MAX in San Francisco - Day 1
That was a busy day for me at MAX today, rehearsing/presenting my session on Flex & AIR visualization with ILOG Elixir, trying in parallel to attend some of the great sessions going on all the day and finally meeting (potential) users on ILOG booth!
Here are my highlights for the day:
During keynote the name of the product that Thermo project will gave birth to has been announced as being Flash Catalyst and is available on Adobe Labs.
During that same keynote, Kevin Lynch introduced what he sees as current industry trends:
- Client + Cloud Computing
- Social Computing
- Multiple Devices
For each trend Kevin gave some concrete examples of what Adobe is doing to address the trend. This includes Flash Player 10 and Adobe AIR 1.5 release (including first production use of Webkit Squirrelfish engine) on the client side and cloud computing AS3 APIs for the cloud part of it. He showed Tour de Flex sample exploring cloud APIs including Amazon, Twitter and Salesforce.com APIs.
Example of social computing interest at Adobe were shown by highlighting Adobe Cocomo in public beta on Adobe Labs that allows developers to easily build collaborative applications in Flex.
Finally on the multi-screen side, several devices were shown running preview of Flash Player 10 including an Android-based G1 phone.
Amongst the various session I attended, the most interesting one was probably “Looking Ahead to the Next Version of Flex” by Ely Greenfield, it was (as usual with Ely) a very interesting session, going into the details of Gumbo component model codename Spark.
If you are attending MAX don’t hesitate to stop at the booth and say hello, we are always very interested in knowing what you are achieving with our product! If you missed my session today, you can still attend Erwan’s session on Wednesday where he will show how some of our customers have leveraged ILOG Elixir into their applications.
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