[update: this post has been in the limbo for way too long, I wanted a way to embed the flash videos from Adobe.tv here, but it looks like there is none. I am publishing this post today, in hopes that the reader may find it interesting enough to actually try the links... BTW this here might relate to the silverlight 4 thingy as well! ]

I am yet to sift through all the Adobe MAX 2009 videos.

I find it really generous of Adobe to put all of these up. Even if most of it is marketing, they still share a few gems of information. Really worthwhile for guys like me, who end up being so busy there’s little hope of attending an actual MAX event unless planned at least six months ahead of time.

I chanced upon the Adobe AIR 2.0 preview video:  http://tv.adobe.com/watch/max-2009-develop/whats-coming-in-adobe-air-2-/

(I wish there was a way to embed flash videos from Adobe.tv into WordPress…)

To me the most important ones are the support for USB (mass storage devices) and native apps (so you can now open a word document from within AIR). I am still a bit skep about the performance, but, I am sure this is going to improve over the new version too…

Check these videos out. Kinda nice. Kinda exciting.

Cheers.

S.

[update:

1. there's a lot more videos on AIR2 in the complete video list, but I did like this one by Kevin Lynch as well: http://tv.adobe.com/watch/max-2009-develop/kevin-lynch-demos-adobe-air-2-features/

2. I prefer the adobe media player for working out all of it. nicer neater faster AIR based video playing...]

About a month ago, Adobe was holding its annual MAX conference in Los Angeles (we mentioned last week the MATRIX presentation). With such an event, there are always the rumored expectations, the expected surprise announcements and the great developers sessions. Obviously for an Adobe Solution Partner it is the place to be, but when business keeps you from attending, there’re still the online archives (http://2009.max.adobe.com/online/).

Key2Flex being based in the Philippines, we did not attend, but for ourselves and for readers that couldn’t make it either we are trying to summarize here what we gathered about it. 

Flash 10.1
For most the release of Flash 10.1 was THE announcement of the conference, made by Adobe’s CTO Kevin Lynch. During his keynote Kevin demonstrated how improved performance becomes. Obviously, one smart device was in everybody’s head listening to the keynote. But when Kevin Lynch said that Adobe secured for Flash Player 10.1 agreements with 19 out of 20 mobile devices makers, the hope to see Flash on iPhone instantly vanished.
Nevertheless, there is much to bet that the pressure is on and that Apple won’t resist it much longer.
With Flash Player 10.1, Kevin proved that smooth rendering of a 3-hour movie on smart phones is possible.

Flash and iPhone
There was still a pretty good news for Flash developers: they will be able to deploy their development for iPhone, Soon to be released Flash Pro CS5 will allow developing applications for iPhone in ActionScript. There will be a “iPhone” option in the deployment combobox that will, in short, extract the code for the SWF and put it through a compiler to make it run on iPhone. Flash Pro CS5 will permit the developers to test their work on a USB-connected iPhone. With this, Adobe is assured the sales of Flash Pro CS5 will be boosted from existing ActionScript developers and new developers attracted by the idea to easily develop for iPhone.

Flex 4
Adobe is giving Flex a much anticipated upgrade with Flex 4, scheduled to be released early 2010. With Flex 4, developers are given a large and innovative set of Spark UI components. Adobe is ensuring compatibility between the new (Spark) and old (Halo) components.
For business application developers like us renderers are greatly improved. Flex 4 seems really exciting and allowing such a seamless designer-developer collaboration, but it seems also challenging to get a good grip on all the new tools made available.
About Flex in general, the session titled “How Not to Code Flex” is quite interesting (http://2009.max.adobe.com/online/session/38.) And because we are very keen on performance and productivity, we also liked the session about “Tackling Memory and Performance” (http://2009.max.adobe.com/online/session/74.)

Adobe MAX is still obviously a very corporate event and, if we like what we see, most of the announcements were still about upcoming 2010 releases. In the meantime, there’s business as usual to run, and we cannot wait for Flex|360, the very hands-on conference of Flex developers that will also be held in California, San Jose, March 2010.

