CFUG Meeting moved to May 23

Howdy, due to Mike D’s knee injury, the CFUG meeting is being moved to May 23. @ Brown-Heatly at 1 pm. Going to show some Adobe CS 6 goodies and Todd will be sharing info from some his recent conferences.

Special Adobe Event in June!

An Evening with Mike & Lee on the Future of Flash

St Edwards University (Maebe Ballroom, 3001 S Congress Ave).

Join us for an evening with Mike Chambers & Lee Brimlow from Adobe. This will be a good opportunity to speak directly with Adobe, ask questions, and discuss recent changes around the Flash Player.

The Future of Flash – Mike Chambers
In this session, Mike will lead a discussion around recent changes and announcements around the Flash Platform. He will then spend some time laying out the roadmap for the Flash Player, and discuss the direction in which the player will evolve, including the general focus of the player and the ActionScript language and AVM (ActionScript Virtual Machine). In addition to discussing the Flash roadmap, we will be showing off the latest Flash and Adobe AIR content, give some sneak peeks on upcoming releases, and setting aside plenty of time for open discussions and Q&A.

Adobe Gaming Technology – Lee Brimlow
In this session Gaming Evangelist Lee Brimelow will reveal the latest technologies being worked on by Adobe for game developers. They will show how these technologies allow developers to create casual 2D games in addition to AAA 3D games. Current best practices will also be discussed.

Mike Chambers has spent the last decade building applications that target the web and the Flash runtime. During that time, he has worked with numerous technologies including Flash, Generator, .NET, Central, Flex, Objective-C, Cocoa, JavaScript and HTML5. He is currently the Directory of Developer Advocacy for web platforms at Adobe. He has written and spoken extensively on Flash and Rich Internet Application development and is coauthor of the Apollo for Adobe Flex Developers Pocket Guide,Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) for JavaScript Developers Pocketguide, Flash Enabled: Flash Design and Development for Devices as well as Generator and Flash Demystified.

http://www.mikechambers.com/blog/

Lee Brimelow is a developer evangelist at Adobe who is currently focusing on Flash gaming. He has worked in the past for companies like AOL, Netscape, frog design, and eBay. Lee runs the highly popular video tutorial site at gotoandlearn.com and writes a blog dedicated to Flash at theflashblog.com.

Register here:

CFUG Meeting May 9th

Austin CFUG meeting will be held May 9, at the Brown-Heatly Building, 4900 North Lamar from 1-3 PM. Topic and speaker TBA…

CFUG Meeting moved to February 15

Due to scheduling snafus, we are going to reschedule the CFUG meeting for Feb 15. We will be having “API Rodeo”, show or tell about your favorite CF API’s and mashups. There will be pizza and beverages.

Meeting with be at 4900 North Lamar (Brown Heatly Building), from 1-3 PM. Check in with security desk for room assignment.

CFUG Meeting Jan 11, 2012

Austin CFUG meeting, Wednesday, Jan 11, 2012 @ Brown-Heatly Building, 4900 North Lamar, Austin. Speaker and Topic: TBA

Austin CFUG Meeting Oct 12- UPDATE

Austin CFUG Meeting, Wednesday, October 12, 1-3 PM. 4900 North Lamar Blvd @ Brown Heatly Building.
Co-manager Todd Sanders will discuss Adobe Max 2011, NCDevcon, and The BigTexas Android BBQ.

He will be talking about tons of new and exciting stuff going on adobe and the new features of CS 5.5 and about the new Adobe Cloud, Creating Mobile Apps cross platform with Adobe tools. You don’t want to miss this.

Here are a few key areas

ColdFusion 10 (Zeus)
CF9 Enhanced Caching
Creating CF Based Facebook Applications
Using Dreamweaver to Create a Mobile App
The Adobe Creative Cloud and what’s news with Adobe
Adobe and the Mobile Space
HTML5 vs Flash Don’t Believe the Hype.
Sneak Peaks of Adobe tools that will blow your mind.
And Many More.

You can either try to read a thousand blog posts or just come to the meeting and see the newest and greatest things going on in the CF/Adobe World.

Where else will you get 7 days of conference information in less than 2 hours, Don’t Miss Out!!

Thanks to Hal Helms

A big thank you to Hal Helms for the presentation and mention on his blog… http://www.halhelms.com/blog/index.cfm/2011/7/29/A-ColdFusion-Developer-Examines-Ruby-on-Rails-A-Night-in-Austin#more

CF Job Opportunity in Austin

Knox Technology Inc. is looking for a full time CF developer in Austin who can immediately begin contributing to our business.  We are a small software shop that specializes in talent management systems within the restaurant industry.  We have a 12 year history in this industry and plan to continue extending that.

Some of the high-level expectations for a developer on our team are as follows:
1.  Manage your time effectively so as to meet release schedules and client driven deadlines.  Use tools such as Assembla, Firebug, Xmarks, LastPass, Mylyn, etc. to create efficiency within your workflow.
2.  Work as efficiently and quickly as possible while maintaining a high level of quality.
3.  Write clear, clean, and concise code based on our standard coding principles.
4.  Contribute to the maintenance of Wiki/Code documentation to help developers understand the system and its processes more thoroughly.

Here are the more detailed technical requirements:
1.  Advanced CFML knowledge (up to version 9)
2.  Experience with CF 9 Enterprise and clustering
3.  Advanced T-SQL knowlege
4.  Basic knowledge of Fusebox 5
5.  Basic knowledge of MVC architecture
6.  Ability to translate business objectives into technical requirements
7.  Basic Ant script knowledge
8.  Basic Selenium + CFSelenium knowledge
9.  Intermediate ExtJS + javascript knowledge (up to version 4)
10.  Intermediate HTML + CSS knowledge (up to HTML 5.0 and CSS 3.0)

Here are the “bonus” technical skills that would be beneficial:
1.  Advanced Eclipse + CFEclipse + Subversive + Mylyn experience
2.  Management of SQL Analysis services
3.  Advanced knowledge of Hudson CI
4.  Intermediate to advanced knowledge of VMWare
5.  Intermediate to advanced knowledge of Flex 4
6.  Intermediate to advanced knowledge of Coldbox is a plus

If you live in the city of Austin and can fully meet the expectations and requirements of the position, please email your resume to micah@knoxtechnologyinc.com.  Cheers.

Hal Helms – CF Programmer’s Investigation of Ruby on Rails – July 27th 7pm

The World Famous and One of the Original
ColdFusion Guru’s in Austin One Night Only.

The Legendary Hal Helms
http://halhelms.com/

Speaking on
“A ColdFusion Programmer’s Investigation of Ruby on Rails”

July 27th at 7pm

MicroAssist, Inc.
8500 Shoal Creek
Building 4, Suite 225
Austin, TX 78757

http://www.microassist.com/contact-us/office-location/

CFUG/Flex Meetup, Wednesday, June 15

The Austin ColdFusion and Flex user groups are going to have a joint meetup at the Gingerman on June 15th at 7 pm. Come out, have a cold beverage and discuss all things CF and Flex.

The Gingerman is located at 301 Lavaca St.