So I’m sitting here in the Unlocking Cross-Media Workflows session, in the first hour I found it to be quite beneficial and I’ve learned plenty today. I have pics I will upload later from my Canon PowershotPro, for now these are off my phone. I will post again with some notes from the seminar. Only things I found ho-hum were a bit on Spry and AJAX (as a Flex developer I’m just SO not interested in AJAX…oh look he made an accordian control with Spry…whoo hoo…{sarcasm}), and some of the flash stuff – the presenter on Flash CS3 was addmitedly from a design background. He didn’t want to show anything dealing with AS3 code in a class…stuck to timeline…he seemed hesitant about it but after talking to him now I know why. Anyway Weds I am supposed to be in a Flex / Creative Suite CS3 session so that presenter should be able to answer all my code-centric questions…
And the Flash Video stuff was nothing new I felt, even though he kept saying ‘and new in Flash CS3!’…but then again I’ve had to dive deep into the guts of Flash Video and FMS building the Voxant player, so that was to be expected.
Fuad Kamal, September 30th 2007 |
Posted in ActionScript, Adobe, Adobe MAX, Flash, Post Production
…and MXNA went down for quite a while, the Adobe MAX Scheduler decided to spontaneously kick me out of half of my Wednesday sessions that I had a reserved seat for the last two months, saying that they filled up (who took my seat?!?), and I was surprised to find only a few people had created profiles on the Intronetworks networking RIA tool for MAX…
but I am not worried…I have confidence that the folks at Adobe will fix everything. See – MXNA is back up again. I’m sure the Adobe guys have had a crazy day, their servers are probably doing amazing feats preparing for a record number of MAX attendees. It’s the same way on the HP Print 2.0 project the week, the day, and the night before a deployment. Everything gets crazy and the anthill is busting.
I get the feeling Intronetworks is pre-deployment, too – there is only one Adobe member appearing as well.
As for the Wednesday sessions, they will need armed guards to keep me out…
Fuad Kamal, September 29th 2007 |
Posted in Adobe MAX
Ah, just when I thought I couldn’t say anything about my current project, I found Paula Scher has already blogged about it…
so looks like what I can say is it is the next online iteration of HP’s $300 million Print 2.0 campaign and it’s built using Flex 2.01…
beyond that, mum’s the word for now…but stay tune for some really cool Flex / Flash integration. Also found this public website which is kind of like a semi-hint of what’s to come…
Fuad Kamal, September 29th 2007 |
Posted in ActionScript, Adobe, Flash, Flex, RIA
Max is only days away…Sunday is opening and for some of us, a full day of training. As you deplane into either Ohare International Airport or Midway Airport, take a second look at the flight arrival and departure screens. As you go to pick up your luggage from baggage claim, take a good look at the LCD monitors above the baggage claim announcing which flight is unloading at that conveyor belt. Take a good look – because this is an early rendition of what the market is going crazy over right now – and a key part of the MAX conference. What you’re looking at is FIDS – Flight Information Display System – but more importantly – it’s a Rich Internet Application. No, we didn’t do it in Flex – this was way before Flex came to maturity. Original interface was done by Todd Marks in AS 1.0 and Flash! He talks about it in his chapter in New Masters of Flash. We had the great opportunity to rearchitect the application in AS 2.0 – again in Flash, not Flex…
Now FIDS is in most airports across the U.S. and has even been deployed internationally, such as in Quwait. Enjoy!
Fuad Kamal, September 28th 2007 |
Posted in ActionScript, Adobe, Adobe MAX, Flash, Flex, RIA