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We know you have noticed that Key2Flex had been pretty silent for the past few months…

Well, not only our team has been keeping up with satisfying our existing clients, but also we got the chance to start work on a market breaking Front Office application for Brokerage and Stock Trading.

Obviously Flex is already a tool of choice in the financial industry but little did we know that, as we were presenting our own mock-up, Adobe MAX 09 was also giving the headlines to the same type of application realized for Morgan Stanley by Lab49: MATRIX dubbed as “the most ambitious (and) advanced Flex project within the financial services industry and one of the largest project in Flex history”.

If our project isn’t as ambitious and extensive as Morgan Stanley’s MATRIX, it responds to all the needs of a smaller scaled brokerage company. For small and medium size brokers and traders, there is much to win in embarking the RIA movement. Customer expectations in such firms are high. Their clients are used to high quality, personalized, and relevant services that are hardly answered with the “one-size-fits-all” concept those firms could afford in traditional web platforms. With RIA developments, these institutions have the potential to deliver a unique trading experience bringing high value to end users with all its marketing returns.

The announcement around Morgan Stanley’s MATRIX at Adobe MAX has been echoed by a similar project at JP MORGAN: MORCOM. The banker assesses that MORCOM “provides J.P. Morgan’s clients with access to rich functionality across a diverse range of products and services offered by the Investment Bank (…) and further emphasizes our commitment to offering our clients one solution, one brand and one outstanding client experience.”

It is very exciting to see these platforms come under the spotlight.

This demonstrates what Key2Flex always believed in: the potential of Flex for full business application is yet to be exploited. Flex at the enterprise level will allow major productivity improvements and more friendly business applications.

Key2Flex is working on setting up a demo of its trading platform… if interested, just let us know!

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To develop any Flash, Flex or AIR application or game development there are lots of important factors like workflows of the application, for game application important techniques of for development. There are some interesting articles by experts are listed below :

1 ) An introduction to developing games on the Adobe Flash Platform by Samuel Asher Rivello

2) From black box to contextual applications by Eric Oldrin

3) The edge of Flash by Rob Ford

4) A guide to Adobe developer groups and resources online by Bryan Rinaldi

5) Unveiling WorkflowLab: A new tool for developing project workflows by Doug Winnie

6) Object Relational Mapping for the Adobe AIR developer by David Tucker

Enjoy RIA….

Je reviens tout juste de l’événement Adobe MAX qui s’est déroulé à Los Angeles. Je pense que cela a été une vraie réussite. C’est la première fois que j’assiste à l’édition américaine (je n’ai connu que les éditions de Barcelone et de Milan). J’y étais invité en tant que speaker et en tant que Technical Assistant lors des formations sur Flex et Flash Catalyst.

Inutile de préciser que la semaine a été chargée d’annonces.Pour partager avec vous ces annonces et écouter vos réactions, nous organisons un grand événement le 20 Octobre prochain à Paris pour les Flexeurs et les Flashers: “Back From MAX”, avec Thibault Imbert, Yann Chevalier, moi-même et d’autres intervenants surprise.  Nous reviendrons sur les grandes annonces (le mobile, l’iPhone, Flash player 10.1, Flex 4, Catalyst, le serveurs…) et nous vous proposerons de suivre deux ateliers techniques de votre choix. L’agenda n’est pas encore parfaitement fixé, mais il le sera cette semaine et je le communiquerai sur le blog. Inscrivez-vous dès aujourd’hui si vous êtes disponible  en cliquant ici.

EDIT: Le lien pour s’inscrire:

http://events.adobe.co.uk/cgi-bin/event.cgi?country=fr&eventid=9011

Voici un résumé des annonces effectuées sur la scène du LA Live et mes réactions à chaud.

