Denver RIA Developers Group inspiring the Flex community

Agenda:

5:30 - 6:00 Networking Happy Half-Hour - note: guests arriving after 6:00 pm will find the building locked. Please use the night bell to enter.

6:00 - 7:00 Frameworks: Flexing my Powerful RobotLegs

7:00 - 8:00 Building iPad apps with Flex 4.x

Food & Beverage sponsor is: On3
Hosting sponsor is: Hosting.com
Venue sponsor is: On3

_______________________________________________________________________

Presentation #1 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Speaker - Jeremy Williams

Jeremy Williams started his career in the waning years of COBOL mainframe application development, that's right - the big iron. After helping the world narrowly escape the disaster that could have been y2k he moved on to the internets. Jeremy has spent the last 15 years getting into adventures and moving on to the next project much like Bruce Banner, but without all the rage. He mirrored the industry, working with whichever language was all the rage. Moving from Java to .Net, then dabbling in PHP and then spending the last few years in the trenches of Flex development. Since finally giving up his car phone for a smart phone Jeremy has started to focus on mobile development but still talks about how he started in COBOL as if it gives him some sort of credibility.

Title - Frameworks: Flexing my Powerful RobotLegs

RobotLegs is an IoC framework that's been rising on the Flex framework scene. It's a pure AS3 microarchitecture so it can be used in non-Flex projects as well. One thing that I like about the framework is that it does a pretty good job of telling you what's wrong when you're building your app. For example it'll let you know if you've missed adding a class to the context. In this presentation I'll show you how to set up a Flex app from the ground up using RobotLegs. In addition I'll show you how to set up Flex Unit with RobotLets so that you can write unit tests or do test driven development for your project. I've worked with several Flex frameworks and RobotLegs is one of my favorites so far. This will be more of a live coding session than a theoretical talk about IoC. In this session you'll learn how to set up your package structure, create a context, create a central data model, map events to commands, create and communicate with services, set up your views and use mediators as backing classes that will contain the ActionScript for them. I'll also share a technique that I've been using that splits the context up so there isn't one giant class to manage.

________________________________________________________________________________

Presentation #2: 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Speaker - Daniel Wanja

Title - Building iPad apps with Flex 4.x

Description - TBD

_______________________________________________________________

Meeting Sponsors?

If your organization is interested in sponsoring the group or a specific meeting, please feel free to contact us.

What does it cost? The meeting is free; however, we would appreciate if you'd RSVP in advance. To reserve your seat, please register for the group and then navigate back to this page to add your name to the roster. Thanks!

Can't make it in person? RSVP as "Maybe" and then join us online.
The meeting will be broadcast online through our Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro meeting room. The URL is:  HTTP://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/ria5280/