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!
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).
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
Live MAX San Francisco - Day 1
Just a photo from the event, Monday morning, people having breakfast right before the keynote:
Tour de Flex - a new tool for Flex/AIR developers
A new tool for Flex developer was launched last night: Tour de Flex. It is an AIR application, and an Eclipse plugin that gives you:
- a good overview of what is possible in Flex in a “look and see” environment
- an illustrated reference tool
- a place to showcase your work
“Tour de Flex includes over 200 runnable samples, each with source code, links to documentation, and other details. Topics include the Flex Core Components, Flex Data Access, AIR Desktop Capabilities, Cloud APIs, Data Visualization, Mapping, and a growing collection of custom components, effects, skins, etc.”
PS. If you are attending the MAX event and you want get the Tour de Flex on a memory stick, just look for a Platform Evangelist and ask us.
AIR 1.5 is out!
AIR 1.5 is out, just go to http://get.adobe.com/air/. You can read more about it here, and here.
PS. I am proudly and shamelessly brag about my articles on the Update Framework for AIR, which now works with AIR apps created in Flash too: Using the Adobe AIR update framework, and the article about the BlackBookSafe - an AIR app created entirely with HTML/JavaScript that uses Pixel Bender, 3D transformations and encrypted local database. Enjoy them!
Later Update: Almost forgot! AIR1.5 means also JavaScript debugging support. More to come.
Couple of days ’til MAX
Tomorrow morning I’ll leave for San Francisco. Working for Adobe has some advantages, because I know for a fact we will announce so many new and cool things at MAX. On the other hand, it is so hard to wait for the actual announce, when I can talk about and share with you…
Juuuust a little more patience, my friends!
PS. While I am used to be like Indiana Jones when I travel in Europe (do you remember my Ukrainian advendures?), in the States I didn’t have any trouble. I hope it will stay this way…
Flex and financial institutions at MAX Milan
We will have an interesting session at MAX Milan about how Raiffeisen Bank uses Flex. The description of this topic is:
Discover how Raiffeisen Bank benefited from a Flex-based online solution. We will share the experience and unveil guidelines for how to implement visionary projects in financial institutions. Learn why usability, security, and other factors drove the decision to use Flex.
The speaker is Mariusz Gliński from Raiffeisen Poland.
Dojo Extensions for Adobe AIR
SitePen has released a library called “Dojo Extensions for Adobe AIR“. What you can do with? Well, if you develop AIR applications using AJAX, then this library is for you. It plays nice with Dojo Toolkit, and offers features like playback video, managers for windows…
This is joined effort between SitePen and Adobe. More here, and here, and a screencast here.
Do you like beer?
You can see a cool RIA application dedicated to all of us that have a special feeling for beer: http://destinationbeer.com/beer_hunter/. It seems to be created in Flex with remoting using AMF Ruby.
Enjoy, and have a beer!