Adobe MAX Flex Top 11 - A biased list of Flex stuff at MAX
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There are lots of things to see and do at Adobe MAX in Chicago. Here is my Flex biased top 11 list. Also I highly encourage other biased product focused people to post their top 10/11 lists on ColdFusion, Flash, AIR, LiveCycle, Flash-Lite, Photoshop, etc. Here is my take:
ADOBE MAX CHICAGO - FLEX TOP 11!
1. Welcome Reception and O'Reilly Ignite
Come see 16 sessions from the community. There are about 7 sessions that focus on Flex. Plus there is free beer here and lots of like-minded Flex folks will be in attendance.
* Sunday, Sept 30 5-7PM
2. Keynotes, Sneak Peeks, MAX Party - Miss at your peril!
* Monday, October 9:30AM - 11AM
* Tuesday, October 10:30AM - 12PM
* Tuesday, October 5:30PM - 7PM
* Tuesday, October 7PM - 11PM
3. Beyond the Basics of Flex Builder - David Zuckerman
Explore some of the more advanced features of Flex Builder 3. Learn tips and tricks for enhancing your productivity with features like refactoring and the outline view, as well as powerful keyboard shortcuts you never knew existed.
* Monday, October 12:00PM - 3:00PM
* Tuesday, October 2:45PM - 3:45PM
4. Boot Camp for Flex - Flex Team
Write code together with the Flex development team in this three-hour collaborative session. Boot Camp provides a mixture of short presentations, workshops, and free-form coding. Make sure to bring your laptop, your best questions, your most desired features, your coolest projects to share, and be ready to learn something new.
* Wednesday, October 9:00 am - 12:30 pm
5. Flex Roadmap - Ely Greenfield
Hear from one of the Flex architects on ideas for the future direction of the Flex SDK and Flex Builder. We'll discuss new ideas that are still bubbling in the imaginations of the Flex team, as well as demonstrate ideas that are a little more tangible. No Non-Disclosure Agreement required!
* Tuesday, October 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
* Wednesday, October 4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
6. Flex Best Practices - Joe Berkovitz, Steven Webster, Anatole Tartakovsky
Join leading Flex developers in a discussion about best practices for building Flex applications. We'll discuss small issues, such as coding conventions, to large ones, such as frameworks. Expect a spirited discussion!
* Tuesday, October 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
7. Building Stunning Flex Applications with Flex Builder and Creative Suite 3 - Peter Flynn
Join Flex Builder engineers as they demonstrate the new workflow features for getting various artwork into your Flex applications from Illustrator, Flash, Photoshop, and Fireworks. Learn how to easily use artwork created in your favorite applications as custom skins for components. We'll also show how to create unique looks using nothing but the software's built-in CSS styling mechanism with the help of the new graphical CSS Design View in Flex Builder. Finally, we'll discuss related features that may be available in future releases.
* Monday, October 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
* Wednesday, October 1:45 pm - 2:45 pm
8. Case Study: ESRI Geospatial Application Using Adobe Flex - Mansour Raad
ESRI, the world leader in geographic information system (GIS) technology, will discuss its Flex-based solution for processing and managing information.
* Monday, October 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
* Tuesday, October 9:15 am - 10:15 am
9. Hands On: Building a Rich Internet Application with Flex 3 and .NET - Mark Piller
Learn how to build a rich Internet application with Flex 3 and .NET. No prior Flex experience is required, but .NET experience is recommended. Finally, learn how to deploy your Flex application to Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR).
* Tuesday, October 8:30 am - 10:00 am
* Tuesday, October 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
* Wednesday, October 1:45 pm - 3:15 pm
* Wednesday, October 3:45 pm - 5:15 pm
10. Inspire Session: Building Buzzword, a New Breed of Word Processor - David Coletta, Rick Treitman, Robby Shaver
Virtual Ubiquity CEO Rick Treitman, designer Robby Shaver, and developer David Coletta will share the story behind Buzzword, an innovative new word processor deployed with Adobe AIR. See how Buzzword is shifting the paradigm in word processing to an efficient, elegant, web-based application built for ease of use and easy collaboration.
* Monday, October 3:15 pm - 4:15 pm
11. Inspire Session: Building SlideRocket, a New Breed of Presentation Software - Mitch Grasso
This changes everything! Learn how one developer set out to transform the way people create, manage, and share presentations on the web using Adobe Flex and AIR technologies. See one of the coolest rich Internet applications around, and find inspiration for your own innovative projects.
* Monday, October 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
MAX is going to be a great event this year, maybe too good. There is so much great content that making a top 10 list (or top 11 in this case) is very hard. Make sure to check out all the other Flex sessions at MAX.
See you at MAX 2007 in Chicago!
Cheers,
Ted :)
Hi Ted,
Sounds all good mate. Was just wondering. Has adobe ever thought about producing 'proceedings book' following events like these. I’m stuck here in the UK working away, and even the Europe events would take too much time out from my packed work-load. It would be great to have the papers, talks, code etc made avail for people who are unable to attend. I’ve many such tomes from events, for example, in AI or other programming disciplines. Just wondering.
Cheers fella
Glenn Williams
glenn[at]tinylion.co.uk
Glenn,
I think you will be pleasently suprized by what we have planned. This year MAX is going to reach a lot more people than who attend.
MAX + AMP = ???
Cheers,
Ted :)