Flash Player: Annonce de la sortie prochaine d’une beta du Flash Player 10.1 pour smartphones. Même si nous parlons ici d’une release mineure, elle contient beaucoup de nouveautés et elle est surtout une version sur laquelle Adobe travaille depuis plusieurs mois en termes d’optimisation (mémoire et consommation CPU). Les équipes Adobe ont collaboré étroitement avec des acteurs comme Nvidia ou ARM pour optimiser le player sur des notebooks et des smartphones. L’initiative Open Screen Project continue de séduire de plus en plus d’acteurs, dont Google, Palm et RIM Blackberry. Le Flash PLayer 10.1 saura gérer le multi-touch, l’accéléromètre, et s’adapte au comportement du smartphone pour économiser la batterie. Nous reviendrons sur ces nouveautés avec Thibault lors de l’événement Back From MAX.

Adobe AIR 2.0: Il sera disponible en beta avant la fin de l’année sur le labs et sortira au début de l’année prochaine. Principales nouveautés: détection d’une clef USB (d’un nouveau disque de stockage en fait), communication réseau UDP (yes!!!), lancement d’applications natives, amélioration des performances (grace à un travail avec TweetDeck notamment), accès direct au microphone pour s’enregistrer en local… Nous représenterons toutes les nouveautés à l’événement.

Les IDE: Flash Builder beta 2 et Flash Catalyst beta 2 sont en disponibles sur le labs. Pour avoir échangé avec les équipes de développement du Flash Builder, je peux vous assurer qu’ils nous préparent des nouveautés qui vont changer notre vie de développeur Flex… Patience… En attendant, je reviendrai sur le DCD, le Data-centric Development, lors de l’événement du 20 Octobre. C’est une nouvelle approche qui me séduit de plus en plus. Je présenterai comment connecter rapidement une application Flex à un back-end PHP, puis Java, puis comment partir de zéro en créant un modèle de données qui se chargera de tout coder. J’ai aussi eu l’occasion de beaucoup jouer avec la nouvelle version beta de Flash Catalyst, plus intuitive et beaucoup plus complète. Je posterai cette semaine un article sur les nouveautés de cette beta 2.

Server-side: Adobe a beaucoup… beaucoup parlé de la sortie de ColdFusion 9. J’étais impressionné par le nombre de développeurs Coldfusion dans le monde en fait. En France, nous avons une vision faussée de cette technologie. Mais le marché n’étant pas là, je me contenterais de dire que la combinaison ColdFusion + Flex reste la plus productive du marché. Le nouvel IDE basé sur Eclipse est très bien pensé… Il faudrait que je m’y mette pour l’année 2010 quand même et renier mon amour pour PHP… A suivre. Christophe Coenraets m’a montré toutes les nouveautés de LiveCycle Data Services 3. Le plus impressionnant reste la génération d’applications à partir d’un modèle de données. Nous y reviendrons lors de l’événement. Enfin, une annonce de taille mais qui est restée un peu inaperçue… la future version de Flash Media Server gèrera le HTTP Streaming. De quoi conforter la position d’Adobe en tant que leader de la vidéo sur le web.

Voilà… je pense que je n’ai rien oublié… Ah si pardon !!!

L’iPhone: C’est la première fois qu’Adobe tient aussi bien un secret en interne. En France, nous n’étions que trois ou quatre personnes au courant de ce développement initié il y a quelques mois. Les équipes Adobe vont proposer aux utilisateurs de Flash CS5 d’exporter leurs réalisations Flash en applications natives iPhone. Une beta sera bientôt disponible sur le labs. Pas d’annonce pour Flex pour l’instant… patience… Ely a montré sur scène des premiers essais de frameworks Flex simplifiés pour exécuter des RIA sur mobile. Il n’y aura donc pas de Flash Player dans le navigateur de l’iPhone, cela tuerait leur modèle économique. Imaginez des milliers de jeux Flash accessibles gratuitement dans passer par l’AppStore. La bonne nouvelle pour les agences interactives, c’est que sans apprendre l’Objective C, elles vont pouvoir créer des jeux et des applis iPhone.

J’ai posté quelques photos de l’événement et de ma virée à Los Angeles avec Thibault sur Flickr. S’il y a des sujets qui vous tiennent à coeur, réagissez à ce post et je creuserai le point dans un futur article. Dernier point: la grande majorité des sessions ont été filmées et sont en libre accès sur tv.adobe.com.

