Road to Max 2007

Yesterday went out Max session in Chicago event, sessions are so interesting in particular for AIR and Flex development!
I think that will be a GREAT MAX! I think that I’ll go for pre-conference session also because I see an AIR session… I love AIR!

Agenda isn’t complete so in next few days we could new session in particular mobile sessione because there is only one at the moment, but Bill Perry, in his blog, says that there is no problem and there will be new mobile session!

This year we will see design seminar on photoshop and so on… I think there will be a lots of people!

Finally, I’d like to congratulate with Matt Politt (UK MaD Manager) and Giorgio Natili (IT MaD Manager) for the first time at Max like speaker!
Congratulations guys!

Italian Adobe Live 07

Hi all, I’ve just came back in my hotel room in Milan after first Day of Adobe Live 07 Italy version!
Seminars are much entry levels, they talk about new CS 3 in rapid way and more for designers than developers, but there were a lots of people there.

I think that is a market events and not an event for designers and developers or better not for developers…

Tomorrow I’ll come back in Datch Forum in Assago (Milan – Italy) and seminars aren’t so interesting, but I’ll stay all time at actionscript.it stand to illustrate our community and events.

If you’ll come tomorrow, say me “Hello Mezzalab!”.

AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime)

Today Adobe has released new Public Beta version of AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime, codename Apollo).
Also give us the opportunity to download Flex 3 Beta or use Flash CS 3 for create .air files.

So Adobe launches AIR Developer Derby, a contest to create AIR applications and win a lot of interesting prizes!
Good AIR to everyone!

Finally Nokia take a look on Mac

After a lot of year without launch tansfer software from Nokia device to Macintosh, finally Sweden company release Nokia Media Transfer, that is in Beta, but you can download it.

This software allow you to sync your Nokia device (you have a list of them that you can use with software).

Also Nokia create a section with tutorial, tips & tricks to syncronize your Mac with Nokia device.
For more information visit Nokia site

Help Adobe with your SWF

John Nack write an interesting post about help Adobe with your SWF projects.
In fact you could submit your project with:

– Your SWF or a link to your project or a screenshot of the project
– A brief description (3 to 4 sentences) describing the audience and purpose of the project
– Descriptive tags to categorize the project’s content and purpose – Use as many or as few tags as you like, and feel free to make up your own. Some examples tags are included below.
– Percent of all your projects that are SWFs
– Percentage of time you spend writing ActionScript
– Percentage of time you spend using the timeline
– Your name
– Your job title and company
– Your phone number (so a member of the Adobe’s customer research team can contact you for a quick 15 minute phone call if they need more information)

If your project will be choose you can win a $50 Amazon gift card.
To partecipate you can send an email at: flashresearch@adobe.com

More information at Nack’s Blog

ReMix in Milan – first day

First day at ReMix has been so interesting, location is Microsoft Italian office in Segrate (Milano) and it is so cool.
In the beginning there was a general session where some Microsoft UK people showed the new Expression Studio.
Expression studio is composed by 4 softwares, the most powerful and interesting is Blend (we also viewed a preview of Blend 2).

In fact with Blend we use a visual IDE to create XAML and interactivity of WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation).
I found some powerful features in this product:
. video integration, we can view HD video over 1200 px width!
. data loaded are so light for the software and it can use massive datas and the app runs very well.
. visual data binding, in fact a designer can load XML or .Net script and visualize values and assign to design object.
For example, if in an XML we have an attributes with exadecimal value, with Blend we can visually transform it from a string to a colour object…amazing!
. 3D animation runs very speed and you can interact with them

Tomorrow I’ll have a most technical session on this technology, I’ll report it there… stay tuned!

Reading UK magazine and…

Now I’m in London for work and I’m tasting how the UK market thinking of Silverlight.
I find a lots of magazine that talk about Silverlight Technology, Web Design add an insert with 4 tutorials on expression studio, in Macworld there is an interview to Adobe Chief on what Adobe think about this technology…

I speak also with people who works in IT market and they are so optimist in Adobe “egemony” for multimedia technology.

Silverlight is a so interesting technology, and a lot of people are talking about it.

Next week there will be ReMix in Milan, I’ll go and I report my impression about new Microsoft software…stay tuned!

Easter Egg in Flash CS3

If you click on Help > About Flash CS3 in Windows or Flash > About Flash in Macintosh you can look the copiryght window.
So now, if you double-click in Registration logo of Flash word you could watch the Flash Team photos!

Actionscript 3 library for MySql

In Mike Chambers’ blog I found a very interesting news about Actionscript 3 library for a direct connection with MySql.
The project name is asSql and it is in alpha version, but I think that we must keep in touch with it because it will be so useful resource.
Developer is Matt MacLean and you can find more information about him at his blog

Silverlight on Mobile

Andrea Trento notify me an interesting video on Silverlight.
In fact, in this video, you can watch new Microsoft software in action on Windows Mobile device.

I think that we must take a look in this technology because it will be new interesting features in the next months.