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Adobe Events for November 2009

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:18:00 -0400

THIS MONTH'S LINE-UP FOR DEVELOPERS

Adobe User Groups
November Chapter Meetings
Worldwide
New Adobe User Groups are starting around the country for your favorite products, including Adobe Flex®, Adobe ColdFusion, Adobe AIR®, and more. Stay connected to the latest developments in your community. Find a group near you or learn how to start one in your city.
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Enterprise 2.0 Conference
November 2–5, 2009
San Francisco, CA
If you are challenging the status quo and leading the charge to enable more efficient, agile, and productive workforces in your company, join us to learn about the new tools that enable contextual, agile, and simplified information exchange and collaboration to distributed workforces and networks of partners and customers.
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RIA Unleashed: Boston 2009
November 13, 2009
Boston, MA
This one-day, three-track event covers Adobe Flex, Adobe AIR, Adobe ColdFusion, and related technologies and disciplines, with more than 20 sessions designed to allow you to focus on the technologies that interest you most.
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Dreamforce
November 17–20, 2009
San Francisco, CA
Maximize your investment in salesforce.com and learn from the best how to use the cloud to stay ahead of the competition.
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Interactive Applications with Adobe ColdFusion 9
November 4, 2009
11:00 A.M. PST
See how Adobe ColdFusion 9 delivers rich desktop-like application interfaces, personalized multimedia experiences, printable and portable content, and other engaging application experiences.
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Adobe Flash® Builder™ Beta and Bolt Integration
November 5, 2009
11:00 A.M. PST
See how Adobe ColdFusion Builder Beta 2 and Flash Builder Beta 2 software can work together to turbo charge your RIA development.
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Adobe LiveCycle® and the Adobe Flash Platform
November 12, 2009
11:00 A.M. PST
Discover the latest advances with Adobe LiveCycle and the Adobe Flash Platform. Learn how incorporating the efficiency of Adobe LiveCycle and the Adobe Flash Platform into your workflow can lower costs, enhance productivity, and streamline processes.
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Enterprise Integrated Applications with Adobe ColdFusion 9
November 18, 2009
11:00 A.M. PST
Discover how Adobe ColdFusion 9 will enable you to easily create applications that can integrate across your enterprise environment, making application users more productive.
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Social Networking and the Adobe Flash Platform
November 19, 2009
11:00 A.M. PST
Join this session and learn how to create, distribute, and track social applications using the Adobe Flash Platform.
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Flash Player 10.1 and the Adobe Flash Platform
November 24, 2009
11:00 A.M. PST
See how Adobe takes its cross-platform promise even further, allowing content created using the Adobe Flash Platform to reach users wherever they are. Get the inside scoop on the new mobile features in Flash Player 10.1, as well as the new global error handling, UI, globalization, and media playback features.
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ADC Presents Adobe ColdFusion 9 and Spreadsheets
Adobe ColdFusion 9 adds powerful and sophisticated spreadsheet support. Follow along as Ben Forta explains how to work with new and existing spreadsheets.
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Duane's World Adobe MAX and Redmonk
Duane starts the first of a two-part series covering Adobe MAX and interviewing Redmonk founder and industry superstar James Governor. Code and Tunes includes using AMF to connect to a database from Adobe Flex 4 software.
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CodeDependent Shader Transitions in Adobe Flex 4
Chet Haase explores the new Pixel Bender-based effects in Adobe Flex 4, such as CrossFade and Wipe. Learn how to use these effects to create cool transitions in your Adobe Flex 4 applications.
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Contextual Applications: Building rich Internet applications that leverage multiple devices
See specific examples of contextual applications, providing some insight into the business benefits they can provide and the design and development techniques that can be used to make them more effective.
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Design Considerations for Mobile
Learn how to plan and deliver mobile designs that minimize development and testing costs and how Adobe Device Central can help when packaging mobile projects, publishing to marketplaces, and emulating mobile web and devices.
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February Meeting Recap

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 23:12:00 -0400

The February meeting of the Adobe User Group of Atlanta turned out great. I think that everyone found some really cool ideas on how they could use some of the features of Acrobat 9.

Quote of the evening: "15% of most corporate IT departments budgets goes to paper supplies." Holy crap. Can you imagine how many jobs could be saved in our crazy economy if corporations reduced their paper use (not to mention trees)? Adobe just released a white paper on Enterprise Sustainability (and Acrobat) that is an interesting read (and could be useful to some of our clients). You can find this white paper here.

Adobe's presenters Phil Lee and Ann Fracas would have continued to show the really cool PDF example files for hours if I had let them.They wanted to show as many of the new features possible (as well as some of the more useful yet overlooked older features of Acrobat).
We are scheduling a "Flash Inside PDF" meeting for the Adobe Flash Platform User Group of Atlanta later this year. It's really powerful to see a Acrobat form use Javascript to talk to a Flex-based charting application all inside a Acrobat 9 PDF file. I think this use of Acrobat combined with Flex/Flash is really cool and has a totally untapped potential.

There are two meetings at Roundbox Global next week:

Tuesday, February 24, 2009, 7PM
Adobe Flash Platform User Group of Atlanta
Kenny Bunch presenting Building Media and Video Apps
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Thursday, February 26, 2009
CHI Atlanta
CNN presenting Election 2008
($15 Charge for Non-members)
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And don't forget the InDesign User Group:

Monday, March 2, 2009
Atlanta InDesign User Group
InDesign and Flash - The Digital Transition
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August Offerings from Adobe

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 09:43:00 -0400

THIS MONTH'S LINE-UP FOR DIGITAL VIDEO PROFESSIONALS

November 16–18, 2008 | San Francisco, CA

Register for Adobe's biggest event of the year, MAX 2008, where you can join thousands of other Adobe users to share ideas, find inspiration, and learn from industry experts.

