A new Macromedia MX site launched last week. DevMX.com is a resource site focusing on all Macromedia MX products. Aside from having a pretty sweet interface, there is already some good content online.
You can check it out here.
Btw, Todd Rafferty told me about this last week at DevCon but I didn’t get a chance to really check it out until now.
Well, it took me a couple of days longer than I expected to recover from DevCon, so here are my belated DevCon thoughts. My overall impression was that this was a very successful conference. Just having that many developers together (2300 - 2500 from different products) meant that I could not only find out what other people were talking about a were excited about, but it also gave me a chance to get a different viewpoint on some of our products and development issues.
We have published a very good article explaining the Flash Communication Server component Framework.
This was written by two of the developers who put the framework together, and is an excellent resource.
This will come in handy as we move the FCF project to work within the existing component framework.
I got a chance to meet up with some of the people from Macromedia Japan at DevCon this week. Among other things, the showed me the on-line Sony Bank which is done completely in Flash.
You can view it here (in Japanese).
This is pretty cool, but then they showed me the version where you can have little pets help you manage your account (i.e. they nag you if you haven’t saved enough money, etc). It is kind of like Hello Kitty meets JP Morgan.
Day 3 at DevCon has begun, and it looks like i will finally be able to check out some sessions. Thus far though, I have had a blast just meeting with everyone and talking to them about what they are excited about. Two themes that I have picked up on:
People are really excited about the Flash Communication Server. That in itself is not surprising, but was has surprised me is the number of ColdFusion developers i have spoken with who are really excited about it. I think the ease of authoring using the components has really impressed developers, and made a light go off in their head where they realize that they could create these types of apps.
FYI : I am going to be broadcasting live from DevCon for the next 15 minutes or so. I will actually walk around with my laptop so you can see some of the layout.
You can view the broadcast here.
Update : I am no longer broadcasting. I might schedule a time tomorrow to do it again.
Today is the second day of DevCon. I have two sessions today so i have been swamped getting ready and haven’t had a chance to post much. Here are some links to DevCon posts from today:
Btw, I still haven’t posted the secret code word that you can use to get a copy of the DRK. I will be posting that later today.
