BFUG Bloomington Flex User Group

Flex 3 looks to add a significant number of new features and enhancements. Some of these include the long awaited 'Tree-Grid' component, code profiling, incremental compiling and built-in skin previews. The most exciting new feature is something that is NOT included. Basically, the Flash Player now hosts a significant portion of the Flex Framework natively which will allow for MUCH smaller sized Flex SWFs. Way to go Adobe Flex team!

To download the Beta SDK, Builder, or Player, visit Adobe Labs

For a more thorough look at some of the enhancements, check out some of the Flex 3 related posts on Ted Patrick's Blog: Ted On Flex.

Apollo is now known as AIR or Adobe Integrated Runtime. According to Adobe, AIR is a cross-operating system runtime that allows developers to use their existing web development skills to build and deploy rich Internet applications to the desktop.

Check out AIR at Adobe Labs.

Since we all have different interests and backgrounds, what topics would you like to have discussed at an upcoming BFUG meeting? Vote for at least your top 3 choices. If you have other ideas, please make a comment or send an email via the contact form.

According to Mike Chambers, senior product manager for developer relations for Apollo at Adobe, in the upcoming beta release of Apollo we see will include SQLite as an option for Apollo developers to create/access databases embedded in their application. This is great news for those who are already used to creating web applications.

More Info:
Apollo
SQLite

I just stumbled upon a useful tip from Oliver Merk's blog regarding Value Objects (useful for you Cairngorm folks). Check it out here:
Value Object "with" Statement

As before, please put your suggestions on locale in comments. All are welcome, just please RSVP via an email or comment.

Thanks!

Beautiful Day + Great Food + Great Conversation + Lotus Elise = First BFUG Meeting.

Though the turnout was small, it was great to talk about Flex with everyone. We had two experienced Flex developers along with two potential Flash-Convertees present.

Lunch and Flex discussion at a location yet to be determined. Send us an email (info@bfug.org) if you are interested with any suggestions.

BFUG is based in Bloomington, Indiana. We are just getting started, but this page will house resources available for Flex developers of any level. In the next day or so, I will begin to formalize the official plans for the group and get a hold of more members.