Substance and Pinch, along with the Flash PDX User Group, invite you to an evening of show and tell. We know that you have been working diligently on the next big thing, so we want to give you the opportunity to brag about it a bit. So on Tuesday, March 3rd at 6:30 pm, at Substance, we will be hosting an event where you can come and share what you’ve been working on.

We’re looking for people to share a short presentation on something they have been working on and tell us about it. Plan for about 10 minutes on stage, and tell us what’s new. We hope to share ideas, designs, code, art, film, whatever you might be interested in sharing. We’d love to see new speakers, as well as the usual suspects sharing their work.

We plan on getting started around 6:00, with drinks and music, then begin the program at 7:00. The event will be held at Substance World Headquarters, 1551 SE Poplar Ave, Portland.

If you’re interested, send us your idea on what you’d like to present by Thursday February 26th and we will sort through the ideas to curate an interesting evening. Send your ideas to: "showandtell findsubstance.com" and we will start the conversation.

Matt LeGrand will present on Skin Classes in Flex 4.

David Knape will be at Fashionbuddha Friday night to discuss his Bumpslide App Template. The app template is part of his open-source Bumpslide Library and will be used as a launchpad for discussion of the Model-View-Controller pattern for Flash application development.

The goal is a relaxed talk where we can discuss the basics of why and how to separate application state from view components while touching upon some more advanced topics including data binding and the command pattern.

We’ll also talk about general coding best practices and how the app template relates to some of the other frameworks that are currently floating around the web including PureMVC, Cairngorm, Gaia, and this thing called Flex. Don’t be scared. There will be beer.

This presentation will be broadcast live at: http://experts.na3.acrobat.com/flashpdx

Portland Rich Internet Developers Group (PDXRIA) Summer Social!

This month we are just going to head down to the Lucky Lab in SE and network a little. If you've never joined us after the meeting for libations and conversations, you have missed out. We took that awesome part of the night and just expanded it till it was the whole meeting! This is your chance to brag about the cool stuff your building, or lament about the lame stuff your boss is making you build, or ask questions about the next thing you're planning to build. I think you get the idea. Come and chat and eat and drink. See you soon!

Writing Testable code with Michael Labriola

You all know by now that you should be unit testing your code, but do you know how? It is unfortunately really easy in Flex to architect code which is very difficult to test. In this session, we will explore how to build components and applications in flex which are inherently testable, and see how we test them.

Michael Labriola is a Senior Consultant at Digital Primates and the Lead Developer for FlexUnit 4.

Get there at 5:30 for pizza, drinks and networking. The presentation will start at 6:00 pm.

Writing Testable code. You all know by now that you should be unit testing your code, but do you know how? It is unfortunately really easy in flex to architect code which is very difficult to test. In this session, we will explore how to build components and applications in flex which are inherently testable, and see how we test them.

Join us Thursday, October 14, for food and networking at 5:30 PM sponsored by Thetus Corporation in association with the PDXRIA User Group. Our speaker, Michael Labriola starts at 6 PM.

Michael Labriola is a Senior Consultant at Digital Primates and the Lead Developer for FlexUnit 4. He has been developing Internet applications since 1995 and working with Flex since its 1.0 beta. Michael is an Adobe Certified Instructor, Community Professional, and co-author of the Flex 2, 3 and 4 Training from the Source books and Breaking out of the Browser with Adobe AIR.

As an international speaker and team mentor on Flex and AIR projects, he has consulted for many of the world’s most recognized brands. His free time is spent escaping from technology through wine and food.

RSVP: http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/6735069/OR/Portland/Flex-and-Maven-a-joint-event-by-Thetus-Corporation-and-PDXRIA-User-Group/Thetus-Corporation/ Your RSVP enters you in a raffle for a Powell's gift card!

Second Story is hosting the February meeting of the Flash Usergroup

Learning How to Use OSMF, Strobe Media Playback, and Flash Media Playback for Your Video Projects

http://groups.adobe.com/index.cfm?event=post.display&postid=33923

Address: Second Story 714 N Fremont St # 200 Portland, OR 97227 http://secondstory.com

This session will take an in-depth look at hardware acceleration in Flash. We'll go over when and how to apply it to speed up your Flash Player 9 and 10 projects, and what you'll be able to do with it in Flash Player 11 with the "Molehill" SDK, Pixel Bender 3D, and Away3D 4.

Doors open at 6:30. Presentation will start at 7pm.

Stephen Schieberl is Senior Developer at Fashionbuddha. His web and exhibit work has been featured and recognized by Communication Arts, HOW Magazine, CreativeApplications.net, WebVisions, and more.

http://bandtherewind.com/ http://fashionbuddha.com/

Bring out your laptop with Flash Builder 4.5 installed and we will walk through the basics of getting you started with Flex Mobile.

During the discussion we will talk about the differences in architecture between Flex for the Desktop and Flex Mobile. We will talk about Views and ViewNavigators and we will look at how to move data between them. We will also talk about testing your applications locally and on the phone. And lastly we will talk about how to deploy to Android and iOS devices.

Location: PCC Sylvania Library, room 204.

Who doesn’t love to be part of something new? Join us for the very first meeting of the PDX-UX user group! This month, we’ll have three to four demos from local companies showcasing the latest techniques in UX and UI development and design. We will provide free food, drinks, networking and discussions.

Who: Anyone interested in discussing or showcasing cutting-edge user interface and user experience development and design. We’d also love to meet some exciting and motivated potential employees, so feel free to invite your talented designer and developer friends!

When: Thursday, September 29th Food and networking at 5:30 Demos start at 6:00 and will wrap up before 7:00

Where: Thetus Corporation 34 NW 1st Avenue (corner of 1st and Couch) 3rd floor Portland, OR 97209

---Google Group--- We’ll be meeting the 3rd Thursday of every month in the same location--if you’d like to join and/or you're interested in getting updates for future meetings, join our PDX-UX Google Group! http://groups.google.com/group/pdx-ux?hl=en

Oregon Computer Consultants Association Monthly Meeting

Tuesday, January 26, 2021 Topics that will be addressed:

• recoverable vs. non-recoverable scenarios
• encrypted devices
• recovery from Flash, smart devices, etc
• best practices
• cost and why data recovery costs what it does
• natural disaster recovery cases
• Long term storage and data preservation

Questions are welcome

Speaker(s): Mike Cobb, DriveSavers Director of Engineering from 2010 to present. His duties include:

• Direct our cleanroom engineers to constantly stay on the cutting edge of recovery techniques and find ways to access data storage devices for any failure scenario.

• Provide direction and expertise to our enterprise class logical recovery engineers helping them to reverse engineer dozens of unique file systems in order to gain access to recover data.

• Investigate and implement new processes and techniques for recovery of solid-state devices and train recovery engineers to perform unique customer solutions for data recovery.

• Develop relationships and advanced data recovery techniques with manufacturers for all types of recovery devices including HDD, SSD, various Flash devices, Smart Devices, RAID arrays, SAN environments and more.

• Provide best practices and assistance with business continuity and disaster recovery to our customers.

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Drivesavers is a very large and highly rated professional data recovery company. They have been recovering client data from all over the world since 1985. All leading manufacturers authorize DriveSavers to open sealed drives without voiding the original warranty. You can still receive an in warranty drive replacement.

Agenda: 6:30--7:00 Introductions, Announcements, Gadget Minute, Stump the Geek 7:00--8:00 Main Presentation (followed by Q&A)

Location: This meeting will be held online.