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We've just released the new number of UserMatter(s) magazine (March/April issue). This is a very huge number with a lot of cool articles (sorry but they're in italian language): Adobe AIR, Flex 3 and Web Services, Flash Lite 3 and FLV, social networks, Eye Tracking systems, Adobe Director 11 and many other.
You can read the magazine online or decide to download the PDF version and print it :
Adobe Italy and Comtaste has organized, with the support of FlexGala, the first of a long series of workshop dedicated to Rich Internet Application development. This kind of event is a totally free real training session. In fact we've requested to all partecipants to bring their laptops to follow the day.
In this first meeting we've talked about Flash Media Server 3, Adobe AIR and Flex 3. Matteo and I have taken examples and demos we usually use for Comtaste's training courses about these topics.
People were very interested and we gave the basics to stream a video content using the Flash Media Server 3 and ActionScript 3 (with Flash CS3 as well as Flex Builder 3). 
In the second part of the morning we showed how to export the streaming video on AIR using flash CS3 and Aptana.
Adobe Italy has supported the event offering the possibility to make a raffle for donating a Flip Video Ultra device (it's so coool !).
You'll find all the slides and demo example on FlexGala Adobe user group site.
Adobe has launched the new site on the Adobe MAX 2008 :
MAX 2008/2009 will be held in San Francisco, California, Milan, Italy and Tokyo, Japan. MAX is an experience unlike any other, an opportunity to connect with thousands of designers, developers, partners, executives and Adobe staff for education, inspiration, and community. Mark your calendar. You will not want to miss the opportunity to participate !
Thanks to John Dowell I discovered this great Adobe Case study about the use of Connect and Livecycle Workflow by Tribunale of Cremona :
Tribunale di Cremona is an efficient unit of the Italian legal system. 14 judges and 50 employees work at the court which assembles about 7 times a week, tackling 12 to 13 criminal trials each time.
Tribunale di Cremona has been using computer technology for quite some time, following guidelines from the Digital Administration Code. Efficiency and speed have inspired several projects including the conversion of documents to digital format done in collaboration with Adobe. For the past several years, all papers related to pre-trial conferences have been available in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF). Starting recently, all court papers associated with a trial are available in digital format only.
Adobe Italy and FlexGala has organized a full day event called :
Adobe Tech Connection
Using the Web 3.0 tools: Flash Media Server 3 and Flex 3/AIR
I'll be there to present some real world case stuides we developed at Comtaste and to show some Flex 3 and AIR tecniques that use audio and video streaming with Flash Media Server 3.
The event is totally free but it requires you to register from the Adobe site.
The location chosen is the Adobe Italy headquarter in Milan.
See you there guys !
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Adobe Brio is the codename for the next generation of Acrobat Connect. Brio is a web
meeting service built with collaboration in mind for individual professionals
and small businesses. With Brio, you can instantly communicate and collaborate
through an easy-to-use, easy-to-access online personal meeting room.
Built on Adobe's Flash platform, Brio operates inside most popular web browsers, so you can start a meeting without worrying if others have a compatible system or the right software.
Brio beta allows you to:
Tomorrow I'll have two speeches at the FromAToWeb Conference. This is one of my favourite conference bacause it reminds me when I was a consultant for Macromedia.
If I remember well, it was the first conference in Italy I attended as speaker.
Anyway, my speeches will be on :
AJAX web pages with the Spry Framework and Dreamweaver CS3
Introducing AIR Applications
I'll talk of Spry, use the AIR Dreamweaver CS3 Extension and the Adobe AIR Update for Adobe Flash CS3 Professional beta 2, some and comment some great AIR Applications.
Very interesting stuff, guys !
At the end of the presentation I'll donate some books for free (thanks to the courtesy of FriendsofED) :
See you there !
Tom Ortega, published an interesting post where is asking to 360Flex Conference's past/present/future customers any feedback to make the conference better !
