Refresh Denver (Adobe AIR)
Attended another Refresh Denver gathering tonight. This time it was held at The Hive which is near REI in downtown Denver in a basement. The following are a few shots snapped from the iPhone:
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I was a little late getting to the party as traffic was heavy and the place itself was a bit of a treasure hunt. Greg Owen from Effective UI was the speaker. He was quite knowledgable about the Adobe AIR platform but I can’t say that I learned a lot from the presentation. I think I was hoping to see real-time coding splendor from within the Flex Builder IDE. Oh, well. Chip’s demo of Map My Pix is worth checking out. Chip demonstrated with Map My Pix that a user can drag and drop photos onto a map pulling timestamp and location information from the EXIF data found in images (although I’m not positive how the location information is captured as I write this).
After the meeting I got a chance to talk to Mike Hostetler from Crowd Favorite and ate dinner with Scott Balay from Triple Jack Poker and Heather Morgan from LaunchPad Interactive at Protos Pizza (which is on the first floor of the same building as The Hive).
It is really nice to see the Refresh Denver group growing. The Hive was packed and everyone is enthused and curious about technology. For me, this is a welcome change. Something I’ve been trying to find for some time now.
For additional information, check out Chip’s wrap-up notes.
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Post Update: I was tired last night, when I wrote the original post, and have updated it to include pictures and additional details.
Glad you enjoyed the event. In the future, if you have a specific topic you’d like to see covered, post something on it on the refresh denver google group (http://groups.google.com/group/refreshdenver)
Greg posted a message asking if there were particular topics or things people would like to see and no one responded - I’m sure he would’ve been happy to provide some “real-time coding splendor from within the Flex Builder IDE” if only he’d known.
Thanks RJ. Good point but this also raises an interesting issue in that I currently don’t subscribe to the Google Group only the WordPress site.
I’ll follow up with the Refresh Group and see if some sort of consolidation can take place. I don’t care where the Refresh Denver group resides on the web just that there should be one point of reference for simplicity.
Hi Brooke,
A few things…
There’s more pictures of the hive on refreshdenver’s flickr group (http://flickr.com/groups/refreshdenver/).
Some of your links above are broken.
As for the “multiply sites,” there really is only the two — I just don’t think everyone understands how to use them correctly. The main site is for postings of a one-way nature (i.e., information in the form of articles, announcements, etc.) and the google groups is meant for discussions (a forum).
Though there are other sites in use (e.g., upcoming, flickr, twitter, etc.) these are only to serve as supporting rolls. We could code all similar custom solutions into the main site and I’m sure we will at some point in the future, but you have to remember we’re just getting started.
Thanks for the feedback.
Mathew, thanks for pointing out the broken links (they are fixed now) and clarification of the multiple web sites.
Nice Flickr pictures as well.