Posts Tagged ‘Flex’
Crystal Gaze – Success or Failure
I am not going to say now whether the event was a success or failure. Read through, you will find out
I reached the hotel Chariot by 3:30 PM. I could already see few heads in the event hall.
Event Walkthrough:
4:15 PM: Requested the community to fill in their details in a sheet.
4:45 PM: Sathish kick started the event with a introduction round. Sathish asked each one the members to introduce themself and answer a question “Why are you here?”.
5:15 PM: Tea Time
5:30 PM: Sathish did a welcome speech and presented RIA-RUI society.
5:35 PM: Sathish invited Ananth, Founder of RIA-RUI society to speak few words.
5:45 PM: Sathish invited Harshitha, singer from AR Rahmam conservatory. Ananth welcomed her with a bokay.
5:46 PM: Harshitha mesmerized the crowd with 3 songs.
6:00 PM: Sathish invited Ramesh, Senior Scientist from Adobe.
6:02 PM: Ramesh presented about Flash Platform and introducted Flash Builder 4 to the community.
6:20 PM: Ramesh showcased few sample applications built on Flex 4. Later he showed how to connect with LCDS and its functions
6:35 PM: Ramesh went on to talk about new DataServices feature in Flash Builder 4 and built a sample application with CRUD operations
6:50 PM: Sathish invited Bhakti, ColdFusion Evangelist from Adobe.
6:52 PM: Bhakti started with a ColdFusion explanation. She then went on to create a sample ColdFusion application.
7:15 PM: It was fun time. Harish, Evangelist from Adobe was ready to build an application with Flash Catalyst. He challenged the crowd that he can build a video player in 15 mins, without writing single line of code. It created a buzz among the crowd. Every was eager to see the result of the challenge
7:25 PM: Harish completed the video player well before the time.
7:35 PM: Sathish invited Rajaram from Griffin education, Sponsoring partner for RIA-RUI boot camps. Rajaram made a presentation on the various training programs provided by Griffin Education.
7:55 PM: We all proceeded to the Cake cutting. The cake was beautifully designed with “Flex 4″ text. Kudos to Ananth for this idea. We all sung a b’day song for Flex 4 and celebrated by cutting the cake.
The after party was great fun with participants leaving their sound bite on the event. Harish was rocking the after party with students interacting with him.
Hats off to all the participants who took their time off from their busy schedule proving why Chennai scores so high on professionalism. We rock!
Ramesh, Harish and Bhakti appreciated the efforts by RIA-RUI and CFUG for executing Crystal Gaze.
At the end i can proudly that the event was a SUCCESS and Chennai rocks!
PS:
Total Participants: Around 100
Crystal Gaze Badges
Generally badges are used to popularize the event and get more registrations. But in our case Grystal Gaze event is already sold out. So we actually do not require any badges. But still you can use the badges to post it in your blog.
Use the below HTML code to get the badge
Speaker Badge:
<div>
<img title=”I’m speaking at Crystal Gaze” src=”http://www.chennaiflex.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/badge_speaking.png” alt=”I’m speaking at Crystal Gaze” />
</div>
Atendee Badge:
<div>
<img title=”I’m attending Crystal Gaze” src=”http://www.chennaiflex.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/badge_attending.png” alt=”I’m attending Crystal Gaze” />
</div>
Crystal Gaze “QuickDemo” contest
We know that many of you may have been using Flex 4, FlashBuilder 4, ColdFusion Builder and FlashCatalyst since their beta days. So here is a chance for you to participate in our “QuickDemo” contest. All you have to do is plan for a 5-minutes demo that you can showcase during CrystalGaze.
Your demo should involve walking through some code (which you may have written a priori) using the relevant Adobe tools. Your demo need not be about the app itself, but it could be more to showcase a cool feature of the relevant Adobe tool.
If you are interested write your proposal in the comments section. To encourage your active participation in this, Adobe evangelists plan to give away some cool Adobe merchandize for those who demo. The last date for submitting your proposal is April 3.
Hurry up and submit your proposal soon.
Announcing a special Adobe Flex 4 event – Crystal Gaze
I have been tweeting about this event for some time now and its time to make an announcement. Chennai FUG along with RIA-RUI society is organizing this event. The event is officially sponsored by Adobe Bangalore. Its gonna be a fun filled event.
Who will be part of this event?
1. Ramesh Srinivasaraghavan, Sr Computer Scientist & Evangelist, Adobe
2. Harish Sivaramakrishanan, Computer Scientist & Evangelist, Adobe
3. Evangelists from Adobe ColdFusion Team
4. Anantharaman Mani, Founder RIA-RUI society
5. Prabhakaran(myself), CFUG Manager
I am sure we will have some inspiring talk from Ramesh, Harish and Ananth. This is a special lineup. But this is not just it. There is one more person in the lineup and it is Harshita. Harshita is a very talented student from A.R Rahman Musical Foundation. She had already showed her singing talent at the last IIT Sarang. I am sure that her presence will be felt.
Agenda:
4.00: Registration
4.30: Kick start and welcome address
4.45: Harishta from AR Rahman conservatory will perform couple of songs and will have an interactive session with the group
5.15: Adobe Evangelist team will showcases/present Flex-4. This could be 1,2 or more separate presentation.
5.45: Presentation by Prabhakaran of Chennai Flex User Group
6.15: Presentation by Chennai CF User group
6.30: Cake cutting Flex 4, snacks and informal interactions.
Where is the event?
After a long struggle, finally we have confirmed the venue. The event venue is Anna University, Guindy. A Special thanks to the Computer Society of Anna University.
