I’d like to officially announce our new site on Adobe Groups.

http://groups.adobe.com/groups/5302eef0b5

We have shared this with the group at past meetings, but moving forward, we will be posting all content to our new site. This site (cpfug.com) will eventual redirect to our Adobe Groups site.

Adobe Groups is, in sense, a social networking site where you can create a profile, and start communicating with our group. You can also join other groups from around the world, if you choose. Among several great features, we have a discussion area where we can communicate with each other. You can also subscribe to be notified when certain areas of the site updates.

Make sure you join the group so you can have access to all of our content. You will sign in with your Adobe ID. If you don’t have one, you can sign up for free when you go to join our group.

See you on Groups.

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Date: April 2, 2009
Time: 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Location: JPL, Directions

Topics will include:

From PSD to FLA
by Doug Logan

Doug (manager of Cental PA Photoshop User Group) will be showing us how to take a design from Photoshop and properly slice it and place it into Flash for other developers to work with. Doug will take into consideration organization, optimization and revisions to the Photoshop file.

Object Oriented Programming- An Introductory Overview for the Non-Programmer
by Art Straub

If you are doing anything creative on a PC, Mac or Web-Based platform these days, it’s almost impossible to avoid interacting with object oriented or, at least, object based systems. It doesn’t have to be Java or C++ or .Net; HTML, XML, scripting languages, even Flash are built on the object model.  There are ways of dealing with these mechanically, without really knowing much about them.  But if you at least understand the concepts these are built on, there’s a good chance you can make them work better for you.  And if you can get past the “secret language” that object oriented programmers use, you might find you can actually use it creatively.

Art will present a high-level introduction to the major concepts of object oriented programming.  The objective will be to enable the members of the audience to participate intelligently in a discussion that deals in part with object oriented ideas and terms without developing the “thousand-yard stare”.

Qualifications: Art started object oriented programming 20 years ago and has been doing object oriented programming and design on and off since then.  He has taught programming classes for a number of platforms including ASP.Net and has lead teams developing system using object oriented tools.

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Speaker: Mark Piller, Founder and Chief Architect of Midnight Coders.

We will be teaming up with Central Penn Adobe User Group for a two part session on Adobe Flex. The first part will an online meeting on April 14, at 6:00pm. Part two will be at a live meeting at JPL on May 28.

Flex Sesson – Part I (April 14)
Live, Remote Event via Webconference:

• Optimizing Flex client/server integration with Java, .NET, PHP backends
• Testing and debugging Flex application

Flex Sesson – Part II Live (May 28)
In-Person Event: (at JPL)

• Generating PDF documents from Flex clients
• Tracking user behavior and analytics for Flex applications

This two part session will provide an overview of various techniques and approaches developers can use in day-to-day activities for Flex and Flash application development, testing and runtime optimization. You will learn about ActionScript code generator for remoting and data management use-cases, learn how to create real-time messaging applications, see a demo of remoting invocation debugger and AMF traffic visualizer. Finally, you will see a demonstration of user behavior tracking and analytics in a Flex application. The session provides a lot of coding samples and API reviews. It is targeted at a wide range of developers ranging from beginner level to very advanced. Parts of the presentation will be useful for management folks and they are welcome to attend as well.

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Date: March 5, 2009
Time: 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Location: JPL, Directions

Please join us for our March meeting. As requested, we will be diving into a lot of ActionScript 3 during this meeting. We will also be taking a look at Adobe Flash Catalyst, the new member of the Flash family.

Flying the Flash Falcon by Josh Kendall
Josh will be covering how to use Falcon with PHP (and other server side languages) and will be showing an advanced demo of what can be accomplished with it. Falcon makes your life a little easier and gives you a shorter and consistent way to access server variables, text, XML and binary data in Flash.

Keeping it Dynamic by Shane Hoffa
Shane will show how to create a custom image gallery using XML. By using XML, you are able to keep your Flash applications dynamic. Which means you can easily update your application by simply adding new text to the XML file.

Hope to see everyone there. Please RSVP if you plan on attending. See you Thursday.

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