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Sydney – Adobe User Group Meeting

Danno — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 23:44:53 +0000

Last night was the inaugural meeting of the Sydney Adobe User Group. Note that it is now a joint group between the Flash User Group and the Coldfusion User Group.

Geoff Bowers did a presentation about “Setting Fire To Your Community”

The presentation was really good and I left the user group meeting with a nice feeling to try and help the opensource communities I daily use.

He gave really good (and a bit funny and disturbing) analogies comparing opensource communities with japanese mummies. Geoff also got into explaining some details about different opensource licensing schemes, and made us aware of the great difference between gpl and lgpl.

Even though most of us might just click next, next, next when downloading most of the software we use… If you are going to use that code in your commercial projects, you should really know what you are getting into and learn about the implications you will have when you distribute your project.

We also learnt that the extjs framework is changing its licensing from lgpl to gpl. This means that if you include that library in your code, you will have to opensource your project.

It was a great meeting and I’m looking forward to the next one. Chris informed us that the meetings will be held on every last Monday of the month, so the next meeting will be on May 26.

Next Sydney Flash User Group meeting – Setting Fire To Your Community

Danno — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 05:11:26 +0000

When: Mon 28th April (Meet at 6pm for 6:30 start)
Where: Rocketboots.

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With the advent of a number of open source initiatives from Adobe, Geoff Bowers of Daemon will speak on:

A tale of Japanese mummies, karmic balance and benevolent dictators.
Your guide to putting a torch to your open source community. Learn how to set up a flourishing developer community or just help to ignite your favourite.

Please RSVP on http://apugs2008april.eventbrite.com

Note: This is the inaugural meeting of the new Adobe Platform Users Group, Sydney which combines the Sydney Flash Platform Developers Group and the NSW Coldfusion Users Group.

Sydney UG: Flex 3 and AIR Pre-Release with Danny Dura

Danno — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 20:53:39 +0000

Last night the Rocketboots conference room was packed. Danny Dura showed us the new Flex 3 features and also gave an overview of what will be coming with AIR 1.0.

Click here to see the Flex 3 new features.

After seeing what AIR is capable of I’m feeling sorry for Multidmedia Zinc.

I got really excited with AIR, though I have been using some apps, like twhirl… I’m actually writing this blog post with an AIR app, it’s an Adobe AIR Sample “Bee” on labs and it includes the source code.

** UPDATE **
I couldn’t manage to publish with BEE, I was getting a malformed XML error from the publish XML-RPC command. Anyway, the BEE App looks a quite good considering it’s a labs sample. I reckon mixing it up with buzzword would be awesome and also adding drag and drop functionality to publish images. I might look into the source code and give it a try.

Here’s a small video that I took with my mobile at the beginning of Danny’s preso (automatically converted from mobile .3gp to flv by flashCMS):

** UPDATE **
Thanks Joshua for pointing out the slides from the tour by Ben Forta.

Sydney Flex and AIR Pre-Release Tour With Danny Dura

Danno — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 00:18:00 +0000

Chris just sent this event information to the flash developers mailing lists:

Thursday, 24th January. 6pm

Flex 3 and AIR are getting close to launch and in preparation, Danny Dura from the Platform Evangelism Team will be specifically in Sydney to show off the great new features for this exciting launch.

Check the listings below to hook up with the local user group in the city closest to you and join us for an evening of Flex and AIR.

Don’t miss out on the opportunity to see and hear about this highly anticipated release of Flex 3 and AIR during this special pre-release tour. Plus, in addition to giving away some one of a kind Flex/AIR branded schwag, each event will also be raffling off a copy of Flex Builder 3 Professional (pending availability) and a full commercial copy of CS3 Web Premium!

Details and RSVP on http://sydneyflashdev2008prelaunchtour.eventbrite.com

You can also joing the Google Group: FlashAussie

Sydney Flash User Group – Last meeting of 2007

Danno — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 12:41:22 +0000

I just got back from the Sydney Flash User Group that was held at the Rocketboots office at Kent street.

According to the program we were going to view: Cairngorm 2.2 framework with Flex 3 and AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime – formerly known as Apollo). We’ll be building a small/simple application to demonstrate the use of the Cairngorm 2.2 framework with Flex 3 beta and AIR Beta.

Due to time constraints, we didn’t finish the AIR integration and we all managed to debug Chris’ cairngorm timer.
We also talked a little about Singletons. Here is the link I mentioned about Grant Skinners AS3 implementation.

After that we had a “conference/presentation” by Grant Straker, that showed how to build quick applications using Zoom Flex
It was interesting to see the admin interface actually be targeted to developers, and how you generate your objects and classes by using regular forms. It also spits out all the source code of the flex app. I will definitely give it a try.

Then the lucky winner of the Adobe Software package was Robert. Congratulations mate!

Looking forward to having more meetings. Looks like then next one will be in February and the guys from infomedia might be showing us some of their flex stuff.

Here is a 16 second video that I took while Grant was presenting ShadoCMS: