MAX 2005 Day 2 round up – sneaks, peaks, and Disneyland
Day 2’s round up is being written in the middle of day 3 because, well, Disney Land was a lot of fun last night. It was a really long day but loads of fun so here it is.
Keynote
MAX 2005 is about Flash, which isn’t great to me but it does give an opportunity to check out new features. The Keynote covered a range of demo’s using the theme of Studio 8 match up. It was well acted and a lot of fun to watch. The star of the Keynote was Adobe Aftereffects and not because it is a really powerful and cool video editing software, not for me, it was the user interface that impressed me. It is just amazing. Dig around Flickr, I will update this post with some links later.
Sessions
For the day I will have to rank the sessions at a mediocre. Why? Well there is so much Flex/Flash talk it draws tears. It is a cool application and really demonstrate some power and simplicity that I have never seen in business application development. ‘Flex’ is flexible… just I don’t use it. But Java coders rejoice, with MM going to ECMA your java skills are wanted and given what SAP has done with Flex you can count on some big contracts in the private sector. More on that in the summary.
The Contribute team did their Birds of a Feather in the evening and that was really the next best part of the day. Finally got to meet a couple more members of the team that weren’t in New Orleans last year and learned about some seriously large and complex Contribute 3 deployments. Really impressive. Mike Hazard just has to give me all the custom code he has done for CPS 
Sneak Peak OK but Disneyland made my day
I wasn’t overly impressed with the sneak peaks but only because there were just some little things shown and what I really wanted after that keynote was ‘here is our new UI.’ Still, entertaining and fun.
For the big night out Macromedia rented out ‘California Adventure’ in Disneyland. What a great time. Lots of laughs, lots of meeting people, lots of dance floor craziness.
I will write up an overall summary of the conference and a Day 3 round up later on… Some cool things even on the last day
