Announcing a new Meetup for The Online ColdFusion Meetup!

Our 12pm (US ET) talk on Thursday July 8 will be Getting Started With Adobe AIR (aka how to build cool ‘stuff’)” with Matt Gifford aka coldfumonkeh.

TOPIC DESCRIPTION: (provided by the speaker)

So, you want to build a killer desktop application, but unsure about your application descriptor or how to manage it? Perhaps you want to build a cross-platform tool to destroy all others and harness the power of your ColdFusion applications, but don’t know your AS3 from your elbow? During this session, we will embrace the RIA functionality and features on offer when developing desktop applications with Adobe AIR. From the initial creation of the project, we will cover the core foundations of building your desktop application using Flex, how to incorporate your existing ColdFusion skills and back-end components to power your application, and how to keep your users happy by writing the auto-update feature to constantly give them the best of the best. Ideal for anyone new to AIR or Flex, and a must for anyone who wants to take their development skills to the next level and create feature-rich desktop applications.

MEETING URL: http://experts.acrobat.com/cfmeetup/
DURATION: Approx. 1 hour
Meeting will be recorded. URL will be posted after meeting athttp://recordings.coldfusionmeetup.com

SPEAKER: (provided by the speaker)

Matt Gifford is Lead Developer with Fuzzy Orange, specializing in ColdFusion, Flex and AIR development. Having worked on projects for organisations such as BT, Abbey Bank, United Nations Environment Programme and Landrover UK, he has also written articles for Net Tuts (online), .net and Web Designer magazines, and is an author for PACKT publishing.

A regular speaker at conferences across Europe, when not staring down a screen, Matt can be found gigging at pubs and events or building an unhealthy relationship with his gaming consoles.

WHEN: Thurs. July 8, 12:00pm US ET (UTC/GMT-4)

What time is that for you? The following link shows what the time would be for you. Here’s another option that shows the time as US ET, and lets you choose your city from the list offered to see what time that is in your own timezone.

RECORDING: As always, the meeting will be recorded, and the recording URL will be posted after the meeting at http://recordings.coldfusionmeetup.com.

PODCAST/DOWNLOADABLE RECORDINGS:
In addition to the streaming recording, we not also post downloadable recordings (FLV, MP3, and MP4) usually within a day after each meeting, also offered as a link from the recordings page.

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Learn more here:
http://www.meetup.com/coldfusionmeetup/calendar/14010148/