Venue:
MBA Auditorium,
Anna University,
CEG Campus,
Chennai.
Event venue has been changed to
Hotel Chariot
No.4,Thirumalai Pillai Rd, Thyagaraya Nagar
Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600017
044 28341212
www.thechariotchennai.com
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How many can participate?
Initially we thought of limiting to 100 people. Considering requests from the community to increase the number, we have freezed it to 170.
We have split 170 into different categories.
30 – Students from Anna University
60 – Members of Chennai FUG
30 – Members of ColdFusion UG
50 – Developers & Designers from various companies. 2 per company
So if you fall under any of these categories, please register yourself at http://crystalgaze.eventbrite.com/
Because the seats are limited, please register to confirm your participation.
See you all at the event.
PS: For any clarifications please contact
Sathish, Head Executive RIA-RUI
Mob : 9962551653
Karan, CFUG Manager
Mob: 9444155024
Adobe India Cookbook Contest
Adobe India recently announced a contest to encourage developers to write cookbook recipes. It is a good initiative by Adobe India to create awareness and interest among the Flex India community. Because of this i am already seeing lots of Indians sharing their recipes. Way to go guys.
How can i Participate?
Its very simple. Just prepare a recipe and add the recipe at http://cookbooks.adobe.com/flex. Send the URL of the cookbook entry along with your postal address and phone number to friends@adobe.com.
What can i win?
Win a new Adobe branded backpack and also get a share of global recognition.
This contest is for residents of India only. Please find more details here – http://flashahead.adobe.com/events/cookbookcontest/
Flex Bootcamp at Anand Institute of Technology
This is the second bootcamp overall and first for this month. This time it is Anand Institute of Technology, Chennai. The event was organized by RIA-RUI society and Griffinn Education.
The event started at 10:30 AM. First to speak was the HOD of CSE dept. He welcomed the Flex community and the society.
10:45 AM: Ananth started his session on “Introduction to RIA & Flash Platform” pretty quickly. He made the session interesting and engaging.
11:15 AM: Ananth completed his session. Next session was the hands-on session by me. It was supposed to start by this time. But because of few technical problems hands-on session delayed.
11:45 AM: Finally hands-on session started. I gave a quick introduction to Flex and started developing a sample application straight away. I choose to develop a simple “Photo Gallery” application.
12:00 AM: I completed the application with just 10 lines of code. When i tried to run the application Flex Builder warned me that the browser does not have Flash Player 9. I was shocked because Flex installation should have installed the required Flash Player. So had to troubleshoot the problem
12:15 PM: Showed the application to students in groups. I explained them about the application line by line. Interacted with them and answered few questions.
12:45 PM: It was time to say good bye to the students.
Overall the bootcamp was a great learning experience for the community. I am sure that we will do more great stuffs in the upcoming bootcamps
more pics here
Successful Flex Bootcamp @ VELTECH
The first Flex bootcamp was successfully conducted by CFUG, Griffin Education. The event started around 1:00 PM on 22nd January.
What exactly happened in the event?
1:30 PM: Students from the department of Computer Science and Engg, Information Technology were present at the event hall. Around 200 students were present.
1:40 PM: The event was kick started by a welcome speech from Sathish, Head Executive RIA-RUI. Followed him was the Dean of Veltech, Vice Principal and Ananth, Founder RIA-RUI who addressed the students.
2:10 PM: It was time to start the real bootcamp. Ananth started to present “introduction to Flash Platform” and “Introduction to RIA”. Before going to the PPT’s he showed a video of “Adobe and Avatar” for 2:30 mins. He explained how Adobe technologies were used in the real world.
2:20 PM: Ananth talked about Flash Platform and how web has evolved in the past decade. He talked more about RIA and lots of technical jorgans. He continuously interacted with the students, so that the students weren’t distracted.
3:05 PM: Next part of the event was the hands-on session. The session was conducted by me(Karan, CFUG Manager). I gave a basic overview of Flex Builder and how students can get started. I started to build a simple Login Form Application using Flex Builder 3 and gave a quick introduction to components in Flex.
3:40 PM: I finished my hands-on session. As expected, students were excited about Flex. Most of them said that they would try a hand. After this, Vinod from Griffin Eduction did a small presentation.
3:50 PM: Sathish did a vote of thanks as students rushed out to their college bus.
4:00 PM: We took some snaps along with Griffin Team.
It was a wonderful experience overall. First event for CFUG, RIA-RUI and Griffin.
I thank Veltech management for their support. A special thanks to Griffin who sponsored the event. Not but least, thanks to Sathish for co-ordinating and organizing the event and making this event a success.
I also thank Ramesh and Harish from Adobe, for their timely help. I look forward to have more support from them.
We will do many more events in the coming months. Follow the activities of the group at http://twitter.com/chennaiflexug
Follow Ananth: http://twitter.com/ananthmani
Follow Karan: http://twitter.com/prabhakaran_v
Follow Sathish: http://twitter.com/followriarui
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Welcome Speech by Sathish
Ananth adressing students
Ananth welcoming Karan
Veltech College Students
RIA-RUI Team
RIA - Griffin Team
Sathish and Ananth
First ever Flex bootcamp in chennai
Chennai flex user group along with RIA-RUI society is planning to organize a flex bootcamp at VELTECH engg college, chennai. The event is scheduled on 22nd January 2010. This is the first event of this kind in chennai.
Adobe Flex Campus bootcamp poster
Speakers:
- Ananth, Founder RIA-RUI society
- Karan, Manager CFUG
The event is sponsored by Griffin Education, chennai
