Category: Meetings

Flex Workshop Primer by Kalen Gibbons

Our very own Kalen Gibbons will be leading us to Flex World in our very first Flex Workshop.  Below is his description for this beginner's workshop

It will cover basic Flex techniques and features; we will be creating a process performance monitor.  I plan on supplying sample data, and although I will be covering how to connect to ColdFusion briefly, having ColdFusion installed will not be a requisite.  There will be no ColdFusion involved, we will be skipping the back-end entirely to reduce possible configuration conflicts and other complications.  The only thing required will be Flex Builder.  I will be providing a series of sample files that we will be stepping through as we proceed through the workshop.

So don't miss our first ever Flex Workshop. Not only that, we will be raffling a spanking new copy of Adobe CS4 Web Premium edition.  As always, we will have pizza and drinks.  See you there.

October Meeting: CS4 Launch

Come join us this Friday, October 3rd, to get the inside scoop on all the new features in Creative Suite 4, Adobe's flagship collection of graphic design, web development and video editing applications. We've got some Adobe schwag to give away (although we're holding back the big prize for November), including a very handy ActionScript reference guide to help out with Flash/Flex/AIR development. Starting with this meeting, free pizza and soft drinks will also be provided, so be sure to bring your appetite!

November Meeting Important

In our november meeting, we will be discussing the possibility of switching days for our meetings.  We are currently holding them the first Friday of the month and this causes problems in attendance.  Dr. Westfall, our sponsor, has found out that we could meet either Tuesdays or Thursdays.  So we need to be present at the next meeting, to decide or just post your comments on what day interests you the most.  This new day, if changed, would start in our January Meeting of 2009.

On another note, to entices you slackers, we will be raffling a copy of CS4 in our november meeting.  However, you have to be present in order to win it.

Railo Pictures + Debriefing

We had a great presentation by Gert Franz this past Friday at our CFUG. It was incredible to see all the new features of the up and coming Railo 3. Some features that the ColdFusion community have been asking for several years.  I am really excited about the future path of Railo in combination of JBOSS. The future is definitely looking bright. We had a great attendance of 20 + people, we had a great time afterwards when we had our networking dinner at Chilis.  I just want to thank Gert for a great presentation and all the group for their attendance.

Ogus Demirkapi posted some pictures for us in the Flickr stream.

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Railo will be presenting to us this Friday August 1st.

Railo (www.railo-technologies.com) is a CFML engine that runs on a wide variety of Java servlet engines, and provides a cost-effective, high performance alternative to using Adobe's ColdFusion engine. As you may have heard, at the Scotch on the Rocks ColdFusion conference in Scotland in June, Railo announced that they are partnering with JBoss to convert their software to a completely free, open-source offering.

Ben Forta (Adobe) had some very nice things to say about it on his blog recently: http://www.forta.com/blog/index.cfm/2008/6/8/An-Open-Message-To-Gert-Franz-and-Railo.

Gert Franz, CEO of Railo and member of the recently founded CFML advisory committee, will be visiting to present an overview of Railo, and what the advantages of using Railo are for CFML developers. He’ll also be talking about the upcoming open-source conversion of Railo, and what that means for the community and the developers. Of course, Gert will have some free versions of the Railo software to hand out, and some other goodies as well.

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Gert Franz was born in 1967 and lives in Switzerland since 1998, somewhere next to Zurich. He's one of the founders of Railo Technologies GmbH and accompanied the development from when it started back in 2001. Next to the development of Railo he worked as a system architect, engineer and DBA where one of his favorite web projects was for instance www.zinodavidoff.com. He's addicted to problem solving, performance and database tuning (especially SQL Server). Gert is a father of three and boyfriend of one. He studied Physics in Munich some (many :-)) years ago