Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Live from SFO it’s MAX: Keynote Day 2

A bit late today but here no the less…

Today’s keynote will be focused on tooling and showing off the new stuff in CS4

11.48 Thanks every one for coming!

11.43 Introducing groups.adobe.com a multi cultural community website targeted to user groups around the world as a way to find and collaborate thru the user groups around the world.

11.43 Ted Patrick is now on stage talking about the User Groups Communities around the world. 423 adobe groups across the world.

11.42 Some homework for all, get the tools and try them yourselves.

11.38 Introducing support of dynamic streaming from within Live Stream feed and DVR functionality right from within the live feed enabling pause and seek on a live streaming.

11.35 Introducing dynamic streaming for adaptive streaming without glitches or faults on On Demand Video. The player monitors the network and makes the changes automatically. Available as part of Adobe Flash Streaming Server 3.5

11.34 Adobe is endorsing the SWFObject as one of the ways to embedded your Flash in your pages so the bots will recognize it, the other one is using the Google Flash Kit.

11.31 Showing SEO support from Flash using a Virtual Agent (collaborative developed with Google) that renders the experience as a regular user will do and traverse the content and state changes and looks for text and indexed its, if a button then generates a click and repeats with the new render.

11.25 Introducing the new Ajax support from within Dreamweaver, really cool CSS and JavaScript authoring improvements on the tool. – I wish I could see Aggiorno running on that jewel.

11.20 Introducing support for Flex authoring right from within Visual Studio, enabling .NET developers to enter the Flex world right from within their IDE of choice and even with support to AMF3 right from .NET.

11.17 Introducing support for server side integration between Flex and CF as a straight forward data management wizard that will generate the right code to handle the complexity.

11.11 Ben Forta introducing support for Cold Fusion development right from within Flex Builder and available as part of CF5.

11.09 Now into Gumbo and ColdFusion.

11.07 Showing Nintendo NES simulator running inside Flash.

11.06 C++ integration is about productivity – questionable about that given the complexity of the language, would have been cool to see C# integration, but oh well C++ is good.

11.04 Support for codecs and plug-ins using C++ to incorporate support for features not available in the framework but available as open source libraries else where.

11.02 Showing SSL encryption algorithm built in C++ and invoked from a Flex application.

11.01 C / C++ support from within AIR 1.5 and Flash 10, no .dll loading but transformation of portable C++ code into AS3.

10.58 Early preview release of Catalyst available this week and Beta will be lunch early in ‘09.

10.55 States are really similar to those in XAML, but taking advantage of the features of Flash 10 in the sense of richness (3D, Pixel benders, etc).

10.54 Full round trip of workflow between Catalyst and the rest of the CS4 designing tooling is thanks to FXG which enables

10.48 Ryan Stewart on stage Introducing Flash Catalyst. Using Photoshop artwork to create user controls, states and transitions - really sleek execution.

10.47 Photoshop support for smart scaling, smart painting on 3D surfaces and effects making it easier for the designer

10.45 Flash support for bones animation and manipulation of point to point animations, making it easier than ever to animate elements on stage.

10.44 Ben Forta and Tim Buntel are on stage dress of agents F and B with a group of guys showing Flash CS4 and now Photoshop, really cool features been shown on.

Monday, November 17, 2008

Join me at the Microsoft eXpert RoadShow ‘08 Costa Rica

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Microsoft Multi Americas invited me to talk at their eXpert RoadShow in the Multiamericas and I will be speaking in my home country Costa Rica.

I will be delivering the Next Generation Technologies session and it will be going around a central theme of building a solution from the scratch showing some of the cool technologies Microsoft has to offer to the enterprise nowadays.

If you are in Costa Rica during the first week of December, make sure you join me in one of the following events and you might have a chance to win a license to the really cool Aggiorno.

