Interested in coming to the August Adogo meeting? Please register so we know how many people to expect. Although we won’t have food for this one, anyone interested can feel encouraged to grab a bite afterwards. Just a reminder once more, this meeting is at a new location in Winter Park, so plan accordingly. [...]

If any of you out there are using ColdBox, there is good news this week with the release of ColdBox 2.6.0.  This release adds JSON support, improvements to debugging, a new Security interceptor as well as many interceptor improvements, per application conventions, a monitor to help profile requests, lots of SES enhancements, as well as [...]

We’re still working hard to find a dependable location for our meetings, but as a stop gap, Highwinds has graciously offered us to use their office as a meeting space; their office is located at 807 W Morse Blvd, Winter Park, FL 32789.  We will be starting at our regular time of 7:00 PM.
This month [...]

I was doing some searching today and saw that the Tampa Bay ColdFusion User’s Group has posted the topic for their July meeting being held on 07/28/2008 (not sure of the time).  They will be hosting Gert Franz, the head of Railo.  Railo has recently been publicized for their ColdFusion application server alternative that will [...]

The folks over at Open Source @ Adobe have begun discussing Flex 4, code named Gumbo.  Matt Chotin has a presentation on the roadmap for the product as well a distilled set of features.  Ely Greenfeild also has a video up showing how MXML will be used to simplify skinning.  The scheduled release date isn’t [...]

As you all know, DeVry has been unable to host our summer meetings due to renovations. After our July meeting at Valencia, we had a few potential locations for the August meeting, but were unable to confirm at that time.
We are pleased to report that we have secured a location for the August meeting (due [...]

We have discussed the Swiz framework for Flex a few times in the last few meetings. I was chatting with Chris Scott the other day, and he has just created a Google Group for Swiz.
If you are interested in staying on top of developments with the framework, or want to post suggestions to Chris [...]

Grant Skinner has put together a good post describing his take on open source software licensing as it applies to producing commerical Flex applications.  The list has grown to include most of the popular players in the space including GPL, LGPL, MIT, BSD, Apache, and more.  If you’re interested in using some of the community [...]

Ok, so maybe I lied about a couple of weeks before I updated the code.  RatingsSlider.mxml has been updated to now include the dispatch of a the custom event to get the slider working.  It was a quick update, but hopefully it helps to show how custom components can interact with each other.  If anyone [...]

Thanks to everyone who turned out at our temporary location @ Valencia.  We had close to 30 people this meeting and we had one of our most in depth community case studies to date.  Max and Tommy showed off the Highwinds product, StrikeTracker.  The application showed off some great use cases for rich components including [...]