Singapore Flex Usergroup

Alex Goh previously worked in Accenture as a SAP Technology Consultant, and Nexmedia Pte Ltd as a Flex developer. He picked up Flex about a year ago, and have developed several applications including a virtual message board. The application is currently being used in schools and conferences whereby the virtual board is projected onto big screens, and students or audiences are encouraged to post their questions or feedbacks by sending SMS to the board.

Vishnu Prasad is an Coldfusion developer with 8 years of experience in IT industry with speciliation in coldfusion. He has written few turorials on Coldfusion @(www.learncf.com). e specializes in emerging technologies and he is currently fascinated with rich internet applications, service oriented architecture, and identifying new trends.

Vishnu mission is to promote coldfusion and Coldfusion related technology by giving free training to collegs abd university for that he as started the community www.cfexpose.com. Looking for a volunters for the same.

Alvin Zhang is passionate about RIA, the web, making stuff move and user interfaces. His other interests are photography and film and he has an attraction to everything Japanese though he can’t speak the language. Alvin is currently working with Imagine Omnimedia on several projects and teaches Flash at 3dsense Media School Singapore. Alvin is also an Adobe Certified Expert on Photoshop, Acrobat and Flash.

Flex is a free, open source framework for building highly interactive, expressive web applications that deploy consistently on all major browsers, desktops, and operating systems. It provides a modern, standards-based language and programming model that supports common design patterns. MXML, a declarative XML-based language, is used to describe UI layout and behaviors, and ActionScript™ 3, a powerful object-oriented programming language, is used to create client logic. Flex also includes a rich component library with more than 100 proven, extensible UI components for creating rich Internet applications (RIAs), as well as an interactive Flex application debugger.

RIAs created with Flex can run in the browser using Adobe Flash® Player software or on the desktop on Adobe AIR™, the cross-operating system runtime. This enables Flex applications to run consistently across all major browsers and on the desktop. And using AIR, Flex applications can now access local data and system resources on the desktop. Both Flash Player and Adobe AIR are available as a free download on Adobe.com.

Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software solves the day-to-day challenges of Internet application development, allowing you to be extremely productive as you create and deliver engaging online applications. And because it fits into any IT environment, you can use ColdFusion 8 for everything from small departmental applications to highly scalable, reliable implementations of your most important business applications.

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers.

Amazon EC2’s simple web service interface allows you to obtain and configure capacity with minimal friction. It provides you with complete control of your computing resources and lets you run on Amazon’s proven computing environment. Amazon EC2 reduces the time required to obtain and boot new server instances to minutes, allowing you to quickly scale capacity, both up and down, as your computing requirements change. Amazon EC2 changes the economics of computing by allowing you to pay only for capacity that you actually use. Amazon EC2 provides developers the tools to build failure resilient applications and isolate themselves from common failure scenarios.