August 18, 2007 at 6:30PM
Presentation Strategies
For those familiar with the onAIR bus tour: (http://onair.adobe.com/), I have great news! The bus will be coming to the Triangle Area. Though its not a full day stop, we will be lucky enough to have them for a few hours for a user group meeting!
The onAIR bus is traveling around the country to promote the Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR). With AIR, Adobe users can create desktop applications with Flash, Flex, Dreamweaver, AJAX, HTML, or/and CSS.
Mike Chambers, the Senior Project Manager for Developer Relations of AIR is confirmed to present to us. There will be other folks on the bus, but at this point it's not definite who will be on this leg of the tour besides Mike.
Additionally, we'll be giving away a copy of Flex 2 to the best AIR application our user group members create. The deadline for entry is August 15th at 11:59pm. To receive your prize for best entry you must be present at the meeting.
This meeting is brought to you not only by RDAUG, but by the Carolina Adobe User Group and the Triangle Area Coldfusion User Group. For directions go here: http://www.pstrat.com/who-office.cfm. The address
Presentation Strategies Inc.
4021 Stirrup Creek Drive
Suite 220
Durham, NC 27703
Please RSVP to admin@rdaug.org, it will help PStrat tons to have a people count!
Thanks everyone, hope to see you there!
Head First Design Patterns
Elisabeth Freeman, Eric Freeman, Bert Bates, Kathy Sierra
Reviewed by: Ben Gomez Farrell
This book was recommended to me by an RDAUG member, and I'm quite thankful I bought it. I've never picked up a "Head First" book, but they're written in a very unique way, with funny examples, comics, illustrations, and repetition to beat the concepts they are trying to get across into your head. Anyway, it was an excellent read, and being a programmer, Design Patterns are VERY useful to know. Some of the patterns I've been practicing for years and never knew the name for what it was, and others were great for ideas on how to approach a problem. The only downside to this book is if you're programming in Actionscript like me, since the book is written for Java. The examples are very readable to someone who knows Actionscript, but there's a few concepts that simply can't be used in Actionscript, so be careful!