Denver RIA Developers Group inspiring the Flex community

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Agenda:

1:30 - 2:15 pm Networking

2:15 - 3:15 pm Jeff Tapper, Digital Primates, Parsley: Not as Rancid as you Might Have Thought

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3:30 - 4:30 pm Matthew McCullough and Tim Berglund, Software Entrepreneurs, Git: Distributed Version Control

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The O'Reilly video

4:45 - 5:45 pm Eric Fickes, Independent Internet Contractor, Targeting Screens with HTML5, Flash, and Native

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6:00 - 7:00 pm James Ward, Adobe Systems, Building Cross-Device Apps with Flex

The Recording

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Presentation #1 2:15 - 3:15 pm

Speaker - Jeff Tapper

Description: Parsley: Not as Rancid as you Might Have Thought

Jeff Tapper is an expert on Flex Development and part time humorist. He will be discussing the Parsley Framework, a breath freshening choice for Flex development.
 
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Presentation #2 3:30 - 4:30 pm

Speakers - Matthew McCullough and Tim Berglund

Description: Git: Distributed Version Control

Many development shops have made the leap from RCS, Perforce, ClearCase, PVCS, CVS, BitKeeper or SourceSafe to the modern Subversion (SVN) version control system. But why not take the next massive stride in productivity and get on board with Git, a distributed version control system. Jump ahead of the masses staying on Subversion, and increase your team's productivity, debugging effectiveness, flexibility in cutting releases, and repository and connectivity redundancy (at $0 cost). Understand how distributed version control systems (DVCSes) are game-changers and pick up the lingo that will become standard in the next few years.

In this talk, we discuss the team changes that liberate you from the central server, but still conform the corporate expectation that there's a central master repository. You'll get a cheat sheet for Git, and a trail-map from someone who's actually experienced the Subversion to Git transition.

Lastly, we'll even expose how you can leverage 75% of Git's features against a Subversion repository without ever telling your bosses you are using it (they'll only start to wonder why you are so much more effective in your checkins than other members of your team).

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Presentation #3 4:45 - 5:45 pm

Speaker - Eric Fickes

Description -Targeting Screens with HTML5, Flash & Native

HTML5 will connect devices in a similar fashion XML connected systems back in 2000. The target isn't just web and desktop anymore. Soon software developers will be targeting screens: desktop monitor, smartphone monitor, and TV. On the web, HTML5 will be the common platform, but we'll still need the Flash Platform.

This presentation will talk about where we have been and also where we are likely to go in the future. Developers will need to know when to use HTML5, when to use Flash and Flex, and when to use Native. This presentation will steer you in the right direction.

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Presentation #4 6:00 - 7:00 pm

Speaker - James Ward

Description - Building Cross-Device Apps with Flex

Today, users want apps in the browser, on their desktop, phone, tablet, and TV. Reusing code across all of these devices is now crucial for developers. With Flex developers can build apps that work on a variety of devices including PCs, Android phones / tablets, the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet, iPhones, and iPads. This session will walk developers through the steps and components for creating these cross-device apps.

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The meeting will be broadcast online through our Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro meeting room. The URL is:  HTTP://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/ria5280/