Mike Chambers

We will be giving out some Central posters at the MAX conference. The posters are developer reference guides, and really look nice.

You can see a (small) sneak peak here:
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One of the things that I am setting up for Macromedia MAX Conference next week is something that we are calling the “Central Developer’s Playground”. This is a chance for developers to get together, hang around, play video games (XBOX and PS2), listen to music, eat pizza, drink beer / coke, work on Central applications, ask questions and meet the Central team.

It will be pretty informal, so even if you are not planning on doing Central development anytime soon, you should still stop by to hang around and chat.

The get together is Wednesday night, from 7:30 pm to 1am. More details at the conference.

Intel is giving away a Centrino powered table PC at the the Macromedia Max conference. The contest requires that developers answer questions about the Central related sessions at MAX (i.e. you will need to attend the Central sessions to get the answer to the questions).

You can sign up for the contest at the Intel booth at the conference. Here is the info from Intel:

Visit the Intel booth at the Macromedia MAX event and enter a contest to win a tablet PC featuring Intel® Centrino(tm) mobile technology. While at the booth, learn from Intel and other leading technology companies about the critical factors involved in developing mobilized software applications, including connectivity, power/performance management, offline data management and deployment across multiple platforms. Prize drawing is open only to the attendees of the 2003 Macromedia MAX event in Salt Lake City, Utah. For complete contest rules and eligibility, please visit the Intel booth.

Good luck!

The Macromedia Max conference starts in a little over a week. We are planning a ton of stuff around Central, so I decided to do a week of “Countdown to Max posts”. Everyday, I will post information about something related to Central at the Max conference.

The first item is of course all of the Central Related sessions:

• Macromedia Central: A New Frontier for Internet Applications (Lea Hickman)
• Multi-User and Messaging Applications in Central (Mike Chambers and a special guest)
• Creating your First Macromedia Central Application (Phillip Kerman)
• Deconstructing a Macromedia Central Application (Danny Dura)
• Central Application Architecture (Mike Williams and Ethan Malasky)
• Best Practices for Central App Interface Design (Kevin Lynch / Josh Ulm)

Of course, there are a ton of other sessions on Flash, Client / server development and Halo that also apply to creating Central applications. You can see a complete list of sessions, broken down by track, here.

So, are you going to be at Central? If so, post in the comments. I will be there from Monday to Friday.

We have recently updated some of the sessions about Macromedia Central for the Macromedia MAX Conference. Here is a list of all of the Central related sessions:

• Deconstructing a Central Application (Daniel Dura)
• Macromedia Central: A New Frontier for Internet Applications (Macromedia)
• Creating your first Macromedia Central Application (Phillip Kerman)
• Macromedia Central Application Architecture (Mike Williams / Ehtan Malasky)
• Best Practices for Central Application Interface Design (Kevin Lynch)
• Multi-User and Messaging Applications in Macromedia Central (Mike Chambers (and a special guest?))

Or course, there are also keynotes, birds of a feature, etc… I am hoping to get some space where anyone interested in developing apps, learning about Central or just hanging around with other developers, can do so. There will be a lot of people from the Central team at the conference, so it is a good chance to get a crash course in Central from the people who made it.

The conference is November 18 – 21, in Salt Lake City. You can find more info here.

Well, FlashForward 2003 NYC is over, and as usual it was a great conference. I had a blast hanging out with and getting to know everyone. It was particularly cool to get to hang out with Josh and Daniel Dura, and Greg Burch, all of whom I chat with daily (and who were killing me at Mario Kart).

My session on Friday went well. I talked about architecting applications in Flash. I de-constructed my Search Application (which will be on the soon to be released DRK 4). I had a QA session after that, and ended up showing off a bunch of stuff on DRK 4.

I’ll be honest. The interest in the DRK really surprised me. People were really interested in the content, but a lot of people had never even heard of it. I think we need to do a better job of getting the word out. Hopefully, the fact that it will be available for individual purchase from launch will help.

I rode back on the train to DC with Branden Hall and Christian Cantrell. Branden got me started on the BrawlBots beta, and meshbotjr was born. Although he has yet to win any battles, he is an eager young robot.

Finally, I want to thank everyone who makes Flash Forward possible. So, thanks to Lynda, Stuart, Kymberlee, all of the FlashForward volunteers, the speakers, and everyone one who attended.

You can keep up with community posts on Flash Forward at the Flash section at MXNA.

Well, I have finally been able to catch my breath from the keynote (and from the lack of sleep over the past couple of days). Normally, I would give a blow by blow account of the Keynote, but after checking MXNA, I noticed that there are quite a few people blogging the keynote live, including:

• Josh Dura
• Greg Burch
• RewindLife
• Oscar Trelles
• Christian Cantrell

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FlashForward is in full swing, and even though I have had to spend time working on some projects, things have been a blast as usual. Last night I hung out at a reception for speakers and film festival judges, and got to chat with a bunch of people (Branden Hall, Sam Wan, Grant Skinner, Claus Wahlers, Greg Burch, Josh Dura, Danny Dura, etc…).

I haven’t had a chance to spend much time in any sessions today (although I did peak into Robert Reinhardt’s session on Flash Communication server). However, I have heard some interesting info about some of the vendors (cross platform third party projectors?). Ill post more info when I confirm things.

I am about to head down to some more sessions, and am going to try to hang around at the book signing this evening (although I have to do some rehearsals tonight). I will try to post some pictures soon, and will post more frequent updates tomorrow (since I will be able to actually attend some sessions).

You can keep up with weblog posts from the conference at the Flash section of MXNA.

I just arrived in NYC for FlashForward 2003. I am really looking forwarding to hanging around with everyone, and have already run into Greg Burch and Branden Hall.

I will be doing a small section during the keynote and then have an entire session where I am going to de-construct the Google Search Application.

As in the past, I am going to try and blog the conference, so check back here for update (I will post all of the entries in the Conferences category).

Anyways, if you are at the conference and see me around, make sure to stop me and say hi.

Raymond Camden was the first to notice that the Macromedia MAX conference website has been updated with the list of sessions and their descriptions.

You can view the complete list here.

You can find more information about the Macromedia MAX conference here.

[via MXNA via Raymond Camden]