The next RAnDOM meeting will be held at Indian River Coffee at Pineda Ridge on Thursday, June 18th at 7:00pm. Based on Zach’s post last week, this meeting will be centered around mobile devices. I will discuss the advantages and quirks involved in web development and design for the iPhone. Hope to see you all there.
We have had Mobile development brought up a few times, from iPhones to Windows Mobile to WebOS. If you are or know are doing any mobile development, we would love to hear about it. Let us know what you are working on and we can get the spotlight ready. Bring on the Mobile Dev lovin’
If you are interested in either sharing your experiences in Mobile Development or hearing about those, please leave us a comment.
Thanks again.
Zach
Sorry for the late notice. It appears that everyone decided to come to Floridain May. Brian’s wife gave birth to a little girl last week. Congratulations Brian. Zach’s in-laws are visiting as is my mother-in-law. So we’ve decided to skip this month’s meeting.
The early bird price (~$35) for registration to FlashCamp Orlando 2009 has been extended until May 15, 2009! Let’s face it, in this economy, every little bit helps. If you can spare a Friday out of the office, come out to support a local developer event sponsored by Adobe and Universal Mind. Lunch, parking, door prizes, great sessions, and lots of great networking opportunities come with the registration price. The best part of it all is at the end of the day, you can drive home instead of staying in a dank motel like you do with most events. Tampa and Melbourne are still what I consider within driving distance, but you may still elect for the motel/hotel.
If you haven’t seen it yet, an interview has been posted with Adogo’s very own Jason Madsen about his session at FlashCamp. Hope you can make it out!
Just wanted to give everyone at RAnDOM a heads up, over at the Adogo we’re raffling off tickets to FlashCamp Orlando 2009. You can find out more information @ http://adogo.us/2009/05/04/may-meeting-canceled-flashcamp-orlando-ticket-raffle/. The deadline for entries is May 15th at 11:59 PM; one entry per individual please. Good luck to everyone. Hope you all can make it out!
UM and Adobe have finally helped the Adogo bring a FlashCamp (formerly FlexCamp) to the Central Florida area for FlashCamp Orlando 2009. The event will be a one day event held on May 29, 2009 in the Live Oak Center at UCF from 8:30 AM - 5:30 PM. The cost is $50 and will include parking, all sessions, door prizes, and lunch for the day; an early bird price of $35 is available until May 1st. Topics are going to be developer focused, but designers are invited to attend. Maxim Porges and Jason Madsen of Adogo will be speaking at the event along with Greg Wilson, platform evangelist for Adobe, Andrew Powell, and David Tucker of Universal Mind along with many others. We may also be having a pre-event the night before, so watch http://itsrandom.info for more details to follow.
The website for the event can be found @ http://www.flashcamporlando.com/. If you’ve heard enough and want to register right away head over to http://flashcamporlando.eventbrite.com/ to save your spot; availability is limited. For those who attended FlexCamp Miami, there are different topics and speakers, so FlashCamp Orlando won’t be a complete regurgitation of past events.
Help spread the word about FlashCamp Orlando; it promises to be be a great event for those just starting out in Flex as well as the seasoned Flex developer.
Tonight we had one of our best meetings to date. We did a BarCamp style meeting tonight and everyone brought some great topics to talk about. Thanks to Sebastian for showing us the Flash clock, Frank for showing PhotoSynth, and Matt for showing us his Arduino project, Barduino. An extra thanks to everyone for also sitting through my muddled talk about testing.
As always thanks to Zach and Darryl for providing the projector and screen. No topics yet for the next couple months, but watch the blog for more information. If you’d like to see a presentation on a particular topic or would like to give one, please feel free to drop us an email or leave a comment here and we’ll try to get it on the list.
See you next month!
Our April meeting will be tomorrow night, 04/16/09, at 7:00 PM and will be quite the smorgasbord. Sebastian is going to be giving a tutorial on how to build a simple clock in Flash and I’m going to be giving a show and tell about the basics of testing your code. If anyone else would like to give a short preso, BarCamp style, feel free to come out; we will have the projector and screen available I believe. Tommorrow’s meeting promises to be very informal and may run short, so at the very least come out to socialize and meet fellow developers in the Brevard area.
See you tomorrow and don’t forget about BarCamp Orlando this weekend!
Ben Forta and James Ward, evangelists for Adobe, announced on their blogs today that Adobe is giving back to developers who have been effected by the current economic situation. For developers who find themselves without work in the software industry, Adobe is providing free licenses for Flex Builder 3 to all who apply. You can check out the details of the program at https://freeriatools.adobe.com/learnflex/.
In addition to the efforts being made by Adobe, below are a few resources that can help in the job search for those still seeking work:
If you have any additional resources you’d like to share with the community, let us know so we can spread the word.
As a developer, continuing education and professional growth are always important with respect to technology. Please always consider yourself welcome at the RAnDOM. Best of luck to everyone in the days ahead.
Speaking of local events, Gregg Pollack from the ORUG emailed us this evening asking us to get the word out about Battle of the Web Frameworks on April 9, 2009. The event is kind of a precursor to BarCamp Orlando to get everyone in the spirit and will located at Slingapours beginning around 7:00 PM with networking at 6:30 PM. A panel of developers is going to be comparing an assorted set of frameworks covering Ruby, Python, Java, and PHP. Here’s the blurb from the website:
If you had to build a website from scratch, which technology would you use to do it? Would you use an older more established framework, or a framework on the cutting edge of technology? How would you begin to make an informed comparison and an educated business decision? What if you could throw each web framework into thunder dome, watch them battle to the death, and see which emerged the sole survivor?
Well my friends, I’m here to grant your wish. On April 9th, 2009 four web frameworks will duke it out in “Doterati Arena,” aiming to prove once and for all who has the right to wear the framework championship belt. The fight will consist of 4 rounds of 15 minute talks where each framework contender will tell you why you should use their own, and why their competition just doesn’t make the grade.
Although the fight will inevitably contain much blood, sweat and tears, in the end the audience members will be the final judge as to who will emerge victorious (at least until next year).
The event is sponsored by Doterati and sounds like fun. On a side note, if you’ve never checked out BarCamp, dont’ forget about this year’s BarCamp Orlando on April 18, 2009 in Downtown Orlando. Should be a great time, hope you can make it out to either of these events.
