Yesterday (19th of May) we’ve been attending the Adobe Developer Day in Bucharest. It took place at Intercontinental Hotel in various places because beside the general session there were other bootcamps taking place in the same time. Attendance was ok at least in the morning although more people could attend to the event. Interesting is that all seats were taken for each bootcamp which shows that the interest in practical work is big.

We have met Ben Forta which showed meaning of RIA concept, then Digby Horner told us how Adobe Romania was created. After this two we dived into more technical stuff on different technologies. This is what we noted:

• new FXG format based on MXML and will be supported by Photoshop, Illustrator and Fireworks
• new versions of Flash Player, Flash Lite and AIR in 2009
• iPhone market for Flash Player is still complex because of Apple who is keeping monopole on every application built for iPhone
• new video player and/or framework for making video players, named Strobe, will be released by Adobe
• new mobile packaging tool – Adobe Mobile Packager
• mobile devices represents more that half of all electronics in the world
• FMS 3.5 which is final have 2 versions: Interactive and Streaming

We’ve been to all Flex Camps in Bucharest and last year attended to Adobe MAX Milano and I can say that the majority of people that attended yesterday was new, excepting the Adobe Romania team. This is good and bad in the same time. You may guess why good and why bad.

Enjoy the pictures bellow.

Another post about Adobe Developer Day Bucharest on Adobe Groups (this is in Romanian): http://groups.adobe.com/posts/e5c1a5cd81

Adobe Tools and Technologies

Advanced LCSD and BlazeDS bootcamp

Ben Forta speaking about RIAs

Bogdan Ionescu @ Adobe Developers Day

Cornel Creanga about FMS

Electronic devices market

Lots of people in the morning

Mihai Pricope speaking about packaging mobile applications

Stelian and professor Radu Marsanu from ASE