Half time report from MAX 2006: Mobile, Flash, AJAX, Video, Integration
So far MAX 2006 has been pretty much what you would have expected from the new Adobe. Although yesterday the introduction of Apollo was pretty darn impressive as are some of the implications. What is Apollo you ask? I am still not sure. It seems like the kitchen sink of rich internet applications but time will tell. Keynote day one coverage and keynote day two coverage is better than anything I could type 
What am I getting from MAX? Well Flash, mobile phones, and video are the source of a lot of really cool ideas. This morning’s keynote was all about making money creating Flash Mobile 2.1 applications for cell phones. I can see how, but it must be hard for developers to build and test their applications in the phones common in Europe and Asia but not so much here. George Fox brought my attention to the new mobile section of DevNet, it is worth a look if you want to know more. I am sure Flash mobile development would be dead easy for some students around here.
AJAX has been another hot topic as well with the Dreamweaver team being asked about it at the birds of a feather last night and again today at a presentation on Spry. They used this persona of a front end developer that looks interesting and probably true a year ago but I think front end developers know a lot more about JavaScript and AJAX then they assume now. I could be wrong… anyway, the Spry demo was cool.
Scott mentions a few things about tomorrow’s keynote but what I like most of all is that Flex 2 for OS X is available. If I had time to play with it, that would be nice but it’s off to another session for me!
