MAX Europe Prep in Milano

DIGG IT!     1 Comments Published Sunday, November 30, 2008 at 2:42 AM .

I am backstage in the keynote area in Milan working on MAX Europe. The event is looking really great. Registration is at 1400 and sessions and keynotes are looking great.

I am going to be sneaking out of keynote rehersal to speak at the Flex Camp going on today. I am going to be talking about a social game I have been working on.

See you in Milan!

Ted :)

---

3rd Party Components into Tour De Flex

DIGG IT!     5 Comments Published Monday, November 24, 2008 at 8:17 AM .

Tour De Flex would be pretty boring if it just had Adobe components so Greg Wilson has published the spec to get your components and libraries integrated. I am really hopeful for Tour De Flex as a long term solution to code examples. In many ways it is a new take on IFBIN and it is a great resource for learning Flex.





Go Tour De Flex!

Ted :)

---

Adobe Groups Launched!

DIGG IT!     0 Comments Published Saturday, November 22, 2008 at 1:36 PM .

At MAX last week we launched Adobe Groups, a new social network atop the foundation of the Adobe User Group communities. The idea is to simplify the process of creating a user group, find a user group, and finding like minded people within the community. At launch last week we had 413 User Groups on Adobe Groups. In the last week we have seen over 3000 people join groups and begin exploring the user groups within their area of the globe.


Start a User Group
There are many cities around the globe where we do not have enough Adobe User Groups. If you are interested in starting an official Adobe User Group, I would encourage you to fill out this form. Once complete, the community manager team will contact you with a User Groups starter kit and set-up your group on Adobe Groups.

Having attended Macromedia/Adobe User Group meetings since college, they have had a profound influence on my career. I have learning new skills, presented for the first time publicly on Flash 3, and made lots of friends. I would encourage you to take the time and find a user group in your area and get involved.

Groups also provides a great way to share your contact information with others. The site provides you with a "Network" which allows you to share contact information selectively based on user level.

Groups is under very active development and we are seeing huge growth of the network. As the dust settles I am very hopeful that we will see a new growth of the Adobe User Group community well beyond it's current levels. At MAX we recieved 80 applications for new Adobe User Groups which is 20% growth in 3 days.

Take some time to enjoy Adobe Groups at groups.adobe.com!

Cheers,

Ted :)

---

MAX 2008 NA Session Recording

DIGG IT!     14 Comments Published at 12:59 PM .

Last week at MAX in San Francisco, the MAX team coordinated the digital recording of over 290 hours of the session content, about 4TB of video. We will be releasing this content FOR FREE, WITHOUT GEO-RESTRICTION ON ADOBETV starting the first week of December. We plan to release 20 sessions per week well into 2009. Additionally we will be posting all videos immediately to the MAX NA Group on Adobe Groups for the exclusive benefit of paid attendees. All attendees will be invited to the MAX NA Group Monday morning.

The teams are working round the clock to get the video content posted online. The goal is to benefit the ecosystem with the latest educational material as soon as possible. As only 5000 attendees could enjoy MAX NA onsite, we plan to reach 2 Million by providing the session content for free online. To reach as many designers/developers as possible we chose Flash for an end to end video solution. Onsite at MAX NA we captured using Flash Media Live Encoder and Flash Media Server and published content to our video partners Digitally Speaking, Brightcove, and Akamai.

Thanks for being patient as we get all this content posted.

Thanks,

Ted :)

---

MAXOWG - How was MAX NA?

DIGG IT!     0 Comments Published Thursday, November 20, 2008 at 3:06 PM .

This is your chance to help influence the future of MAX NA in the MAX Open Working Group on Adobe Groups. The MAX team needs some blunt, open, and honest feedback to make MAX overall a better event.

Great feedback, both bad and good, can make a world of difference. We are open to hearing about the things we did both good and bad. This is your opportunity to be heard and be on record making MAX a better event.

