While in total over 6500 people attended MAX in San Francisco and Milan, only 260 had the chance to follow the hands on with Flash Catalyst session. In this session we talked about how to create a new application from scratch and the workflows between Flash Catalyst, Photoshop and Illustrator.

To help you get the most out of your Flash Catalyst MAX preview release, you can now download all the lab files and exercises using the link below. If you run in to a problem, don’t hesitate to let us know. You may have found a bug that we need to investigate.

Download this zip file from Acrobat Share.

As some of you may have noticed, the Flash Catalyst hands-on sessions are completely sold out. They actually sold out very quickly but we do understand that some of you still want to see what you can do with the preview release of Flash Catalyst. That’s why we just added an extra session where Andrew Spaulding and I will show you the workflows we do in the hands-on labs so you can also get an idea of the workflows between Photoshop, Illustrator, Fireworks and Flash Catalyst.

Hope to see you on Tuesday, December 2nd at 9am. Click for more info.

With so many announcements at MAX (and after), I thought it was a good idea to do a round up of all the cool stuff we announced/showed/released this week.

Alchemy: Alchemy is a research project that allows users to compile C and C++ code that is targeted to run on the open source ActionScript Virtual Machine.

Bolt: Bolt is the code name for a new Eclipse based development tool that you can use to build applications for ColdFusion. Click to sign up for the beta.

Centaur: Centaur is the code name for the next release of ColdFusion. Beta applications are now being accepted. Click for more info.

Cocomo: Cocomo is a Platform as a Service that allows Flex developers to easily add real-time social capabilities into their RIA.

Configurator: Configurator is an open source utility that enables the easy creation of panels (palettes) for use in Photoshop CS4.

Durango: Durango allows developers, designers and end-users to easily mashup independent components to create new applications or extend existing Durango-enabled applications.

Flash Catalyst: Flash Catalyst is a new professional interaction design tool for rapidly creating application interfaces and interactive content without coding.

Genesis: Genesis is the code name for a new product initiative at Adobe with the objective of joining business applications, documents and the web on every knowledge worker’s desktop with integrated collaboration capabilities.

Gumbo: Gumbo is the code name for the next generation of Flex.

InContext Editing: InContext Editing is an online service that allows designers to create, manage, and control editable web pages.

PatchPanel: A first glimpse at combining the dynamic control of ActionScript with the power of Adobe’s Creative Suite.

Pixel Bender 5: An image and video processing infrastructure with runtime optimization on heterogeneous hardware.

Stratus: A new communications protocol called the Real-Time Media Flow Protocol (RTMFP). The most important features of RTMFP include low latency, end-to-end peering capability, security and scalability.

Text Layout Framework: The Text Layout Framework is an extensible library, built on the new text engine in Adobe Flash Player 10, which delivers advanced, easy-to-integrate typographic and text layout features for rich, sophisticated and innovative typography on the web.

Wave: Wave is an Adobe AIR application and Adobe hosted service that work together to enable desktop notifications.

Wow… That should keep you busy for a while ;-)

We have been talking about Thermo for a while now and here’s the first question everyone I showed it to asked: When can I
get my hands on it? Well… Here’s the answer: MAX 2008.

I don’t think we’ve ever done something like this before but all MAX
attendees will be able to go home with a preview release of Thermo. I’ve been playing with this version for the last few days to get ready for the hands-on sessions and I have to say that the Thermo team has done an amazing job. Thermo rocks!

We’re also going to reveal the new name for Thermo at MAX. People have already started the guessing game over at g-unix.com. You could win a copy of the Flex 3 In Action book if you guess it right.

See you at MAX!

I’m sure most of you know by now that MAX is THE event to get more info on the new technologies that Adobe is working on. We’ve been talking about Thermo for a while now and if you looked at the MAX schedule, I’m sure you noticed that there are quite a few sessions on Thermo at both MAX San Francisco and MAX Milan.

Ryan Stewart is doing a “Next-Generation Flex Authoring” session in both San Francisco and Milan. Ryan will provide walkthroughs and demos of Thermo and Flex Builder Next.

I am going to team up with the Thermo team (NJ and Adam Cath) in San Francisco and with Andrew Spaulding in Milan to do a 90 minute hands-on with Thermo session. In San Francisco, all our lab sessions are sold out but I just saw we have exactly 4 places left in Milan! If you haven’t registered for the lab session, you need to do so now. These hands-on sessions are only available to a limited amount of people and you do need to register for them!
More info on this session in San Francisco.
More info on this session in Milan.

I am also doing a “Flex Workflows with Flash CS4 Professional” session where you’ll learn how to integrate your Flash CS4 designs and animations with Flex development. This is not just about the Flex component kit but I’ll also talk about new workflows between Flash CS4 and Flex that you haven’t heard about yet.
More info on this session in San Francisco.
More info on this session in Milan.

I am really excited about MAX this year. I know I said it before but I’ll say it again. We have so much cool stuff to show you guys at the keynotes and sneak peaks! And I also want to point out that we won’t be announcing everything at MAX in San Francisco. Some of the technologies won’t even be ready at MAX San Francisco but will be ready at MAX Milan!

If you haven’t registered yet, I posted a discount code a few days ago that saves you €240 on the price of a full conference pass.

Also, if you want to meet up in San Francisco or Milan, be sure to drop me a note. See you there!