This year, we’re offering more for digital video professionals than ever before. If you plan to bring video online or create rich, interactive content for the web, or build experiences for mobile devices, then you can't afford to miss MAX 2008.

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Atlanta April and May Upcoming Events

Fri, 06 Apr 2007 14:39:00 -0400

There are a lot of great events coming up in Atlanta for the months of April and May! Here's the rundown:

April 10

Adobe Flash Platform User Group April 2007 Meeting

Kenny Bunch presents Time Shifting Entertainment

Atlanta InDesign User Group

InDesign CS3

April 12

Atlanta Adobe Experience Design (XD) User Group April 2007 Meeting

Ness Higson

April 18

Atlanta Flash & Flex User Group

Migrating Existing (simple) Applications from HTML to Flex

April 19 - 20

Atlanta Java User Group Special Event

The Practice of Java in Atlanta - an Open Space Event

$75.00 for this two-day event

April 26

Adobe User Group of Atlanta April 2007 Meeting

Greg Rewis and Stephanie Sullivan present CS3 Web Workflow and CSS with Dreamweaver CS3

(this is a special event, so please send an RSVP)

May 17

Atlanta ColdFusion User Group Special Meeting

Ben Forta/Scorpio Tour (this is a special event, so pay attention to the instructions)

February 2007 Adobe Events for Atlanta

Sun, 28 Jan 2007 22:32:00 -0400

Here is a list of upcoming Adobe-related events for February 2007. If I missed your event, please let me know.

The Atlanta ColdFusion User Group Meeting
Wednesday, February 7, 2007
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
More Info

The Adobe Experience Design User Group of Atlanta Meeting
Thursday, February 8, 2007
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
More Info

The Adobe Flash Platform User Group of Atlanta Meeting
The Atlanta Flash Meetup Group Meeting
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
More Info

The Atlanta Flash and Flex User Group Meeting
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
More Info

The Adobe User Group of Atlanta Meeting
Thursday, February 22, 2007
6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
More Info

A Couple of Announcements

Thu, 28 Dec 2006 21:53:00 -0400

Here are a couple of announcements for the the Adobe User Group of Atlanta:

The schedule for 2007 is getting filled as we speak. Meetings will be held at the new offices of Roundbox Global, starting in February. The first few meeting dates will be:

Thursday, February 22, 2007
Thursday, March 22, 2007
Thursday, April 26, 2007

There is a new group starting for people concerned about experience design (XD) hosted by Michael Hagel and also meeting at Roundbox Global.
We are also starting a new group called the Adobe Flash Platform Users Group. The focus of the group will be Flash, Flex, Apollo and Flash Lite. We'll get everyone involved as soon as possible. Let us know if there are any topics that you would like to have covered.
I've heard that some people from the Atlanta Coldfusion User Group are very interested in starting a Flex User Group in Atlanta. As soon as I have that information, I'll let everyone know. It's a group that I am personally interested in and will be eagerly attending.

Let me know if you have any questions and look for an email announcement in January. Happy Holidays.

Leif

MAX Early Registration Ends Today!

Fri, 13 Oct 2006 14:09:00 -0400

If you are interested in attending MAX but have not registered, then get to it! Today is the very last day for early registration.

You can see from the session tracks that there is a lot of things going on at Adobe behind the scenes that they are excited about showing at MAX.

If you are going to MAX, please let me know so I can look for you.

Flash(r) Professional 8 Seminar Series

Tue, 11 Jul 2006 00:33:00 -0400

Don't miss out! At this seminar, Adobe experts will demonstrate how to use exciting, new must-have features in Flash Professional 8 to create rich, interactive websites, applications, and other digital communications that can help you connect with customers.

Sign up today!

You will learn how to:

Use filters, blend modes, custom easing, bitmap caching, improved text and stroke tools, and other expressive features.
Incorporate video into Flash with higher quality video codec, alpha channel support, and embedded cue points.
Create an improved user experience with Script Assist, advanced library options, and an enhanced object drawing model.
Integrate with other Adobe products such as Adobe® Photoshop® and Adobe After Effects®.
Use an interactive mobile device emulator to test Flash content on a variety of Flash Lite compatible devices.

Who should attend

Web designers
Interactive developers
Creative directors
Art directors
Training instructors
Design and film school faculty
Animators
Broadcasters
Online advertisers
Post-production staff

Coming to a location near you!

Atlanta:

July 18

Each seminar will run from 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. (Registration begins at 8:00 a.m.)

"We've been doing things with Flash for years that were pushing the edge of how Flash would perform. Now, with the new features in Flash Professional 8, this stuff is a piece of cake, so now we're going to come up with new things to get to that edge and push the limits of Flash."

Joshua Hirsch,
Minister of Technology,
Big Spaceship

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New Site, New Products, New Attitude

Thu, 08 Jun 2006 15:21:00 -0400

Greetings to you all! And thanks ever so much for your patience with our conversion from a Macromedia User Group to an Adobe User Group.

With the new site up, we will continue to add new items to it so keep an eye out.

And, as always, work on the site is only one way we are trying to keep you informed about our meetings.

And speaking of meetings... we have one coming up in two weeks (Thursday, June 22), so keep a look out for announcements going out soon (and details going up here).