MAXOWG, MAX Open Working Group, is an open group created to create and change MAX within the Adobe community. This working group will create the 2009 MAX events, discuss changes, define content/direction, and gather feedback in the open.

I look forward to working with everyone openly on MAX in 2009!

Cheers,

Ted :)

---

Ajax Exerience 2008 - Google Chrome and Web Applications with Ojan Vafai

DIGG IT!     1 Comments Published Monday, November 17, 2008 at 10:53 AM .

Google Chrome aims to enable the next generation of Web applications. This keynote gives a high-level overview of Google Chrome's current architecture with a focus on Web development. This will include a discussion of Google Chrome's rendering, Web site compatibility and developer tools.



Cheers!

ted

---

FlashCamp SF 2008 - GaudIO with Dru Kepple, Larry Reynolds & Lucas Swick

DIGG IT!     0 Comments Published at 10:41 AM .

GaudIO generates filtered audio by means of applying the differences in pixels between a source image and a filtered image to an audio file.



Cheers,

ted :)

---

Adobe MAX NA 2008 - The calm before the storm!

DIGG IT!     5 Comments Published Sunday, November 16, 2008 at 9:27 AM .

I have been working on MAX for over 7 months now and to see it all come together in the last few days has really been an amazing experience. We have made some substantial changes this year to the event to make this the best MAX yet.

Here are some of the things we did differently this year:

Camps & Camp Managers - In terms of choosing sessions and speakers, MAX has long had a private process that is not open and far from ideal. This year we selected 35 people to represent the interest groups of the skills, products, and technologies that make up MAX. These "camps", as we called them, are focused on selecting the best sessions for the "camp" interest. "Camp managers" were required to select sessions from the proposed session list and internal speakers had to apply through the same process as others. These changes are the foundation of MAX moving to a fully open process for session and speaker selection at MAX 2009. The result this year is the best set of sessions and speakers we have ever assembled. It is my hope that session quality exceeds your expectations.

Unconferences - We added 4 unconferences to MAX from leading 3rd party conference events, where the attendees can present barcamp style. During all 3 days of sessions there is an entire hall devoted to the community speaking about Flex, AIR, Design, Agency consulting, and ColdFusion. It is really great to see the larger ecosystem surrounding Adobe have 4 places to present at MAX. It is quite a change from the MAXUP I organized in the hall at MAX 2006 in Las Vegas and it should be a great addition.

Session Recording - We need to reach more designers and developers with MAX. This year we are recording all 290 sessions and we will be posting these online for broad syndication on AdobeTV weeks after the event. The recordings capture the presenter screen and house audio and they make for ideal training material. We will be posting these for free without geo-restriction on AdobeTV.

No duplicate sessions - Given we are recording the event and session rooms hold, on average, 300 people, we are only repeating a few sessions. This provides attendees with more content to choose from and a better onsite experience. If you miss a session, attendees can view it in the Adobe MAX Online Group at our new Groups site on Adobe.com and AdobeTV.

Adobe Groups - We are launching a new social network centered on the Adobe User Group community. There are 400+ user groups on groups.adobe.com and we have a group dedicated to MAX NA, MAX EU, and MAX JP. I will be covering this more in the MAX Day 2 keynote.

Keynotes - We have 2 amazing days of keynote in store. The speakers and demos are the best I have every seen in a MAX keynote. Let's just say that the Flash Platform is alive and doing very very well.

See you at MAX!

Ted :)

---

MAX NA attendance hits 5000!

DIGG IT!     0 Comments Published Friday, November 14, 2008 at 11:24 AM .

We just passed 5000 registrations for MAX NA in San Francisco. At midnight we will close online registration and begin onsite registation at Moscone West.



Registered for MAX NA, it is the biggest MAX event in Adobe/Macromedia history.

See you at MAX!

Ted :)

---

Ajax Exerience 2008 - Faster than Light JavaScript with Brendan Eich

DIGG IT!     0 Comments Published at 10:31 AM .

