Free, and often even free beer (thanks to the sponsors, you can get ripped even if the talk sucks ;)).

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From: Burr Sutter
Date: Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 9:02 AM
Subject: [ajug-announce] AJUG Tonight: Flex=Java+Flash
To: ajug-announce@ajug.org

When: August 19th at 7:00 PM
Who: James Ward (Adobe)
Where: Holiday Inn Select - Chamblee-Dunwoody http://www.ajug.org/meetings.html#directions
What: Rich Internet Applications with Flex and Java

The Session:
The Web 2.0 crowd has had significant debates about the use of plug-in based solutions to RIA vs JavaScript-based ones and in this presentation you will see how powerful a Flash-based business-focused web application can be. This presentation will include numerous live coding examples and illustrate how a Java developer can add Flex to their development skillset and environment. Bring your hardest questions, James has been all around the globe speaking with developers about the use of Flex/Flash technology in their next generation applications.

Our Speaker:
James Ward is a Technical Evangelist for Flex at Adobe and Adobe's JCP representative to JSRs 286, 299, and 301. Much like his love for climbing mountains he enjoys programming because it provides endless new discoveries, elegant workarounds, summits and valleys. His adventures in climbing have taken him many places. Likewise, technology has brought him many adventures, including: Pascal and Assembly back in the early 90s; Perl, HTML, and JavaScript in the mid 90s; then Java and many of its frameworks beginning in the late 90s. Today he primarily uses Flex to build beautiful front-ends for Java-based back-ends. Prior to Adobe, James built a rich marketing and customer service portal for Pillar Data Systems.

AJUG Sponsors (provide the facilities, web hosting, speakers and equipment):
* 4t Networks, AJUG's hosting provider (www.4tvirtual.com)
* Anteo Group: Your Java Staffing & Placement Specialist (http://www.anteogroup.com/)
* Intercontinental Exchange (ICE): Looking for Atlanta's best IT talent (http://www.theice.com/jobs.jhtml)
* JBoss: The world's most popular enterprise-class Java middleware (http://www.jboss.com/)
* Sun: The Source of Java (www.sun.com)