Flex Evening in Cluj

My friends from the Transylvania Flex User Group dropped me an email announcing a Flex event on October 15th. Here is the agenda:

MX.EVENT – Transylvania Flex Group – October 15th

17:30 – 18:00 Intro
18:00 – 18:45 Flash/Flex from a Product Owner perspective (English session) by Mattijas Larsson (Product Manager at Betfair)
18:45 – 19:00 Break
19:00 – 20:00 Welcome to Cairngorm 3 by Dragos Dascalita (Engineer at Adobe Romania)
20:00 – 20:10 Break
20:00 – 20:40 Flash Exotics: LocalConnection by George Iosif (Flex Developer at Betfair)

The event will take place at Vitrina Business Center, str C. Brancusi nr 69-71, Cluj Napoca, and you can register for free here http://flexcluj.eventsbot.com/ .

October 10, 2009 | Filed Under Conferences | Leave a Comment

The MAX Dead Drop

By now I think everyone knows about the insane/awesome/kick *** contests that Lee Brimelow organizes under the name Adobe Dead Drop. He will do it one more time for MAX LA 2009, and this time the prizes are even bigger than before (grand prize value is $7,500). The game starts noon on Tuesday, October 6th.

You can read more here, and if you think you have what it takes to win the contest, good luck Ms/Mr!

October 2, 2009 | Filed Under Others | 1 Comment

Going to MAX LA 2009

Tomorrow I’m gonna fly out to Adobe MAX Los Angeles 2009. This will be the fourth MAX for me. And I have to say that it doesn’t matter how many times I’ve attended before, because somehow it is always at least as exciting as the first time. Maybe even more now than before, because I know more people and MAX is also about meeting old friends and making new ones.

Having said that, let’s talk about my MAX. I will do a lab together with Cornel Creanga and Miti Pricope (BlazeDS and LiveCycle Data Services in the Cloud; btw there is still room for my lab if you are interested), I will be TA for another two labs (Creating custom components in Flex 4 and Building Media Experiences in Flex with Open Source Media Framework ), you can meet me at the Ask the Evangelist area (Tuesday noon) and Platform Demo Station 2 (Monday noon).

Between my duties I hope to have the time to see the keynotes, sessions on Flex frameworks and Adobe AIR. And of course, to talk with you!

If you can’t be there, then you can watch the event online. For the first time you’ll be able to see the keynotes and the most interesting news online using MAX Online (October 5th and 6th). You can join ten minutes earlier and watch the behind the scenes action. Besides these live streaming keynotes you’ll be able to see the top three session of the day from each track (Design, Develop, and Envision) using on demand video. Starting with October 11th you’ll be able to see all the sessions on demand but Labs and BYOL.

Don’t forget about Twitter. You can follow @Adobe and @AdobeMAX to see the breaking news and community insight (use #AdobeMAX tag if you twitter about MAX). I will twitter (@mcorlan) and blog as often as possible to cover the event.

I wish you an amazing MAX!

October 2, 2009 | Filed Under Conferences | Leave a Comment

AIR MAX Companion application is live

If you want to twitter about MAX and see all the tweets that are MAX related (#AdobeMAX) you can use this sexy app MAX Companion (you can install it from here).

Once you have installed the application you’ll see that there are three main features: Twitter, Sessions, and Places. The Twitter feature, as I said, helps you send messages with the official Max tag (#AdobeMAX) and see all the messages sent about MAX.

The Sessions feature displays your schedule. It is an easy way to keep an eye on what you want to attend so you don’t miss anything.

And the last one, Places, displays maps so you can quickly find your way around MAX.

Finally, whenever you tweet from the application you are automatically entered for a chance to win a copy of CS4 and Flex Builder (your Twitter id is linked to the MAX id). Good luck!