During our June meeting, we are honored to host Ryan Stewart to talk about the new version of Flash Builder, Flash, Creative Suite and a whole host of other software that Adobe recently shipped.  With the release of Flash Builder 4.5 Adobe added support for building mobile applications with ActionScript and Flex for iOS, Android, and the BlackBerry PlayBook. Ryan Stewart, a developer evangelist for Adobe, will be coming to talk about the new mobile workflow and how you can use your Flex skills to deploy mobile apps across those platforms. He'll talk about the new workflows for deployment and debugging, some tips and tricks that will help you optimize your code, and some things to keep in mind as you're creating applications for all three platforms. This is one of the biggest Flex and Flash Builder releases yet and it opens up the world of mobile development to every Flex developer.

We will also be giving away a copy of Adobe Creative Suite CS5.5 in addition to many other awesome prizes!

The meeting will be held on June 23rd, 2011 on the campus of Michigan State University.  We will be meeting in room 1415 in the Biomedical and Physical Sciences building located in the heart of campus at 7pm.  Libations to follow the meeting.  This is NOT our normal meeting location.

This meeting will not be recorded or broadcast live.

On December 14th, we will be hosting our 4th annual christmas party, and 2nd annual DemoCamp Lansing event!  DemoCamp is an event that will allow you to show off any products or apps you've been working on to the Lansing community.  We have partnered up with the Mid-Michigan ColdFusion User Group, the Lansing .NET usersgroup, and many other local groups for this event. All types of projects are accepted, and we encourage members from ALL usergroups to present.

You are required to RSVP, but the event is free.  There will be a cash bar for beverages.

Click here to let us know what project you want to show us, or head over to the DemoCamp website for more information.   A special thanks to TechSmith and the MSU Alumni Association for their sponsorships.

On Thursday July 8th, we will be having our annual Picnic and BBQ with the Mid-Michigan ColdFusion Users Group.  We will be meeting at around 6:30pm at Patriarche Park in East Lansing, with food near 7pm.  Bring your family and friends and meet interesting people from the community.  Hotdogs, hamburgers and soda will be provided by the usergroup.

There will be no set topic for the evening.  If it is raining that evening, we will meet at Reno's East just down the road on Saginaw Highway.  Patriarche Park is located on the corner of Saginaw and Alton Roads in East Lansing.  Our reservation is on the east side of the baseball field (furthest away from Alton Road).

See you there!

For our December meeting, we are partnering up with a few other local user groups like the Greater Lansing .NET Users Group and the Mid-Michigan ColdFusion Users Group to bring you Lansing's first DemoCamp!  This DemoCamp is sponsored by TechSmith and will feature YOUR projects that you want to show the rest of the community.  Have something cool that you want to show, or just want to bounce ideas off the rest of the community?  This is the place!

Info:  December 15th, 2009 @ Harpers Brew Pub in Downtown Lansing

Cost: FREE!  (Thanks to TechSmith!)

Registration is required (so we know how many people are coming), but it is free.  You can pick up your ticket here :http://democamplansing.eventbrite.com/.  More information about the event can be found here : http://barcamp.org/DemoCampLansing1.

Indiana University Bloomington will host the third annual BFusion and BFlex conferences, two days of hands-on training from experts in Adobe ColdFusion, Flex, AIR, and Flash Catalyst -- technologies used to rapidly build Rich Internet Applications.

   When: Saturday, October 24 (BFusion); Sunday, October 25 (BFlex)
   Where: Kelley School of Business

BFusion is a full day of hands-on ColdFusion training. It features a true beginners track, a beginners track for programmers new to ColdFusion, an intermediate track on framework-based development, and
other hands-on sessions for intermediate and advanced developers.

BFlex is a full day of hands-on Flash Platform development with Flex, AIR, Catalyst, and Flash Builder. It also features beginner and true beginner tracks, as well as hands-on sessions for intermediate and advanced developers. New this year is a track for designers looking to use Adobe Flash Catalyst for developing Rich Internet Applications.

This is a tremendous training opportunity, especially with the cuts in training and travel budgets. Some of the sessions being given at this event are the same sessions by the same speakers as were at Adobe MAX in LA last week for as much as $595 for the day of training. This event at IUB is $10/day and is open to students, faculty, staff and the general public.

I encourage you to point your developers to this opportunity. Send your designers too! There is a full day Flash Catalyst course on Sunday. This prerelease technology allows designers to take Illustrator and Photoshop comps and turn them into Rich Internet Applications (including cross-platform, network aware desktop AIR applications) without any programming.

So send your staff and come yourself. It is a great skill-building experience and wonderful candy for the brain!

For details and to register, visit the event web site:

   http://bflex.info/