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Chris Turvey’s Trip to MAX. Macromedia (Last?) Developer Conference. MAX: Day 0. Arrive in LA Left house at 4:15AM. MAX: Day 0. Arrive in LA See some sites…. MAX: Day 0. Arrive in LA See some sites… Go to Welcome Reception. MAX: Day 0. Arrive in LA See some sites…
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Chris Turvey’s Trip to MAX Macromedia (Last?) Developer Conference
MAX: Day 0 • Arrive in LA Left house at 4:15AM
MAX: Day 0 • Arrive in LA • See some sites…
MAX: Day 0 • Arrive in LA • See some sites… • Go to Welcome Reception
MAX: Day 0 • Arrive in LA • See some sites… • Go to Welcome Reception • Stand by this guy for 20 minutes
MAX: Day 0 • This guy talked to vendors that were showcasing some of their newest works at MAX • I stood by him so I didn’t have to ask a ton of questions
MAX: Day 0 More on this guy later
MAX: Day 0 • Got to LA • Tourist stuff • Met that one guy • Enjoyed the welcome reception (open bar and access to developers and books and computers and business owners) • Go to the hotel and sleep.
MAX: Day 1 • Wake up at 6 AM (That is 8AM here… I like these hours) • Breakfast Continental Style… Very nice spread though
MAX: Day 1 8:00 Advanced Actionscript 2.0 9:15 Next Generation Actionscript Player By Gary Grossman (head developer of Actionscript) 10:30 General Session
MAX: Day 1 • Remember this guy?
MAX: Day 1 This guy is Stephen Elop, CEO of Macromedia. I didn’t recall him saying anything about it at the Meet at Greet the night before.
MAX: Day 1 He led the general session and introduced many of the Macromedia team.
MAX: Day 1 “Geek Rock Stars” were called out on to stage to introduce new products. “Great Mind Colaborate” “User Experience is job #1” Breeze Team/Flash Team/Fireworks Team/Flex 2 Team/Dreamweaver Team…
MAX: Day 1 • After running out of teams… Stephen introduced the croud to someone new.
MAX: Day 1 This guy will be the CEO of Macromedia. He is the CEO of Adobe, Bruce Chizen.
MAX: Day 1 Bruce told us that he would like to have been CEO of Macromedia already and would like to tell us more about his plans for Macromedia… But he can’t… Atleast not yet. He will let us know as soon as possible.
MAX: Day 1 13:30 Next Generation Actionscript 14:45 Develop a Cross Platform Application 16:00 Understanding the Runtime Security Model in Flash Player 8 by Adrian Ludwig
MAX: Day 1 19:00 Meet the Flash 8 Team 12 members of the Flash team answered questions about implementation and where it will go (as much as they could)
MAX: Day 1 20:00 Communicate with the Breeze Team 3 Members of the Breeze team answering questions Cisco, US Military and Oracle are customers
MAX: Day 2 8:00 SQL for Designers Because Programmers don’t do Layout 9:15 FlashLite 2.0 Mobile Phone Applications 10:30 General Session Vision and strategy… Currently Available
MAX: Day 2 13:30 SCORM-Compliant e-learning with Flash and Captivate 14:45 Object Oriented ActionScript By Colin Moock (he was on the cover of Wired Magazine and is the Author of “The Definative Guide to Actionscript” publish by O’rielly) 16:00 SAP Visual Composer
MAX: Day 2 17:30 Sneak Peeks New SDK released for Breeze Macromedia Labs opened Adobe AfterEffects demo: a Composite straight to flash ActionScript Editor is changing in big ways Actionscript 3 in Flash 8 Authoring Envrionment Speed Demo of AS3 vs AS2 (AS3 was 4 times faster on Render) ESRI introduces a Vector Map. As you zoom in it doesn’t get a “new” map. It get a refinement of the Vector that you are zoomed into. Demo went very smooth
MAX: Day 2 20:00 Trip to DisneyLand Open Bar and Roller Coasters
MAX: Day 3 9:00 Extend Breeze Meeting with synchronized Flash Applications 2nd Best Session of the confernece for me 10:15 Using Flash Media Server 11:30 Flex Application Development
MAX: Day 3 13:30 Accessibility: Developing Accessible Rich Content with Flash* *-Most impressive session of MAX (IMHO) 14:45 Flex Builder: A guided tour
MAX: Day 3 That’s all folks