San Carlos

Where Auditorio TEC, San Carlos
When Dec 3rd, 2pm
What eXperts Roadshow

Heredia

Where Plaza Bratsi, Heredia, 200 norte del Paseo de la Flores, Contiguo a la Universal
When Dec 4th, 2pm
What eXperts Roadshow

Puntarenas

Where Universidad de Costa Rica, Sede Puntarenas
When Dec 5th, 2pm
What eXperts Roadshow

Hope to see there!

Live form SFO it’s MAX: Keynote Day 1

A’ight boys and girls it’s Monday November 17th and I’m seating next to Kurt Brockett and Adobe’s Ryan Stewart  for the first day Adobe Keynote.

If connection is good to me I will be blogging live from my seat with all cool actions going on from the Moscone Center West in San Francisco.

9.34: lights are off and a VJ is mixing Adobe on 30, really hilarious videos.

9.35: Video of little MAX going across the sceneries, really cool animation.

9.36: Shantanu Narayen, President of Adobe Max takes the stage and greets the over 5000 attendees that joined Max this year.

9.38: Shantanu, “Adobe technologies makes of for impossible experiences”. Reality of devices reach and the possibilities that were not possible with PC’s before. Multi screen possibilities and the better of experiences you can deliver while maintaining the continuum.

9.40: Adobe Flash Platform, enables an agile process with their pillars of Tools to Design & Develop (Flash, Flex Builder and Catalyst), Framework (Flex), Clients (Flash Player & AIR) and Servers (Cf and Ls).

9.41: Thermo is now Flash Catalyst, an interactive design tool that avec Adobe Gumbo will enable a complete workflow between Developers and Designers.

9.43: Now a video of Bono and Project RED on how using Adobe technologies the project has grow awareness across the world.

9.45: Introducing RED Wire: A Music discovery service where everyone can contribute and with a $5 monthly subscription you get music thru an AIR application, this application will be available later in the year.

9.47: Shantanu introducing CTO Kevin Lynch, Resident Magician also known as Harry Potter.

9.48: Kevin talks about current trends that we are going to be looking at today: Client + Cloud, Social Computing & Devices + Desktop as third trend. This trends makes the development challenging but ever growing opportunities.

9.51: Kevin introduces some of the features on Flash Player 10 as a result of work together with the community to enable easy and powerful experiences before hard to develop.

9.54: Showcasing Hobnox.com, dynamic audio processing and dynamic wave form analysis in real time to enable sound mixing and visualizations using Flash 10 built in 3D capabilities.

9.55: Showcasing other applications from digital artist who uses new expressive capabilities including pixel benders in Photoshop Online.

9.56: Flash 64bit coming to Linux.

9.56: Dub Albers, CTO Disney Interactive Media Group, gets the stage to talk about how Disney is going take advantage of new Flash Video capabilities.

10:00: Disney is showing a Wall-e experience branded portal where taking advantage of the new capabilities in Flash 10 can improve the experience of dialog-less communication with kids.

10.01: With the capabilities of broadband adoption across the world, Disney is able to take their viewing experiences to next levels, including social capabilities for kids around the world.

10.05: Announcing MLB.com going AIR and Flash starting initial day ‘09, making it the 4th of the 4th bigger sport leagues in the states to use Flash to stream sports over the internet.

10.06: Announcing Adobe AIR 1.5 today with all the power of Flash 10, Webkit + Squirrelfish and the Encryption of Local DBs. Available today for Windows and Apple. Linux in a couple of weeks.

10.09: NYTimes announcing an AIR-based News Reader for the International Herald Tribune. Showcasing the newsreader with some really cool features thanks to Flash 10 text rendering capabilities. Enabling access from different devices.

10.12: NYTimes: video advertising can be embedded as part of the experience making the monetization process come to live and enable advertisers new ways to present their content.

10.14: Kevin is showcasing AIR running on a MID device similar to the Nokia Tablet running on a Linux OS. AIR for MIDs will be available next year.

10.16: Kevin is now showcasing an experience by the California Museum where history content is made available as interactive experiences. A special application made available is the Learning Lab, an AIR App where teachers can interact with content and build curriculum around it, interacting with their students thru assignments and collaborative work. Available in ‘09.