If you weren’t able to come to MAX or attend our ‘Making Real-Time Data Come Alive with Flex Data Visualization’ session, Greg and I have our slides, code zip and other resources here. The lab handout has all of the source code for the lessons as well and will walk you through the lab. Please post a comment if you have any questions!

I had a wonderful time at MAX and met some really great people, I encourage all developers to make it a priority to attend this conference each year. The experience is invaluable!

If you weren’t aware, all of the session videos for MAX are posted here. Some sessions I found particularly interesting and definitely worth your time to watch the videos are:

Ely Greenfield – What’s New in Flex 4

Glenn Ruehle – Deep Dive into Flex 4 Lists and Layouts

Christophe Coenraets – Model Driven Development with Flex 4 and LCDS 3

Scott Evans – Flash Builder 4 Advanced Tips and Tricks

Chet Haase – Effects in Flex 4

Marcel Boucher – What’s Next in Livecycle ES

I’m already looking forward to Adobe MAX 2010

Cuidado que o o Flash vem aí!!!

Anunciado no evento Adobe Max 2009 o beta do Flash CS5 até o fim deste ano.

Compatível para desenvolvimento de aplicações para IPhone, trabalho aprimorado com Framework, XML baseado em FLA, integração com Flash Builder e aumento da produtividade com o Action3.

Todo mundo de olho no AdobeLabs.

Para saber mais sobre o Flash CS5 clique aqui.

Para saber mais sobre o Adobe Max, clique aqui.

MAX sessions updates are as below. There are some important discussion like important tips for web design, increasing performance of Flash, Flex, AIR applications and most important secrets behind Flash and so on .

1) CSS Tips and Tricks for Web Design
2) Tackling Memory and Performance in Flash, Flex, and Adobe AIR
3) SEO Secrets, Technology, and Magic Behind Flash

Enjoy RIA…

Yesterday’s MAX sessions are as below. There are some important discussion for designers as well as developers.

1) Photosho CS4
2) How NOT to Code Flex
3) Learne How Design Can Make Complex Concepts Clear and Provide New Roles for Designers

You are a Designer or Flex developer by this you will get some good ideas….

Enjoy RIA…:)

Agora sim! Depois do Flash ter ficado de fora do iPhone após o anúncio da sua chegada, ontem, a plataformas móveis, foi anunciado que os desenvolvedores vão poder criar aplicativos para o smartphone da Apple.

Na conferência MAX, evento da Adobe para desenvolvedores, a empresa anunciou que isso será possível através do Flash CS5, intitulado Flash Pro, que vai habilitar a criação de aplicativos ricos e interativos para iPhone e iPod Touch em formato IPA.

A Adobe deu uma prévia de como os desenvolvedores poderão usar o Flash Professional CS5 para exportar aplicativos para o iPhone, mostrando uma lista de aplicativos desenvolvidos em Flash e disponibilizada na AppStore. Entre eles, um criador de avatares baseados na estética do South Park, produzido pela MTV, além de jogos como Chroma Circuit, Trading Stuff, Red Hood, FickleBlox, Just Letters e That Roach Game.

A tecnologia do CS5 abre novas oportunidades para designers e desenvolvedores ao tornar fácil o objetivo de criar múltiplos sistemas operacionais e dispositivos com o mesmo código base.

Além de auxiliar no desenvolvimento de aplicativos para iPhone, o Flash CS5 deve incluir uma nova engine de texto, aprimorando qualidades para colaboração de equipes em projetos, assim como integração com o Adobe Flash Builder para edições avançadas com o ActionScript.

A novidade deve ser lançada no primeiro semestre de 2010, porém uma versão beta será disponibilizada em breve para desenvolvedores selecionados manualmente. É possível se candidatar para uma destas licenças através do web site da Adobe.

Para conferir links das aplicações desenvolvidas que já estão à venda, além de um vídeo que demonstra o funcionamento de algumas, acesse a página da Adobe Labs

Yesterday’s MAX sessions are as below. There are some important discussion such as “Adobe Flash on iPhone” and so on.

