MAX 2007 - Day 1 Keynote!
I'm at MAX this week, and am watching the keynote right now. A lesson for the morning... don't let your roommate tell you what time it is... you may find yourself up an hour early!
Kevin Lynch started the keynote off. He announced the launch of the Adobe Developer Connection! This is a huge project to make finding information that you're interest in easier. Check it out at http://www.adobe.com/devnet/. :)
Shantanu Narayen, Adobe's COO, came up next. His discussion focused on "Experience". He did a couple of demonstrations of making easy experiences for users. Increasing the level of engagement to draw the user in.
Kevin Lynch came back on and showed a demo of the Adobe Media Player, available now on labs!
Ben Forta came up next to show us a project we did with the United Way. In 1 week, yes... 5 days, we updated the site to use CF8, leverage the CFPDF tag for form processing and PDF merging, added a SPRY interface for entering your information, and added a Flex tool for modifying images for administering the site. All of this is live today on the United Way's Volunteering website.
Holy buckets batman... there are a lot of Adobe labs launches today! AIR Beta 2, Flex Beta 3, Adobe AIR Extension for Adobe Dreamweaver™ beta 2, Spry prelease 1.6, Adobe AIR Update for Adobe Flash® CS3 Professional beta 2, and Share beta.
EBay has launched an AIR Application!!! It's available on the EBay Desktop website! You will need the latest AIR available here.
Oh... and FlashPlayer is getting even cooler!
MAX has started with a bang!
:) Jason
I believe the site was using CF7 before. It's hard to describe the transformation, but they added some really sweet features and greatly improved usability. They were able to accomplish the changes because CF8 provided all of the needed hooks "out-of-the-box". I personally thought it was great to see Adobe donate time and resources, as well as see ColdFusion used, for such a great cause. :)