What will JIT (just-in-time) compilation mean for JavaScript performance? See live demos and hear release plans for a Firefox-ready upgraded JavaScript engine, codenamed "TraceMonkey," based on the SpiderMonkey interpreter and the Tamarin-Tracing VM. Learn about the new JavaScript features being implemented in Mozilla's engines to inform the "ECMAScript Harmony" standards process. See advanced canvasbased rendering demos that take advantage of the new speed and features.



Cheers!

ted

---

FlashCamp SF 2008 - Vector Shape Project with Tim Kautz

DIGG IT!     0 Comments Published at 10:25 AM .

This project is part of a larger one. It includes a SVG parser which loads most any SVG file and will then organize it into classes so that it's easy to animate (drawing animation at runtime) and do other things. Then there is the functional aspect to generate Actionscript code with the new Graphics api so that you can easily embed graphics into your classes! I promise to Open Source this as soon as I can.



Cheers,

ted :)

---

Ajax Exerience 2008 - Dojo Fundamentals with Alex Russell

DIGG IT!     0 Comments Published Thursday, November 13, 2008 at 1:31 PM .

Many advanced Web applications which rely heavily on Ajax have difficulty in the development phase with squaring the mantra of progressive enhancement with the reality that CSS just isn't powerful enough. Dojo provides a middle ground which provides the strongest progressive enhancement tools available while still comprehensively addressing performance, flexibility, modularization, and reuse needs of large-scale teams. In this session, many common application construction "gotchas" are addressed. Learn about many of the low-level tools which Dojo provides to help implement progressive
enhancement, optimize scripts for deployment to ensure that pages load fast, and how to use many of Dojo's layout widgets to provide flexible solutions to hard application construction problems.



Cheers!

ted

---

FlashCamp SF 2008 - Online Whiteboard with David Rorex

DIGG IT!     0 Comments Published at 1:21 PM .

Simple whiteboard application. Multiple people can log in at once and draw, and chat. Mostly written to get practice with Flex. Using the new local FileReference features, you can save your drawings as a PNG to your local harddrive. Also I threw a Pixel Bender filter in there just for fun (the 'twirl' sliders).



Cheers,

ted :)

---

MAX NA Registration at 4812 - 5 days to MAX NA

DIGG IT!     0 Comments Published Wednesday, November 12, 2008 at 4:06 PM .

MAX arrives next week in San Francisco and with 5 days to go we are seeing lots of new registrations. Less than 200 registrations to 5000!



Registered for MAX NA, it is the biggest MAX event in Adobe/Macromedia history.

See you at MAX!

Ted :)

---

Ajax Exerience 2008 - State of the Browsers with Peter-Paul Koch (fixed!)

DIGG IT!     0 Comments Published at 12:09 PM .

Based on the results of his extensive test suites at QuirksMode.org, Peter-Paul Koch (or 'ppk' as you may know him) discusses the current state of the four major browsers' DOM support and give tips and tricks for working around the most serious problems. He also gives vendors advice for future versions of their browsers.



Cheers!

ted

---

MAX NA Registration breaks 4700 - 6 days to MAX NA

DIGG IT!     0 Comments Published Tuesday, November 11, 2008 at 2:07 PM .

MAX arrives next week in San Francisco and with 6 days to go we are seeing lots of new registrations. 300 registrations to 5000!



Registered for MAX NA, it is the biggest MAX event in Adobe/Macromedia history.

See you at MAX!

Ted :)

---

Ajax Exerience 2008 - Ajax Testing Tool Review with Ted Husted

DIGG IT!     0 Comments Published Monday, November 10, 2008 at 2:02 PM .

Not long ago, testing Ajax components meant play-testing a page by hand. Today, there are a growing number of tools we can use to simplify and automate Ajax testing.
In this session we will cover when to test, what to test and how to test Ajax components. You learn how to create automatic tests with various tools, including YUI Test, OpenQA Selenium and TIBCO Test Automation Kit, and how to use Ajax testing
tools with IDEs and Continuous Integration systems.
Additional session benefits include:
When, where and how to test Ajax components;
How to create automatic tests with various tools;
How to use Ajax testing tools with IDEs and Continuous Integration systems.



