Macromedia MAX 2005 Opening Day

Oct 17

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Over 3,000 developers attended the first day of Macromedia MAX 2005 which opened today at the Anaheim Convention Center. It was a good day despite the rain that seems to have followed those of us from the North East.

I personally began the day with a hands-on session on the new ColdFusion Application Framework, presented by Simon Horwith.

The general session was a hit, Macromedia’s CEO and the Chief Software Architect introduced a couple of hot new technologies aimed at improving the current, and recently released, Flash family of products, Flash 8.5 and the improved ActionScript version 3. The new Eclipse-based Flex 2 IDE is now available for download at the Macromedia Labs.

It is also nice to know that even though CFMX 7 was released early this year, the CF product team is already working on the next version of the application server. They were actively collecting input, ideas and wishes from attendees representing some well known fortune 500 companies.

Towards the end of the day I attended a workshop on best practices for data visualization. Most of the solutions were Flash based, although Flex and Web 2.0 were also discussed. The focus was primarily on design and ease of use providing users with rich and intuitive controls to slice and dice massive data sets, perfect for financial applications.

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