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September Meeting Wrap-up

Brian LeGros — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 03:02:47 +0000

We had a great turn out last night in our first joint meeting with the local Ruby users’ group. Thanks to Dan, Brian, Adam, Max, Greg, and anyone else I missed, from Adogo for making it out. Thanks should also go to Jacob, from the ORUG, for all his hard work and showing us how to use RubyAMF. I’ve uploaded my code and presentation to the Adogo SVN and you can find Jacob’s code on Github. We also have a couple of Connect recordings that we took from the meeting for Rails and Flex. The Flex portion’s audio is completely garbled, so I’d suggest watching it on mute to get the most out of it; let it be a lesson to me to always calibrate my mic before giving a presentation. Thanks again to everyone who came out and we’ll see you next month!

mock-as3/FlexUnit4 test runner published from August presentation

Brian LeGros — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:40:40 +0000

As promised, I’ve updated the code from the August presentation with a working version of the MockAs3TestRunner class for FlexUnit4. You can find the latest incarnation in the Adogo SVN. I’ve also bundled, what will probably be, beta version 2 of FlexUnit 4 with the project in swc form (built from the latest 4.x branch) if you can’t wait for the eminent release. If you’d like more details on how to use the runner, check out my most recent blog post for more details.

August Meeting Wrap-up

Brian LeGros — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 15:05:10 +0000

Thanks to everyone who made it out virtually and in person to last night’s meeting. I’ve published the source code and recording from the FlexUnit4 and mock-as3 presentation for anyone was unable to attend. There are a few edits to the presentation that should be noted however:

Drew has published the BDD-style runner on the FlexUnit4 mailing list as well as it being available in the Adogo SVN.
The roadmap for the [Suite] metadata defaults I suggested was just me postulating, there hasn’t been a decision made by the FlexUnit4 team as of yet.
I butchered the explanation of BDD and context-based testing, so you may want to read more about BDD at Wikipedia or check out testing frameworks like Shoulda or RSpec to see better examples of my ramblings.
The Loom project itself is not purpose built to preload byte-code woven runtime generated subclasses, the SWFLoader being worked on in unison with the project, is intended to tackle this approach.
I will be implementing the MockAs3TestRunner for FlexUnit4, I was just being cheeky, but the current test in the source for this presentation will not run.

Again, thanks to all who came out and to Erin and Ashely at TEKsystems for sponsoring the meeting. See you next month.

February Meeting Follow-up

Brian LeGros — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:49:43 +0000

Thanks to everyone who came out last night to our February meeting; we had a good size group in house and a few people joining us over Connect. I gave a much long winded presentation on “Continuous Integration” and I appreciate everyone toughing it through the ~1h40m chunk of snooze time. We’ve published the code, slides, and recording on the Meetings page for anyone who is interested or may have missed the presentation. Since this is a much longer rendition of the presentation I’ll be giving at FlexCamp Miami, if anyone has feedback about the presentation, I’m definitely up for the help. Feel free to leave your comments (criticisms) in the Comments section of the post. We’d also like to thank Mary McDonald for her generous donation of many, many books to the group at last night’s meeting. Looks like there were some great references and reads; I hope everyone in attendance was able to benefit.

Next meeting will be on March 2nd, ideally, so we’ll work getting a topic available to the group as soon as possible. See you next month!

January Meeting Follow-up

Brian LeGros — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 02:43:51 +0000

Thanks to everyone who was able to attend this evening’s January meeting; we had a lot of new faces this month, so welcome! Max gave us some great examples of different visual components that are available (and coming soon) to help visual large sets of data. Adam followed up with a great examle of using the BOSH protocol to make a web-based IM client and talked about some of the specifics of the protocol as well as libraries that make working with it a snap. Although it was as short meeting, we had a lot of great content packed in. We should have presentations and code uploaded soon.

We’re still working out the topics for next month; keep a look out for updates soon. See you next month!

December Meeting Follow-up

Brian LeGros — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 04:27:11 +0000

Russ and Mario did a great job presenting to a packed room for our December meeting. Mario gave some great links of map integration options and Russ was able to show us his contributions to the Swiz Framework. Code will be published to our SVN repository for those who are interested.

Thanks to Adobe for providing us with our annual end-of-year bunch of swag and congratulations to all of the winners. We’re open for topics for the new year and got some great suggestions at the meeting, so if anyone has more ideas, please let us know.

Happy holidays and we’ll see you in 2009!

December Meeting Topics Announced

Brian LeGros — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 22:12:37 +0000

This month we are fortunate to have 2 presentations from the Highwinds staff for our December 1st meeting. First up, Russell Centanni will be giving a presentation/overview of the “Swiz Framework“, an IoC container for Flex. Next, we’ll have Mario Talavera giving a presentation on “Practical map visualizations with Flash and Flex”. We’re going to try and grab a sponsor for the year end meeting, so hopefully we can celebrate with some food. If anyone knows anyone interested in sponsoring our meeting, please let us know.

Hope you can make it out.

November Meeting Wrap-up

Brian LeGros — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 22:00:22 +0000

This month we had about 15 people at meeting for probably one of our thorough AIR presentations to date. Thanks to Jason, we got a great overview of file I/O and SQLite as it is available in AIR. He covered the packages and classes available in the current AIR extensions for the FlexSDK as well as gave us some good references to 3rd party libraries for working with object serialization and SQLite administration. See the meeting notes for more links given during the meeting.

Sorry to everyone about the puke yellow projection screen; we’ll work with Devry to avoid that going forward. Thanks again to all of those who attended. See y’all next month.

September Meeting Wrap-up

Brian LeGros — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 21:16:13 +0000

Thanks to everyone who made it out to the September meeting! Even though we ran a little long, we had a strong 17 people turn out for the meeting. Thanks to Dave for his case study and the time he spent showing us the work he’s done integrating services via managed components. I was a little under prepared and my slides were a bit incomplete, but I enjoyed showing the inner working of Firebug, jQuery, and the BlazeDS AJAX bridge. I didn’t catch the person’s name, but thanks to who was able to help us figure out why the BlazeDS chat example wasn’t working correctly during my demo. I’ve placed and updated version of my presentation in the SVN repository with my code for all those who are interested.

We’re eager to pick the topic for next month. We’ve had suggestions to look into Degrafa as well as advanced ActionScript/MXML component design. If anyone has any suggestions, please leave us a comment so we can help to determine what to cover. Additionally, if anyone is interested in giving a presentation, we are always up for opening the floor to others.

Thanks again to everyone for their support and we’ll see you next month.

Register for the September Meeting

Adam Fortuna — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 15:59:38 +0000

As Brian mentioned earlier, we have a pair of interesting topics for the September meeting back at Devry. If you’re interested in attending, please fill out the quick eventbrite registration so that we have an accurate headcount for food. Again, this meeting will not be on Tuesday like our past meetings. A week from today, Monday September 8th, we’ll be meeting back at Devry. Hope to see you all there!