[ACFUG Discuss] Starting the New Year with ACFUG

2007-01-04 Thread Precia
To all of the subscribers of our mailing lists, our members, board and sponsors and friends, ACFUG would like to extend a very Happy New Year to you for being a part of our community! Last night, ACFUG started off the New Year off in an exciting way. We had a great showing of people that

Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Starting the New Year with ACFUG

2007-01-04 Thread Brooks . Wilson
Precia: It was a good meeting with a good turn out. I know that the AFFUG has settled on the 3rd Wednesday of the month to meet. I am interested in attending, but my church choir meets on Wednesday. I'm already missing the first Wednesday for ACFUG and really can't afford to miss another

Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Starting the New Year with ACFUG

2007-01-04 Thread Precia
Brooks, This is a good point to bring up. I miss classses on Wednesday, as well. The first meeting is to get a voice from interested parties about such issues. I can not change the January date, but I will make an effort to get this changed to another day of the week. Precia On 1/4/07,

Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Starting the New Year with ACFUG

2007-01-04 Thread Teddy Payne
Precia, That was a good recap of the evenings festivities. I will second that it was indeed was a solid meeting! =) Josh and Andy provided some great material. It is great to see ColdFusion(CFML) pushed into even more avenues of flexibility. CFML will soon be so diverse that Swiss Army will

Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Starting the New Year with ACFUG

2007-01-04 Thread Precia
Alex, A current sign an application is Flex built is its need to run with Flash 9 if written in Flex 2.0 As for ideas for flex applications: finance monitor, photo editing, music listening, server monitoring, dashboards, noice monitoring, ecommerce applications, and so many more.

Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Starting the New Year with ACFUG

2007-01-04 Thread Brooks . Wilson
We have 3 administrator tools that we launched with Flex. Each one maintains a database that feeds our web pages. The applications are: the Fed's Cafeteria Menu Administrator (for our employees), the Fed's merchandise store (so employee can buy shirts with the FRB logo) and our internal site's

Flex topic (was Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Starting the New Year with ACFUG)

2007-01-04 Thread Douglas Knudsen
and if you caught this: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Stewart/?p=213 http://www.onflex.org/ted exciting new stuff for FlexBuilder on the way...soon! As for appsthey are starting to popup around the net. Mostly though they appear to be on intranets. We have a couple already and a few currently in

Re: Flex topic (was Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Starting the New Year with ACFUG)

2007-01-04 Thread Alex Pilson
At 5:01 PM -0500 1/4/07, Douglas Knudsen wrote: and if you caught this: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Stewart/?p=213http://blogs.zdnet.com/Stewart/?p=213 http://www.onflex.org/ted http://www.onflex.org/ted exciting new stuff for FlexBuilder on the way...soon! As for appsthey are starting to popup

RE: Flex topic (was Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Starting the New Year with ACFUG)

2007-01-04 Thread John Mason
BTW, for further flex/flash discussions, there is now a affug discussion list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Just email to it, with subscribe in the subject line to join. John [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alex Pilson Sent: Thursday,

Re: Flex topic (was Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Starting the New Year with ACFUG)

2007-01-04 Thread Douglas Knudsen
to quote one of our presenters last night, Andy Powel, it depends :) Truly, it depends on many variables, your developer base, your consumers, your technology, buzzword popularity as measured by slashdot, digg, etc, and of course always factor in the geek factor. Digging around google, you can

Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Starting the New Year with ACFUG

2007-01-04 Thread Cameron Childress
Here's another good Flex sample app: http://maps.yahoo.com -Cameron On 1/4/07, Alex Pilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 3:35 PM -0500 1/4/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I remember being at the Flex demo Ben Forta gave a while back and thought to myself where and how would I use this in a real