Ben Forta and James Ward, evangelists for Adobe, announced on their blogs today that Adobe is giving back to developers who have been effected by the current economic situation.  For developers who find themselves without work in the software industry, Adobe is providing free licenses for Flex Builder 3 to all who apply.  You can [...]

Speaking of local events, Gregg Pollack from the ORUG emailed us this evening asking us to get the word out about Battle of the Web Frameworks on April 9, 2009.  The event is kind of a precursor to BarCamp Orlando to get everyone in the spirit and will located at Slingapours beginning around 7:00 PM [...]

It’s that time of year again for the conference scene to start spinning up.  I’ve tried to compile a list of upcoming conferences below for those who are interested:

BarCamp Orlando – April 18, 2009 – Orlando, Florida
mySQL Users Conference – April 20 – 23, 2009 – Santa Clara, California
SpringOne Europe – April 27 – 29, [...]

Hey all, sorry for the short notice on this, but due to a slight mixup we’re not going to have a meeting this month. If you’re still wanting your Flex fix, check out Flex Camp Miami taking place this coming weekend. If a few people are wanting to go, and stay the same length just [...]

On March 4th @ 6:00 PM, the Tampa Flash, Flex, and AIR Developers Group will be hosting Ben Forta, Kevin Hoyt, and Greg Wilson of Adobe. They will be covering a plethora of topics covering ColdFusion, Flex, AIR, and BlazeDS. The TFFADG just started up last year and looks to be having great [...]

If there was anyone who was interested in going to FlexCamp Miami, but could use a lower price, look no further. Use the discount code Adogo, when registering for the conference and save $10 off the purchase price! The discount code is only good until next Friday, 02/27/2009, @ midnight. If you [...]

Apress is looking for some Adobe developers to review a pair a recently released books. These include The Essential Guide to Flash CS4 AIR Development and Foundation XML and E4X for Flash and Flex. If you’d be interested in reading either of these, don’t mind following the Apress review guidelines/instructions and plan to make it [...]

Friend of the Adogo, Luis Majano is going to be putting on another Coldbox training seminar for those who are interested. The seminar is a two day course and will be held in Ontario, California on March 14th – 15th. The cost of the seminar is $895 per person, if you register before [...]

As hinted-at during our Janaury meeting, FlexCamp-Miami has been announced.  The event will be held on March 6th, 2009 from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM at the BankUnited Center at the University of Miami and is being sponsored by Adobe and Universal Mind.  The cost for the event is $31, after fees, and availability is [...]

Just a reminder that our first meeting of the new year is tonight, 01/12/2009, @ 7:00 PM at Devry in Millenia.  Adam Fortuna will be presenting on the BOSH protocol and Maxim Porges will be talking about visualizing large datasets in Flex.  Hope you can make it out; sorry for the short notice reminder.