I have just volunteered to help host the monthly Flash User Group meetings here in Seattle! I've helped out with a few before, but I'll be doing it regularly now. They are a great group of people with some great designs and ideas. If you're in the area and want to see what it's all about, feel free to join! We meet at the Adobe office in Fremont and our next meeting is next Tuesday! Details below...

What:

Seattle Flash User Group Meeting

When:

Every 4th Tuesday of each month, from 6pm - 9pm

Next meeting is Tuesday, November 25th, 2008, 6pm - 9pm

Where:

Adobe Seattle Office - Fairhaven (room)

801 North 34th Street

Seattle WA, 98103

If you're looking for more information, or are interested in joining the group, see their website (www.seattleflashusergroup.com), or contact the user group manager, Keith Johnson.

Hope to see you out there

Charles

I've just finished my presentation at the 360 Flex Conference this morning and it went really well. We had a really good turnout and there were some great questions. As promised, I am posting my slide deck and sample code (client and server) here for everyone to download and try for themselves. For those of you who weren’t there but are interested in what was covered, here is snapshot of the samples that I talked about…

• Why Flex & PHP
• What can I build with it?
• How can I build with it?
• Demos
  • Flex & PHP using REST
  • Flex & PHP using JSON
  • Flex & PHP using AMF
  • Flickr example

If you had any questions or comments, feel free to let me know! Thanks to Tom Ortega for getting me involved, and of course, thanks to everyone who came!

Flex & PHP 101 - Flex & PHP for Rich Internet Application Development

Server-Side PHP Code

Client-Side Flex Code

Charles

I was just recently asked to be a presenter for one of the seminars at 360|Flex in Seattle next month! The previous presenter, Mike Potter, was unable to make it so I am gladly filling in for him. I'll be covering integration between Flex front-ends and server-side technologies, particularly PHP. I will talk about common integration techniques using either a REST-based architecture, serialization via JSON, or binary messaging with AMF. My class in particular will be on the second day (Tuesday, August 14th), first thing in the morning -> 8:30am - 9:50am (schedule). I hope to see you there and if you have any questions, I'm in contact with the event coordinators, so feel free to ask!

See the schedule and register for the event at…

http://www.360conferences.com/360flex/

Charles

As the title says, I will be presenting a product overview of Adobe LiveCycle this Thursday, September 7^th, to the local Cold Fusion User Group (CFUG) in Seattle. It will be hosted at the Adobe office in Fremont which is a beautiful location. If you are in the area and are interested in attending, contact me and let me know! See you there.

Charles