Cheers!

ted

---

MAX NA Registration breaks 4600 - 7 days to MAX NA

DIGG IT!     2 Comments Published at 12:54 PM .

MAX arrives next week in San Francisco and with 7 days to go we are seeing lots of new registrations.



Registered for MAX NA, it is the biggest MAX event in Adobe/Macromedia history.

See you at MAX!

Ted :)

---

MAX NA Record Attendance at 4547 - 9 days to MAX NA

DIGG IT!     0 Comments Published Friday, November 07, 2008 at 4:37 PM .

We are seeing a surge in registrations late this week for MAX 2008 NA, the largest event in MAX history. With 9 days left til the event registration is going strong and there is still time to register. Online registration will close in 7 days but we will have onsite registration for those who want to walk in from the San Francisco area.



Registered for MAX NA, it is the biggest MAX event in Adobe/Macromedia history.

See you at MAX!

Ted :)

---

Ajax Experience Boston 2008 Lightening Rounds

DIGG IT!     1 Comments Published at 12:48 PM .

Various lightening rounds featuring John Resig, Greg Wilkins, Bill Scott and more!



Cheers!

ted

---

FlashCamp SF 2008 - Slo-Mo Running Man with Brian Locicero and Richard Joe

DIGG IT!     0 Comments Published at 12:36 PM .

A running man animation doing with IK and ActionScript (no timeline). Cursor determines speed.



Cheers,

ted :)

---

Ajax Experience 2008 - Contributing docs (prototype) with Christophe Porteneuve

DIGG IT!     0 Comments Published Thursday, November 06, 2008 at 1:30 PM .

Christophe Porteneuve explains and demonstrates how to help with the documentation of the framework, be it reference API documentation or more tutorial-oriented material, either by fixing issues with existing docs, updating docs to reflect the latest version, or creating new material altogether. The session covers the whole process, from grabbing the source for existing docs to testing your contribution to submitting it and getting it approved, using tools and systems such as git, diff, the upcoming PDoc system and the framework’s GitHub repository.



Cheers!

ted

---

FlashCamp SF 2008 - Surf Alarm with Demian Borba, Erwin Haya & Matthieu Avignon

DIGG IT!     1 Comments Published at 1:29 PM .

An alarm clock widget that reports up to the minute surf conditions for a specified time and location using xml to gather information from local beach websites. Animations and music correspond to the quality of the waves, whether they be bad, ok, or awesome.



Cheers,

ted :)

---

MAX NA Record Attendance at 4428 - 10 days to MAX NA

DIGG IT!     0 Comments Published at 7:26 AM .

MAX 2008 NA is now officially the largest event in MAX history. With 10 days left til the event registration is going strong and there is still time to register. Online registration will close in 8 days but we will have onsite registration for those who want to walk in from the San Francisco area.



Registered for MAX NA, it is the biggest MAX event in Adobe/Macromedia history.

See you at MAX!

Ted :)

---

Ajax Experience 2008 - Intro to jQuery with John Resig

DIGG IT!     4 Comments Published Wednesday, November 05, 2008 at 1:26 PM .

jQuery is increasingly becoming one of the most popular JavaScript libraries to use. jQuery is a concise open source JavaScript Library used for DOM traversal, event handling, Ajax requests, and animations.
In this introduction, we look at what makes jQuery unique and why it helps you to write smaller code, faster. We also go hands-on (bring your laptops!) and write an animated Accordion Widget and an Ajax To-Do List from scratch.
In this session you learn:
A basic overview of jQuery;
How to develop a number of common-case widgets;
How to use jQuery to handle DOM, event, animations and Ajax interactions.



Cheers!

ted

---

FlashCamp SF 2008 - Remapping the Election with Indy Hurt and Kailen Wright

DIGG IT!     1 Comments Published at 1:11 PM .

