FlexAbility

The meeting starts at 6:15 PM, Eastern Standard Time.

Details at: http://www.bfaig.org/blog/?p=135

The main agenda item wil be a brainstorming session with Jack Hotchkiss from The Nature Conservancy about a project that he’s contemplating. See the above URL for details.

We hope to see you there!

Douglas

Meeting:

• Date: Tuesday, October 20, 2009
• Time: 6:15 PM EDT
• Where:
  • Online, at http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/bfaig20091020/
    • See our Attending BFAIG page for details on attending online.
  • In-Person, at the Boston office of Broduer Partners, 855 Boylston Street, a short walk from the Hynes & Copley Green Line T stops.
• Agenda:
  • Announcements & opening discussion
  • The floor will be open to anyone who wishes to present. If you’d like to insure that you’ll get a slot please contact us and we’ll put you on the agenda.
  • If time allows, Douglas McCarroll will show how he uses the “strategy” design pattern to sequence audio in his Language Collaborative project.
• Attendees will be eligible for our bi-annual software raffle:
  • Twice a year Adobe allows us to raffle off a software package – of the winner’s choice – worth up to $2100. Here’s how it works:
  • Attend monthly meetings of this group or of ABUG (our parent group)
  • Your name will be entered to win the software
  • Attend multiple meeting and your name will be added to the raffle list multiple times
  • Raffle will occur twice a year, some time in the second and fourth quarters of each year
  • Read the fine print at http://www.abug.us/blog/?p=4!

See you there!

About BFAIG:

BFAIG‘s focus is on helping new and intermediate developers with problems and questions that arise in the course of their work and study. While we may occasionally host an expert presenter, for the most part meetings consist of learner presenters presenting to the group and obtaining input and solutions for the issues that they raise. For a fuller explanation of how BFAIG operates, please see our website.

The Boston Flex Application Incubator Group – a subgroup of the Adobe Boston User Group – is being reactivated after being inactive for about a year.

The group will be meeting monthly on the third Tuesday of each month, from 5:45 – 7:15 PM. Meetings will have a combined online/in-person format, with the in-person aspect happening at the offices of Metatomix in Dedham. The next meeting will be this Tuesday.

BFAIG’s primary focus is on helping new and intermediate developers with problems and questions that arise in the course of their work and study. The group has a somewhat unusual format – rather than a “presenter dispensing knowledge and wisdom” we have “learner-presenters” who present a question or problem and get help from the other attendees.

Meeting details are at http://www.bfaig.org/blog/?p=83

BFAIG’s website at http://www.bfaig.org has a lot of details on how the group works.

BFAIG’s Yahoo Group mailing list is at http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/BFAIG/

I hope to see you there.

Details here: http://www.bfaig.org/blog/?p=65

Details are here:

http://www.bfaig.org/blog/?p=64

Excerpt: “Giorgio Natili will present on Intelligere SCS. Giorgio and Matteo Lanzi developed Intelligere in a mere two months. Given the fact that Intelligere duplicates much of Acrobat Connect’s funtionality, then adds a bit more, this is a fairly impressive demonstration of a) their programming abilities, and b) the Flex framework’s productivity. Giorgio will give a tour of the application, then give an overview of how he and Matteo integrated Flex, XML, Red5 and .NET to create Intelligere.”

Full announcement is here:

http://www.bfaig.org/blog/?p=59

Details are here:

http://www.bfaig.org/blog/?p=58

Max Antinori will be presenting his Species Explorer project. Should
be quite interesting!

Michael Labriolla will be presenting on creating custom AS components during the first hour. Should be interesting!

I’ve posted the announcement here:

http://www.bfaig.org/blog/?p=52

A few weeks ago I created a simple logo for the new Boston Flex Application Incubator Group. You can see it at our website. At the time I thought it was rather clever, and that it depicted an application hatching out of an egg. Since then I’ve been told by several people that it gives more of an impression that the egg is eating the application. Hmmm… Not good.

If you examine the logo another problem quickly becomes apparent, that being that I (rather obviously) am not a graphic designer.

Now I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking, “Gee Douglas, this looks like a serious problem. How can I help?”

Here’s how. I’m hereby instituting a BFAIG Logo Contest, and requesting submissions. All serious submissions will be displayed prominently at the top of the BFAIG home page for some period of time and will be credited with small text links. Eventually we’ll hold a vote amongst group members and select our official group logo. The winner will be announced through the same channels that this announcement is going out through, and will be credited with a small text link at the bottom of the BFAIG website.

Submissions can be sent to logo.contest at bfaig dot org. Ideally logo submissions should embody the ideas of “incubation” and/or “application(s)” and/or “group”.

We look forward to seeing what you can create!

Thanks,

Douglas

Details at http://www.bfaig.org/blog/?p=46