I’ve uploaded my photos from day one. I didn’t have time to type up any of my notes. The photos have titles and captions and are from:
- keynote (note Pronto! – I helped create that product)
- data visualization with Flex – both speakers had heavy Indian accents and were difficult for even me, someone who is used to that, to understand. Overall a rather boring session with a few cool insights to the new Charting components. What they need to do is make Charting components even easier to customize – my experiences with Charting were not happy-filled ones.
- XD: Prototyping AIR with CS3. From the title, I thought this was going to be an awesome session and went in with high hopes. It was a complete waste of time – the speaker should be banned from ever publicly speaking again. It was a boring slideshow about what AIR is, and no mention was made of CS3 until the last two minutes. Thanks for wasting my time when I could have been attending a better session elsewhere.
- Creating interactive video with After Effects and Flash. It was AWESOME.
I attended three more hours of get close and personal with the Adobe teams type stuff, these were actually all a lot better than the daytime, structured sessions…got a lot more out of them.
>>> my experiences with Charting were not happy-filled ones.
Why so? Flash charts are quite handy! Have you ever used FusionCharts? http://www.fusioncharts.com
They were not happy experiences because highly customized implementations of Flex Charting components were rather complex to implement. Even with the available documentation, it literally took a huge amount of trial and error to try to figure out what parameters to tweak and how. The fusion charts you mention don’t seem to have anything to do with flex or flex components. When we have already paid for charting which is an integral part of the existing framework it doesn’t make any sense to seek a third party solution, especially one that is irrelevant. I was debating whether to mark your post as SPAM.
sorry for the confusions Kamal…no that charting solution has nothing to do with Flex…i read your line “my experiences with Charting were not happy-filled ones” and thought you are talking about Flash charting…sorry again…
You have a great blog indeed.