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    • Getting Productive With RDAUG!

    on Aug 6 in Meetings

    Hello All,

    I'd like to first take this opportunity to welcome Troy Stratton as the RDAUG co-manager.  Troy's been very active within the group, and wants to see us grow, so I'm glad to be working with him!  In fact...I'm copying his notes on what we are shooting for in RDAUG between the monthly meetings.


    Anyway, we're really excited regarding the turn out and the discussions we had during our last meeting.
    It is now time to start gathering topics that people want to learn and projects people would like to start up as an incubator system.   During our meeting, we talked about hack night, incubator projects, and learning sessions (hands on training, homework assignments, mini meetings).


    1) Hack Night:  we need to know how many people are interested in this topic and what night works for everyone... include topics you would like us to cover such as Actionscript Array Collections
    2) Incubator Projects:  if you are interested in having people work with you on a project... let us know.  There were many interesting projects brought up during the meeting, and we are sure there are many people willing to jump on the projects with you, but the group needs to know what projects are available to work on.
    3) learning sessions:  please let us know what you want to learn or if you have an area you feel comfortable teaching.  We need your input to know what we should be discussing at our meetings, like "What currently works for you and what doesn't," since we are in an experimental stage.  Based on your input, we will know if we should break this area down to mini meetings, user group topics, hands on training, etc, but we need your input to make it happen.

    We heard several topics of interest in the last meeting including Flex, Illustrator, and Ajax, and I'd like everyone to know that our group has a Lynda.com account.  I can't give you folks the login info, but I can take requests for tutorials and lesssons from the site. Lets get this ball rolling.  We are very eager to meet everyone again, learn more, and just have fun.  Please comment in this post if you'd like to request a topic for a hack night, request a lesson from lynda.com or otherwise, have a project you'd like help or feedback with, etc.


    Regards,  
    Ben & Troy

    4 response(s) to “Getting Productive With RDAUG!”


    1. Ben Farrell Says:
      Aug 6, 2008 at 6:31 PM By the way....here's some of the many lessons on Lynda...

      AIR Essential Training
      Flex 3 Essential Training
      Flex 3 New Features
      Flex 3 Beta Preview
      Flex 2 Advanced: Using Data Services Flex 2 Beyond the Basics
      ActionScript 3.0 in Flex Builder Essential Training
      Flex 2 Essential Training
      AJAX Essential Training
      AJAX Crash Course by SitePoint
      Illustrator CS3 for the Web
      Illustrator CS3 and Flash CS3 Professional Integration
      Illustrator CS3 One-on-One: Advanced Techniques
      Illustrator CS3 One-On-One: Beyond the Basics
      Illustrator CS3 One-on-One: The Essentials
      Migrating from FreeHand to Illustrator CS3
      Illustrator CS3 Essential Training


    2. Denny Cole Says:
      Aug 6, 2008 at 7:43 PM I'd like to see a specific tutorial on getting good Vector conversions using Illustrator (I.e. taking small bitmaps and converting them to vector form so they can be cleanly expanded...


    3. Ben Farrell Says:
      Aug 6, 2008 at 8:08 PM Sounds great Denny! I always feel like it s a copout at a meeting to just play a recorded presentation, otherwise I would've leveraged this before. Anyway, lynda has a good hour on just Live trace, and more on Live Color and paint. Now, to pick a time and place. My house in Durham is an option, but I also have a projector and will travel. I know you work at IBM, if you want we can meet there, on campus if you can arrange that, or around there at a coffee shop or something like that. I suggest we meet maybe Tuesday next week right after work at 6. I'm just throwing it out there - though I'm game for times and location suggestions.


    4. Bryan Clover Says:
      Aug 27, 2008 at 10:10 AM Hi Ben,

      I'd like to see in-depth sessions on any of the following:

      1. Tearing apart the Flex framework and disccussing some of the more obscure classes. (ClassFactory, ObjectProxy, etc)

      2. Design patterns - when and how to use them to architect flexible, robust Flex apps.

      3. Flex Frameworks - PureMVC, Module-Glue, Cairngorm

      4. Flex and Hibernate

      5. And lastly, maybe we can work as a team to create a library of custom Flex components. Think extending standard Flex components to make them smarter and more robust. Example: Create a DataGrid that it can do custom sorting simply be specifying a sortBy property for a column...like "numeric", "date", etc.

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