During our May meeting, on May 16th, we will be talking about mobile app development.  We won't have a formal meeting on anything new -- this will be your platform to ask ANY questions about mobile app developent.  We will do our best to answer your questions.  We will be able to answer questions on Android, iPhone, iPad and Blackberry development via AIR.

We will be meeting at 7pm in the Communication Arts and Sciences Building, in room 161.  Bring your questions!

After the meeting, we will be going to Reno's East.

During our April meeting, we will be talking about RPC (Remote Procedure Calls) and other Remote Data topics.  Nick Kwiatkowski will show how to pull data using various different methods, including HTTP, XML Pulls, SOAP, REST, AMF, etc.  Nick will also show some of the wizards in Flash Builder, and the ActionScipt code required for each of the methods if you wanted to do it by hand (and you should!).

The meeting will be in room 161 in the Communication Arts and Sciences Building on the campus of Michigan State University on April 25th at 7pm.  It will be recorded, but may not be live-broadcasted.

For our March meeting, we will be hosting Mike Labriola from Digital Primates in Chicago and the Open Spoon Foundation and Christophe Coenraets from Adobe.  Mike and Christophe will be talking about the future direction of the Flex framework, how we got here and where we are going.  Mike is heavily involved with the Apache Flex project as well as the instagaters behiend the Open Spoon Foundation.   Some of his clients include some of the largest banks and sports organizations in the world.

There are some very exciting times ahead for those of us who continue to build our businesses on Flex.  Now that the code is at Apache the community can determine what the future direction of the SDK is, and what is important to us.

The meeting will be held on March 22nd, 2012 at 7pm.  Adobe is sponsoring food and drinks for the event.  Please register for this event here.

During our February 2012 meeting, we will be hosting John Lindquist who will be talking about the IntelliJ IDEA IDE from JetBrains.  IntelliJ is an IDE that covers a wide range of programming languages such as Java, Flex, ColdFusion, JavaScript, PHP, etc.  It's one of the IDEs that is most popular with the developers who do a lot of ActionScript coding because of its teaming, unit testing and automation features.

The meeting will be held on February 15th, at 7pm in room 151 of the Communication Arts and Sciences Building on the Campus of MSU.  The meeting will be broadcast live.

The recording for this meeting is at : http://experts.adobeconnect.com/p59ofpy1mf8/

The January Meeting of the Michigan ActionScript User Group will focus on AIR Native Extensions, a new feature available for the AIR 3 runtime.  AIR Native Extensions allow you to include features that we were locked out of before for both the mobile and desktop platforms.  Some examples include interacting with the vibrator of a cell phone or the Microsoft Kinect on the desktop.

Nick Kwiatkowski will show how to use pre-existing ANE (AIR Native Extensions) to enhance your AIR projects and the basics of how they work.  We will be creating a few projects that interact with ANEs while in the meeting.

We will be meeting on Wednesday Jan 18th, 2012 in room 151 within the Communication Arts and Sciences Building on the campus of Michigan State University.  The meeting will start at 7pm.

Recording of the meeting is here : http://experts.adobeconnect.com/p6awboyfo2k/