If you’ve gone to a 360 Flex event or plan to someday, go answer this three question survey:
It’s only 3 questions to you, but it’s worth quiet a bit more to me.
The Adobe MAX Barcellona ends and they were 3 amazing days. The MAX Conference is a great conference for networking, meeting new people, old friends, attending great sessions, and talking to the gurus !
It was a pleasure to be part of this great event.
Thanks to my personal photographer (kidding) Lorenzo "sangRIA" Colloreta, here are the coolest photos of the Adobe MAX Conference 2007 in Barcellona :
Have also a look at the photos published by my friend Pablo Parrado.
Pay attention to the photo where Sumi Lim (Developer Relations, EMEA) is dancing new york style salsa :) She looks pretty good !
The Adobe MAX Europe has started. The first day keynote session has just ended and as you've probably read a lot of cool things have been shown :
New Flex 3 features (Profiler, AdvancedDataGrid, new charting features ..)
AIR examples
New Flash Player (codename Astro) features
Adobe Media Player
Coldfusion 8 and Spry AJAX Library
Adobe Developer Connection
Sorry for not being more precise but the Flex 3 Open Source session is about to begin (by Matt Chotin) and I don't want to miss it.
The Welcome Party has ended and all is ready for the first day of the Adobe MAX Conference in Barcellona.
If you want to meet me, you can find me at my Creating and Extending Flex 3 components on Wednesday, October 171:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Adobe has announced a brand new Adobe Developer Center renamed Adobe Developer Connection.
The new site has a lot of well organized information and resources you can connect to.
In a one page application you can access to the whole Adobe's world content : rss feeds, articles, newsletters, the edge magazine, code and salmples application, flex cookbook, css advisors and so on !
If you're still thinking if join the MAX Europe 2007 or not, there are some reasons you have to consider :
I'll be one of the speaker of the conference. So if you wanna meet me see you at :
Creating New Flex Components session - Wednesday, October 17 at 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
If you're a reader of my blog, you've probably noted that in the past weeks I wrote a few technical posts related to Flex or Flash Lite. The reason why was that I was closing the review of last chapters of my book (Flex Solutions: Essential Techniques for Flex 2 and Flex 3 Developers).
It has been a very hard job and the number of pages did not want to stop. The book was planned to be about 400 pages but it went much beyond. In the next few days I'll be able to be more precise.
Anyway .... I've just finished to write the cover page of the book.
Feedbacks and comments are welcome ;)
Flex Solutions: Essential Techniques for Flex 2 and Flex 3 Developers book
Flex was quickly affirmed as the most rapid and most effective technology for the creation of Rich Internet Applications for the web. Its rich ready to use library of components, the totally personalizable framework through Actionscript 3, together with the ubiquity of Flash Player which guarantees the fruition of the application everywhere, has decreed its huge success.
The ecosystem of products which rotate around Flex is really broad. Flex Builder, the authoring environment, the Flex SDK, the Charting Components and Lifecycle Data Services, are essential parts of the technology which respond to the different development requirements.
This enormous size means having a tool of unlimited capacity at your disposition, available to be programmed or customized to fit any scenario. As a Flex developer, you'll no doubt come across repetitive problems every day in your work, so wouldn't it be nice to have a library of solutions to turn to, to solve these problems quickly and easily?
Well, this book provides just that, with over 100 solutions to common problems in one easy volume.
Through a didactic path which starts from the ABC of development in Flex, Flex Solutions: Essential Techniques for Flex 2 and 3 book faces the problems and provides solutions which can be applied to any project, from the most simple to the most complex. The solutions proposed range from customizing Flex Components with ActionScript 3, to using the data models and the ActionScript classes as Value Objects. Next, you are shown how to work with the data in Flex using the Collection classes, applying validating, formatting, filtering and sorting techniques before showing how to display data with list-based controls such as List, DataGrid and Tree. You then move on to the RPC classes, HTTPService and WebService, which enable you to access remote data and databases using server side languages such as Java, PHP and Coldfusion. You are also shown how to use the new AMF3 format for optimizing the performance in the exchange of data from the server to the client through the AMFPHP toolkit and the RemoteObject class.
