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If you’re a Flex developer in NJ, don’t miss the first user group meeting on May 21st.  David Finnerty is one of the guys helping to get it started — you may be familiar with some of his posts about my EasyMVC Flex architecture recipe.  The official UG site is www.njflex.com and you can read Dave’s post about it as well.

I’m giving a presentation tonight about drag & drop in Adobe AIR and noticed that a lot of the examples out there were made for beta versions of AIR and don’t work with AIR 1.0.  For example, Christophe Coenraets provided some useful utility classes for working with XLS and Bitmap formats which you can read about here.  I’ve updated his source to work with AIR 1.0 and you can download it here.

There’s another example made by Rich Tretola that I’ll post soon.

If you’re in the L.A. area and you haven’t been to a Flex user group meeting, next Tuesday should be a fun one.  I’ll be demonstrating how to implement drag & drop into and out of AIR applications from the desktop and other application windows.  More details at laflex.org.  Also, be sure to join our Google group so you’re on the mailing list.

My business partner, Robert Cadena, has been running the group for the last year and he’s expecting a baby in June so we’ve transferred control over to me.  I’ll be frequently presenting on the tips and techniques that Robert and I use in our Flex consulting projects, our SearchCoders Dashboard AIR application (watch interview), and our Chatopica branded chat service.  If you’d like to be a guest speaker, let me know.  Be sure to check out the laflex.org website and subscribe to our google group if you live in the greater Los Angeles area.  

Also, if you’re hiring Flex developers in the L.A. area, be sure to post your jobs at www.searchcoders.com/jobs because that jobs feed is syndicated on the L.A. Flex website, various other blogs, SimplyHired, and we point to the jobs listings from the ads in our syndicated Flex chat room.

We frequently get asked to post Flex jobs on our blogs (especially the L.A. Flex User Group blog) so we decided to create a jobs feed and an affiliate program so that other Flex bloggers can make a little extra cash by posting jobs. Once you put the feed on your blog, just let us know and we’ll send you an affiliate ID to plug in. The details of the affiliate program are here. To put the feed on your blog, you can point any feed widget to http://www.searchcoders.com/jobs/feed and you can customize the content of the feed with something like this: http://www.searchcoders.com/jobs/feed/q=los+angeles+flex. You can also just copy and paste this feed widget:

<div id=”scjobs_content”></div>
<div id=”scjobs_powered”>powered by <a href=”http://www.searchcoders.com/jobs/”>SearchCoders/Jobs</a></div>
<script language=”javascript”>
var affiliate=”";
var query = “flex”;
</script>
<script language=”javascript” src=”http://www.searchcoders.com/js/jobs_widget.js”></script>

If you’re just looking for work or want to post a job, go directly to www.searchcoders.com/jobs

Let me know if you have any questions!