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,...

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...

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...

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...

The impact of Adobe acquiring Serious Magic might of interest to anybody doing FLV creation at a consumer level. Adobe’s is even recognizing YouTube and MySpace use of Flash Video. Is this Adobe’s first acquistion related to Flash technology since their merger, probably not. But either way its cool to see Adobe building upon their purchase of Macromedia. “The huge momentum behind Flash® Video, which is powering everything...

Ok, if you haven’t seen the last 7 or so posts on MXNA (Flex category) about Flash Player 9 Beta for Linux go read Emmy Huang’s post. I decided to give it a try. So I installed Ubuntu on my VMWare workstation and installed the Linux FP9 player. The install was pretty straight forward, I just followed the steps in the readme.txt. The cool thing is that all the applications I tested worked. For example here is a screen shot of the...