RIA Radio, Live at Adobe MAX – Day 1 Keynote

I was honored to be a guest on RIA Radio during the recent Adobe MAX show. I joined the hosts, Garth Braithwaite, Leif Wells and  Zach Stepek, along with fellow guest Kevin Schmidt. We discussed the announcements from the Day 1 keynote (Flash for the iPhone, Flash 10.1 on mobile, TVs, and netbooks.)  Throughout the entire show, they sat down with a lot of cool folks, so take a listen.

Listen to this podcast ( mp3). You can also subscribe to the RIA Radio Podcast in iTunes.

Kevin Schmidt to discuss the big MAX announcements and give our take on what they mean. Topics covered include: Flash for the iPhone, Flash 10.1 on mobile, TVs, and netbooks.

Experts: Leif Wells and  Zach Stepek

Listen to this week’s podcast ( mp3). You can also subscribe to the RIA Radio Podcast in iTunes.

Read more from Garth Braithwaite.

mobileMAX: Your MAX, Your Schedule, Your Mobile

After many late nights of coding, I am pleased to release my mobileMAX application. This mobile app will allow you to quickly view the conference schedule for not only the official Adobe sessions but all four of the unConferences. Additionally, you will be able to view the schedule of your chosen sessions (assuming you got the MAX scheduler to behave).

Home Screen for the Flash Lite version

iPhone Session Listing

There are four versions available; a Flash Lite 3.1 version (using the Adobe Mobile Packager), a Windows Mobile version (also using AMP), a Flash Lite 2.1 version, and yes an iPhone web version.

To get started, go to http://nuclearpathways.org/clients/max/ (I work on several sites related to the history of the Atomic Age and decided to just use one of those servers for the project). Once you have made an account, log back in to the Adobe MAX scheduler and copy the webcal URL for your schedule. Paste that into the web application and let it process your schedule. Once that is done you can download the mobileMAX app for your device. You don’t need do this, but the app becomes more useful if you do.

For the iPhone version, I created a custom web app. After opening the URL in Safari, click the “Add to Homescreen” button to create a shortcut.

It has been a blast building this and I hope the community finds it helpful. See you at MAX!

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Adobe MAX Update

Just to let you know that the early bird pricing for Adobe MAX (October 4–7 in Los Angeles, California) is ending soon. Register by August 31, 2009, and get US$200 off the regular price of a full conference pass. 

If you do plan to go, please us this link, so I can get credit from Adobe. If 5 people register this way, I will have a free pass that I can raffle off since Qualcomm is covering my ticket. I only need one more person.

Flash Catalyst Demo

Platform Evangelist Ryan Stewart and Product Designer Narciso Jaramillo (“NJ”) provide a demo of Adobe Flash Catalyst, a powerful tool for creating application interfaces and interactive content. I gave a brief demo of this new tool at the recent San Diego Flash User’s Group meetings. In this short video you can see some of the same concepts: taking a well formed Photoshop document and transforming it into well formed MXML.

The sessions from Adobe MAX on Flash Catalyst will be available online shortly as well.

Adobe Lab Updates

Just a quick blog post to summarize and link to the new stuff released today on Adobe Labs.

CoComo - Provides abilities to add video/audio sharing in your Flex apps.

Pixel Bender - An image and video processing infrastructure with runtime optimization on heterogeneous hardware.

Flash Platform - Links for Gumbo (Flex 4) and Catalyst (Thermo).

Alchemy - Translates C and C++ code into ActionScript.

Flash Player 10 - Specifically for Solaris and Linux.

The New Name for Thermo coming….

Ryan Stewart just posted some teaser bits about “Thermo”. First, we are going to learn its real name. I’m sure there is going to much debate over it. Thermo was just too darn cool.

Second, at MAX they’re going to be doing an early preview release of “Thermo”. It will be an Adobe Labs release soon, but for the time being going to MAX is the only way to get your hands on Thermo. If you want to get the bits before anyone else, you’ll have to attend one of those two Intro to Thermo sessions. They will have DVDs during those sessions after walking you through the preview build. Otherwise if you’re going to MAX you’ll have to get the DVDs on the second day.

I’ll be there, will you?