Well I have been trying to post from my mobile phone while at MAX while the events are happening. Clearly looking over my blog tonight it didn’t really work very well, multiple posts all over the place. Sorry about the mass posting of late from my blog.
Add comment October 25th, 2006
At MAX you can pick up your copy of the lastest Web Developer’s and Designer’s Journal. The front page sports a picture of a web cam and the article title “Video Conference with Flex and FMS”. The crazy thing is I wrote the article. This is my first published article in the journal and I am pretty excited about it. If you are at MAX pick up a copy of the journal and let me know what you think.
Add comment October 25th, 2006
I was talking with Jeff last night at dinner. I found out his book was release and was at MAX. So I thought I would go and check out the book at the MAX store. I got there about mid day today and it was sold out, yeah sold out in the first half day of MAX. I think people are hurting for Flex 2 material. well I bought my copy and it will be sent to me in a copy of days.
2 comments October 24th, 2006
This demo I’M application was shown at the keynote this morning and at MAXUP. Its cool to MySpace embracing Apollo and Flex.
Add comment October 24th, 2006
Elly went throguh in detail how to create components in his “Flex Under the Hood: A Tour through the Flex Architecture”. The sample he created in this session is a component that mimics iPod’s Cover feature just recently released. He will post the code on his blog in thefuture… another sweet moment from MAX.
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I have been interested in the Apollo project since was announced. Today at the keynote session I saw for the first time what they mean when they SWF, HTML, DHTML and PDF will worknciely togather. One example they showed demonstrated drag and drop events between Flex and Google maps (DHTML) mini-app all wrapped in Apollo. Apollo is bigger and quite different then my original opinion of comparing it with Zinc by mdm.
Add comment October 24th, 2006
Blue man group start the keynote session out. It was a great little show. Kevin talked about MAX being the largest MAX to date. He also mention they will show how the Adobe and Macromedia software is coming together. Over 300 ppl from Adobe are at MAX. He showed the PDF kiosks by demonstrating a joke session schedule of Ben Forta. The joke session showed Ben taking a ColdFusion for dummies class and getting a manicure.
Adobe’s COO, Shantanu Narayen, came on next and talk about the marriage of Adobe and Macromedia. They showed a video of ppls reaction of the marriage. The video was fun and showed an overwhelming good reaction. He also mentioned the number one Macromedia employee reaction of the marriage was that Adobe had free drinks and candy…
He then talked about a new product called Digital editions http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/digitaleditions, which completely built on flex. He bought a humorous story about Ben Forta recently racking up 3,000,000 frequent flyer miles. Then when Ben took a two week vacation he received a letter from Northwest airlines seeing if he was ok, because of time off and wasn’t flying.
Other tidbits..
Flash lite on over 100 million devices
http://Sanjosesemaphore.org is on top of Adobe’s office building. Go and try and solve it.
Engagement is big, engaging the users, cliets, and suppliers.
Flash player will reach 80 percent in 6-9 months.
Showed a particle fire ball Flash animation 20x faster in AS3 over AS2.
Flash video adoption is 800x more then Flash video 7.
Greg Rewis showed HTML workflow. And Mike Downey and Steve are showing dynamic media workflow. More coming later….
They just announced a Audio product for non-audio people… it will be on labs this week.
Sho is now showing Flex workflow, he is starting off by taking an illustrator file and using it to sking the look and feel of a Flex app. He set up the app layout in Flex Builder in 30 secs. He went back into Illustrator and outputed the file as a SWF. Now back in Flex he uses the generated SWF from Illustrator as the themes for Flex CSS definition. This is Sweet!!!
Add comment October 24th, 2006
Catch the news at:
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/061023/sfm090.html?.v=70
Here is the quick quote:
“By integrating Adobe Flex, the Adobe framework for building enterprise Flash applications, with the latest portal and Web services standards, Oracle and Adobe are bringing dramatically more engaging and usable business applications to end users, while meeting the needs of developers and IT organizations.”
Jeff Whatcott, senior director of product marketing, Enterprise and Developer Business Unit, Adobe.
Along with the article is a Flex Article on the dev center that helps you understand how to create rich portlets using Adobe Flex.
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/articles/flex2_portal.html
Add comment October 23rd, 2006
This post is for those who are at MAX. After registration you receive a Adobe bag with an Adobe water bottle and MAX information packet.
A quick look through the info packet you’ll see there are various offers and typical conference chance giveaways.
One that stuck out was a card that you take to all the sponors kiosks and get stamp for visiting the sponsor. The card has 12 sponsors on itm which listed below:
Abode Acrobat User Community
Akamai
ColdFusion Developer’s Journal
EMC2
ensemble.com
ESRI
Fujitsu
Google
HostMySite.com
Intel
Lynda.com
New Toronto Group
Nokia
SmartDoc Technologies
StickAM
Teleca
UniversalMind
VitalStream
ZoomFlex
If you do it first you can win a magnet man! and then you are entered into a thursday drawing for free Adobe software which you have to be present for.
Another offer worth mentioning is 20% off lynda.com of course you have to order at MAX.
While at MAX remember to vote for the People’s Choice Award to be entered to win a video iPod.
More to come later as MAX continues for the next couple of days.
3 comments October 23rd, 2006
Of course it makes sense to use Flex in plenty of Enterprise solutions, especially when complementing other Adobe products like LiveCycle or PDF related offerings. For example we just heard of Kodak creating a document workflow application using Adobe PDF Print Engine and Flex. Well, recently Steven Webster just wrote an overview of the benefits of Adobe LiveCycle and Flex solutions. Its well worth the read.
http://java.sys-con.com/read/288048.htm
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