This applications uses data from the CNN Electoral Map Calculator website, the US Census Bureau, and data obtained from Karl Grossner - UCSB graduate student at UCSB.
The ap give the user the ability to see the US states scaled in size based on electoral maps. This cartographic technique is known as a cartogram. Additionally, states can be clicked to display state name, total population, number of speeches per candidate and dollar amount of ad campaign spending per state.



Cheers,

ted :)

---

Ajax Experience 2008 - The Ajax Universe with Ben Galbraith & Dion Almaer

DIGG IT!     1 Comments Published Tuesday, November 04, 2008 at 10:46 AM .

The Ajax revolution is complete: Sophisticated JavaScript user interfaces are nearly ubiquitous. Yet, the innovations in the Ajax community continue. Dion and Ben set the stage for the Ajax Experience by discussing the latest developments, including
multithreaded JavaScript technology-powered UIs, robust offline storage, choosing the right Ajax/JavaScript technology framework, Ajax outside of the browser, and more.



Cheers!

ted

---

FlashCamp SF 2008 - Sign Language 101 with Jeanne Nicholas and Jennifer Sanders

DIGG IT!     0 Comments Published at 10:44 AM .

This application is a Flash 10 design, of a beginner tutorial, teaching sign language techniques by visual aide. With the use of 3D graphics and 'bone tool' implimentation we have created an exceptional rough draft application that has fantastic potential.



Cheers,

ted :)

---

MAX NA Record Attendance at 4313 - 12 days to MAX NA

DIGG IT!     0 Comments Published at 9:59 AM .

MAX 2008 NA is now officially the largest event in MAX history. With 12 days left til the event registration is going strong and there is still time to register. Online registration will close in 10 days but we will have onsite registration for those who want to walk in from the San Francisco area.



Registered for MAX NA, it is the biggest MAX event in Adobe/Macromedia history.

See you at MAX!

Ted :)

---

Ajax Experience 2008 - Building Your First Adobe AIR Application with Kevin Hoyt

DIGG IT!     0 Comments Published Monday, November 03, 2008 at 11:15 AM .

Dreamweaver CS4 is set to offer a number of amazing features to the Ajax workflow. Inspect the browser DOM in real-time with paused JavaScript execution, change CSS styles without losing visual context, and more thanks to Live View and an integrated WebKit rendering engine. Get JavaScript code intelligence from custom and commercial JavaScript libraries. Is it possible to build a cross-platform desktop application in 15 minutes using only Web technologies and free software? You bet it is with Adobe AIR! In this session we’ll start with nothing, get the AIR SDK, build an application with HTML, CSS and JavaScript that leverages desktop APIs, package the application for deployment, and install it on multiple operating systems. From nothing, to done, on the desktop, across OS, with Adobe AIR and your existing Web development skills.



Cheers,

ted :)

---

FlashCamp SF 2008 - Scream-O-Ball with Keith Harty and Edgar Miranda

DIGG IT!     1 Comments Published at 11:09 AM .

Challenging your lung capacity is this dooming tunnel in which you must survive for as long as you can!



Cheers,

ted :)

---

30onMAX ends tommorrow AM!!

DIGG IT!     0 Comments Published at 9:48 AM .

We are downloading all the 30onMAX videos starting tomorrow morning for MAX Keynote production. This is the final hours to get your video made and Robert Reinhardt did just that. Here is his video addition:



Simply:

1. MAKE A VIDEO
2. UPLOAD IT TO YOUTUBE
3. TAG IT WITH: "30onMAX" (so we can find it)

Cheers,

Ted :)

---

MAX NA Registration at 4217 - 14 days to MAX NA

DIGG IT!     1 Comments Published Sunday, November 02, 2008 at 7:20 AM .

MAX NA is really shaping up to be a big event and we now within 75 registrations of last years total in Chicago with 14 days left.



Registered for MAX NA, it is going to be the biggest MAX event in Adobe/Macromedia history.

See you at MAX!

Ted :)

---