(photos by Mike Levin - click to see photo album)

The Flex Jam with James Ward and company is going well! Will we see you for James's Flex talks at tomorrow night's GatorJUG or Thursday's OrlandoJUG?

Vernon Singleton was there. We discussed subjects like identity on the web. Vernon is involved with the upcoming Orlando Linux Show.

James introduced us to Stack Overflow, a website we'll rely on as a source of info. It's a question and answer social site.

We talked about real world examples with Greg Groves and Edgar Vega.

Jim Clarke, JavaFX guy from Sun, explored Flex and added his valuable input from the standpoint of someone working with a similar product.

That's James, me and Jim Clarke in the photo above. We basked in the ultimate comfort of Winter Park, Fl's Cup o Soul Cafe, who hosted our Jam. Cup o Soul's staff Alexia, Andrew and Johnny took good care of us with tasty beverages and cool A/C in Florida's balmy weather. That was second only to the Cuppa's blazing 10 MB wireless connection. Our conference room even had a door so we could keep the noise down when we talked about stuff like web etiquette on Stack Overflow.

James turned us on to the Tour de Flex, a website full of Flex code examples you can see, cut and past to start using in your apps. We all knew this was an edge we'd be glad to have as we explore new territory in the Flex world.

Wire Shark is another web utility we saw James use that we'll all keep bookmarked. Wire Shark is a network protocol analyzer that let's you watch the traffic to and from your web server, for example. Pretty cool. It helped us when we were exploring the issues surrounding "200", which I'll let commenters explain.

We talked about the new features of HTML5, like how video is going to be handled.

Tonight, we'll have a GatorJUG meeting and James will give a Flex talk. Tomorrow, James will be back in Orlando and give another talk for the OrlandoJUG. Please RSVP at each Event announcement here on Codetown if you plan to attend. You must be a member of Codetown to see the RSVP enabled on the Event. And, please invite your friends!

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Comment by Edgar A. on August 25, 2009 at 7:36pm
The FLEX JAM was Better than Good!! it was Excellent!! Great coffee!! Great Food!! Wonderful day!!!
James Ward is Genius. THanks JAMES and Mike!!

Happy 10th year, JCertif!

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