In the book, solutions regarding the security of Flex applications are also provided, such as using cross domain policy files to load data and contents from different domains to create mash up applications. Other solutions deal with techniques for optimizing the actual work environment by increasing the performance of Flex Builder, such as displaying data using the Charting Components and interacting with them via ActionScript, adding video contents to some solutions which regard the deployment of Flex applications. Finally, the last chapter, shows how to create an AIR Project in order to bring the web application onto the desktop, accessing the file system, working with the operating system window, embedding HTML pages into the application and creating occasionally connected applications detecting network activity.
If you want to learn about and start to develop RIAs in a short time, being immediately productive and mastering the Flex development techniques, Flex Solutions: Essential Techniques for Flex 2 and 3 is the book you need.
These days Amsterdam is hosting the IBC Conference 2007, the year's most comprehensive exhibition covering all aspects of content creation, management and delivery.
Adobe is there and it made a lot of great announcements and sessions. One for all the Flash Media Server 3 !
Todayu at
12 the first presentations at IBC will start, you can look at them live via our
website, just click the ''Live Broadcast'' tab at www.adobe.com/ibc and take a look.
The May/June issue of TheEdge is out with a lot of articles :
The MAX Conference 2007 is around the corner. If you want to have a countdown, you can use these ones we created for Flex Gala user group :
Today has been published UserMatter(s) magazine No. 2.
UserMatter(s) is the first magazine born for mobile devices. In fact you can visit the mobile.usermatter.com page, select your device and insert your mobile number to receive the UserMatter(s) Magazine Mobile client.
UserMatter(s) is the totally free magazine dedicated to topics oriented to user experience.
The table of content of this number contains :
* Camera raw 4.0
Overview and features
* Actionscript 3
developing a custom component
* Microsoft silverlight
RIA by Microsoft
* Flex 2 and ASP.NET
developing a remote file ssytem
* Video graphic
Stop motion tecnquiques
* AdobeGuru.com
* Blogosphere
You can download the UserMatter(s) magazine for free in PDF format with no ADVs.
I'll take you updated !
The Adobe MAX 2007 Conference Agenda and session has been published ! This is the first edition of the MAX where you can see many session dedicated to designer and creative people !!
And of course a lot of speeches are dedicated to Flex 3 and AIR.
Adobe has announced the Adobe Digital Editions 1.0, the solution for acquiring, managing and reading eBooks, digital newspapers, and other digital publications (via Ryan Stewart ) :
Adobe Digital Editions will revolutionize how publishers deliver eBooks and other digital content and how consumers experience it,” said Rob Tarkoff, senior vice president, Corporate Development at Adobe. “The combination of Adobe Digital Editions, InDesign CS3 and a new generation of hardware from innovators like Sony shows that digital publishing is front and center for content owners -- and millions of readers who are looking forward to innovations in the delivery of their favorite works.”
On the Adobe MAX 2007 blog has been published the pre-conference training day, a full-day hands-on training sessions. These are the tracks dedicated to Flex 3, Adobe AIR and LiveCycle Data Services :
Flex 3: Integrating with
ColdFusion
This session provides ColdFusion developers with hands-on,
practical experience connecting their Flex 3 client applications to remote,
dynamic data provided by ColdFusion and LiveCycle Data Services.
Flex 3: Integration with Java
This session
provides experienced application developers with hands-on, practical experience
connecting their Flex front ends to remote, dynamic data using LiveCycle Data
Services.
Flex 3: Developing Rich Client
Applications
Get hands-on, practical experience using Flex.
Adobe Integrated
Runtime (AIR): Bringing Rich Internet Applications to the Desktop
This full-day course will include everything you need to get started
building applications with Adobe AIR.
Today is the second day of AdobeLiveConference here in Italy.
I'm here with Enrique (and some enormous mosquitos) in the business room of the AdobeLive and we're about to start our presentation.