1) Flash Professional
2) Creative Suite 4 Evangelists Shootout
3) ActionScript 3.0 Tastes Good
4) Why CEOs, CFOs, and CMOs Want Flash

You are adobe technology developer then you can image your life by this….

Enjoy RIA…

Wow! This morning was very news worthy!

First there was the announcements regarding Flash CS5.
The big thing here was the new support for native iPhone Apps.
Apparently one can, with the Flash Professional CS5, write AS3 code that compiles as native iPhone application.
They announced it at MAX a few hours ago thru this entertaining video:

Nice!

To me there’s other cool stuff in Adobe Flash Professional CS5 that is really interesting, like the xml based FLAs and the Text Layout Framework.

Mike Chambers here has a post that gets into more details of the iPhone support part.

Adobe has also released a few applications that you can try on your iPhone right away! I feel that it’s a good idea to read thru the Developer FAQs and Aditya Bansod’s article here. I did find the LLVM pretty interesting. There’s a paper and a presentation to check out on llvm.org. For an iPhone a developer can actually use RTMP, remote shared objects and AMF APIs of the flash player. Developers will also have access to the file system and SQLite APIs of AIR 2.0. I am sure we will find out eventually that some stuff is not available, but, what the heck! There will be workarounds…hehe

The idea of a native iPhone Flash Player is still not around…I see places where they say “its on the cards…”, but, there is no mention of a date. The Flash Player 10.1 is going to be available soon though! Again it was announced at Adobe MAX today. Check out Kevin Lynch introducing 10.1 in this video:

This kinda excites me more than the iPhone support. Flash Player 10.1 on Android, Net Books and even on set-top boxes for television providing seamless experience is an awesome awesome wow! More reach, more support for my products and services now.

Adobe’s even working on Slider – a mobile optimized port of the Flex 4 codebase.

Along with all of this Adobe also announced a host of other betas available! Check out the list below:

1. The Flex 4 SDK Beta 2 release
2. The Flash Builder 4 Beta 2 release
3. The Flash Catalyst Beta 2 release
4. and then there’s also the Adobe ColdFusion Builder beta 2 release
5. and the Adobe LiveCycle Data Services 3 beta release

I also found two very interesting project on Adobe labs.

The first is called workflowlab. A tool (AIR) that allows one to create and share workflows and best practices. Project Managers, Designers and developers can collaborate and contribute to a project in a nicer way with this. The big part is that they used the Flash Builder and Flash Catalyst to create this utility!

Finally, the second one is about something that is really close to my heart too. Adobe Story is an application for collaborative script development. I tried a few scenes of a sample movie script with it. Works really well! The code hints like auto-correct/completion features are really neat! What even nicer is that it supports export to a lot of formats including MS Word, Final Draft (Word and FD  are my preferred screen-writing applications) and also to PDF, CSV, XML and plain text! (There’s probably an AIR application available too, but, I have not tried that as yet). The Story beta was out on Sept 10, so I am a little late (and a little out of place) in talking about it here, but, with all the great up coming stuff, I wanted to blog all of it together.

Really cool stuff happening around. Lots to look out for.

Hi! Here at Los Angeles, California for the Adobe MAX conference that kicked off today! I was able to attend a pre-conference session. I will post the summary of that very soon. Take care!

Adobe MAX est l’événement de l’année pour toute la communauté de designers et de développeurs Adobe. Cette année, MAX aura lieu à Los Angeles uniquement et il n’y aura malheureusement pas d’édition européenne cette année. Je pars Vendredi car je serai speaker sur Flash et l’innovation avec Thibault Imbert. Mais je viens d’apprendre une grande nouvelle! Vous allez tous pouvoir suivre les présentations principales de MAX (les keyotes) en vidéo live! Ainsi que le TOP 3 des sessions par jour. Voici l’URL de la page à absolument bookmarkée : http://www.max.adobe.com/online/

Petites exclus… si vous vous connectez 10 minutes avant chaque session, vous pourrez vous balader en backstage pour voir les préparatifs. Il est prévu de publier en ligne toutes les sessions, accessibles à la demande, à partir de la mi-Octobre.

