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Experiences Across Multiple Screens at Adobe MAX

Andrew Spaulding — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 05:43:42 +0000

This year at Adobe MAX I’m presenting on “Experiences Across Multiple Screens”. But just what is that exactly?

Experiences Across Multiple Screens
Wednesday October 7 at 09:30AM
Learn how the Adobe Flash Platform enables multiscreen delivery of applications, from the biggest screen to the smallest device. In this session, you’ll find out how to leverage the consistency of the Flash runtime and to develop reusable code and scalable interfaces that are device aware. Come and see many Flash technology enabled devices in action — the Flash runtime on smartphones, Internet-enabled media tablets, MIDs, Chumby, game consoles, and more.

Don’t forget the Adobe MAX hashtag #adobemax

And my session hashtag of #adobemax149

There’s going to be a lot of excitement this year at MAX, and if you can’t make it you don’t have to worry, all sessions will be recorded and made available online, but better yet, the keynotes will be streamed LIVE. Register now at http://max.adobe.com/online/

I’m really excited that I have the opportunity to present again at Adobe MAX, this time in Los Angeles!

For some pre-MAX reading/videos check out the following:

Adobe Refresh Australia, learn about MAX 2007

Andrew Spaulding — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 13:24:35 +0000

Adobe Australia are holding a “Refresh” event for the local developer communities. This is your chance to hear first hand the latest news and announcements surrounding Adobe’s developer technologies! I promise you will not be disappointed! So come and spend an afternoon with your local Adobe crew including myself, Matt Voerman, Mark Blair, Mark Szulc and many others.

Click here to register.

Details:

Join us for an opportunity to connect with the local developer community, whilst refreshing your knowledge on the latest from Adobe at Adobe Refresh 2007.

Over the course of an afternoon, you will hear from the local Adobe team as they present on whatâ€™s new and whatâ€™s happening in AIR, Flash Professional, Flex, Dreamweaver, Fireworks and ColdFusion.

Thereâ€™ll be summaries from the Keynote Presentations at Adobe Max 2007, as well as Community Expert Tables and plenty of time to socialise.

When:

Tue 30 Oct 07
Sydney Convention & Exhibition Centre, Darling Harbour
13:30 – 17:00

Wed 31 Oct 07
Telstra Dome, Melbourne
13:30 – 17:00

Hope to see you there!

Australia and New Zealand, check out the AIR derby

Andrew Spaulding — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 07:58:16 +0000

Do you live in Australia or New Zealand? Remember the previous Flex Developer Derby? Yep that’s right, the one you couldn’t be involved in due to competition regulations. Well, times have changed, and the Adobe mothership has included just about everyone in the latest Adobe AIR Developer Derby!!

There are some tasty prizes available, and I mean tasty!! Check this out –

Grand Prize / Best of Show

The Best of Show winner will receive the trip of a lifetime, a travel certificate valued at up to US$100,000, to be used for the travel of your choice!

Five category winners will each receive â€œThe Ultimate Development Environmentâ€? to power your Adobe AIR development (and play) for years to come:

A Mac Pro 8Core with 4 gigs ram, 1.5 TB (2x750GB) of storage.
(2) Dell 2707WFP 27″ widescreen monitors.
(1) one Sony Playstation 3.
(1) $200 gift certificate to Amazon.com.
(1) Herman Miller Aeron chair.
(1) Bose Quiet Comfort 3 noise canceling headphones.
(1) copy of Adobe Flexâ„¢ Builderâ„¢ version 3, Macintosh edition.
(1) copy of Adobe Creative SuiteÂ® 3 Master Collection for Macintosh.
And one squishy stress ball.

Plus each winner also receives:

A trip and conference pass to the Adobe MAX 2007 annual user conference.
Your application showcased on Adobe.com for the world to see.

Want to be involved? Check out these links for more information:

http://labs.adobe.com/showcase/special/airderby/
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/logged_in/aludwig_air_derby.html

Got my ticket, am I too late for MAX?

