what do I know

Yesterday I stopped by the Acadiana Adobe User Group in Lafayette, LA for Ray’s presentation on Adobe AIR. He showed off a time allocation app using Flex and then HTML/JS. He was able to show us a few quirks with SqlLite’s DATETIME datatype that Adobe added as well as some gotcha’s with respect to using HTML/JS with Spry. It was cool to see another user group in action. The Acadiana group has been meeting on and off for many years and they all seem to get along very well. Thanks to everyone in attendance for warm welcome and best of luck with the group.

Well after 1:45 I was able to complete my Connect presentation for the IECFUG on “Common Revision Control Practices using SVN”. You can get to the presentation using this link. If you would like to view the presentation file, you can find the link here. I think it ran way too long, and by the time I came out of PowerPoint, I had lost like 4 of the 6 in the chat. I was however able to finish everything but 3 slides of my presentation and all of my examples, so I guess that is good for me (just not the attendees).

Thanks again to the IECFUG for putting up with me as their presenter for October. I’m always available for long, drawn out presentations when you need me.

My boss, Max Porges, gave his Java talk on Sunday and did a great job. As far as this blog is concerned, I will blow as much smoke up his ass as required to make my working environment even better. In all seriousness though, he went over a great introduction to the tools and environments we use in-house with respect to Java and how easy it is to be productive. He showed a lot of productivity examples using Eclipse and a few comparisons of using CF versus Java and what the benefits were to doing each. Good stuff and hopefully encouraging to the community.