Mike Chambers

Well, after a 14 hour flight, I have finally made it to Sydney. I am currently hanging out at the hotel with Sean Corfield, waiting to be able to check into my room (it is 9am here, can’t check in until at least 12).

I am really excited about the mxdu conference this week. I have always been impressed by the strength of the Australian developer community, and it will be cool to finally get to meet a lot of them in person. I am staying at the Star City hotel and hope to get to hang out some.

One side note, the hotel doesn’t have internet access, and I forgot to set up my dial up account before I left, so my internet and email access will probably be sporadic until at least Tuesday (Monday in US).

I am going to be heading down to Sydney in a couple of weeks for the MXDU conference. It is shaping up to be an awesome conference with some of the top developers in the world.

I will be doing a session and a birds of a feather on Central, maybe helping out with one of the keynotes, and most importantly, hanging around with other developers.

Anyways, if you are going to be in the southern hemisphere in a couple of weeks, you can’t afford to miss the conference.

The conference is February 24 and 25 in Sydney, Australia. You can find more information here.

Kevin Hoyt has a great summary of Kevin Lynch’s and Josh Ulm Central session titled “Best Practices for Central Application Interface Design“.

You can read the entire overview here.

Juts a quick FYI, my session title at MAX has changed to:

Developing with the AOL Presence API in Macromedia Central

And now, Ray Ryan, the AOL engineer who is building the SDK, is also presenting, showing a bunch of demos and codes / examples.

Here are the remaining Session Times:

• Thursday, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
• Friday, 11:30 am – 12:30 pm

Btw, we will be giving out copies of the Central Developer Reference Poster at all of the Central sessions, so stop by if you would like one.

The Central Team is hosting a developer get together tonight at the Marriott hotel (across from the conference center). There will be pizza, beer, video games (ps2 and xbox), Internet, programming, chatting and general hanging out. Members of the Central team will be there, as well as members of the Flash engineering team, and some of the engineers from AOL.

The session is Wednesday night (tonight) from 7:30 pm to 1am in the Deer Valley room of the Marriott (across from the conference center).

Everyone is invited.

I have uploaded some pictures from the Max conference to the vision site.

You can view them here.

I am finally in Salt Lake city for the Max conference. Unfortunately, I have a ton of work to do, so I have been holed up in my room all night.

Danny Dura and Christian Cantrell are also hanging around and we are working on some pretty cool stuff. More info soon.

I’ll be posting pictures on the Vision website that Christian made (hmm… that sure would make a good Central app… ;) ).

We have released a new Central application for the MAX conference. The app includes resources about the conference, including session information and descriptions, an interactive map of the venue, news and award info. You can also set it up to notify you when your sessions are about to begin.
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Christian Cantrell has set up a site dedicated to aggregating all of the posts about the Macromedia MAX conference. There is already a ton of content, and it looks like this will be the place to keep up with everything going on the at the conference.

You can view the site at:

http://www.maxbloggers.com/

We will be giving out the cool Macromedia rune buttons at the MAX conference. We will have buttons for almost all of our product runes.

I know that buttons seem like a pretty small thing to point out in a countdown to the conference. Does it mean that there is not much going on? Nope. Maybe it means that there is a ton of stuff going on that I just can’t post about yet… ;)

See you next week at the conference.