MAX 2004: Wednesdays sessions

by kai 03/11/2004

As you might have noticed already, one of the core topics of this years MAX are mobile devices and developing Flash apps for mobile devices. That influenced my session selection slightly 😉 So far I went to a session dealing with how to develop user infaces for mobile applications which was very good and interesting. […]

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MAX 2004: Complaints on too less blogging ;-)

by kai 03/11/2004

This is not about complaining on the conference 😉 It’s about that people in Germany (working for Eggs, a German Macromedia Partner) complained with Mike Deiss, their boss, that I’m not blogging enough so that he should send some more additional data. Sorry folks, I’m just a human and still not upgraded to a blogging […]

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MAX 2004: My Tuesday afternoon

by kai 03/11/2004

Continuing the MAX 2004 semi-live report 😉 We went to lunch with some people of Macromedia which leaded to have me missing my hands-on session on Flex and Central cause we talked to much with the guys. No, I won’t tell about the topics and with whom we met 😉 During the late afternoon I […]

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MAX 2004 Tuesdays pics online

by kai 03/11/2004

I just put two new galleries online: Tuesdays keynote User Group Visibility Event during the sponsor reception

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MAX 2004: Tuesday General session

by kai 02/11/2004

The general session was very entertaining. Macromedias Chief Operating Officer S.Elop opened the keynote with some facts and visions and ended with a brilliant “movie” about the US presidential election today. The audience was allowed to vote via SMS (powered by ColdFusion blackstones event gateway) and elected Kerry to become the new president (54 vs. […]

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MAX 2004: Tuesday morning

by kai 02/11/2004

I went to two sessions this morning before the keynote and both had been very intertesting. The first one was about using CF as a backend technology for Flex and Flash apps. Sadly it was a very basic session – but very good for beginners. The second one of about using XML data feeds for […]

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MAX 2004: Macromedia puts much more effort in mobiles

by kai 02/11/2004

With yesterdays Mobile Day Macromedia also relaunched their website for mobile devices with a lot of brand new content. If you’re interested in developig for mobile devices like cells, PDAs etc. give it a try. Additionally there is a new developer program for mobile devices developers, information available on http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/devices/dev_program/index.html

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Apply for your non-commercial Flex License NOW

by kai 02/11/2004

Application form is available now!

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MAX 2004: new products

by kai 02/11/2004

Some new “official” announcements of Macromedia: – Blackstone ist upcoming – ouppps, that’s “brand new” 😉 – Flex 1.5 is available form now on which means that all 1.0 customers with a maintenance plan get Flex 1.5 for free – Contribute 3 Ebay will be available during the month (see my last post) – The […]

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MAX 2004: Contribute 3 Ebay

by kai 02/11/2004

Macromedia announced that from mid-November on there will be a customized version of Contribute 3 which allows people trading via Ebay to maintain their auctions simple and easy. The product will contain hundreds of templates for auctions so that it should be quite easy to start with. Additionally, if you already own Contribute 3 there […]

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