Melbourne Flex Usergroup on tonight

The Melbourne Flex usergroup has been started up again after 2 years of absence.

I'd encourage everyone that plans to attend to sign up to Adobe Groups and join the Melbourne Flex usergroup so that can stay in the loop.

http://mfug.groups.adobe.com/

The first meeting will be July 1st ( tonight ).
http://mfug.groups.adobe.com/index.cfm?event=post.display&postid=26753

Dale Fraser will be presenting.  I have seen the code demos there pretty neat.


Dale is the CTO at CogState. Managing a team of developers who work with Flex and ColdFusion to deliver Cognitive Testing into clinical trials. Dale has more than 20 years of experience in IT.
Agenda
Manipulating 2D objects in 3D space.
This will run through how you can take adavantage of the Flash player's ability to transform prety much anything into 3D space. This feature provides both an attractive and usable set of functioanlity that you can incorperate into your user interface

Venue:     CogState
           Level 2 / 255 Bourke Street
           Melbourne Victoria

When:      1^st Thursday of the month (TONIGHT)

Website:   http://mfug.groups.adobe.com

Prizes:    Twice a year we will draw a raffle for up to $2,100 USD
           of Adobe software, each user group you attend gets you
           one entry into the draw. So the more you come the more
           chance you have.

Agenda:    6:30 – 7:00     Pizza & Drinks
           7:00 – 8:30     Presentation
           8:30 – 9:00     Questions & Discussion

SPECIAL!! There will be a prize draw tonight, come along and have a chance to win Adobe Creative Suite Web Premium.

IMPORTANT!! If you can sign up at the above link and RSVP this would be helpful for catering purposes.

Tour de ColdFusion released

You have all probably seen it by now but Tour De ColdFusion has been released.  This is a great little AIR app demonstrating with working demos most of ColdFusions functions and Tags.  Download it and take a look


http://tourdecf.adobe.com/

iPhone OS 4.0

I upgraded to iPhone 4.0 OS today. The Fade in and out is nice and multitasking is a nice feature. The combined mailbox is realyl good as I have multiple mail accounts. Lets hope the battery life stays the same or even improves and my reception also stays the same.

Any features hidden away that are worth noting? Let me know.

Here is a full feature list: http://www.apple.com/iphone/softwareupdate/

.NET , Ruby, ColdFusion, PHP or Java

If you had a brand new project to work on that was web based ( or Flex front end based ). What server side technology would you go with. I've been thinking about this alot recently and I'd like to hear your opinions. Things to consider might be:

Cost of Devlopment
Speed of Development
Availability of developers
Existing library's that may be leveraged
Your own fluency in a language
Size of project
Cost of server equipment
etc

Just to throw out an idea http://www.tweettrail.com is written in CFML originally running on CF8 and MSSQL but now running on my own VPS ( linux ), MYSQL and Railo all free and opensource. ACF and .NET just can't compete with that due to licensing costs yet if I had have used java or php it would have taken me alot longer to develop. Where as our larger app runs ACF we use cfreport heavily, we use the ajax controls and flex remoting that being said we feel we are not locked into CF and do discuss the idea of changing languages.