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)

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

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

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

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

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Then Flash Catalyst shows the power.

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Then the Alchemy secret project.

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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.

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

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Flash and search engine indexing.

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

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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.

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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 

Go to MAX Milan and get a 10% discount for CS4!

If you attend MAX Milan, December 1st, you’ll get a 10% discount for any Adobe product you buy. See you there!

November 17, 2008 | Filed Under Others | 2 Comments 

Live MAX San Francisco - Day 1

Just a photo from the event, Monday morning, people having breakfast right before the keynote:

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November 17, 2008 | Filed Under Others | Leave a Comment 

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:

“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.”

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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.

November 17, 2008 | Filed Under AIR, Others | Leave a Comment 

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.

November 17, 2008 | Filed Under AIR, Others | 1 Comment 

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…

November 15, 2008 | Filed Under Others | Leave a Comment 

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