AsFusion

Announcing new User Groups in our area

We're pleased to announce the formation of 2 new user groups in Orange County, CA (aka "The OC").  They are the OC Flex User Group and the OC ColdFusion User Group.  For those not familiar with the OC, there is a high concentration of technology companies and high-tech industry and research here, that has earned the area the title of the "Silicon Coast".  The area does get overlooked sometimes because we are sandwiched between our much larger neighbors, Los Angeles and San Diego, so it's nice to have user groups serving our very active local developer community here.

Quick intro and Adobe AIR fun

As my first post, I'd like to introduce myself as the newest member of AsFusion! Laura and I have been friends and classmates for years and I'm excited to be joining Nahuel and Laura as they take AsFusion to the next level. I'm not a Flash or CF developer, but I'll be helping them manage their projects and posting regularly to the blog to keep you apprised of all the latest and greatest going on here! 

Laura and I just came back from the Adobe on AIR Bus Tour when they stopped in LA.  Adobe is promoting their Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR), formerly known as Apollo, which is in Beta right now and the 1st release is expected soon.  For those who aren't familiar with AIR, it's technology to allow you to deploy rich internet applications to the desktop.  To give you an idea of the kinds of fun stuff you can do, I shot a clip of a great demo by Lee Brimelow:

MAX 2006 Las Vegas

Just a quick note to say that we are in Las Vegas at MAX. This is such an out-of-the-ordinary place! Everything is huge and you get lost very easily even inside the Venetian.

Ben has been telling everybody not to miss tomorrow’s keynote, so I hope to be there on time, although I don’t really like to get up too early.

If you would like to say hi to us, we hope to see you around, or you can catch us tomorrow during the "Meet the sponsors" reception at Universal Mind's booth.