and delivery of the Simple Path photobook creation software. Stephen has been integrating Java applications with the rest of the world for 9 years and has worked in the e-commerce, financial, logistics, and semi-conductor industries.

Paul Shannon is a Senior Application Engineer at Shutterfly, Inc and
has played an integral part in the success of uploader projects on the
Client Team. He has applied his broad base of technical skills &
experience in a number of capacities, from leveraging his mathematics
background to substantially reducing imaging algorithm processing
times and consulting on the design of other projects.

Lukas Ruebbelke is a Senior Software Engineer at Shutterfly, Inc. He
has been developing Flash and Flex applications for seven years and
loves the intersection of design and functionality that the Flash
platform offers. He has spent a significant amount of time learning
other disciplines to complement his Flash endeavors such as C#,
ColdFusion, Photoshop, Illustrator, etc. Lukas is a Certified Flash
Developer, Sun Certified Java Programmer and an Enterprise Microsoft
Certified Professional Developer. Lukas is hoping to become a
certified ninja in the near future.

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January 2010: Dependency Injection

January 11th, 2010

Meeting Date: January 27, 2010 from 8:00pm-9:00p,

Meet us at UAT (http://www.gotoandstop.org/?page_id=9) from 7:30 to 7:55 in time for seating and networking.

Meeting Summary

Dependency Injection is the new hawtness in the AS3 world. Everybody is doing it and talking about it and getting it tattooed onto their bodies. But if you have no idea what “DI” means to you or how it could make you a better coder and a better lover then you should come and see how it is done.

Two popular and wonderful frameworks will be discussed that offer DI tools; RobotLegs and Swiz. And once it has been explained that DI can add years to your life (or at least make your code easier to write and test) then some of the OTHER fine patterns and benefits that these two frameworks offer will be discussed.

You know what DI is you say and you use it every day? Good for you! But you don’t know what the difference is between SwizzleLegs and RobotSticks? Wondering why you shouldn’t just keep on using SomeOtherFramework to build every application that you ever work on? If these questions intrigue you then you will benefit from the talk as well!

Bring your thinking caps, laptops and your favorite mxmlc build tool. This is gonna be part presentation and part lab. The best way to learn is to do, screw up, and then fix it. You will leave with the power of Dependency Injection and maybe a little bit of Mediation up your sleeve.

Presenter: Jason Crist – RIA Consultant

About the Presenter:

Jason Crist is a Sr. Awesomeness Engineer for Tickets.com (the maker of the grooviest ticket sales software in the world). He likes to dabble in woodworking and photography and plays the guitar badly. He has been building, breaking and fixing Flash Applications since they decided to allow hacks to stick code in those Flash Movies and has been writing ActionScript in Eclipse longer than any of you. He’s bad at PHP, horrible with .NET and has just enough Java experience to get himself into trouble. He knows the Flash Platform better than your mamma does though.

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Sept ‘09 Meeting: What’s Groovy About Flex & Grails?

September 17th, 2009

Meeting Date: September 23, 2009 from 8:00pm-9:00p,

Meet us at UAT (http://www.gotoandstop.org/?page_id=9) from 7:30 to 7:55 in time for seating and networking.

Meeting Summary

Are you tired of server configurations? Are you tired of mapping web services just to communicate to your Flex app? Are you tired of creating database tables and SQL queries to retrieve information? If so… come out and see how Flex with the Grails Framework might be the perfect solution for you.

During this meeting we will introduce a new way to create RIAs using a RAD framework called “Grails”. Using the Grail’s plugin architecture, we will install the Flex Remoting components, setup a simple database using “GORM”, and build a simple Flex Application to save and retrieve data from the database.

For anyone interested in getting their feet wet on the server side or might be a CF person looking at learning a thing or two about Java, this is the perfect meeting for you. Grails is a “Java” based framework, but you use a language called “Groovy”. Groovy is very similar to Javascript and it is very easy to learn. I recommend this meeting for all levels of Flex, PHP, or CF developers! If you are a Rails person… you might not like it.

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August ‘09 Meeting: A Night with Midnight Coders

July 2nd, 2009

Meeting Date: August 26, 2009 from 8:00pm-9:00p,

Meet us at UAT (http://www.gotoandstop.org/?page_id=9) from 7:30 to 7:55 in time for seating and networking.

