Perth Flash Developers Group

Second Meeting Confirmed: Wed 10th December

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:51:00 GMT

The seond meeting of PFDG will be :

6-8pm, Wednesday 10th December 2008
Velvet Lounge, back of Flying Scotsman Hotel
Beaufort St
Mt Lawley

I will be demonstrating an application using Ruby on Rails for the backend, and Flex on the frontend.
See Flex connecting to a MySQL table in so lttle code, you'll be amazed!

Second meeting WITHOUT CFUGWA (Study group now next year)

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:49:00 GMT

Whoops ! Apologies to CFUGWA for jumping the gun. They are prob watching the Flex 3 videos next year, so we'l meet without them sometime in December. Please use the survey to add your vote for the best time and venue.

PFDG on LinkedIn

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 15:21:00 GMT

Our group now has a presence on LinkedIn

Second Meeting with CFUGWA

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 13:21:00 GMT

Our second meeting will be with the Cold Fusion Users Group WA in the first half of December. We will be watching some Flex 3 training videos from Adobe.

To register your interest, please complete this survey.

Next year we will settle into a regular venue and meeting time. Promise !

Straight from the horses mouth

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 14:26:00 GMT

Here's an aggregation of official Adobe Blogs : http://blogs.adobe.com
There's some great stuff in there eg. the videos from the MAX conference

WA Web Week and our first meeting

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 13:00:00 GMT

Congratulations to all those involved in pulling together the week just ending with a packed series of events stirring up the web industry, including Edge of the Web Conference, WA Web Awards and WebJam. In a tiny corner of the week we had our first meeting with Kai, and had some good conversation about Flash, Flex, Adobe, Obama, Silverlight etc.

Some points that came out :

As an official Adobe User Group we will get major Adobe products twice a year to give away to members. Kai suggested we give tickets out at each meeting, which go into the hat for the 6 monthly raffle, and speakers get extra tickets. Sounds good to me.
We can possibly get some money for food and drink at meetings from Adobe (other groups do)
3:30 aint a good timeslot (but the best we could do this time around to have Kai with us)
We need a regular venue - any offers/comments ? How about the Velvet Lounge on the 3rd Wednesday of each month ?
Organised speakers with advertised topics are a big drawcard for people to come

Any comments ?

p.s. I talked about the concept of Flash/Flex reading its data from the HTML page it is hosted by, and that data doubling as a fallback if Flash isn't available. I've blogged about that and my current pet project Freethingo here.

Inaugural Meeting

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 14:31:00 GMT

The Perth Flash Developers Group is a casual monthly gathering of professionals, students and enthusiasts interested in the Adobe Flash Platform, including the Flex and Flash development environments.

For our inaugural meeting we will kick off with visiting Adobe Ambassador, blogger, speaker, consultant and Master Instructor Kai Koenig while he is in Perth for the Edge of the Web conference. We’ll have an informal question and answer session (with laptop, projector and internet). This will be a prime opportunity to get some expert advice or comment on those curly questions !

The Guiness is $5 a pint !
The Port 80 meeting is scheduled for 6pm immediately after.
For discussion, please use the Port 80 Flash forum
We will discuss at the meeting when to meet in future

Hope to see you there !

Gary McGhee
Flex developer for the past 18 months
Buzzware Solutions

3:30-5:30pm Wednesday, November 5th 2008
Velvet Lounge (Grosvenor Rd side of)
Flying Scotsman Hotel
Beaufort St, Mt Lawley
(same venue as Port 80/AWIA meetings)