The second day at Adobe MAX was a full one. We attended at the following sessions and labs:

1. Developer best practices with Flex (James Polanco)
   • FXG exported by Fireworks, Illustrator and Flash Catalyst can be used in Flex

   • FXG based on SVG
   • Flex 4 new skinning architecture
   • Spark (is the official name of Gumbo)
   • Catalyst will integrate version control tools
   • Catalyst is build on Eclipsa platform
   • Flex 4 will have templates
2. Design, Develop, Deploy (Ben Forta, Tim Buntel - Senior product manager, Flex Builder)
   • ecotours

   • Flash - bezier motion paths available
   • Flash - bones mechanics
   • Flash - motion editor
   • Flash - export/publish as AIR
   • Photoshop - landscape aware resize
   • Photoshop - depth of field merge filter
   • Photoshop - 3D objects with texture modifiers
   • Flash Catalyst
   • Flex Builder - integration with CF / ColdFusion perspective
   • Flex Builder - network monitor
   • Flex development for Visual Studio with dot net backend integration
   • Dreamweaver - javascript libraries integrated in (jQuery, etc)
   • Dreamweaver - freeze javascript - stop the javascript execution in midpoint being able to see the running javascript code
   • Adobe & Google - SEO - Virtual Flash Player - FPShell
   • Flash Media Server
   • Flash Player 10 can talk directly to Flash Player 10 without server
3. Flex Workflows with Flash CS4 Professional (Serge Jespers)
   • creating libraries in Flash and importing them in Flex
   • creating libraries in Flex and using them in Flash
   • building Flash components importing them in Flex and adding components in them
   • flash components can be extended as Flex components
4. Building Service Clients with Flex and Adobe AIR
5. Adobe MAX Awards (Michelle Turner, Ted Patrick)
   • Design Category
   • Development
   • Envision
6. Sneaks Peaks (Heidy Wiliams)
   • 36 hours for 1300 km by Hamburg developers
   • Client
   • Services
   • Tools

For Adobe MAX 2008 Europe Awards and Sneak Peaks other two articles will follow. So stay in touch with us.

Adobe Max Awards

Adobe Max Sneaks Peaks

Agent Forta, Agent Buntel

All people at Keynote

Appreciation Event

Keynote intro

Magda, Adobe

Mihai Corlan, Adobe

Miti Pricope, Adobe

Multimedia intro

Sneaks Peaks

Sneaks Peaks Finalists

The agency