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We will be having our regular meeting at our regular time and place, next week, Wednesday, March 7th. Derek Brigner of Mind Over Data, LLC will be presenting on ColdSpring, talking about how to set it up and work with it. More information about ColdSpring here: http://www.coldspringframework.org/ Hope to see you there!

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We will be talking about Flex 2 and all of its related products, including: Flex 2 SDK FlexBuilder 2.0.1 Eclipse Flex Data Services Apollo This will be mostly high level, what Flex 2 is, what role each of these products have, its capabilities, its different use cases, and pricing.

Our usergroup will be meeting next on Wed December 6th.

Please join us to welcome our new user group manager Ryan Guill ( http://www.ryanguill.com/ ). We will be discussing the User Group and how we can grow.

Our June meeting that was to be held June 7 has been cancelled.

The MAY meeting will be presented by Ryan Guill ( http://www.ryanguill.com/ ).

He will be demonstrating the Subversion version control system( http://subversion.tigris.org/ ) in more detail. He covered how it can be used with Eclipse in last months meeting. This month he will concentrate on setting up the environment so it can be easily integrated it into your development process.

The APRIL meeting will be presented by Ryan Guill ( http://www.ryanguill.com/ ).

He will be demonstrating the Eclipse editing tool ( http://www.eclipse.org/ ). Some of the Eclipse plugins that will be included in his demonstration are CFEclipse for ColdFusion and the FlexBuilder 2 beta for Flex.

At March's meeting are providing an introduction to Flex and the FlexBuilder2 beta. We will be going over Flex concepts, what will be coming out soon to support development, and an example piece of code. The example shows a Flash grid component populated by a Flex Gateway call and then filtered in real time as you type into a text box.

Our next meeting will be Wednesday February 8 at 6pm.

We will be covering the process for setting up the PayPal Website Payments Pro system using ColdFusion and Java.

It's a bit more involved than PayPal's other payment options but provides a lot of benefits and can be more seemless for a customer when they are making purchases on your website.

Ryan Guill will be presenting on a new "proggie" he wrote called qBrowser. It is a SQL statement browser that lets you execute SQL and save the statements and results. It was mentioned on Ben Forta's blog last week.

Ben Forta Link

Tomorrow. Ryan Guill will be giving a demonstration of the new Flash capabilities of <cfform> in ColdFusion MX 7. This new capability of ColdFusion is extremely powerful and can provide 'Desktop like' capabilities to your browser based application.

He has also been experimenting with doing Flash Remoting calls via the <CFFORM> tags and will show you what he has discovered.

A link to Ryan's Blog with links to information given in his presentation: Presentation Info

At our July meeting we will be demonstrating how to set up a Flash based image slideshow.

The slideshow is driven by a Flash component called SlideShowPro that allows the building of image albums for ease of viewing along with many other features.

This demonstration will also show how to set up an image management module for your slideshow using a system written by Ryan Guill

At our meeting this month we will be showing a video giving information on the recently released ColdFusion 7.
During the meeting there will be a copy of the 'Macromedia Coldfusion MX 7 Web Application Construction Kit' for everyone to peruse.

We will also go over a technique and the code used to upload graphic objects to a webserver using Flash. Code was originally developed by Impulse Digital ( http://www.impulsedigital.com/idio/idio-v1/ )

Having trouble meeting deadlines or budget with your software projects?

Come join us Wednesday (Feb 2) for a combined meeting of the Macromedia Users Group and The Toad to hear members of the Project Management Institute present “From Concept to Launch, Getting Your IT Projects Out The Door”.


We open the doors this month at 5:30pm with the presentation starting at 6pm. We will have soda and chips available before the presentation.

Our meeting this month will cover a ColdFusion technique for creating Excel spreadsheets from a database query.

This technique is easy and painless allowing users to query a database and save the results to their computer in Excel format.

Our meeting this month has been cancelled.

We will have the November meeting Wed November 3 at 6pm at our normal place (University of Pheonix building Suite 305 near the intersection of Walnut Grove and Germantown Parkway)


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STUFF TO LOOK AT IN THE MEAN TIME
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Addicting Flash application [ CHECK IT OUT ]

Tutorial on designing a Flash Interfaces [ CHECK IT OUT ]

ColdFusion tutorial on fusebox 4 [ CHECK IT OUT ]

This month Chuck Williams from Mind Over Data will be showing how to embed a Rich Internet Application into a PDF file for distribution.

The example he will show will be a PDF file containing a dynamic pricelist and order form all driven by a ColdFusion MX server, Flash Remoting, and SQL database.

Door prizes will be given away at the beginning of the meeting!

We look forward to seeing you at the meeting!

Our meeting this month will cover how to code Remoting Connections to the Flash Gateway.

We will give an overview, review some example code, and provide insight into the different options you have when making the connection from Flash to the Application server.

We look forward to seeing you at the meeting!

Our July MMUG meeting will feature a presentation by Kyle Dixon who is a contractor at the US Postal service. He will be demonstrating how to:

- Use java to create CFX tags and classes in ColdFusion.

- Create code39 (3 of 9) barcodes images in gif format on the fly with java and ColdFusion.

- And may demonstrate using JavaBeans in ColdFusion if there is time.

We look forward to seeing you at the meeting!

NOTE: This months meeting is a worldwide user group meeting at a different time and location than normal

On Wednesday, May 19th, the Memphis Macromedia User Group will be participating in the next Macromedia Worldwide User Group meeting.