Andrew Spaulding — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:45:41 +0000

Nope! I’m on my way to MAX Asia Pacific 2006, and am presenting in both Taipei and Singapore. This will be really exciting for a first time presentation gig. I’ll be presenting on the following 3 topics (all of which are the same, or very similar to the topics presented last week at MAX in Las Vegas by David Zuckerman, Mark Shepherd and Christophe Coenraets) -

Combining Flex with PHP and Open Source
Building Rich Internet Applications with Flex Builder
Combining Flex and Flash Media Server for the Ultimate Engaging Experience

Looks like I better polish up my demo’s on the plane :-p

Cheers!

My take on MAX 2005

Andrew Spaulding — Sun, 23 Oct 2005 02:28:11 +0000

I thought it was about time that I too did a wrap on MAX 2005. So here goes …

What an experience! Having only been in the industry for 2 years since graduation, I never really understood the scale of such an event. With approximately 3000 attendees, this made for one massive Macromedia party … er umm, I mean a great forum for learning and discussion :-p

My main focus for the conference was to attend as many ZMZ (Zorn-Mistral-Zaphod) sessions as I could squeeze in. Starting with Steven Webster and Alistair McLeod‘s session on Flex Frameworks, there was a certain buzz in the air, you could almost hear the crowd chanting “Flex, Flex, Flex …”. Moving on to Next Generation Flash Player with Gary Grossman I could then understand the hard work that has been put in to make the current and future release Flash Players the best ever. The future of the Flash Platform is looking very exciting!

My favourite session was Next Generation Flex: Data Services presented by the all powerful Christophe Coenraets. The wow factor was there, as well as the ease of use and minimal coding involved. The Flex data services engineering team have really earnt their bread here. The new publish/subscribe messaging service, data synchronization, and local persistence for offline data access will really open the doors for new categories of Rich Internet Applications.

Without getting into too much detail on the sessions I attented, I’m sure most of you read MXNA and have a pretty good understanding af what happended over the 4 days.

Of most importance to me, especially being a new employee with Macromedia, was the opportunity to meet so many of the great staff and engineers, and of course to meet the customers who make the products what they are today. JD offers a great thankyou over at his blog.

As for post conference, download the Flex Builder 2 Alpha at Macromedia Labs and join in your local and online community. There is an abundance of information available but be sure to check out the Flexcoders Mailing List.

Was great to meet you all! Keep up the good work

Matt Chotin and Todd Rein – Downunder!

Andrew Spaulding — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 20:00:11 +0000

Crikey! Did you see the jaws on that one

The MAX sneak peeks showcased some new technologies and ideas from the Macromedia Engineering team – but with an Australian theme! Well not quite Australian but more Steve Irwin, but hey, it was a good laugh seeing Matt Chotin and Todd Rein with their fantastic Australian accents.

Check out the flash video of their act over at Mark Blair’s blog. Quite a laugh!

For a more detailed outline Jen deHann has covered the sneak peeks with a pretty comprehensive set of notes (from Sean Corfield)

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Next Generation Actionscript

Andrew Spaulding — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 22:07:44 +0000

I just spent the last hour in a session with Gary Grossman who gave a great overview of the new features and changes with Actionscript 3.0 and the API. The biggest points imho were the runtime error reporting, more strongly typed and standards compliant AS language, and most importantly the dramatic increase in performance. Many of you may have heard about E4X, and now it is here Such a nice way to code a read XML code on the fly, and treat it like xpath. Very neat.

Also of note was a light weight class which drops the concept of the timeline from the MovieClip class. The Sprite class is a nice light weight object for creating visual components that don’t need the timeline.

For more on Actionscript 3.0 namespaces see this post over at Blairs Blog.

Hmm .. what else. There was so much to cover that I’m sure I missed something but keep an eye out on all the other blogs who are covering MAX