Enrique will present Adobe AIR (formerly Apollo) and talk about Flex 3 and new features.
After his presentantion I'll show the integration of the Adobe CS3 with Flex and Flex Builder.
It's incredible how many things designers and creative are now able to do to help Flex developersin creating the user interface of Flex applications.
Using Photoshop CS3, Fireworks CS, Illustrator CS3 and Flash CS3 , of course, they can export graphic symbols, layouts and components for the Flex enviroment.
With Fireworks CS3 you can now use the Exoprt as MXML features to convert a PNG layouts into MXML code. You can do this using the new Flex Component Common Library (you can also create your own Flex components using an image and a javascript JSF file).
The MXML code generated from Fireworks is ready to be edited and customized by the developer in Flex Builder.
With Illustrator CS3 you can create vector based symbols and export them as SWF files, ready to be used and imported in Flex. For example you can export your vector symbols and then use them for change the style of a button flex component usign :
overSkin: Embed(source='styles.swf',
symbol='mysymbol');
upSkin:
Embed(source='styles.swf',
symbol='mysymbol');
downSkin:
Embed(source='styles.swf', symbol='mysymbol');
Then in Flash CS3 you can do whatever you want with the Flash CS3 Component Kit for Flex. You can interact in Flex with Flash contents, call public methods, refer to each single object.
If you're in Milan come to see the sessions !
They're great !
Adobe released the final name for Apollo : Adobe AIR.
A free AIR software development kit has released today.
You can download it on the Adobe Labs together with the Apollo Extension for Dreaweaver.
Also on Monday, Adobe plans to release the beta of Flex 3, its software
development tool that can now be used for writing AIR applications in addition
to Flash and HTML-based Web applications. (via CNET NEws)
Adobe has published on the Labs the new Coldfusion 8 public beta :
Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 is the highly-anticipated upcoming major release of ColdFusion. The public beta release provides developers with the opportunity to begin building applications with new ColdFusion 8 features as well as test their existing applications on the new version.
Get the Coldufsion 8 beta and don't miss the articles published for this release on the Wiki.
I wanted to point it out a new portal dedicated to motion design and video graphic : Motiongraphics.it.
The idea was developed by Matteo Masserani and Rosa Verrone who daily post about reviews, tutorials, technical articles and
So if you want to put your hands on the world of video creativity and motion design this is the place made for you :
I've never been a user of Freehand but I heard rumors that it was an interesting software with some great features that Adobe Illustrator doesn't have yet !
But today John Nack posted about the death of Freehand that it was in the air :
Adobe has created
an FAQ (PDF) that explains the details of the decision not to rev FreeHand,
talks about Illustrator CS3 features added to make FreeHand users more
comfortable, and more.
Today the Adobe CS3 trials can be downloaded from the Adobe site :
To evaluate Adobe's creative software, we are offering fully functional 30-day trials of all Adobe® Creative Suite® 3 products and editions.
There are two ways to get a trial: by downloading a trial or by ordering a trial DVD set
http://www.adobe.com/special/try_buy/trial_availability.html
Today in Las Vegas Adobe will present in a live webcast from the NAB some details on the new Adobe Media Player plus the Adobe Flash Media Solution Provider Program.
Stay tuned on this page :
http://www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite/production/events/nab2007/webcast/
Today at 9:00 am ET (3 pm for italian time) we organized an online meeting for the AcrobatUsers.com. Special guest of the event will be Lori DeFurio :
Topic: Tips & Tricks with Acrobat 8
Lori DeFurio will demonstrate some of her favorite tips & tricks using Acrobat 8 Professional. Additionally, Lori will field questions from the audience and will discuss or demonstrate a solution. Expect a very interactive session.
URL : http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/italy
Register to AcrobatUsers.com to join us !
