MAX 2005: photos…

I’ve just uploaded some photos into my fotki account:
MAX 2005 and Anaheim mixed stuff
MAX 2005 night event

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MAX 2005: Night event

Yesterday’s night event really was a blast. Macromedia rented one area of Disney’s Califormia Adventure Park and provided lots of food and drinks before taking the coasters, wheels and all the other rides.
This particular area of the theme park was shaped up like an old waterfront peer of the 1920’s, so it used to be [...]

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MAX 2005 coverage: Flex 2.0 3-hours session ;)

The order of session reporting got messed up a bit as I didn’t make it to blog properly yesterday. I’ve been to a pretty good session on Flex 2.0, held by various people of the Flex 2.0 team. They provided a pretty complete overview of all the new features, changes and additional functionality in 2.0.
It [...]

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MAX 2005 coverage: sneak peaks

This is always one of the best sessions of the whole conference. Developers, engineers and people from behind the curtain show products and ideas from the MM labs…
The sneak peak session was held in a pretty Aussie style. Opened by our host, “the cousin of Steve Erwin” – Paul the code hunter – all is [...]

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MAX 2005 coverage: Bof – Java and CF integration war stories

This was pretty interesting, Sean Corfield invited to attend a birds of a feather session on Java and CF integration and a bunch of people showed up to share their experiences.
It’s amazing what some people are doing with CF and Java, from decompiling the CF core classes to find issues up to complex cluster setups [...]

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MAX 2005 coverage: The Flash Player Runtime Security Model

Ever asked yourself what might be potential security hazards for your Rich Internet Apps? I’ve been to a pretty good session about that topic.
Themes covered were:
- The FP security model and permissions
- Sandboxing and default permissions
- Local and remote concepts
- mms.cfg
- Application of the theory in the real world (client and server)
- SSL and stuff [...]

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MAX 2005 coverage: Optimizing Flex apps for performance and scalability

This session seems to be very interesting. David showed some performance tests with Flex 1.5 and FP 7 vs. Flex 2.0 alpha and FP 8.5 and the speed is dramatically increased.
Some more hints:
* Object initialization
– deferred instantiation
– think about the use of objects and when to create an object
– use mx:Repeater carefully [...]

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