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by David Evennou

AAJUG General Meeting – Flex and Java Presentation with James Ward.

September 22, 2009 in events

AAJUG General Meeting Announcemnt

Hello Ann Arbor JUG Members,

We are planning a Flex and Java Presentation with James Ward.
Date: Tuesday, Sept. 22nd, 2009
Time: 6:30 PM – 9:30 PM EDT
Note: We will have giveaways such as T-Shirts, Pens, Books, etc. from Sun Microsystems.
Also, attendees will have a chance to win a free license of one of the JetBrains products:

a. IntelliJ IDEA Personal License
b. ReSharper Personal License
c. TeamCity Build Agent (for our Continuous Integration and Build Server)
d. RubyMine Personal License

If you have not yet responded, please reply to rsvp@data-masters if you plan to attend!
Meeting Location:
Washtenaw Community College, WCC BE 182

http://www.wccnet.org/search/roomlocator/index.php?room=BE182&bego=Go

Presentation: Java and Flex

Building highly interactive software that users love to use is usually a challenging endeavor. However, the open source Flex SDK and Java are a perfect combination of technologies for building very rich and highly interactive software for the Web and the desktop. The communication between the Java back-end and Flex front-end can utilize a number of different communication protocols, but the easiest and best performing is the open source BlazeDS library. This session covers the fundamentals of using Flex, Java, Spring, and BlazeDS to build rich and highly interactive software for the Web and the desktop.

Thanks your supporting your local JUG!!
AAJUG

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by Dianne Marsh

Full Day of Flex before AAJUG on September 22

September 1, 2009 in events

Flex Jam with James Ward, Adobe Flex evangelist
Date: Tuesday September 22, 2009
Time: 9:00 am –  4:30 pm
Location: Ann Arbor Chamber of Commerce

Early bird (before September 5): $150
After September 5: $175

Register at http://flexjam.eventbrite.com
·     Registration includes continental breakfast and boxed lunch.
·     Also includes a copy of “First Steps in Flex” by Bruce Eckel and James Ward ($25 value)

For more information, contact SRT Solutions at 734-929-3211.

Join SRT Solutions as we host James Ward, Adobe Flex evangelist, on Tuesday, September 22, 2009, for an interactive day of Flex (and AIR) development and exploration.  Jams, pioneered by Bruce Eckel and modeled after sessions that bring musicians together to create something new and interesting, take learning beyond the lecture/lab process.  The lecture/lab learning works best for groups where everyone is at the same level.  By bringing together developers of varying skill levels with a technology, the Jam process allows everyone to work at their own level.

Experienced Flex developers: bring problems of your own to work on, with the guidance of James Ward.

New or limited experience Flex developers: bring examples of problems to try, or work on the examples provided.

Note that James will also be speaking at the Ann Arbor Java User Group that evening!


James Ward is a Technical Evangelist for Flex at Adobe and Adobe’s JCP representative to JSR 286, 299, and 301. Much like his love for climbing mountains he enjoys programming because it provides endless new discoveries, elegant workarounds, summits and valleys. His adventures in climbing have taken him many places. Likewise, technology has brought him many adventures, including: Pascal and Assembly back in the early 90′s; Perl, HTML, and JavaScript in the mid 90′s; then Java and many of it’s frameworks beginning in the late 90′s. Today he primarily uses Flex to build beautiful front-ends for Java based back-ends. Prior to Adobe, James built a rich marketing and customer service portal for Pillar Data Systems.

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