Flex User Group Meeting

A Philadelphia Area Flex User Group meeting is scheduled for Thursday, September 13th at 6:30pm.

Topic: Integrating Flex and Ruby on Rails Speaker: Derek Wischusen Date: Thursday, September 13th at 6:30pm Location: TBD

Topic Description: This presentation will provide a basic a overview of the Rails framework, the Ruby programming language, and how Flex can work with Rails to enable rapid RIA development. The presentation will conclude with a hands on demonstration of how to build a simple address book with Flex and Rails.

About the Speaker: Derek Wischusen is a Senior Manager of Electronic Products at Wolters Kluwer Health, where he manages and leads the development of Flex and Flash-based products. Derek has been creating applications using the Flash platform since 2000 and Rails since early 2006. He runs a popular blog on using Flex with Ruby on Rails. He has written technical articles on integrating Flex and Rails for Adobe's Flex Developer Center, where he was recently nominated as the Developer of the Month. Derek is the primary author of the Flex RoR SDK by Adobe.

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