Another year and another Adobe MAX obviously!

This year I decide to take part in a new pre-event called Creating Applications for the Flash Platform, this labs will be dedicated to Flash Builder and Flash Catalyst integration… I think could be very useful to understand a new point of view to create RIAs and Desktop Applications and how to integrate this workflow in our company.

During the conference, this is my schedule:

Monday, October 5, 2009

- Building Flex and Adobe AIR Service Clients

- ActionScript 3.0 Tastes Good (and Is Good for You, Too!)

- Advanced Data Visualization with Flex

-  What’s Coming in Adobe AIR 2

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

- Building a Scalable Interactive Video Solution Using P2P in Flash

Builder

- Flash Builder 4 Advanced Tips and Tricks

- How NOT to Code Flex

- ELIPS 3.0: Mobile Flex Builder Toolkit

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

- Real-Time Collaboration Deep Dive: Using Adobe Flash

Collaboration Service

- Building Mobile Applications with Adobe AIR

- Making Real-Time Data Come Alive With Flex Data Visualization

- Effective Form Design for Developers

- Tackling Memory and Performance in Flash, Flex, and Adobe AIR

I hope to find many people to share ideas, knowledge and skills… see you there guys

If you are attending Adobe MAX, I’d like to invite you to come to what I think will be a fun BYOL (bring your own laptop) lab that I am co-presenting with Holly Schinsky.

I’ve always been fascinated with data visualization, especially data that needs analysis as it is generated.  For example, financial transaction data can contain immediately useful trending information that is invisible without some visualization.  Credit card transaction data can contain data indicating fraudulent use.  I once worked on a project where we analyzed cellular call data in real-time looking for indications that a phone had been cloned (old-school cellular phones could easily be “cloned” before things went digital).

I thought that this type of data visualization would make for an interesting lab at MAX and invited Holly (Flex and Data Services guru) to help me put it together.  Holly and I have been working hard to make sure that this is both an informative and fun 90 minute session.

Here’s the description from the MAX site: Discover how the real-time messaging capabilities of BlazeDS and LiveCycle Data Services ES can be combined with the data visualization capabilities of Flex to result in some very interesting applications. In this lab, you will learn how to produce and consume a real-time data feed and how to pass that data to various data visualization components to create an interactive dashboard.

We’ll explore the basics of publish/subscribe messaging with BlazeDS and LiveCycle Data Services as it applies to real-time data feeds and learn how to take that feed and turn it into something very visual and compelling.   We will first employ some of the Flex charting capabilities and then look at how to plot data on interactive maps.

The session times are Monday, Oct 5th at 2:30pm and Wednesday, Oct 7th at 1:30pm.   Both sessions are filling quickly.  The Oct 7th session is already 70% full – maybe I need to show you with a bar chart? 

Click here and sign up!

See ya at MAX!

After winning two awards last year for our “MyHome – Your Intelligent Home” and the “Nasdaq Market Replay”, it was with great interest we here at Hello Group were awaiting the email from Adobe telling us if our very cool application – “Changing Diabetes Barometer” had made it to the next level in the prestigious Adobe MAX Awards.

Today the email came, informing us that it had made it to the Semifinals… a great accomplishment thinking about some of the troubles the project had been undergoing from its inception to its transition into production, and then even some after that (as it most often is the case, I suppose).

Check it out…
http://www.changingdiabetesbarometer.com/

The system was build in Adobe Flex 3 with an architecture based on PureMVC MultiCore with a backend in .NET running a MS SQL Server 2005 and a WebORB tying it all together.

If you don’t know it already, the Adobe MAX conference is always a great learning and networking experience and this year it is sounding better than ever. They’re offering some new things I believe will really help developers get the most out of their experience with the addition of more lab-type sessions, Birds of a Feather discussions at lunch-time etc and more sessions overall. There will also be a ton more content this year focusing on LiveCycle ES and Enterprise RIA which is particularly cool to me as someone who works on both the client and server side and want to know my options for different business solutions. And of course there are always the sessions focusing on Adobe’s creative tools, not to mention really big secret announcements and a sneak peek at upcoming coolness seen only there first.

