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The Boston Flex User Group is sposoring a speaking with Mansour Raad:

Background
Mansour Raad will talk about using the Flex API for ArcGIS. This session will be very hands on where he will show you how to build mapping applications to thematically render parcel and other info. He'll also show you how to extend the api for other mapping features such as clustering, labeling, and heat maps.

You can check out his blog here: http://thunderheadxpler.blogspot.com/

Please RSVP at http://bostonfug.eventbrite.com/ if you're planning to attend.

Change in plans--

The Boston Flex User Group will be having a new meeting this March 10th. Discussions will be about Flex-based Music Notation Editor, and will be presented by Joe Berkovitz.

About Meeting

Joe Berkovitz, founder of music software startup Noteflight, will talk about the technical underpinnings and lessons learned in building a full-fledged music notation editor on the Flex/Flash platform.

Topics covered will include: MVCS architecture, audio synthesis, non-linear visual layout algorithms, and automated testing. A short excursion covering the new Moccasin open source framework for graphical editors might be worked in. And be sure to bring your Zippo lighter so you can hold it up and request "Free Bird"!

Prior to founding Noteflight, Joe Berkovitz was a Chief Architect at Allurent, Ruckus Network and Unveil Technologies. Even earlier, he was part of ATG for eight years developing many core components & originating a number of key ideas with patents granted or pending. Prior to ATG, Joe worked at Houghton Mifflin; Stratus Computer; and Bolt, Beranek and Newman, among others.

For RSVP or more information please vist the The Boston Flex User Group

On December 12, 2008 from 8am-5pm at Bently College in Waltham, the second annual Flex Camp Boston event will be held. It will be a full day of presentations on Flex from some of the leaders of the Flex and AIR community.

YOU MUST RSVP THROUGH www.bostonfug.org

Eric Hilfer, Director of Software Engineering at Tom Snyder Productions will speak on "Using the Flex Automation Framework"

Automated testing is an essential component of developing and maintaining software applications created by large teams. Flex Builder Professional provides an extensive framework for recording and replaying GUI-level user interactions for automated testing of Flex applications. Although the documentation mostly references using HP Quick Test Pro as the recording and playback agent, the framework can be used by other commercial testing agents, like RIATest, or agents that you can build on your own. Eric will describe his own journey of adapting the automation framework for testing Timeliner® XE, a massive AIR application, and will share some best practices (and some not-so-best practices) for extending the framework beyond the core Flex components. Some powerful examples will be shown of using RIATest to run data-driven regression testing of Timeliner® XE.

YOU MUST RSVP THROUGH http://www.bostonfug.org/

George Weiss CTO, Albert Doolittle, and Universal Mind consultant, Kevin Kazmierczak, discuss Flex in Financial Services

Managing the increasing flows of market data being distributed worldwide has always been a challenge to financial institutions. Now, driven in part by expanding markets, regulatory requirements and the need to remain competitive, even small to medium sized firms have had to join the quest. One such firm, Weiss Special Operations, has found that a marriage of two nascent technologies, Complex Event Processing (CEP) and RIA development platforms, has created an application development environment capable of meeting this challenge while, at the same time, accelerating the overall application development process.

360|Flex San Jose - August 18-20, 2008

This 3-day conference is the place to learn about Adobe Flex and AIR with speakers from Adobe and the community. The Sunday before the show, we'll be having an all-day Flex 101 session included in the price of admission 360|Flex is the premiere Flex conference and we keep getting better. Don't miss out on this event as it's only $480 and limited to 400 tickets.

360|Flex is going back to the place where it all started. The venue for this show will be the conference center on eBay's campus. After a year of traveling around the world, 360|Flex is coming home. The last San Jose show still gets talked about highly to this day. If you missed it the first time around, don't get left behind again.

To find out more about the event and to register, visit our website: http://360flex.com

Additionally Adobe will be raffling off some software. Come and find out what it is!! Maybe you'll be the lucky winner.

YOU MUST RSVP THROUGH http://www.bostonfug.org/