Denver RIA Developers Group inspiring the Flex community

Agenda:

5:30 - 6:00 Networking Happy Half-Hour

6:00 - 7:00 Merapi: The Direct Bridge Between Adobe AIR and Java

7:00 - 8:00 Leveraging nodeJS to manage massively concurrent clients using Flex 4 in FDT

Food & Beverage sponsor is: Gunther Douglas, Inc
Hosting sponsor is: Hosting.com
Venue sponsor is: On3 Flex Training

Presentation #1

Presenter: Adam Flater

Adam Flater - Adam Flater uses a multidisciplinary approach to translate complex technologies into accessible software solutions. He enhances design with his expert utilization of Microsoft, Java, and Adobe technologies as well as effectively communicates specialized standards to advance the overall architectural vision and business goals of any project. As a Software Architect for EffectiveUI and Universal Mind, he contributed to Adobe MAX award-winning projects: eBay Desktop and NASDAQ's Market Replay. As an active member of the Flex community, Adam uses his knowledge to help educate others by lending his voice as the featured speaker at such notable conferences as: The eBay Developer Conference, Fig Leaf's Web Maniacs, 360 Flex, The Adobe OnAir Bus Tour, and The Adobe MAX Conference. Adam Flater is currently a Technical Architect and Evangelist at Roundarch and is also the founder of and principal contributor to the Merapi Project, a bridge for web user interfaces and native code. For more information on Adam Flater, follow @adamflater on Twitter or visit http://adamflater.net.

Description:

Building a Bridge between Adobe AIR and Java (OS) (6:00 PM - 7:00 PM)

Merapi is a Java^TM application, intended to run on a user's (client) computer. Merapi connects other Java^TM applications on the user's computer to Adobe AIR^TM applications that the user has installed. How Merapi Works

Merapi is a framework that bridges an AIR application with a Java application, both running on the desktop. This communication is accomplished through a class that exists in Java and ActionScript called merapi.Bridge.

Presentation #2

Presenter: Michael Morrisey

Michael is a software developer for Colorado Public Radio. He architects and implements internal software for the organization using a wide array of technologies and languages, specializing in but not limited to Flex and jQueryUI applications with PHP backends. Before coming to CPR, Michael worked for years starting Parent Teacher Network, a custom CMS solution to run parent teacher associations and organizations. He still works for PTN doing future Flash/HTML5 development for the upcoming version of the software (http://www.webptn.com). He also does freelance consulting for a California-based company called 3phase Internet Solutions and in his spare time is working on a PC game using the Unreal 3 Engine. You can follow him on Twitter: @CompewterTutor or read the presentation's daily build progress at http://thenerdery.info (Launching 11/6)

Presentation Description: (7:00 PM - 8:00 PM)

Michael will give a brief background on the server-side javascript technology nodeJS and its background and features. Following that, he will give a walkthrough of a Flex 4 project built using FDT and connecting to nodeJS highlighting significantly advantageous features in FDT, Flex 4, and nodeJS along the way.

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