Oct 26, 2006 -
Adobe MAX 2006::Day 3 Keynote - SNEAK PEAKS!
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Tariq Ahmed
on 10/26/06 09:56AM
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Day #3
Opened by Marc Eaman - Corporate Evangelist, Sneak Peaks
Crowd gets to vote using SMS what they want, real time
Peter Ryce (Connectionist), Dean Chen (Comp Sci) - Yahoo IM + Connect Plugin
- Demonstrated the limitations of trying to collaborate over IM via typing
- Yahoo IM 8 Plug-In SDK to start a Breeze/Connect meeting
- Rendering PDF running inside the Flash Player as a Connect/Breeze session
Tim Buntel (sr Product Mgr) - Latest CF Stuff
- Tim demonstrated a CF server being down, and Ben Forta dressed as 'Scorpio Man' came on stage to introduce Server Monitoring and diagnosed the problem.
- Image Manipulation (e.g scaling).
Hart Shafer (Sr Product Mgr) - Sound Booth
- Quick edits in real time to add fades, normalization, highlight an area and easily increase the volume. Very high usaiblity.
- Cut and paste audio chunks. Ability to isolate very easily selected frequency (e.g if you wanted to take out a background noise, or manipulate spectrums within a clip), he used that to take a squeek from a clip of a door closing. Crowd was blown away by this ability.
- Very easy to load in the audio from a video file, and then stretch the timeline of your sound layover to match the exact length of the video time line and it times the overlay perfectly.
- I don't even know how to describe this ability, but you can have multiple tracks and visually control their intensity by just dragging 'intensity' lines.
- The ease of use to create professional sounding audio mixes is undescribeable. Now on labs!!!
Danielle Beaumont (Product Mgr) - Fireworks
- Demonstrated showing the ability to quickly prototype comps/proof of concepts that have some functionality (hot spots to navigate from one comp to another), as well as a quick way to model different variations. Good for testing ideas with the customer.
- Brought in 9 Scale from Flash for intelligent scaling (so you can apply that to images, so that you can scale buttons, panels, etc... so that only the inner body increases).
- Supports FLEX!!!!!!! Via Export to MXML - this is MONSTER!
- Private Beta right now, welcoming feedback.
Jason Williams (Product Mgr), Andrei Dragomi (Comp Sci) - FDS and AJAX Bridge
- Utilize FDS to push updates for dynamic data to AJAX displays.
- Dynamic data, dynamic display. It's all gooooooood.
- Demo'd how much data can be pushed to an AJAX client with FDS in a stock charting application. Real-Time data + Charting capabilities in AJAX by leveraging Flex.
Elizabeth Irizarry (Comp Sci) - ActionScript
- The latest in the Flash 9 Authoring Tool.
- Opportunity to add and improve workflows.
- How do you track errors down, how many trace commands have you written, how many pages do you flip through to test and refer to?
- New Compiler Errors Panel in the tool, vs a trace panel. Adds in depth data, and you can click on the error and it'll bring you to where the error is.
- Need a better way to quickly test ActionScript by decoupling the AS file from the Movie.
- Debugging has always been trace statements, but need a better way. New Debug workspace introduced to solve that. Has a console, call stack, variable panel, introspections, variable manipulation, test conditionals in real time, etc... So the flash app is running, and using the debug panel variables were being changed, and immediately reflected in the app. Flash users were freaking out over this.
Scott Fegette (Product Mgr) - Dreamweaver
- Making CSS Design easier. Problem: different browsers, the exhaustive testing needed.
- New Solutions to make the design community easier to fix CSS bugs or cross browser quirks.
- New CSS Advisor feature has a check browser compatibility and highlights issues. AWESOME.
- Tool Tips advise you what the problem in that chunk of the CSS is with a link to a CSS advisory website as to what the bug or limit in the browser is and what the work arounds are.
Geoffrey Cubitt (CTO of RoundArch) - SAP and Flex Integration
- Demo'd a FDS/Publish Subscribe real time collaborative tool to allow someone to diagnose some server problems, and then connect to a customer service agent that does screen sharing and all that and they can work together on the problem (e.g one person drew a circle around a piece of equipment asking if that's where the problem is, and the call center agent could draw an arrow as to what the person needs to be looking at).
- Total hooks into the SAP infrastructure. Mash's up with Yahoo Maps. Bring up product specs, and work together to solve the problem, etc...
- Needless to say... good luck trying to do that in AJAX
Beau Amber (CEO of Metaliq) - Future Flash Components
- They're working with Adobe to provide extended Flash capabilities.
- Accessibility: Flash screen reader module that allows you to create apps for visually impaired people by reading out what words appear in the Flash app. Even speaks out code.
- Visualization: Network diagrm showing network pipes and color code bandwidth utilization (represented by curved lines on a map).
- Skinning: Skin Selector pops up when you double click on a visual component and you select which skin you want, and you can customize the skin on the spot as well. Scale-9 Compliant.
- Performance Testing: Simulate putting load on components via an interface that let's you test adding various amounts of dataprovider records/child objects so that you can test the interaction and load on the system.
- Custom Components: Pan and Tile module, so large images can be loaded in bit by bit and displayed portions are loaded in as needed.
Michael Caplan (Dir of Engineering) - Acrobat 3D
- 3D images activated inside a PDF that could be rotated and interacted with, with audio. Holy crap this was AMAZING. We're talking about interactive documents! Huge Marketing potential.
- The demo was a PDf doc about a Motorola Razr, and you could rotate the phone, open it up, play with the phone (in 3D) to simulate the experience... I see a bunch of camcorders in the audience, hopefully they'll you tube it. Oh my gosh, it supports embedded flash video!!
- Steven Erats, please tell me you put up picks of this on Flickr!!!!
Ben Nunez (CEO of XIF) - CommuniGate
- Corporate Messenging Solution based on Apollo (and FDS I imagine for backend)
- Benchmarked the fastest throughput of messages vs any other solution
- Email, Calendar, and Instant Messaging. All in one.
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Great post glad to see the conference covered in real time. Amazed you captured the depth of the presos given the pace. Just to clarify some of the apps demonstrated (Internet Traffic) use components to extend there functionality and aren't necessarily componentized themeselves.
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