Our May meeting will be held Thursday May 22nd at 6:00PM. Dave Powell will be speaking on "Skinning Your Flex Applications".

Skinning your Flex Applications The purpose of the RIA is to present the user with a "rich" experience within your application, but Flex and AIR apps present a the highest level of potential (and complexity) for the Adobe developer. How do you balance complexity with the need to differentiate your application from every other Halo themed Flex app? From buttons to transitions and backgrounds, identify the highest impact mods to set your application apart.

Dave has been doing graphics and web design since WAY back...ok...since '97 or so. Starting with print design for major retailers and manufacturers such as Target, Wal-Mart, JC Penney, The Banana Republic, Fruit of the Loom, Vassarette, and Peds.

Not wanting to miss out on the dotcom "boom", he defected to a web startup company where he became an Art Director. Dave got tired of the developers breaking his designs, and so he picked up ColdFusion and never looked back. Seeking a bit of job security, and the familiar halls of his alma mater, he returned to the University of North Carolina where he currently manages IT projects of all types, and develops applications using Cold Fusion and Python. He also manages the Carolina Adobe User Group, and is an active member of the Triangle Area User Group.

The meeting begins at 6:00 and will be held at PStrat in a new Location:

10 Laboratory Drive, Building 2
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709

Directions: From I-40, take the Davis Drive exit (280).
Turn right at the end of the ramp.
Turn right onto Laboratory Drive (if you reach Cornwallis Road, you've gone too far).
Turn right at 10 Laboratory Drive.
Veer left and drive around back to get to the main entrance for the building on the left (Building 2).
The meeting space is on the second floor.

See you there!

The inaugural CFLunch was a success! The next one will be on Friday, May 16th, 11:30am at the Chili's near Streets at Southpoint Mall. A CFLunch, as you know is a friendly, casual meeting for us to get together and shoot the breeze on a Friday. No agenda, no responsibilities, just good people having a good meal.

The restaurant address: 6917 Fayetteville Rd #102
Durham, NC
(919) 572-7878

If you are interested, leave a comment so we have a loose idea how much room to reserve!

Just a friendly reminder, Doug Hughes, President of Alagad Inc. presents tonight on Patterns and Techniques for Data Persistence and Access.

Virtually all web applications depend on storing and retreiving data of some sort. The most common place this data is stored is a database, however developers also may use other systems such as flat text files, web services, and more. Furthermore, the ways in which data are stored tend to be different from what our applications require. The way in which we interact with this data can have a dramatic impact on our applications. As a result, a number of design patterns and techniques have arisen to help make data interaction more manageable. In this presentation we will cover some of the more basic data access design patters such as Data Access Objects and Gateways as well as more advanced techniques and patterns like Active Record and metadata based persistance techniques.

10 Laboratory Drive, Building 2
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709

Directions: From I-40, take the Davis Drive exit (280).
Turn right at the end of the ramp.
Turn right onto Laboratory Drive (if you reach Cornwallis Road, you've gone too far).
Turn right at 10 Laboratory Drive.
Veer left and drive around back to get to the main entrance for the building on the left (Building 2).
The meeting space is on the second floor.

See you there!

Friday April 25th at 11:30, we'll be having a CFLUNCH at the Sunset Grille in Durham, about a half mile from the Southpoint Mall. This will be a friendly, casual meeting for us to get together and shoot the breeze on a Friday. No agenda, no responsibilities, just good people having a good meal.

The Sunset Grille has a really good Buffalo Chicken Sandwich, probably the best in the Triangle. You can see the rest of the Lunch Menu here.

To help us get an idea of which tables to reserve, if you wanna come, please leave a comment on this posting.

Credit to the illustrious Jim Priest for getting this started

To help keep folks informed of the TACFUG meetings, we've established a public Calendar. We'l put our meetings and any other important CF related stuff on there and you can keep up using:

• XML: http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/calendar%40tacfug.org/public/basic
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• HTML: http://www.google.com/calendar/hosted/tacfug.org/embed?src=calendar%40tacfug.org&ctz=America/New_York

There is also a page up on TACFUG at http://tacfug.org/blog/page.cfm/Meeting-Calendar