As you might have realized, the first Tuesday of January, our default meeting date, will fall on January 1, 2008. Instead of pushing the meeting back to the following Tuesday we’ve been given the chance to host a stop on Adobe’s Flex 3/Air Pre-Release Tour! If you missed the ColdFusion 8 release tour because there wasn’t a stop in Orlando, you don’t have to worry about this one. With only 40 stops across the US, the tour should drum up a lot of attention for the upcoming final versions of Flex and Air, surely due out in the final forms soon after. They’ll be coming through Orlando on Monday, January 21, 2008 where Ben Forta will be presenting.

Extras
As for extras at this event? We’ll have a full bar selection of foods and drinks a half hour before the event, as well a giveaway copy of Flex 3 (to be fulfilled after we launch), a copy of CS3 Web Premium and some Flex branded schwag. We’re very excited to be hosting this event and looking forward to seeing the community come together for it.

Registration
In the past we’ve met at Devry, who has been a very gracious host so far in our experience. Unfortunately this event takes place on Martin Luther King Day and they will be closed. When we finalize our location it we’ll post it right away, but we want to make sure there is ample space. Please Register! Registration is the only way to guarantee a spot.

Register at Eventbrite.

Who’s Ben Forta?
Ben Forta is Adobe Inc.’s Director of Platform Evangelism, and has over two decades of experience in the computer industry in product development, support, training, and marketing. Ben is the author of the best-selling ColdFusion Web Application Construction Kit series, as well as books on SQL, Regular Expressions, Java Server Pages, WAP, Windows development, and more. Over 1/2 million Ben Forta books have been printed in fifteen languages worldwide. Ben co-authored the official ColdFusion training material, as well as the certification tests and official study guides for those tests, writes regular columns on ColdFusion and Internet development, and now spends a considerable amount of time lecturing and speaking on application development worldwide.