Adventures in Web Application Develompent by Phil Duba - Flash

A Good Night!

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:12:00 -0400

Last night, the 3 local Philly user groups threw a release party for Flex 3 and AIR 1.0. A big thanks to the guys at Independence Hall for hosting the event. IndyHall is a coworking organization that rents space in a building in Old City to those work work from home, telecommute or just want to get out of the stuff office.

The event itself was a good networking event with pizza, soda, and Red Bull for all. A short video of the AIR team was shown, narrated by Kevin Lynch. After that, a demo was down connecting the Wii remote with Flash, pretty cool stuff. After that, two copies of Flex Builder were given away, one version 2 with charting and the other version 3 Professional, many t-shirts (apparently Steve will be giving these away forever), and bunch of the eBoy AIR Launch Posters, of which I won one. Now the question is where to put it in the house

Anyways, thanks to all who made last night possible and I look forward to future meetings of the Flash, Flex, and ColdFusion user groups in Philly and some more cross group networking events!

onAIR Philly Bus Stop Today!!

Wed, 22 Aug 2007 08:25:00 -0400

Today the onAIR Bus Tour stops in Philly. I hope to see everyone there from the Flash, Flex, and ColdFusion user groups to represent the Adobe community in Philly.

PFPAUG Meeting Review: Flex/Flash Large Scale Applications

Fri, 01 Jun 2007 07:40:00 -0400

Last night, I attended the Philadelphia Flash Platform Adobe User Group (PFPAUG) meeting held at Comcast Interactive Media's (CIM) headquarters in Center City Philadelphia. The presentation was on "Flex/Flash Large Scale Applications" by Arpit Mathur. There were plenty of giveaways, with the most coveted being the 3 iPod Shuffles, 30GB iPod Video and either a CS3 Premium Web or Digital edition. It was interesting to attend a meeting about Flex that wasn't geared to ColdFusion developers. I've seen about 3 such presentations in the past, but this one was different from the rest. The title or the presentating was a little misleading as I felt the talk centered more around what Flex is, how it differs in development from Flash and why CIM has chosen it as a development platform. In fact, the outline for the presentation was:

Introduction to Comcast Interactive Media
ActionScript2 (AS2) vs. ActionScript3 (AS3)
CIM Applicatin: Fan
Why Choose Flex
Understanding Flex
Flex Workflow

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