Daniel R.

Overall Adobe did a good job with the conference. My only complaint was that the building was very warm the entire time. The building is a green facility so it doesn't have A/C. The hundred plus people that were there along with their laptops, combined with a Boston heat wave, overwhelmed what fans the building did have. Adobe did run out to grab some additional fans which helped, but it got uncomfortably hot at times. Thankfully Adobe had a full menu planned with lots of beverages. A continental breakfast, BBQ for lunch, and a beer and Mexican social hour towards the end.

During the conference I decided to blog about each session. I was posting my original rough drafts shortly after the conclusion of each session. Since then I've gone back to fix some typos, add additional links, and expand the content as needed. Below is the full list in presentation order:

• Keynote
• Introduction to Adobe AIR with Flex
• Building AIR with HTML and JavaScript
• ActionScript and JavaScript Integration
• Business Class AIR
• Native Windows
• Yahoo and Adobe AIR
• AIR API Overview
• AIR and Flash Video in 20 minutes
• AJAX in AIR
• Taking apart the bus
• Quick Demos

I felt the vendor sessions were not that valuable. I understand why they needed to happen and that without them the tour may not have happened or have been free. For people new to the platform seeing some of the vendor applications may have sparked some ideas. Alas in most cases source code for those applications isn't available which made them feel more like a sales pitches.

Unbeknownst to me, Mike Chambers plugged my blog towards the end of the event to let people know it was a resource for anyone that hadn't taken notes but wanted a summary of each session. Even more shocking was during the software raffle I received an honorary copy of CS3 for having blogged the summaries. I'm still in shock about that. Given that receiving the software was an afterthought, I hope you won't accuse me of any bias.