Flashforward 2006: Adobe Keynote with Kevin Lynch
I’m here in beautiful Austin, Texas (I love that Austin is using Flash on their home page) for the Flashforward conference. The conference is put on by Lynda.com and I was fortunate to meet the very warm and gracious Lynda Weinman last night.
At the Adobe Keynote with Kevin Lynch, we talked about some of the cool stuff we’re working on right now. Also, we’re celebrating 10 years of Flash this year. Check out our Flashback at http://www.adobe.com/products/flash/special/flashanniversary/.
Kevin invited several speakers to come up, and asked each of them to share a sneak peak of something that has not been seen publicly before.
Garrett Nantz of Big Spaceship demoed the very cool Nike Air experience http://www.nike.com/nikeair/us/ on Linux using an early build of FlashPlayer 9.
Mark Anders of Adobe demoed Flex Builder 2 on the Mac, where he wrote a small app, PhotoDemo, pulling in photos from Flickr. He then converted it to an Apollo app, and ran it on the Mac from the desktop (and pulled up pictures of his birds, sure wish I could remember the tag…). As I mentioned in my first blog, we have an Apollo wiki on Adobe Labs at http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Apollo.
Then Justin Cole-Everett and Mike Downey came up to talk about Flash Professional 9 ActionScript 3 Preview, now on Adobe labs, http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flash9as3preview/. Justin showed us a particle effect script, running in both ActionScript 2 and ActionScript 3. With the new ActionScript 3 VM (virtual machine), it looked liked the effect was running about 10 times faster.
Mike then demoed PSD import with rich control over options. And, demoed saving a timeline to ActionScript 3 code. Very cool stuff!