[Adogo] 2010 Meeting Topics

[Matthew Zimmer]

Hi all.  First of all, thanks goes to Gregg, Maxim an Brian for getting back to me in my earlier post*.  I know I sent each a response but for some reason my comments never made it through.  I sent this email as a reply to my Groovy post a couple of nights ago and my comments are just not going through.  Anyway, I'm starting to settle in after my lengthy vacation so I wanted to start the year off right by saying thank you to those whom cared enough to lend me a helping hand.  I digress.  :-)

I would like to start a discussion as far as topics to talk about this year if there is enough interest.  I have several personal topics of interest that I have been researching, reading about and dabbling with and I would love to talk more about them with the community if you are interested.  So, here are some of my personal suggestions for 2010:

1. Dependency injection in ActionScript

* How do you feel it could best be applied in Flex/Flash Application Development?  Which framework has the best solution?

2. Flex Framework showdown (for smaller projects with 25-50 classes)

* PureMVC vs Parsley vs Swiz vs Spring ActionScript vs other.  Have you bought any stock in any of them yet? If so, which one(s) and why?
3. Maven or Ant in your world? Why?
4. BlazeDS

* For those with JEE back-end systems, how are you using BlazeDS? For non-JEE, what are you using?
5. "Spring BlazeDS" initiative at SpringSource

* Are you buying in to it?
6. Unit Testing for TDD

* MXUnit for ColdFusion, FlexUnit 4 for Flex, JUnit for Java - do you use it? Do you believe in it?
7. Flash Builder 4

* The NEW! Network Monitor, Enhanced Memory Profiler, FlexUnit 4 native integration, likes/dislikes, etc.
8. Flex SDK 4

* Are your ready? Your thoughts?
9. AIR SDK 2.0

* Is there anything missing that you badly want added to AIR SDK?
10. Slider: Flex Mobile Framework vs. OpenPlug's ELIPS Studio 3
11. Multi-threading in the Flash Player (>= FP v10.1.x for sure)

* Is it important to you?
12. Jetty vs Tomcat vs GlassFish vs others (if different)

* Why did you choose the one you did?

The list definitely goes on but these are some of the more important topics I am engaged in at this time.  Spring is another one and I'd love to talk more about it but maybe it's better suited for the JUG meet ups.  Unless, of course, we talk about the Spring ActionScript Flex framework or even ColdSpring for the ColdFusion developers. I'm game for whatever, really.  Speaking of ColdFusion, has anyone else heard that the next version of Railo may allow for ColdFusion Components (CFCs) to not only extend and implement other CFCs as is possible today, but ALSO native Java classes, too?  CFLinkedHashMap, anyone?  :-) I have not found anything concrete yet but I'd like to hear what you've heard, if anything.

Anyone care to offer alternative suggestions?

Matt

* - http://groups.google.com/group/adogo/browse_thread/thread/d48626e45f0940c0

[Michael Bragg]

This sounds great - what is the meeting schedule for 2010? I'm a new
guy here. - Mike

[Maxim Porges]

Hey guys,

First off, many thanks to Matthew for an exhaustive list of very relevant potential discussions for 2010. I'd like to bring everybody up to speed on the status of the group.

As you all know, Adam, Brian, and I started the user group several years ago, and have organized a large number of presentations from local and remote speakers and several events in the Orlando area during that time. We've had a great run and have appreciated the support from all the attendees - especially those who have stepped up to create a presentation and share their expertise with the group, or show us an application that they or their employers have built with rich Internet technologies.

After two years, the three of us are re-focusing on our families, our jobs, and our other interests, and have not been filling in the gap when speakers have not stepped forward to present topics. At this stage, Brian has stepped down from his role in managing the group, and neither Adam nor I are actively pursuing speakers to present topics at the monthly meetings.

We're at the point where we'd like to pass the torch on to a new person (or team) in the community to manage the user group. We have excellent relationships with a number of local sponsors and the DeVry administrators, and can basically hand over a turnkey system to whoever is interested in taking over. Managing the group is really as simple as the following, which takes an hour or so per month of the manager's time (mostly via email).

1) Setting up speakers to present, which basically boils down to scheduling their time and getting a primer from them.
2) Updating the WordPress blog with the presentation info and primer.
3) Working with local sponsors (often recruiting agencies) to get food and/or other goodies.
4) Setting up an Evite for the event to count attendees (so the sponsor know how much food/etc. to bring).
5) Emailing DeVry each semester to request the meeting room (which is free).

Adogo is registered with Adobe as an official user group, so group managers receive swag packages several times per year with goodies to hand out, as well as some special treatment from Adobe themselves such as discounts to Adobe MAX, weekly training, and other benefits. You can learn more here: http://groups.adobe.com/pages/c9b6d661e2/pages/ab076352bc

We've put a lot of work in to the group and would love to see it continue under new leadership. Anybody who is interested can email me directly.

Thanks,

- max

On Feb 5, 2010, at 10:43 AM, Matthew Zimmer wrote:

> Hi Mike! Welcome to the community! I am relatively new myself and I look forward to meeting others in the area throughout the year.
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> There is nothing official as far as meet ups go at this time and I suppose one might consider this post the unofficial official kickoff of the 2010 meet up calendar. I am eager to collaborate with other community members so please, by all means, if you have any suggestions share them with us here. The more topics we have, the better.
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> Hopefully Maxim Porges will be able to chime in and share his ideas as I know he has a great amount of experience in the area of organizing the community. I am merely trying to start the fire for now! :-)

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> On Feb 5, 2010, at 10:03 AM, Michael Bragg wrote:
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>> This sounds great - what is the meeting schedule for 2010? I'm a new
>> guy here. - Mike
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[Michael Bragg]

Matthew,

 

This is great. Depending on the size of the group, I may be able to lend a hand with some conference space to meet w/ internet connectivity, etc.

 

Is there an actual calendar of events somewhere online? I seem to remember something from last December when I first stumbled into this group...

 

- Mike

 

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Subject: Re: [Adogo] Re: 2010 Meeting Topics

Hi Mike!  Welcome to the community!  I am relatively new myself and I look forward to meeting others in the area throughout the year.

There is nothing official as far as meet ups go at this time and I suppose one might consider this post the unofficial official kickoff of the 2010 meet up calendar.  I am eager to collaborate with other community members so please, by all means, if you have any suggestions share them with us here.  The more topics we have, the better.

Hopefully Maxim Porges will be able to chime in and share his ideas as I know he has a great amount of experience in the area of organizing the community.  I am merely trying to start the fire for now!  :-)

On Feb 5, 2010, at 10:03 AM, Michael Bragg wrote:

> This sounds great - what is the meeting schedule for 2010? I'm a new
> guy here. - Mike
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[Matthew Zimmer]

Hi Mike!  Welcome to the community!  I am relatively new myself and I look forward to meeting others in the area throughout the year.

There is nothing official as far as meet ups go at this time and I suppose one might consider this post the unofficial official kickoff of the 2010 meet up calendar.  I am eager to collaborate with other community members so please, by all means, if you have any suggestions share them with us here.  The more topics we have, the better.

Hopefully Maxim Porges will be able to chime in and share his ideas as I know he has a great amount of experience in the area of organizing the community.  I am merely trying to light the fire for now!  :-)