On July 21st at 7pm, Matt LeGrand will be in town talking about MultiTouch in his presentation "MultiTouch -- Small, Medium and Large."

Learn and share new ways of interacting with software and computer hardware by looking at the multitouch capabilities of the Adobe Flash Platform. Multitouch and natural user interfaces are growing in popularity.

We’ll be building mobile, tablet, and desktop software that responds to multiple touch inputs and we’ll be discussing best practices for developing your own rich engaging natural user interfaces for your own applications.

Matt LeGrand is an accomplished user experience specialist with a primary focus on Adobe Flex and Air application development. Matt has been working with Flex since 2005 and Adobe Flash since 1999. His interest are in human computer interaction and interactive media research.

The meeting will he held in room 1415 within the Biomedical and Physcal Sciences Building on the Campus of Michigan State University.  This is not our normal room location (but it is where we meet last month). 

During our June meeting, we are honored to host Ryan Stewart to talk about the new version of Flash Builder, Flash, Creative Suite and a whole host of other software that Adobe recently shipped.  With the release of Flash Builder 4.5 Adobe added support for building mobile applications with ActionScript and Flex for iOS, Android, and the BlackBerry PlayBook. Ryan Stewart, a developer evangelist for Adobe, will be coming to talk about the new mobile workflow and how you can use your Flex skills to deploy mobile apps across those platforms. He'll talk about the new workflows for deployment and debugging, some tips and tricks that will help you optimize your code, and some things to keep in mind as you're creating applications for all three platforms. This is one of the biggest Flex and Flash Builder releases yet and it opens up the world of mobile development to every Flex developer.

We will also be giving away a copy of Adobe Creative Suite CS5.5 in addition to many other awesome prizes!

The meeting will be held on June 23rd, 2011 on the campus of Michigan State University.  We will be meeting in room 1415 in the Biomedical and Physical Sciences building located in the heart of campus at 7pm.  Libations to follow the meeting.  This is NOT our normal meeting location.

This meeting will not be recorded or broadcast live.

During our February 10th meeting, we will be discussing ActionLinq, a new Action Script library that has been recently released by Brian Genisio, which is a full implementation of Linq-to-Objects for Actionscript.  This library makes it very easy to process data on the client.  The data can come from remote service calls, http request etc.  The ActionLinq library allows you to easily convert the data to different formats, sort it, transform it, apply filters to it etc. 

Usage of the library will be covered in the context of several real world applications that are being developed around the MSU Physical Plant’s GIS system.  These applications are based on the ArcGIS Viewer for Flex prototype application and have been heavily customized to incorporate the recently released MSU brand standards.  Several custom ‘widgets’ have been developed which implement specific functionality for each application.

Attendees should come away with an overview of building customized applications using the ArcGIS Viewer for Flex and using the ActionLinq api.

We will be meeting in room 155 Communicaion Arts and Sciences, on the campus of Michigan State University.  The meeting will start at 7pm.

On December 14th, we will be hosting our 4th annual christmas party, and 2nd annual DemoCamp Lansing event!  DemoCamp is an event that will allow you to show off any products or apps you've been working on to the Lansing community.  We have partnered up with the Mid-Michigan ColdFusion User Group, the Lansing .NET usersgroup, and many other local groups for this event. All types of projects are accepted, and we encourage members from ALL usergroups to present.

You are required to RSVP, but the event is free.  There will be a cash bar for beverages.

Click here to let us know what project you want to show us, or head over to the DemoCamp website for more information.   A special thanks to TechSmith and the MSU Alumni Association for their sponsorships.

Our November meeting on the 11th, we will be talking about some advanced tips and tricks that EVERY developer can use while using the Eclipse-based Flash Builder.  This session will show you how to make your life more productive and enjoyable while using Flash Builder 4.

Nick will also be sharing some of the announcements that happened at Adobe MAX this last month, and will answer questions about the "Three Screens" initative that Adobe is pushing out.

The meeting will start at 7pm in room 161 within the Communication Arts and Sciences building. It will not be broadcast, but a recording of the tips-and-tricks portion of the meeting will be available.