Live blogging MAX Milan day 1 keynote

We will do the live blogging thing in Milan again. As Serge and Andrew are part of the keynote, this time Piotr, Tom, and myself will cover it!

Hope you can join us!

November 28, 2008 | Filed Under Others, PHP | 1 Comment

KLM rulez. NOT!

I did it again. Everything was perfect, until I landed in Amsterdam (I was on my way back home from MAX San Francisco). Here I had the pleasure of having my flight canceled, and then the next one delayed… twice! 12 hours of waiting in the beautiful Schiphol. But what was really unbelievable, was the huge line in front of transfer desk 4. They chose to redirect all the people to the same desk. And as they canceled a lot of flights, the line was long as a football field. “That’s ridiculous!” a Brit in front of me said. After more than one hour, they finally got it that maybe, just maybe, the people were having the best time. So they started to distribute water and some chocolate for free. Although, it is possible they did that because of the growing line in front of their first aid booth, with the people that started to faint staying in the other line

I think I’ll switch to Lufthansa! In the meantime I will fly to Milan for MAX with Alitalia. I am not nervous at all, because if they don’t fly, I can get there by the car. My sessions are on Wednesday, so no rush baby!

November 27, 2008 | Filed Under Others | Leave a Comment

Adobe MAX 2008 AIR Boot Camp Course Online

Duane Nickull and James Ward gave a 3.5 hour mega lab at Adobe MAX 2008. If you are curious about the course, you can get the materials and read the original story here.

250 people learning together! Pretty amazing, I remember my university days But I must admit that these two guys (Duane and James) are way cooler than my teachers!

November 26, 2008 | Filed Under Others | 6 Comments

groups.adobe.com

With all the new things that were announced at MAX San Francisco, you may have missed this one: we’ve launched the Adobe Groups web site! It has support for internationalization, and you can use it to find an Adobe User Group for your technology or product, start a new user group, and much more. So far there are more than 400 user groups.

Also, we’ve changed the process for establishing the sessions at MAX. So if you want to be part of this process, have a look here: http://groups.adobe.com/groups/2e392db6e9/members/join.

“MAX Open Working Group is a new group on Adobe Groups where we will be organizing MAX openly in the community for MAX 2009 and beyond. All session topics, speakers, camps, camp managers, and other content items will be organized using this resource.

It is time we built our conference in the open and got the community more involved. I would encourage you to give open and honest feedback about the event there as only when we understand what we did right and wrong can be improve.

Thanks for making MAX great in 2008, it will be better in 2009!”

If you want to find how MAX NA 2008 was, click here.

November 24, 2008 | Filed Under Others | Leave a Comment

MAX Milan

MAX Milan is coming, only one week to go! This week I will work mostly on the sessions that I am giving there, so I will not blog too much this week. The MAX Milan finalists gallery is now live, and you can vote for your favorites.

Some advice for those who are coming to MAX Milan: don’t miss the second day keynote, as it is super cool!

See you there!

November 24, 2008 | Filed Under Others | Leave a Comment

Farewell 2008 MAX San Francisco

Today I’m heading back to home. Tomorrow evening I will be in my bed It were three days of intense presentations, talks; a great show. I am looking forward for the next year event, in Los Angeles. In the meantime, next week I start to prepare for the MAX Milan.

The king is dead, long live to the king!

November 20, 2008 | Filed Under Others | Leave a Comment

2008 MAX Day 2 Keynote in pictures

So, I was a good boy and I received tickets in the front rows. The boys are getting ready for live blogging (Andrew, Serge; a little bit of Ted Patrick on the left)

Nice music, great animations. AIR is the leading man or lady. People are getting in the mood.

The great chief (Kevin Lynch) gives a special mission to agent B (Tim Buntel). The theme of the keynote was Bond. James Bond.

Agent F is coming the rescue the day (Ben Forta).

Agent F and B are inspecting the troops. I mean the agents. First one, Photoshop.

Then Flash Catalyst shows the power.

Then the Alchemy secret project.

Agent F and agent B talking about the greatness of Gumbo (next Flex Builder version) and of course, about the power of ColdFusion. Neat stuff for working with data.

Dreamweaver and how it can take down bare hands JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.

Flash and search engine indexing.

Ted Patrick is counting his army (+420 Adobe User Groups).

November 19, 2008 | Filed Under Others | Leave a Comment

Serge and Andrew: live blogging the MAX keynotes

My fellow evangelists Serge and Andrew blogged live from the keynote event. It seems they did such a good job, that people from the event were following them. This is the link for the Day 1 keynote. Tomorrow they will do it again. I encourage you to watch them, especially if you are not attending the event. Day 2 keynote live blogging here.

PS. The only problem one might have is with Andrew’s shirt (he really enjoys some floral-strange-looking shirts). He could use some advice from Serge. Don’t be mad Andrew :X

November 18, 2008 | Filed Under Others | Leave a Comment