OC Flex

Topic:

Custom components, states, transitions, and more

Spend a relaxing evening with Judah as he shares a few secrets on component development, states and transitions, states and transitions in components, trigger effects and the skinning features in Flex Builder 3. He will also be giving away 3 commercial components to the people who bring the most friends.

About Judah :

Judah Frangipane is a software engineer writing mostly in Flex and Flash. He is especially keen on UI design. He's worked in asp, jsp, php, .net, c#, java, vb, javascript, actionscript, flash, mxml, xml over the past 10 years (translation, hes had no life -ed.). He’s worked on creating Flash components and Flex components and applications. In addition he has been consulting for the last 3 years and teaching in between. He also sells Flex and Flash components at Drumbeat Insight.

Summary

Topic: Custom components, states, and transitions
Speaker: Judah Frangipane
Date: Wednesday July 2nd
Time: 7pm
Location: FarHeap Solutions offices at
2601 Main St Suite 1200
Irvine, CA 92614

Pizza and refreshments provided by FarHeap Solutions.

This month we'll raffle a ticket for 360|Flex conference in San Jose.

Topic:

SCUGE: Open Source Game Framework.

Iman Khabazian will discuss SCUGE, an open source game framework. SCUGE is a best practice based architecture for creating games.

About Iman:

Iman Khabazian is the Managing Director for IMAN IT, a web 2.0 incubator. In this role he has served as the Technical Director for Beanie Babies 2.0 virtual world. Prior to this he has managed developers, architected enterprise software, and written over 50 flash games for companies such as AOL and Dairy Queen. He is also the founder of the object oriented design forum and maintains the "May the source be with you" blog.

Summary

Topic: SCUGE: Open Source Game Framework
Speaker: Iman Khabazian
Date: June 5th
Time: 7pm
Location: FarHeap Solutions offices at
2601 Main St Suite 1200
Irvine, CA 92614

Pizza and refreshments provided by FarHeap Solutions.

We will have a big raffle this time, so come for a chance to win one piece of Adobe software of up to $2100 in value! You will also need to fill this survey to be included in the raffle, and be present to win. Please fill the survey before coming to the meeting, to make things quicker.

Wendi Turner is organizing a Flex Camp in Irvine. Having a Flex Camp so close to home is a great opportunity to get a full day worth of interesting talks either free or at a very low price (I am not sure what the plan for pricing will be). She is looking for volunteers to help out, so if you are interested, please contact her at: wenditurner <at> gmail <dot> com

There will be no meeting in May because we will not be in town. I'll be in Minneapolis presenting Mate, a new Flex Framework at cf.Objective() and later in the month in DC at WebManiacs. If there is interest, I can present it at the user group too.

See you in June!

Robert Cadena has provided the slides he showed in our last meeting. If you have any questions, please contact Robert at: robert [[at]] searchcoders [[dot]] com

Download (PDF)

As a side note, we no longer manage the .com domain, so the information there is not up to date. Although it may look like the official website, it is only a mirror that contains spam links, so update your bookmarks!

Our next meeting will be Wednesday, April 9th. We will have Robert Cadena presenting about BlazeDS. Please note that this meeting is not scheduled in the normal "first Thursday of the month" to accomodate for the speaker's availability.

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Mansour Raad, the Senior Software Architect of ArcWebServices at ESRI, will speak at our next OC Flex meeting. This meeting is scheduled one week before our usual meeting date, but it will be a great presentation. In the words of Ben Forta, “[Mansour] is one of the most engaging and passionate presenters I have ever met.”

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The Creative Group is looking for a Flex 3 developer for a 2-3 week project. The candidate must have both design and development skills. The first part of the project will be taking the front end design of the website and designing it in Flex. The second part of the project is Flex-enabling the entire application.

If you are interested, contact Kimberly Clements at 949-476-3199 or via email: kimberly.clements [at] creativegroup.com

Also in Orange County, Roundpeg, Inc is looking for Flex Developers to join their team at their Newport Beach office. You can read the full description at LA Flex website.

Here's the source from the example Evan Gifford walked us through during his presentation. It was an AIR application that ties into Flickr. Sorry for the lag time getting this up. Thank goodness one of the members reminded me to get it posted.

Download the source here. 

We skipped last months meeting, but we think this months will make up for it. On February 7th Doug McCune is coming to town to speak about “Using Flex Open Source Projects.” Doug is a huge advocate of open source libraries and he's always showcasing the possibilities of what you can achieve in Flex using them. In addition to discussing the various open source libraries out there, he'll be showing how you can implement them in your own Flex projects. Should be a can't-miss event. You can check out his blog at dougmccune.com.

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