Adobe MAX 2007 site is live with a new Suggest Topic feature :
Anyone is welcome to submit topics for sessions at MAX 2007, and we strongly encourage you to do so. Although we cannot guarantee every suggestion will be implemented, we will actively use your input to help us structure an outstanding agenda this year.
The call for topics will close on April 10, 2007. To suggest a topic, please complete the information below.
The day has come. The Adobe CS3 has finally been announced by Adobe.
Now we're all waiting for the Adobe CS3 Live Webcast event that will start at 3.30 EST.
I just wanted to pointed out the post by Mike Downey about the new features of Flash Cs3 Professional:
Via Damon Cooper's blog, we have the dates for this year Adobe MAX Conference :
North America MAX 2007
September 30-October 3, 2007
McCormick Place West, Chicago
EMEA MAX 2007
October 2007
Barcelona, Spain
Japan MAX 2007
November 2007
Japan
As you can see there is also a date in Europe !! Coolll !!
See you there ;)
Many people asked for that and we are finally proud to announce the first italian blog dedicated to Adobe technologies, news, events and whatever you want to know about Adobe :
The blog is totally in italian language and many well known people started to write on that.
So if you want to contribute just send me an email and we'll be happy to give you an account.
Adobe has released on the Labs a new service : MyFeedz.
It's a social newspaper and it's the first social application developed by Adobe.
Maybe Adobe has decided to spend money and time in developing services for end users other than softwares and technologies.
Macromedia it's not new to this activities. Look at Macromedia Breeze (now Acrobat Connect). It's a web conferencing service (it's more than a simple web conferencing service) developed on Flash Media Server technology.
Or Flex Data Services remote calls, that uses the engine developed for Flash Remoting.
This is in my opinion a great idea for a company that creates standards with technology like PDF and SWF.
Maybe a day will come when we'll use Photoshop and Flash integrated with a Video Blog aggregator in FLV and read/share the latest information while developing with Flex 2 !
Flash Media Encoder seams to be the reply to many clients of mine.
Flash Media Encoder helps you broadcast live events such as:
Acrobat 8 Professional is now available in italian language.
This is in my opinion one of the best release for Acrobat ever. I love the new user interface and the new package option to collect pdf documents from different location.
I'm pretty sure that this year will be the year of the Acrobat product line for Adobe !
Adobe Italy planned 2 presentation events for showing Acrobat 8 features on 23 Jan in Rome and 03 Feb in Milan.
If you'll be there visit me at the Adobe Acrobat Connect booth :)
Adobe presents the rocording of the Fourth Quarter Fiscal 2006 Earnings Conference Call.
This presentation contains forward looking statements, including those related to planned product releases, revenue, gross margin, operating expenses, operating margin, other income, tax rate, share count, earnings per share, and future growth and market opportunities, which involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially.
As you can see from this slide, Flash Lite grows more and more, reaching 150 milion devices shipped so far :
Lynda.com has released a tutorial on Photoshop CS3 Beta One-on-One for free.
Photoshop CS3 Beta One-on-One Preview offers a personal video tour through a series of real-world examples that illustrate each of the key features and enhancements in the Photoshop CS3 beta. Major and minor features are covered in meticulous detail.
Topics include:
Adobe released a beta version of Adobe Photoshop CS3 software.
The beta is available as a Universal Binary for the Macintosh platform, as well as for Microsoft Windows XP and Windows Vista computers.
The final shipping release of Adobe Photoshop CS3 is planned for Spring 2007.
The Adobe Photoshop CS3 software can be downloaded at: http://labs.adobe.com .
Read the Adobe Releases Beta Version of Photoshop CS3 press release
Adobe has also released two new web tools as beta releases.
Adobe CSS Advisor is a new web-based community site to easily identify and resolve browser compatibility issues. Web designers and developers can contribute their own issues, comment on existing issues, or become an editor to participate in driving the site's future.
The site is accessible at: www.adobe.com/go/cssadvisor. Also introduced is a beta release of Adobe Spry framework for Ajax, a designer-focused solution for adding the interactive power of Ajax when developing rich, dynamic web-sites. Adobe Spry framework for Ajax is available at: www.adobe.com/go/spry.
