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October Meeting Moved to 10/12

Brian LeGros — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:22:54 +0000

Sorry for the short notice, but our October meeting has been moved to the 12th this month. We will still be having the meeting at Devry in Millenia at 7:00 PM as usual. We are fortunate enough this month to have long time Adogo member, Greg Groves, presenting to the group. Greg works for Florida Hospital and will be showing us an AIR app he’s built to help work with HL7 medical data. We’ll additionally be having a BoF discussion afterwards for all of those in attendance.

October ORUG meeting tonight

Brian LeGros — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 12:29:16 +0000

Tonight the ORUG will be having their October meeting at Devy in Millenia at 7:00 PM. Tonight’s speakers will be Justin Blake, presenting on Genetic Algorithms, and Robert Dempsey, presenting on Document Based Databases. Robert’s told me he’s going to be doing some compare and contrast against relational databases so he hopes to give a balanced perspective. From the mailing list it looks like everyone will be meeting up at BJ’s Brewhouse next door for food around 6:00 PM, if anyone would like to meet-up before the meeting.

September Joint Meeting with ORUG

Brian LeGros — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:31:03 +0000

This month since our normal meeting would be on September 4th, which is Labor Day, we’re going to be pushing back our meeting date to Thursday, September 10th at 7:00 PM at Devry in Millenia. We’ve chosen the 10th so we can have a joint meeting with the Orlando Ruby User’s Group (ORUG) on using Flex, Rails, and RubyAMF. This presentation will be given by myself and Jake Swanner of the ORUG.

For this presentation we will be showing a simple Flex application built to integrate with a Rails service using data from Yelp. We’ll show how easy it is to integrate Flex with Rails via XML, JSON, and AMF with out the need for anything fancy. The AMF integration is being provided by RubyAMF, which is a plug-in for Rails, and an easy way to offer the AMF support. I’ll also be giving a brief introduction to the Flex framework, so newcomers are welcome.

This is our first joint venture with our local community, so come on out and support the Adogo if you can spare the time. Hope you can make it.

James Ward coming to Orlando

Brian LeGros — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 02:45:04 +0000

The Orlando Java Users Group is having Adobe Evangelist, James Ward, into town on August 25th, for a one day training event entitled Flex Jam. James hosted a similar event in Colorado with Bruce Eckel, so it’s great to see this type of event in Central Florida. The cost for the event is $100, includes all of the training materials needed for the day, and will be held at Swampcast HQ in Winter Park. If you’re interested in attending, check out this message on the OJUG mailing list for more information. Additionally, James will be speaking at the August 27th OJUG meeting at Devry. Seating for the event is limited (~20 seats available) so Mike’s asked that anyone who is interested RSVP on the Codetown website for the event.

For all who are interested in either of these events, let’s support our local Java user group and welcome James to town.

August Meeting Tonight

Brian LeGros — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 12:42:50 +0000

Just a reminder that this evening, 08/03, @ 7:00 PM is this month’s Adogo meeting at Devry in Millenia. We’re being sponsored by TEKsystems, I will be giving a presentation on new features in FlexUnit4 and mock-as3, and there will also be a group discussion on uses and abuses of RIAs. Hope you can make it out tonight!

BTW – If you think you will be attending this evening, please RSVP for our sponsor so they can obtain an accurate head count.

August Meeting next Monday

Brian LeGros — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 14:51:53 +0000

It’s the end of summer and we know things have been a bit slow, but we’re ready to start back this Fall with fresh topics. Our next meeting will be next Monday, 08/03/2009, at 7:00 PM at Devery in Millenia. It’s our 2nd anniversary as a user group and we’re lucky to have TEKsystems sponsoring our meeting. They will be providing food for the group, so come and join us celebrate. I will be giving a short presentation on FlexUnit4 and some work I’m doing on mock-as3 to bring better testing to Flex. Following my short presentation we’re going to try a group discussion on “Use cases for RIAs”. We will talk about where using an RIAs really makes sense and how RIAs can be abused.

Since we have a sponsor this month, please RSVP via EventBrite, so we can give them an estimate on how much food to bring. See you next Monday!

Jason Madsen interview posted for FlashCamp Orlando

Brian LeGros — Tue, 12 May 2009 03:17:58 +0000

Our very own Jason Madsen, professor at FullSail and Adogo group member, had a recent interview with Andrew Powell of Universal Mind about his upcoming presentation at FlashCamp Orlando. The interview has been posted on the FlashCamp Orlando website, so if you get a chance swing by and check it out.

Don’t forget the early bird registration price (~$35) for the event has been extended until May 15th; so if you haven’t already, now is as good of a time to register as any. We’ve also only received a few entries for the raffle of free tickets to the event. We’ll be pulling the winners the weekend of May 15th, so enter now for your chance to win!

FlashCamp Orlando Early Bird Pricing EXTENDED!

Brian LeGros — Fri, 08 May 2009 13:03:01 +0000

Early bird pricing for FlashCamp Orlando has been extended for Adogo group members, or to anyone who can get a hold of the following link. Registration is now available for $35 until May 15th for any who would like to attend. To get this special pricing, you can register @

http://flashcamporlando-adogo.eventbrite.com/

We know May is conference season and it’s hard to get the time out of the office, but how often, for $35 can you attend an event with renowned speakers in the Adobe community, free lunch, and then drive home afterwards! We will be raffling off tons of prizes as well so register now to claim your spot. If you have time, help to spread the word about the event so we can have a great turnout and do some great networking. Also don’t forget about the raffle for free tickets to the event!

Thanks to everyone for their continued support!

May meeting canceled, FlashCamp Orlando ticket raffle

Brian LeGros — Mon, 04 May 2009 13:42:52 +0000

Sorry for the last minute notice, but this month’s, May’s, meeting has been canceled in favor of the group meeting up at FlashCamp Orlando 2009 being held on May 29th. We are fortunate enough to have been given 3 free tickets by Universal Mind to FlashCamp Orlando for the Adogo to raffle off. If you’d like to participate in the raffle, please visit our Contact page filling in your name and email address and in the message field place the text:

[FlashCamp Orlando 2009 Raffle]

Winners will be chosen at random and the deadline for submissions will be May 15th at 11:59 PM; one submission per individual please. Good luck to everyone and we hope to see you all at FlashCamp Orlando!

FlashCamp Orlando 2009 Announced, Registration Open

Brian LeGros — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 22:34:11 +0000

UM and Adobe have finally helped the Adogo bring a FlashCamp (formerly FlexCamp) to the Central Florida area for FlashCamp Orlando 2009. The event will be a one day event held on May 29, 2009 in the Live Oak Center at UCF from 8:30 AM – 5:30 PM. The cost is $50 and will include parking, all sessions, door prizes, and lunch for the day; an early bird price of $35 is available until May 1st. Topics are going to be developer focused, but designers are invited to attend. Our very own Maxim Porges and Jason Madsen of Adogo will be speaking at the event. Greg Wilson, platform evangelist for Adobe, and Andrew Powell and David Tucker of Universal Mind will be speaking as well. We may also be having a pre-event the night before, so watch http://adogo.us for more details to follow.

The website for the event can be found @ http://www.flashcamporlando.com/. If you’ve heard enough and want to register right away head over to http://flashcamporlando.eventbrite.com/ to save your spot; availability is limited. For those who attended FlexCamp Miami, there are different topics and speakers, so FlashCamp Orlando won’t be a complete regurgitation of past events.

Help spread the word about FlashCamp Orlando; it promises to be be a great event for those just starting out in Flex as well as the seasoned Flex developer.