Here's my preso from MAX 2008. If you save the attachment you'll have the cheat sheet that was distributed at the session (until we ran out;)

Let me know if you have any questions or additional tips to share!

Our next meeting will be on Thursday December 4th, 2008 at Oakham House on the Ryerson Campus, starting at 6:30pm:

Oakham House
Room: Oakham Lounge
55 Gould Street
Toronto, Ontario
M5B 1E9

http://www.oakhamhouse.com/pages/directions.php has directions and parking information.

The evening's theme will be MAX2008 Goodies. We'll look at new product announcements, betas and other news that comes out of the San Francisco MAX conference the week of November 17th.

If you're planning to attend MAX and would like to help present, just drop me a line.

As always, don't forget to register free at www.torontoflex.org so we know how many people to expect.

If you're interested in presenting an application or topic in the future that would be of interest to the group, let us know and we'll try to get you some time at an upcoming meeting.

Thanks,
Oliver

I'll be presenting at a couple of CF/Flex seminars at the end of the month, along with Rick Palmerio, my New Toronto Group cohort.

These introductory sessions are aimed at the decisions makers, the suits, the money people. If you're trying to sell the ColdFusion or Flex platforms within your organization, this would be a great place to send your boss.

Registration is FREE and attendees will receive a free copy of Flex Builder!

[EDIT:]
CANCELED: OTTAWA:
Adobe Systems Canada
343 Preston Street, Ottawa, Algonquin Room
Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2008
9:00am – 11:00am
Continental Breakfast served at 8:30am
Register here

TORONTO:
Oakham House
63 Gould Street, Toronto, ON Canada
Wednesday, Nov 26, 2008
9:00am – 11:00am
Continental Breakfast served at 8:30am
Register here

It's here! An the Linux version has a .DEB installer: Download the Linux version here. Other versions here. The debug Linux version is here.

The next meeting of the Toronto Flex User Group will be held on October 23, 2008 at Oakham House (Ryerson campus).

This time around, we've got two User Group members presenting. As always, if you're interested in presenting something at a future meeting please contact me via the website.

Please visit torontoflex.org for more details and to sign up. It's free!

Here's an enhanced version of the Flex ComboBox with type-ahead functionality. It's evolved over several projects and is stable so I hope others might find it useful.

You can use whatever data provider you need; the filter works against the data in the labelField property. The data provider can be a simple list of strings (as per the example) or complex objects.

Right-click to view and download the source. Feel free to use this in your own projects, make any changes you want, and tell your boss that you created it;) Enjoy...

ComboBox with Type-Ahead [new window]

The first Gumbo Downloads are ready to download at opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/Download+Flex+4.

Time to start reading and hacking. I'll post more here when I discover anything cool.

[Addendum: Flex SDK 3.1 and Flex Builder 3.0.1 appear to be out as well]

Not only forcing Silverlight down our throats (see Ben Nadel's hilarious post), but Windows as well.

And the hypocrisy of using Flash all over their homepage is brilliant.

Nice work NBC.

Thank you from all the Linux and Mac users around the world who are shielded from viewing your advertising. The wonderful things that happen when two great companies get together!

The title says it all. I'm glad to see Cairngorm opened up this way. Hopefully we'll see more frequent updates and improvements. There are already some good items in the bugbase (below); if there's something you would like improved about Cairngorm, now's your chance!

New Cairngorm Home

Cairngorm Bugbase

Alister's Announcement

Steven's Announcement

Flash Switcher is a Firefox add-on by Allessandro Crugnola for those developers concerned with Flash Player versions. I tried it a while back when it was Windows-only.

It's now got Linux and Mac capability as well and works with FF3!

Get Flash Switcher

Also check out his Flash Tracer if you haven't already.

Thanks Allessandro!