Today at the Peachpit boot I took some copies of Actionscript 3 Design Patterns and Adobe Flex 2: Training from the Source.
Yesterday before sleeping I read some pages and browsed the two books and they look cool.
I hope to find the time these days to review the book for the FlexGala community.
PS: Don't say it to anyone but I registered to the Microsoft boot in order to have my own copy of Microsoft Expression for free ;)
The doors are open with the Adobe Creative Suite 2.3 :
Visit the Adobe CreativeMinds minisite
Cool site !
I've just ended to present the seminar (using Adobe Connect) on Using Spry framework in Dreamweaver 8.
It was interesting to see how the users were interested (most of all were web designer) in this great library.
This is post for all partecipants of the event. These are the links I talked about during my speech :
The Adobe Media Gallery is now live and it's Open Source :
For many years, Adobe’s Photoshop and Photoshop Elements have offered users the ability to create web pages that show a collection of digital photos. With Photoshop Elements 5 and Photoshop Lightroom, Adobe introduces a new generation of Flash-based web galleries that deliver an engaging user experience and provide many styling and customization options.
Photoshop Elements and Lightroom ship with a single SWF file containing the gallery program, which users can customize extensively using the authoring interface in those programs. These programs produce XML files that the SWF parses to style the gallery and determine its content.
As a Flash programmer, you can create your own Flash gallery program as an alternative to the SWF that Adobe provides. You can build designs for your own use, or for paid or free distribution to other users of Adobe software, who in turn will be able to create galleries using your SWF just as easily as using the products' default SWF—as long as your design conforms to the new Adobe XML schema, called the Adobe Media Gallery.
I found this link that listed all the books published by Adobe Press related to Adobe Production Studio
:
Adobe Production Studio is the most complete post-production software solution available today, and combines full new versions of Adobe's world class video and graphics applications—Adobe® After® Effects® 7.0, Adobe® Premiere® Pro® 2.0, Adobe® Audition® 2.0, Adobe® Encore® DVD 2.0, and the latest versions of Adobe® Photoshop® CS2 and Adobe® Illustrator® CS2.
Whether your goal is to master Adobe After Effects 7.0, improve your editing techniques in Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0, or learn how to use the entire Adobe Production Studio together, we've got the books you need!
If you use Captivate and other Adobe's software dedicate to eLearning world (Connect Professional), don't miss the opportunity to vote for the best of e-learning solution providers by completing the eLeaerning Magazine's survey.
Please submit ballot before December 15, 2006 to be considered !
Thanks to Silke Fleischer for pointing it out !
Adobe has created an area dedicated to Fireworks on Developer Center.
These are the latest articles published :
Looking back at MAX 2006
Steering clear of the slot machines, Edge managing editor Julie Campagna focused on developer interviews during MAX 2006—and in this article reports on what she learned from those she spoke with.
Why choose Fireworks?
Discover why Fireworks deserves a first look as your web graphics and site layout design tool.
Designing Flex 2 skins with Flash, Photoshop, or Fireworks
Narciso Jaramillo (June 27, 2006)
Design Flex 2 skins with your favorite tools—and gain flexibility and control as you create a unique look for your applications.
And these are the categories added :
Today at lunch time, I trundled over to the Radio RAI (Italian public service broadcaster) radio studio to do an interview on media convergence over television adn web.
It was cool to answer technical question on how to encode and publish a digital video from your camera to web.
I exaplained how to use Premiere and Flash to export a video on the web and talked about the Flash Video format.
Then the discussion went on success stories like You Tube and MySapce.com.
The piece will eventually air on morning edition, but probably not for a week.
As soon as the interview will be online I'll make it a podcast !
The new The Edge issue is out with a tons of cool articles.
Don't miss the article on Fireworks 9 that provided a few details about the next release.
This is the TOC for this issue :
Adobe intends to work more in open source with Tamarin project - said Adobe's CEO !
