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Flashforward Boston: Keynote

Rough draft of notes

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Kevin Lynch from Adobe

Pushing Flash forward with AS3. Complimentary copies of Essential ActionScript 3.0.

With FP9 and AS3: E4X, regular expressions, strong and lose typing.

Inside Tamarin is the Virtual Machine within FP9. Core of VM has been opened sourced to Mozilla. 10 times speedup in FP9. Also have this is as the scripting language for the web. FireFox and Flash Player 9. ECMAScript standard. Includes Just-in-Time compiler.

Showing RSS XML data and E4X possibilities:

feed.channel.title.text()
feed..title.text()
feed..item[1].text()
feed..item.(@id =="82").title.text()

Power of regular expression.

Showing comparison of AS3 and JavaScript 1.7. In general 10 times faster.

Flash Player adoption. Fp7 70% in 1 year, FP 8, almost 90% in one year, FP 9 90% in one year.

Picnik. Online photo editing. Zoom, rotate, alignment, color editing (saturation, temperature), sharpness, real-time editing.


Joshua Hirsch from Big Shapeship (Digital Creative Agency) talking about HBO.

8 apartments single building, like no walls. Projected onto side of building. Watch on-demand on digital cable. Also put the web.

HBO Voyeur. Using papervision for 3d effects. Full video.


Kevin: Adobe is focusing on digital technologies. Video workflow from creation to distribution. Adobe media player to view video on desktop.

H.264, multi-core cpu, full screen hardware scaling, bitmap downscaling, secured delivery of streaming video. IPv6, ISO video standard video camera, personal media players, set-top boxes, tvs. FP9 being updated to include H.264 code named Moviestar.

HD Video Demo. Releasing soon, new component for CS3 to use H.264 right in Flash. CSI HD video example. 70% of web video is in Flash.

Papervision example with multi-core speedup.


Adrian Ludwig talking about Flex. Already two versions of Flex. Currently working on Moxie. Language intelligence, profiler, visualization, workflow.

Flex is moving to be open source. bugs.adobe.com. Profiler demonstration. Memory usage. Object creations. Snapshot of application. Application is running faster than he expected (had to muck code). Zoom in on method that is taking a long time. Who was calling.

Showing refactoring example. Method rename. Workflow speedup.Sample application is using charting controls. Advanced data grid, has per column formatting.

Flex perceived as too big. Flex framework cache. Download framework code only once.


Kevin back talking about AIR. Flash, PDF, and HTML. AIR platform overview.

AIR sample applications. AIR Samples.
Showing badge install process. One click to install AIR and your application. PixelPerfect example.

artMusheen. Paint with shapes example. Native chrome.

digimix, mixing audio.

Finetune. Streaming music on your desktop.

Buzzword. Word processor. Edit locally or shared thorugh a cloud. Lists, tables, pictures, graphic editing. No drag'n'drop support out of the box yet.

Flickair searches Flickr for photos, nice chromeless application.

adobe.com/go/air

CS3 extension for Flash to just package application as AIR, should just work.

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Comments

Thanks for writing up the notes, Daniel! jd/adobe