September Flex Meeting

[dwischusen]

Hello All,

I am pleased to announce that next Thursday, September the 11th, Yakov
Fain will be coming to Philadelphia to give a talk on “Comparing Flex
Frameworks.” Yakov recently gave this talk at the NYC Flex Group and
from what I hear it turned into a very lively debate, so come prepared
with your thoughts on Flex frameworks. If anybody in the Philly area
happens to be working on your own framework (I am looking at you Chris
Scott and Arpit Mathur) please come and tell us about them and let us
know what you think is missing in the existing frameworks or Flex
itself.

I am still trying to confirm the location, but we are hoping to have
this talk at the same location as last time (the Wharton building at
UPenn). In any case, the meeting will be in the city. I will do a
follow up post as soon as I’ve confirmed the location.

The talk will begin at 7:00 PM and should end before 9:00 PM.

Here is a synopsis of what Yakov's talk will cover:

Comparing Flex Frameworks:

The goal of any framework is to make the process of software
development and maintenance easier. There are different ways of
achieving this goal. Some people prefer working with frameworks that
are based on the Model-View-Controller pattern, while other like
dealing with class libraries of components. Each approach has its pros
and cons. During this session we’ll go over the same application that
was built using architectural frameworks Cairngorm, PureMVC and Mate
frameworks. If time permits, we’ll cover a CRUD code generator called
Clear Data Builder.

About the speaker:
Yakov Fain works as Flex and Java architect at Farata Systems, a
company that provides consulting and training services in the
metropolitan New York area. He authored several Java books, dozens of
technical articles. Recently he co-authored book , “Rich Internet
Applications with Adobe Flex and Java: Secrets of the Masters” in
Spring 2007 that was shipped to over 60 countries. Sun Microsystems
has nominated and awarded Yakov with the title Java Champion. He leads
the Princeton Java Users Group. Yakov teaches Java and Flex part time
at New York University.He hold MS in Applied Math. He’s a co-author of
the upcoming OReilly book “Enterprise Application Development with
Flex”

[Robert M. Hall, II]

Awesome thanks Derek! I will get a mirror of this info up on the Flash
site for you as well.

I recently put together a mailing list for all the Philadelpha Flash
User Group members, and invite anyone here on the Flex mailing list to
also sign up for it here:

http://lists.pfpaug.org/mailman/listinfo/pfpaug

More info available here:

http://www.pfpaug.org/core/pivot/entry.php?id=41

I just sent out a large list of other upcoming Flash/Flex related
events to that mailing which I'll mirror on the website shortly, but
will also push up a seperate post here for everyones benefit.

Regards,
Rob

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[Arpit Mathur]

Sounds great. I'll be there. Hopefully I'll have a 0.1 release of my framework to share by then :). I'll also bring my laundry list of Flex framework peeves ;).

- arpit