Recently Adobe and Mozilla announced a new open source project, called Tamarin, to accelerate the development of this standards-based approach for creating rich and engaging Web applications.
The Tamarin project will implement the final version of the ECMAScript Edition 4 standard language, which Mozilla will use within the next generation of SpiderMonkey, the core JavaScript engine embedded in Firefox®, Mozilla’s free Web browser.
To keep yourself updated with the latest news on the Tamarin Open source project take a look at the MXNA blog aggregator where the Tamarin Smart Category was added.
What does Tamarin mean for developers ?
A great answer to this question is given by Ted Patrick :
"Tamarin means that Flash Player will get better, standardized, and faster."
More info were published on Adobe's site about the $100 million in venture capital that Adobe will be funding startups that leverage in Apollo (thanks to my friend Raffaele for the news) :
Adobe Systems Incorporated is committed to supporting innovation throughout it's ecosystem. As part of that commitment, Adobe has a history making venture capital investments in promising private companies, and continues that tradition today. Adobe plans to invest approximately $100 million in venture capital over the next 3-5 years in companies leveraging Adobe platform technologies, particularly companies delivering applications via Apollo, as part of Adobe's commitment to building an ecosystem for the Adobe® Engagement Platform. Apollo is a core element of the platform, which builds on the ubiquitous reach of Flash® Player and Adobe Reader® software — now installed on more than 700 million Internet-connected desktops and mobile devices — to create a versatile foundation for capturing and holding audiences' attention through more active and effective applications and media.
We selectively look for investment opportunities where Adobe and innovative technology companies can enjoy mutual benefits from closer relationships.
Adobe is asking to the community to submit ideas and suggestions for the next Flash Media Server 3 (via FlashComGuru) :
Use the comment thread here for suggestions and recommendations for the next version of Flash Media Server. The FMS team will monitor and reply in the thread when necessary.
Don't waste time and submit your FMS 3 feature list !
The MAXUP is a great initiative.
Today there are a lot of interesting sessions. If you reach the 5th floor right now, you'll attend the Ted Patrick's session on Improving Actionscript 3 Performance.
See you there guys !
The MAXUP unconference at MAX 2006 is a great initiative created by Ted Patrick.
The MAXUP sessions started today and they're great.
Today's my MAXUP Schedule (Tue Oct. 24) :
Building TAGTV with Apollo
Developing RIA with SAP and Flex
eBay and Apollo
MySpace and Apollo
... currently attennding
See you there guys !
You can read the full MAXUP agenda here : http://barcamp.org/MAXUP
It's now party time at the pool.
Pre Conference day of the MAX Conference is ending with a party in the pool.
A big surprise of today was the posters on ActionScript 3 API and Flex 2 Diagram. They're enormous :)
Very cool.
Tomorrow we'll start with a keynote session and then with the first day of the conference. Adn don't forget the MAXUP sessions.
I spent the Pre-Conference day at MAX meeting with some friends. There are a lot of people.
I'm waiting for the next Community Lounge event at 4pm where we'll meet User Groups Managers, the Developer Center and the Adobe Community Experts.
I met Mike Chambers at the Apollo "pod" but he said that we had to wait until tomorrow to see some Apollo's demos and examples.
Tonight we'll have a dinner with UG mangers, Edward Sullivan, Richard Galvan, Mike Downey and many other Adobians. Cool.
Yestarday I arrived in Las Vegas and today I made the final registration to MAX conference.
I received a nice military-style bag with some cds (one interesting on how to develope a Flash Lite content for Nokia Devices from Nokia), an Adobe bottle, the conference guide and some promotional items.
The Venetian is the hotel chosen for the conference and it looks amazing.
This night I was at the MiniMax conference, a series of 15 minute tutorials provided by some of the best experts in the web, print, broadcast and interactive design and development community in the Las Vegas area and across North America. I saw sessions on Flash, After Effects, Flex, Photoshop, Dream