Some of Macromedia's Product Managers will be broadcasting to us (and other user groups around the world) via Breeze Live, with never seen before sneaks on upcoming product releases!

We would love to tell you more -- we would love to make this announcement as exciting as possible -- but we have no CLUE!!!

That's because this stuff is top secret. Members of Team Macromedia don't know. User Group Managers don't know. Only Macromedia knows what will be shown -- and there are even those in Macromedia who do not have that information.

We can promise you that it will be worth it.

We look forward to seeing you at the meeting!

MEETINGS HAVE CHANGED TO THE FIRST WED OF EACH MONTH

This month Custom Data Solutions ( http://www.cds-llc.com ) will present an overview of the development process for a ColdFusion / MySQL driven page that incorporates a blend of dynamic HTML and Flash content.

Topics that will be addressed:
* N-Tier application development using CFCs
* Flash Remoting
* Adapted use of Fusebox methodology
* CFFile for uploading images
* When not to use Flash & developing for older Flash versions

CANCELLED DUE TO SCHEDULING CONFLICT

Many companies have trouble keeping their customers up-to-date with current pricing and availability of products. With this in mind Chuck Williams of The Data Company will be demonstrating a theoretical Flash MX application using Flash remoting that is distributed within a PDF document. A “Price List & Order Form”.

This PDF based demo app will enable a user to:
- view a real-time price list
- order using real-time data (including price & stock availability);
- allow a user with administrative privileges to update pricing & availability

This will include elements of:
- Flash Remoting (intermediate actionscript code)
- Intermediate actionscript code
- Setting up a remoting connection using a method not generally demonstrated on the web
- Retrieving & Sending data
- Grid & Field Component controls
- Basic Coldfusion & SQL
- Creating an “Active PDF” with Acrobat 6.0 Professional

This month David Zachry and Tom Kirstein are going to cover creating in Flash MX a form that could receive data from a user and provide it to an application server like ColdFusion MX. In the past we have shown how to create the ActionScript code and the ColdFusion code to handle user transactions. This month we will go over the Flash MX interface and how to create data collection forms using it.

This month Ben Lucas and David Zachry are going to go over some of the new things they saw at the Macromedia MAX conference 2 weeks ago. They want to cover some of the new features in Studio MX 2004, Flash Communication Server, Flex, and ColdFusion MX 7.

This month I'm going to cover an application that my company has built using Flash MX and the Flash Gateway on ColdFusion MX with data provided by MS SQL Server. We will be getting into the code a bunch to demonstrate how the Flash Gateway can be utilized to make a better user experience.

This month David Zachary of Physiotherapy Associates will be giving an overview of their intranet and how it was built. The presentation should be a good introduction to what it takes to create a 'Rich Internet Application'. Physiotherapy's intranet was built using Flash MX, ColdFusion MX, and the Flash Gateway to connect them.

I have some very exciting news. For the very first time in Macromedia history, the company has decided to do a worldwide user group meeting and our group is going to participate. Using Macromedia's latest communication solution, Breeze Live, our User Group will participate in the meeting in real-time over the web. In addition to seeing the presentation online, we will be able to ask questions and interact with other User Groups and Macromedia.

I am thrilled to announce that by joining us at the September 3 worldwide user group event, you will be the first users to see the new Macromedia MX 2004 products. You will see demonstrations of Dreamweaver MX 2004, Flash MX 2004, Fireworks MX 2004, Studio MX 2004 and the all-new Flash Professional MX 2004.

We will also be raffling off a copy of Studio MX 2004 to those attending the event, so make sure to join us! The event will be broadcast over Macromedia's Breeze Live so you'll also experience Macromedia's newest collaboration tool.

So please mark your calendars for Wednesday, September 3 at 6:00 PM CST.

This month Brook Johnson from Green Mountain Consulting will be our guest speaker. (http://www.greenmountainconsulting.com)

He will be walking through a customer implementation schedule application his company wrote for themselves in Coldfusion. It displays and updates a list of tasks that must be performed to bring a customer on board. There are screens to add a schedule for a new customer, add a task to a customers schedule, update a schedule, display all schedules, and close a schedule when complete.

On the technical side, Brook will discuss creating and using dynamic variable names. The application uses stored procedures, so he will demonstrate <cfstoredproc> with input parameters and result sets. He will also show some of the SQL database and stored procedures used to build the application.

This months meeting has been cancelled.

The August meeting will feature guest speaker Brook Johnson of Green Mountain Consulting (http://www.greenmountainconsulting.com)

This month will be an introduction to ColdFusion. We will go over an example of how to submit a form to a processing page which will do a lookup in a database and forward the user to a success or failure message.

During the discussion of ColdFusion we will do a basic comparison of ColdFusion CFML with ASP and JSP code.

This month will be kind of a step back from last month to go over Flash MX ActionScript methods. I will be showing how to add methods to a Flash MX graphic object and make it do tricks by calling the methods.

This month David Zachry will be our guest speaker. He will be covering Flash MX design techniques while developing a mini website. Some of the techniques he will be demonstrating are: animated buttons, masks, animating along a path and sound. If you know anyone that is interested in learning more about any of Macromedia's product line please bring them along. We have been covering a lot of both ColdFusion MX and Flash MX but can cover many of the other Macromedia products if requested.

MEETING FILES:
APR2003_flash.zip (9.23mb)

COOL LINKS:
Interesting Actionscript news site
Macromedia Central will help programmers create offline desktop applications with Flash MX