PITCFUG - Pittsburgh Area Adobe ColdFusion User Group

Pittsburgh ColdFusion User Group


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	FEBRUARY PITCFUG MEETING “ColdFusion / Flex Magic” “AIR V2” Tuesday February 16th

What Do You Want To Hear?

Please use this link to take our short survey of topics you’d like to see in upcoming meetings: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/8VSFPQ3


	ColdFusion / Flex Magic AIR V2 Tuesday, February 16 \| 5:30 (Networking & Pizza), 6:00 (Meeting) This presentation demostrates using Flex with ColdFusion 8 (or CF9)for instance), along with the LCDS features that are built-in to ColdFusion. It starts from scratch and shows all of the steps needed to do a multi-user CRUD database application that automatically informs users about changes made by other users. Time permitting, we will also talk about some of the new features coming up in AIR V2 that are part of the public beta currently in progress. If you have been working with the AIR V2 beta and would like to see some specific feature covered, please drop an email to reed@PowellGenealogy.com and we’ll try to line it up for inclusion in the meeting. Hope to see you there!


	ADOBE MAX 2009 USER CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS ARE ON ADOBE TV

		Adobe’s annual user conference - MAX - was held a few weeks ago. Video recordings of many of the presentations from MAX2009 are available for viewing at http://tv.adobe.com/show/max-2009-develop/ These are great, high quality videos chock full of technical information and production directions.


	MONTHLY DRAWINGS FOR FREE ON-LINE TRAINING FROM WEBUCATOR.COM

	Webucator.com provides customized on-site and instructor led training on a variety of products, including ColdFusion, AJAX, and SQL Server. They have started a new user group program that allows us hold a monthly drawing in which the winner gets a 12-month subscription to the course of their choice. Click HERE see the courses that are available to the winners.


	Meetings of the Pittsburgh Adobe ColdFusion User Group are held at IMPAQT’s offices in Greentree. The discussion begins at 6pm, with networking and food starting at 5:30pm. Our meetings are sponsored by IMPAQT and Powell Genealogy. Click HERE for directions.


	GREAT RIA APPLICATION LINKS !


	Here are some great links of great applications - most are Flex-based, and many received Clio awards (more info here). All are mind-blowing when you think of what is behind them in the way of coding. www.ImmersiveMedia.com www.GetTheGlass.com www.Agencynet.com


	LIBRARY OF COLDFUSION PRESENTATIONS


	If you missed any recent meetings which were viewings of previously recorded presentations, you can view them a your leisure by visiting Charlie Arehart’s User Group TV site: www.carehart.org/ugtv and selecting the presentation of interest. This is a great resource of information on topics related to ColdFusion, including Flex, AIR, AJAX, and the like.

The Pittsburgh area ColdFusion Users Group normally meets on the third Tuesday of each month. Our meetings begin at 6:00 pm, and are held in Greentree at the Foster Plaza offices of IMPAQT (click on the DIRECTIONS button for more details). We will always have at least one presentation at each meeting, along with any organizational discussions that are needed. Our meetings are sponsored by IMPAQT, who also provide the Pizza and pop/soda.


				COLDFUSION SERVER INTERNALS

“ColdFusion Internals” was a past topic of the online CF User Group (www.ColdFusionMeeting.com). Click HERE to view the recording.

			FLASH PLAYER 10 FLEX 3.2 SUPPORT
		Here’s what the bloggers have to say about coding Flex applications for the new Flash Player: Matt Chotin blogged about the official stance on Flex and Flash Player: http://blogs.adobe.com/flex/archives/2008/10/flex_and_flash_player_10.html How To Build Flash Player 10 Applications using Flex SDK* http://www.flexer.info/2008/05/21/how-to-build-flash-player-10-applications-using-flex-sdk/ Using Flash Player 10 within Flex Builder* http://blog.everythingflex.com/2008/05/20/using-flash-player-10-within-flex-builder/

	COLDFUSION NOW FREE FOR EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS

			At the CFUNITED keynote address, Ben Forta (Adobe Chief Evangelist) announced that ColdFusion will now be availablee to ducational institutions at no cost! Users have been asking for this for a long time, to help increase the crop of CF developers.

GETTING THE WORD OUT!

Please send any information you might have in terms of contacts for ColdFusion developers and companies in the Greater Pittsburgh area to the E-mail below. This could be information for yourself, so that you get added to our E-mail distribution list, as well as other companies or developers that you know of. We rely heavily on word-of-mouth to publicize our existence. If you have ideas on how to get the word out, please let us know.


	CONTACT REED POWELL (RPowell [at] IMPAQT.com) for more information.


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