Rich Internet Applications Users Group (RIAug)
Time: 6:00 to 8:00 p.m.
Location: TechMaine Technology Center, Westbrook

Adobe Air and Flex - with John Moore

There's a lot of excitement in the RIA community about the powerful combination of AIR and Flex! Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) is a cross-platform desktop runtime that allows developers to use standard web technologies, like Flash / Flex, HTML, and JavaScript, to build and deploy desktop applications. AIR applications, which easily leverage services, have been developed for services such as Twitter, eBay, YouTube, and Flickr.

Come see how RIA developers use these tools to very rapidly build desktop applications that run almost anywhere. All attendees will receive a CD with several applications.

About the Presenter: John Moore is a Rich Internet Application architect who has been working on the client side of web applications for 12+ years. He is the co-founder of Quai, Inc. and RIAspot.com. He has provided cutting-edge web interfaces for many companies including Ernst & Young, Fidelity Investments, Digital Equipment Corporation, and Wachovia Bank. He is an Adobe certified Flex developer, and currently is developing a suite of components built on top of the Dojo toolkit.

Door Prize: Registered attendees will be entered in a drawing for a copy of the Addison-Wesley book, Dojo: Using the Dojo Javascipt Library to Build Ajax Applications, by James E. Harmon, courtesy of Pearson Education. You must register and attend to be in the drawing.

About the TechMaine Rich Internet Applications User Group (RIAug): RIAug is a new user group developed to support the wildfire-like growth of the Rich Internet Applications community. We meet monthly, on the second Thursday of the month. Membership is open to any member of the Maine community, and any other people the Group may invite.

Please come to this meeting, and help us build and exiting new users group! No charge, open to everyone.

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Dojo Toolkit - With John Moore

Time: 6:00 to 8:00 p.m.
Location: TechMaine Technology Center, Westbrook

The Dojo Toolkit is an open-source, industrial-strength JavaScript toolkit for building rich web applications. Dojo is a lightning-fast, robust, full-stack toolkit, providing UI widgets, ajax functionality, animation, DOM manipulation, eventing and much much more. Dojo supports Internationalization (i18n) and Accessibility (a11y), and is being supported by companies such as IBM, Sun, AOL, Zend, and more. Come learn more about what Dojo has to offer, and how to evaluate when it is appropriate for your applications. Find out what's new in the world of Dojo and get a peek at some cool code.

About the Presenter: John Moore is a Rich Internet Application architect who has been working on the client side of web applications for 12+ years. He is the co-founder of Quai, Inc. and RIAspot.com. He has provided cutting-edge web interfaces for many companies including Ernst & Young, Fidelity Investments, Digital Equipment Corporation, and Wachovia Bank. He is an Adobe certified Flex developer, and currently is developing a suite of components built on top of the Dojo toolkit.

Door Prize: Registered attendees will be entered in a drawing for a copy of the Addison-Wesley book, Refactoring HTML: Improving the Design of Existing Web Applications, by Elliot Rusty Harold, courtesy of Pearson Education. You must register and attend to be in the drawing.

About the TechMaine Rich Internet Applications User Group (RIAug): RIAug is a new user group developed to support the wildfire-like growth of the Rich Internet Applications community. We meet monthly, on the second Thursday of the month. Membership is open to any member of the Maine community, and any other people the Group may invite.

Please Register Here to attend the next meeting. There is no charge for this event. Please include your email address so that we can notify you if there is a change in schedule.