Spring is in the air and May 6th we’ll be celebrating with some Flexcover. Al Manning of Brightcove will be showing us how he improved his code coverage with Flexcover. Arrive early if you want pizza. See you all then.
This meeting is held @ Brightcove One Cambridge Center Cambridge, MA 02142 on the 12th floor and starts @ 7pm.
I’m happy to announce that Joey Lott will be speaking at this month’s
BFPUG meeting. Joey should need no introduction - author of such books
as the ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook, Programming Flex 2, Advanced
ActionScript 3 with Design Patterns, Flash 8 ActionScript Bible, Flash 8
Cookbook, Programming Flash Communication Server, on and on.
The subject of his presentation will be styling and customizing Flex
application appearance, including compile-time and runtime CSS, style
precedence, custom preloaders.
Hope you can join us: this Wednesday, the 25th, 7:30 pm at the New
England Institute of Art, Brookline Village.
OK, we have a topic!
As mentioned earlier, Joey will be speaking at the Boston Flash Platform User Group this month (Wednesday, February 28).
The topic will be “Customizing Flex Application Appearance”
It will be a discussion of how to use CSS, skins, themes, and much more to create a completely customized appearance for Flex applications. This will be a complete overview of the subject, including basic CSS, runtime CSS, graphical skinning, programmatic skinning, customizing the preloader, etc.
Also, he promised to be on time. 
This is going to be a good one. Hope to see everyone there, 7 p.m. at the New England Institute of Art.
We are starting 2007 off with a bang. Our first speaker is Joe Berkovitz of Allurent, Inc. here in Boston.
The subject will be, “A Reusable Blueprint for Remote Flex and Flash Applications”
Here’s Joe’s description of the presentation:
This talk will present a set of real-world architectural approaches and patterns for building ActionScript-based client/server applications. We’ll look at ways to organize apps that have both complex user interfaces and complex communications demands; these ideas make it easier and more predictable to prototype, build out, test and evolve such applications. The presentation will be firmly rooted in real-world source code, using the presenter’s Flex/Ruby-on-Rails mashup ReviewTube as a prop for demonstration and discussion.
And, if you want to prepare yourself beforehand, Joe also authored an article on Adobe.com on the same subject. You can find it here:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/articles/blueprint.html
There will be free Adobe giveaways, including some of those neat (and huge) Flex 2 / AS3 posters.
See everyone there, Wednesday, January 24, 2007, 7pm at NeIA.
Keith
Speaker Bio:
Joe Berkovitz is Chief Architect of Allurent, Inc., a company offering a suite of Flex-based online shopping applications. He has spent 28 years in the software profession as an architect, interface designer, and engineer. He was Chief Architect at startups Ruckus Network and Unveil Technologies. Before that he spent eight years at ATG developing many of the core components of that company’s products, originating a number of key ideas with patents granted or pending. Prior to ATG, Joe worked at various employers and clients including Houghton Mifflin, Stratus Computer, Harvard Business School, Sony, and BMG Music Club.
The video of last month’s BFPUG meeting with Joey Lott speaking on Flex 2 is now live.
Click on “Watch-or-Listen” and then BFPUG.
We have confirmed Ted Patrick, Adobe Flex Evangelist, to fly down from the Mother Ship and talk to us about Flex 2 for this August’s meeting. More details when we get closer to the time.
I just got home from the first official BFPUG meeting. Very nice turnout! I was surprised. I expected about 20 people, but we had almost double that. Very informative talk by William Wechtenhiser, Director, Flex Enterprise Services. And lots of other good conversation.
Actually, the room was standing room only, and people packed outside the door. It’s possible that we can use Adobe as our monthly meeting place if that’s cool with everyone. The only problem would be having a larger space. It’s a problem to have it elsewhere inside the building due to security rules, but we are discussing setting up a screen and podium and more chairs in the front lobby there. That would work great I think.
Look at that! Someone gets a free copy of Studio 8!!! A good reason to come to the meetings!
We have a very cool speaker lined up for next Wednesday: William Wechtenhiser, Director, Flex Enterprise at Adobe.
The subject is “Flex Enterprise Services Overview”. William explains what Flex Enterprise Services is and how it is different from Flex 1.5. He will cover the new programming model and features available to application developers with reference to the kinds of applications that can be built using these features.
The presentation will start at 7:00 p.m. and go about an hour. Come by a little earlier - 6:30 - for pizza and drinks (soda, etc.). After that we’ll have an hour or so to mingle, network, whatever.
Again, the location is Adobe in Newton, 275 Grove Street, right next to the Riverside T station.