10.20 Maria Shriver, First Lady of California,  and Ann Lewnes VP Marketing take the stage to talk about the California Legacy Trails. A project to educate the community on the trails that made California what it is today.

10.23 Kevin, Adobe is exposing APIs to most of their services in the cloud. Showcasing Tour de Flex, a reference application for all the APIs with live examples, code access and language reference for developers.

10.30: Executive of Force.com takes the stage. Enterprise software is where innovation comes to die, but this is changing today with cloud computing. Enabling a new technology model that enabling platform as a service to virtually any company in the world.

10.37: Kevin back in stage to talk about Social Computing.

10.38: Kigel Pegg introduces Cocomo for realtime social applications in Flex, beta now available in labs.

10.40: Showcasing Acesis, a demo application for Medical Review. Support for AV conferencing and data sharing using real time collaboration.

10.46: Introducing Adobe Wave, displaying desktop notification is as simple as sending an email = anyone can do it. A service aggregation service for the desktop extending the experience of the Web 2.0.

10.49: Taking devices.

10.50: Flash Lite enabled in more than 1 Billion devices by ‘09.

10.51: Open Screen Project targets to 2 problems: 1. Web Browsing and 2. Standalone Applications.

10.52: Full Flash Player 10 to run in the higher end of the smart phones. Showcase time hot right from the engineering labs.

10.54: Nokia N85 running S60, HTC running WinMo and Opera Browser, iPhone (we are working on it, not ready yet) and HTC G1 running Google’s Android.  Really cool demos of YouTube, Last.fm and some sleek Flash animations. – in my opinion Opera and Flash made the Windows Mobile platform a real alternative to the iPhone.

10.59: Andrew Rubin, Director of Mobile Platform of Google, takes the stage. Talks about the possibilities of the new mobile platforms to build great experiences in top of.

11.03: Introducing the Flash Lite distributable package enabling partners to distribute their applications on the web with the functionality to download Flash Lite player if not available. A great experience to deliver content on the mobile

11.08: Showing multi screen support with a Samsung UMPC and a tablet pc thru a mash up of current hardware technology.

11.11: and this is it… thanks a lot everyone!


Friday, November 14, 2008

Come join me at Adobe MAX in San Francisco for some Flex/AIR and .NET fun!

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A few weeks ago I got confirmation that my Birds-of-a-Feather session on Flex and .NET was accepted and hence I would have a slot available to Connect, Discovery and hopefully Inspire some of you into creating new experiences using the power of Flex and AIR front experiences with the power of .NET technologies running in the back end.

The session has now an official name, room and date so make sure you booked it in your agenda for some inter-op fun between 2 of the most powerful platforms out there.

What Developing Flex and AIR applications in a .NET Environment
When Monday, November 17th @ 9.30pm
Where Room 2006

Things like WebORB for .NET, ASP.NET MVC, WCF and some cool data access will be covered and if time allows I will be demoing a couple of cloud surprises that I am azure will inspire more than one to go out and play with some great Microsoft technology out there.

It’s Monday evening and I’m sure there will be stuff going on after the session so come meet some other folks doing stuff with .NET and let’s get started for a great week of experiences.

Cheers!


Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Aggiorno on Channel9’s The Continuum Show

A couple of weeks ago, the Aggiorno team had the opportunity to share a booth with the Internet Explorer 8 team at Microsoft’s Professional Developer Conference and I was lucky enough to be there with Aggiorno’s Product Manager, Federico Zoufaly.

Lots of great feedback we got along the week, specially around our new feature called Smart Search and Replace, a revolutionary way for you to transform your markup based on templates - trust me is really cool!!

During these day I had the opportunity to showcase Aggiorno’s latest build to a lot of people and it was great, one of those guys even got a camera… it was my friend Adam Kinney who was shooting some awesomeness for his show “The Continuum Show” and greatly enough Aggiorno made the cut of how awesome things were.

So here it is with out further adieu, enjoy!