Central Iowa Flex Users Group

Hey there everyone -- we'll be meeting at the usual place and time this month. As you all know, we've talked about doing a project collectively for the community, and I believe we have something.

I'll share the details and gather input from you all at the meeting -- looking forward to seeing you!

Kasey

Location:
New Horizons Learning Center
Google Map:

Same place: New Horizons Learning Center near Merle Hay Mall, Des Moines, IA.

Sorry for the delay and for the site being down for a month!! Hosting company was trying to charge me too much.

Just a heads up -- due to the impending doom (http://www.kcci.com/weather/18283722/detail.html) heading our way, it looks like we will be postponing our december meeting until January 8th.

See you then!

It's that time again -- and this time, we're giving away free software! Show up, and get a raffle ticket...

Date:
Thursday, December 18th - 7:00pm-8:30pm
Location:
New Horizons Learning Center
Google Map:
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&ll=41.635901,-93.7015...

Also, i plan on resuming the Flex Learning classes at the start of the new year. My apologies, but my schedule hasnt allowed for the necessary prep work to put these together...

Look for them to come in January!

Thanks everyone,
Kasey

A very non-biased overview of both platforms...(attached).

-kasey

Wow, Adobe - nice work on this. I just came across this and felt the need to share it.

Adobe has posted damn near 100 videos ranging from 2 minutes to 45 minutes on their website, with the intention of teaching you Flex in about a week (so they say).

You can download the videos using AMP (Adobe Media Player) and watch them offline, or stream them on their website. The narrators on the ones I've viewed are slightly less boring than you would normally hear, so that's a plus.

Check em out!

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/videotraining/

We're going to hold a few Flex workshops. For Free. Nada. Nothing.

The hour-and-a-half classes will start off very basic and more than likely not get TOO advanced, but they will not be in any way boring.

Due to some scheduling conflicts, the first class will be held on the SECOND THURSDAY of the month, on November 13th.

oh hai. after a LOT of procrastination, i'm finally going to do my duty as web officer and get us a new, pretty, unique site.

ill be chipping away at it piece by piece. im currently working on a leaderboard application to track all of you FUGGER's points (our pet name for all you CIFUG attendees). we'll use these points to give out all the free goodies that adobe offers us...you only win if you are present, so make sure you get to meetings...

again, meetings are the 3rd thursday of every month.

CIFUG Meeting #3 was Meeting #1 for me. It was pretty exciting with $2,100 of Adobe money being given away to a lucky winner (Jay!) who can buy anything from Adobe with it. Plus tons of swag including a lovely Adobe touque (that is Canadian for "beanie" or "wool, knitted cap").

I am new to Flex, so I learned a lot from the discussions of everyone else.

Frameworks

I just started working for Siemens PLM Software in Ames, IA. The primary project I was brought on to help develop is using Flex. Before I dedicated months of my life to a project, I really wanted to be sure I could support using a proprietary, monopolistic, closed-source project like Flex. So I did some research...

1. How are we going to find future developers to work on Flex? Is there a market and does anyone else use Flex?
2. What if Adobe discontinues support for Flex because of lack of interest or financial issues?