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My Scrum presentation from Max Europe 2008 |
| by Neil Middleton 2:33 pm Tuesday, 9 December 2008. |
As promised, here’s my presentation slides from MAX Europe last week.
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Monochrome coming to you from MAX Milan 2008 |
| by Neil Middleton 1:57 pm Wednesday, 3 December 2008. |
Well, here we are sat in one of the latter sessions of this years Adobe MAX Milan conference and it’s been an interesting time. There’s been a huge amount of networking going on, as well as a fairly decent lack of some proper sleep. With over 1400 people present it’s been a good event overall.
So, what have Monochrome been up to over the last few days? Well, as you can see from our Flickr Stream we’ve been very busy - only really getting the change to visit a couple of sessions so far. First up was the first Keynote which was talking about the general direction that Adobe are headed - which in short is multi-platform, multi-device flash with a big emphasis on great design and interaction. As always, the content was pretty much the same as the US version of MAX.
Yesterday we had the second keynote, which for us techies is the fun one. This is where we get to see all the new and exciting technologies that Adobe have on offer, which this year included Flash Catalyst (the artist (tool) previously known as “Thermo”), ColdFusion Bolt (the new IDE for CFML) and Alchemy, a tool that allows you to effectively cross-compile C and C++ code into good old ActionScript 3.0 and run it in the Flash player. Demo’ed for this was Quake 1, PDF rendering and export as PNG - all of which are not currently possible in Flash Player 10 natively.
Later on in the day we saw the sneak peeks, which was “won” by “Infinite Images” a PhotoSynth like tool, but with a fair dose of craziness ladled in for good measure - it’s something that’s hard to describe, and you really need to see for yourself. Jason Delmore from Adobe also demoed a server side ActionScript server.
Last night, everyone was bussed off to the Peltona in central Milan - which is what appeared to be a swimming pool with an elevated floor filled with crazy Europeans dancing to crazy European dance music - although there was a good dose of Run DMC just before the end.
Today, we’re in wind down mode - no keynotes of anything like that, just lots of interesting sessions. How we’ll end up tonight I don’t yet know - but if we get more than four hours sleep we’ll be doing better than normal.
Overall, it’s been great so far (although the venues organisation is a bit off in places) and we’ve been hooking up with a great bunch of people - Mike Jones of FlashGen.com, Jason Delmore and Claude Englebert of Adobe, James Whittaker of Refreshingapps.com, Howard and Baines, Big Mad Kev, Sarah Paton from Academy Class, Chris Kent of Tribal DDB, Straker, the Adobe Platform Evangelists, plus loads of others that I haven’t mentioned.
So, next year is alledgedly Amsterdam - which will probably mean less sleep, more fun and another great conference for 2009.
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Where you can find us at MAX Europe |
| by Neil Middleton 1:20 pm Wednesday, 26 November 2008. |
Both myself and Niklas will be attending (and speaking at) this years MAX conference in Milan next week and are mightily looking forward to it. In case you’re wanting to come and hook up with us, here’s our agenda for the three days.
If you’re in any of the sessions we’re in, please pop over and say “hello”!
| December 1, 2008 | |
| Object-Relational Mapping in ColdFusion 9 | 11:30 - 12:30 |
| Adobe Roadmap: Rich Internet Applications | 14:00 - 15:00 |
| Adobe XD: Designing Design | 15:15 - 16:15 |
| Adobe Roadmap: Web Experiences | 16:30 - 17:30 |
December 2, 2008 |
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| Adobe@Adobe: IT Innovation — It’s Not an Oxymoron | 09:00 - 10:00 |
| Architecting ColdFusion for Scalability and High Availability | 13:30 - 14:30 |
| Flex Development with Cairngorm | 14:45 - 15:45 |
| Wireframing Experiences and Applications | 16:00 - 17:00 |
December 3, 2008 |
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| Breathe AIR into Your Brand | 09:00 - 10:00 |
| Building Enterprise Applications Using Flex, Adobe AIR, and LiveCycle ES | 10:15 - 11:15 |
| Looking Ahead to the Next Version of Flex | 11:30 - 12:30 |
| Building High-Performance Applications for Adobe AIR | 13:30 - 14:30 |
| Structuring Your Development Team to Get the Work Done | 14:45 - 15:45 |
| Flex and PHP: Working with Flex Builder and Zend Studio for Eclipse | 16:00 - 17:00 |
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Monochrome at ReMIX ‘08 Brighton |
| by Niklas Richardson 3:21 pm Tuesday, 16 September 2008. |
I just thought I would drop a quick note to let everyone know that we will be at this years Microsoft ReMIX ‘08 event in Brighton. More than that, we’ve got a stand that you can come see us on!
Joining forces with Dot Net Solutions and Genesis, we’ll be spending our time talking to anyone who wants a quick chat and would like to know more about Monochrome, what we do and how we work. Onsite for both days will be Neil Middleton, our development manager, and Matt Glavin our newly recruited business manager.
But that’s not all!
Come to the closing keynote session you’ll be able to see Neil demo our new mono.FLV, a real time web-server based flv to Silverlight conversion technology.
So, if you’re there, come by and say “hello”, we’re on Gold stand 2. If you’re not going, come see us anyway!
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Neil Middleton speaking at MAX Europe 2008 |
| by Neil Middleton 4:09 pm Friday, 12 September 2008. |
If you’re in or around Milan, Italy in early December you’re in a good position to come to the annual Adobe Max Conference which is held every year (last year was Barcelona). This conference is THE Adobe conference to go to for Europeans, and will bring together hundreds of designers, developers and business decision makers.
As Adobe state on their website, Max is the oppourtunity to exchange ideas and build relationships with leading designers and developers, industry experts and Adobe product teams.
More interestingly that this though, is your oppotunity to some and see the session I will be giving at the conference entitled “Structuring your development team and getting the work done”.
In a nutshell the topic is all about learning about how changing the way you organise and manage your work will help you work more effectively as a team and increase your overall efficiency. This session will describe who you need on your web development team as well as showing you ways to get the most efficiency from them. Learn how agile processes can benefit both your team, and your bottom line.
If you can make it, we’d love to see you there, so go register on the MAX website now.
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