During the week of June 7^th to June 10^th there will be a series of 8 e-seminars targeted at EMEA time zones (yeah!!) and audiences, that will demonstrate how to build a multiscreen application (from start to finish) using all the power of Flash Platform, in combination with the device and technology of your choice. It’s a unique opportunity to learn about the power of the Flash Platform and you could have your questions answered by Adobe’s EU evangelists and experts during the interactive Q&A sessions.

Here is the list of the sessions:

• June 7th – 12:00 – 13:00 GMT
  Erase the Designer to Developer gap: Adding interactions to your design with Serge Jespers
• June 7th – 15:00 – 16:00 GMT
  Connecting your design to PHP services with Mihai Corlan
• June 8th – 12:00 – 13:00 GMT
  Connecting a web application to a J2EE backend using Flash Builder 4 with Michael Chaize
• June 8th – 15:00 – 16:00 GMT
  Working with Flash CS5 components in your Flash Builder 4 project with Mike Jones
• June 9th – 12:00 – 13:00 GMT
  Going multi-user with P2P in Flash Player 10.1 with Tom Krcha
• June 9th – 15:00 – 16:00 GMT
  Developing multi-user applications with LiveCycle services with Tom Krcha
• June 10th – 12:00 – 13:00 GMT
  Bringing web Applications to the desktop with AIR 2.0 with Piotr Walczyszyn
• Jun 10th – 15:00 – 16:00 GMT
  Code once and run on multiple mobile devices with Mark Doherty

Even if I would have love to see one session on ColdFusion, you should not miss it so REGISTER NOW!

First of all I want to wish you a “Happy New Year”. May 2009 be a year full of love, friendship, laughter and “happy coding”

Yeah I know that it’s a bit late to review MAX Europe, but just after the last day of the conference Peter, Pablo and me heard that Adobe was laying off 600 people so I wasn’t very motivated in blogging anything. Then came the holiday season, the New Year and now we are already the 22th… Time is flying by and I can’t keep up ! Should I mention that we were out of water for an entire week at home ? Then I should also tell you that I finally received my brand new MacBookPro (my first Mac!) W00t! Thanks again  Nokia :-)

Back to MAX Europe 2008: I won’t do a detailed review - really useless – instead I will share some personal thoughts. I must start by saying that It was my first MAX conference and I had mixed feelings about it : lots of information was available on the web after MAX U.S. (It was already the major complain in 2007) and there was some negative talks on twitter (pricing, topics…).

General sessions and Sneak Peeks

Really great, especially the “Men in Black” parody. It’s really a nice way of presenting new products or features – they were doing the show ! It was mainly focused on CS4, so after the CS4 launch event that we had few weeks ago at our User Group, I didn’t learn a lot of new things – luckely there were some other impressive things shown that I really enjoyed.

Sessions

As a AIR/Flex/ColdFusion developer it was really hard for me to choose which session to attend. Some were a bit disappointing – skill level is hard to determinate sometimes – while others were great. It’s the same for all conferences in fact

Labs

Definitively the most disappointing thing for me : it’s not due to the teacher, of course, but why the content is based on the examples shipped with the product ? Normally you already try them at work/home and you expect the labs to go further,  don’t you ?

Networking

The best part in any conference I was happy to see some familiar faces (I really wished some others could have been there) , people that I only knew from twitter, some others that I didn’t knew at all. Also seeing all those enthusiastic evangelists in one place was so cool!

Location, arrangements and events

Everything was perfect and very well organized : rooms were quite comfortable, there was enough food for everyone, everyone was nice., lots of free stuff and goodies. I was a bit surprised to see that half of the attendees left the party very early and that evangelists were hiding…

In conclusion I would say that I really enjoyed MAX Europe 2008 but, as suggested by someone else I think, it would be nice to postpone MAX Europe for 6 months after MAX U.S. – in that way, there will be new things to present, new reasons to attend

my Pictures of MAX Europe 2008.

First of all sorry for the missing post about MAX US keynote #2 but I was quite busy and there was already a lot of information on other blogs and on twitter.

Let’s start this first blog post from Milan. Peter Elst and me were lucky enough to be able to attend the Nokia OpenLab event on time : we had to run a bit from Malpensa airport, to the convention center to get our MAX badge, then we did a quick check-in at our hotel to finally reach Sophia’s Restaurant at 6.30pm. We didn’t really know what to expect from this event but it turned to be a really great idea :

teams of 2 needed to think about a “new” mobile application concept and present the idea to the others. Sounds pretty simple, no ? After all presentations, attendees needed to vote for their favorites 3 concepts and the best team will win a MacBook Pro and a CS4 Design Premium (for each teammate). There was several really great ideas unveiled during the evening, and at our own surprise, Peter and me won (thanks to Peter for putting the original idea on the paper) ! Our idea :

A Mobile Emergency Alert Service

I won’t give you more details at the moment on this concept: it’s something that I still need to discuss with Peter to see if we will try to make it something real or not. Anyway, I really want to thanks Nokia for organizing such event and it’s somehting that I really to see more often, even in the non mobile world. Pictures available here.