As a developer attending a conference, I have always been one to seek out as many lab-type sessions as possible believing in the extended benefit of working on something hands-on while learning. The Adobe people must have realized the value in this as well and decided to offer a new alternative to lab-type sessions called BYOL – (Bring Your Own Laptop), where you can use your own laptop to work along with the class. You will still be given a handout of the code lessons etc but instead of using a workstation provided, you simply use your own laptop. The biggest pro here is that you are comfortable on your own laptop already and will have the final version without having to copy it off quickly before getting to your next session. You will however have to be sure that you have the necessary requirements for the class on your laptop prior to attending, and these requirements are posted along with the session details on the MAX portal.

This year I’m fortunate enough to have the opportunity to co-present a session on two different days with Greg Wilson entitled, “Making Real-Time Data Come Alive with Flex Data Visualization.” I’m very excited about this session because I think it’s a topic that is great fun and offers a unique learning experience by giving people a taste of not only using data visualization with real-time data, but experience using Messaging with Data Services on BlazeDS. From this session you will learn how to do push-subscribe messaging acting in both a publisher and subscriber role as well as how to take real-time data and visualize it in a Flex Charting component. We will also talk about the Tour de Flex Dashboard, so you are sure to walk away with some really cool stuff here.

The session times are Monday, Oct 5th at 2:30pm and Wednesday, Oct 7th at 1:30pm. So if you have not already registered for Adobe MAX 2009 then what are you waiting for?! Hope to see you soon in L.A.

Guys, it’s that time of the year again: MAX regsitration doors flew open yesterday at max.adobe.com. As this year there won’t be a MAX in Europe, due to the hard economic crisis that has banged us all in the head, this is your only chance for the biggest Adobe developer meeting worldwide. Plus, you can save tons of money if you book your ticket now. And make sure to get a cheap flight there. If you can’t afford a flight, I suggest you start rowing your boat tomorrow. Here the short version:

Adobe Systems has announced MAX 2009. Registrants can now sign up for sessions and labs. Adobe MAX brings together designers, developers, and business decision makers. This year, the event will run from Oct. 4-7 at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles. 

Click here to know about Awards at the MAX 2009 event.

Having been a part of winning two Adobe MAX awards last year and having experienced the thrill of getting this recognition from the industry as well as community peers, I would like to encourage everyone with any potential candidates to register for this years competition.

Therefor I’m delighted to announce that the 2009 MAX Awards competition is now open! The MAX Awards are a global awards program that recognizes the best uses of Adobe software for creating engaging experiences. Submissions are being accepted now through July 31, 2009.

This year Adobe will award winners in 8 categories: Advertising & Branding, Education, Enterprise Productivity, Entertainment, Mobile, Public Sector, Social Networking, and Social Responsibility. View the complete category descriptions and complete Awards information here: http://max.adobe.com/awards/

New this year, category winners will be chosen online via people’s choice voting. Online voting will open September 21st and close during MAX Los Angeles. The three finalists in each category will be invited to attend MAX North America in Los Angeles, where the category winners will be announced live. All finalists will receive complimentary admission to MAX.

All submissions must be received online at https://www.adobemaxsubmission.com/submission/ by 11:59 pm on July 31st.

Be sure to submit your project today! Good luck!
http://max.adobe.com/

Now that you have downloaded the new Tour de LiveCycle tool and became an instant fan of LiveCycle ES (Enterprise Suite), you are probably wondering where you could learn even more, right?  Well, earlier this week, we announced a new program at Adobe MAX 2009 called the “LiveCycle @MAX Bundle”.  Designed for enterprise developers, this program combines 1.5 days of introductory pre-conference training with a full MAX conference pass.

Pricing and additional details are available here.   I suspect that this will fill up quickly so signup!