Meeting Summary

Session will provide an overview of various techniques and approaches
developers can use in day-to-day activities for Flex and Flash application
development, testing and runtime optimization. You will learn about
ActionScript code generator for remoting and data management use-cases,
learn how to create real-time messaging applications, see a demo of remoting
invocation debugger and AMF traffic visualizer. Finally, you will see a
demonstration of user behavior tracking and analytics in a Flex application.
The session provides a lot of coding samples and API reviews. It is targeted
at a wide range of developers ranging from beginner level to very advanced.
Parts of the presentation will be useful for management folks and they are
welcome to attend as well.

Presenter:

Mark Piller

Mark Piller is the founder and Chief Architect of Midnight Coders, an
innovative and forward-thinking company specializing in products for RIA
development, testing, integration and analytics. Mark has over 15 years of
software development experience. For the past six years he has been
specializing in building software infrastructure products designed to
integrate Flex, Flash, and AJAX applications with a variety of backend
systems, including .NET, Java, PHP, and Ruby on Rails. Mark is very
passionate about ease-of-use of software and prides himself in creating
technologies that clearly demonstrate that quality.

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July ‘09 Meeting: To Be Announced!

July 2nd, 2009

Meeting Date: July 22, 2009 from 8:00pm-9:00p,

Meet us at UAT (http://www.gotoandstop.org/?page_id=9) from 7:30 to 7:55 in time for seating and networking.

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Adobe ColdFusion 9 and FlashBuilder 4 Tour

May 28th, 2009

Meeting Date: June 25, 2009 from 6:30pm – 8:30pm

Meet us at UAT (http://www.gotoandstop.org/?page_id=9).

Meeting Summary

The Adobe ColdFusion team is hitting the road to discuss Centaur, the next version of ColdFusion, and Bolt – code name for the highly anticipated first ColdFusion IDE from Adobe. Learn about exciting new features and discover how Centaur and Bolt will accelerate your ColdFusion application development.

Come learn about the newest features in the Flex 4 framework, Flex Builder 4 and the newest Adobe product — Flash Catalyst. See product feature demos, and learn how the new Flex framework powers both Flash Catalyst and Flex Builder to speed the development and testing of rich Internet applications and content.

Presenter:

Ryan Stewart (http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/)

Please RSVP for this event to (ron-period-haberle-at-gmail-period-com) to receive additional chances to win an Adobe Software Suite.

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May ‘09 Meeting: Flex Component Styling

May 14th, 2009

Meeting Date: May 27th, 2009 at 8:00pm

Meet us at UAT (http://www.gotoandstop.org/?page_id=9) from 7:30 to 7:55 in time for seating and networking.

Meeting Summary

Lukas Ruebbelke will be going through the fundamentals of styling a Flex application. He will cover CSS styling, the Flex Component Kit and Degrafa. The objective of the discussion is to present concrete examples and tips to spare an application from looking like a stock Flex application and really enhance it with a custom look and feel.

Presenter: Lukas Ruebbelke

About the Presenter:

Lukas Ruebbelke is a Senior Software Engineer at Shutterfly.com. He has been developing Flash and Flex applications for seven years and loves the intersection of design and functionality that the Flash platform offers. He has spent a significant amount of time learning other disciplines to complement his Flash endeavors such as C#, ColdFusion, Photoshop, Illustrator, etc. Lukas is a Certified Flash Developer, Sun Certified Java Programmer and an Enterprise Microsoft Certified Professional Developer. Lukas is hoping to become a certified ninja in the near future.

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March ‘09 Meeting: ActionScript 3 Design Patterns

March 11th, 2009

Meeting Date: March 25, 2009 at 8:00pm

Meet us at UAT (http://www.gotoandstop.org/index.php/meeting-directions/) from 7:30 to 7:55 in time for seating and networking.

Meeting Summary

Steve Mathews will be presenting an introduction to Design Patterns. He will start out with a discussion about how to start using OOP and Design Patterns in the real world, and then move into three examples, (Abstract Classes, the Decorator Pattern and the Factory Pattern).

Presenter: Steve Mathews

About the Presenter:

Steve Mathews is Senior Technical Lead at Flypaper Studio. He is a developer with over ten years experience with a sick obsession for Flash. Steve has also branched out into other languages like Java and C#. His programming career began with his obsession for hacking his Commodore VIC 20 till morning cartoons came on. Steve has a BA in Multi-Media from UAT, and loves keeping up on the bleeding edge of technology. In his dream world he would do nothing but R&D.

Blog: http://artjumble.com/blog

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/mathews

Twitter: http://twitter.com/crappydog

We will be giving away a couple books on Design Patterns.

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