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NZ National User Group Meeting

by kai on 15/08/2007

As mentioned in my last post - next week is Web On The Piste. On Day 0 (Tuesday) the New Zealand User Groups (ColdFusion and Flex) run a pre-conference event - (thanks for the support from Adobe to get this rolling) at Bezu in Queenstown. Also a big thanks to David, who put a lot of effort into this! The whole thing is called User Groups On The Piste and it would be awesome if we could get as…

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Web On The Piste sessions

by kai on 15/08/2007

Next week, Web On The Piste is on in Queenstown, New Zealand. Besides hopefully being on an interesting conference on Wed and Thu, we're staying through to Saturday to talk to some potential new clients (eehh, along the slopes :). Anyway - if you're there, make sure not to miss my uber-cool sessions (somehow I'v ended up doing 2 and a half): - Building Rich Experiences with Flex and Javascript…

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FXUG Cairngorm talk

by kai on 07/07/2007

Also - I've presented about Cairngorm (from a 30,000 ft point of view) at our last Flex User Group meeting. Sadly, the Breeze recording didn't work that night.
But finally - here are the slides as pdf.

The example code I've used for the demonstration and to show different elements of a Cairngorm application could be found on: Darren Houle?s ?Cafe Townsend Multi-View Contact Management? Example

NZ CFUG talk slides, recording and files

by kai on 07/07/2007

I've presented about different ways to deal with application configuration at the last NZ CFUG meeting. David Harris has published the recording, the slides are below, and I've also uploaded the example code.

Download the pdf or read it online below:

Tonight: Two Flex Connect sessions in AsiaPac

by kai on 19/06/2007

Two brief announcements for two interesting Connect sessions on Flex being held in AsiaPac (ordered by time, all times in NZ time): 1. NZ Flex User Group (in Wellington if you want to come over) 5:15pm for a 5:30pm start (convert to your time) Topics: Adobe news, Flex and Java, The Cairngorm micro architecture from 30000 ft http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/nzfxug/ 2. Flex APAC seminar 3 (in…

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CFUG New Zealand tomorrow

by kai on 02/05/2007

Tomorrow is the next CFUG New Zealand (David has made an executive decision and renamed it from CFUG Auckland to CFUG New Zealand last month, which was a very good move from my point of view!) meeting. Folks, either make up your way to Auckland and be on site: Day: 03/05/2007 Time: 5:45pm Physical Location: Straker Interactive Ltd, Suite 5B Cathedral House, 48-52 Wyndham Street, Auckland, New…

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Trip report and pics

by kai on 01/05/2007

Just a brief one as I'm pretty busy this week. I'm back in NZ (finally) after 10 days of travelling around in Asia and doing a bunch of other client work from the hotel, plane, airport lounge etc :). I've been to Korea first to attend Adobe's Flex Community Leader summit, which was an excellent event organised by Sumi, John, Craig and the Korean Adobe team. They've pulled together a lot of people…

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