MAX San Francisco is quickly approaching, and it's one of the highlights of the year for project teams like Cocomo and Acrobat.com. Schedules get set in anticipation of the event, with BIG REVEALS planned and features added in support of the BIG REVEALS. Basically the last half of our year ends up viewed through MAX-colored glasses.
So, it's pretty much guaranteed that by the time we get to MAX, there will be newstuff worth talking about in the Cocomo world. If you check out the MAX session locator, you'll see 2 new Cocomo sessions listed there :
Real-Time Collaboration Apps with Flex and Cocomo
Explore Cocomo, Adobe's new Platform-as-a-Service for developing real-time, multiuser Flex applications. Learn how any Flex developer can use Adobe's services infrastructure to build stunningly rich real-time social apps, including robust data messaging and streaming live video and VoIP. In this session we'll be showing live coding with the Cocomo Flex SDK and Adobe's services. Bring a laptop and be ready to join in.
Cocomo Deep Dive: Building Social RIAs with Flex + Adobe Hosted Services
Learn to build your first multiuser Adobe AIR application using the new Cocomo Flex SDK. In this session, we'll walk you through the philosophy and design considerations of this new breed of application, all the way to the nuts and bolts of coding, debugging, and deploying it. Follow along as a real-time collaborative AIR app is built from scratch and deployed on stage. There will be code — bring a laptop!
The first session is going to be more of an overview, really highlighting the scope of functionality offered by Cocomo, along with a few simple sample apps to get the audience started. For the second session, we're choosing one big sample AIR app that ties a bunch of functionality together, and using it as a framing device for diving into some slightly more advanced topics. Both should be a lot of fun - multi-user apps are so much more interesting to build than single-user apps, "cloud computing" is a pretty hot topic these days, and you'll likely walk out of either session with something.. actually working.
So, go and register for these sessions early - we're hoping for full houses!
First up, eSeminar! If you'd like to hear more about Adobe's platform services, specifically Cocomo, our Platform-as-a-Service for building multi-user Flex apps, come by at 8:30am PST this morning (11:30 on the East Coast, and I'll let you do your own personal timezone translation..), to http://my.adobe.acrobat.com/aclearn/. Anyone's welcome. That's like, an hour from now (prolly less, by the time this hits the aggregators..).
A couple of quick links to share that I thought were relevant :
Come join us for a seminar on Tuesday, July 22nd @ 8:30am PDT to learn more about Acrobat.com's developer web services and our progress with “Cocomo.” We’ll discuss the APIs available today and where we are headed, including when everyone will finally be able to try out “Cocomo.”
To join the seminar, simply go to http://my.adobe.acrobat.com/aclearn/. Enter as a guest and you will be taken to a Connect Pro room. The room will be opened 15 minutes before the start of the session. Conference call information will be provided inside the Connect room.
Looks like our Cocomo-enabled Yahoo! Maps application is turning some heads. While trolling the usual news sites and blogs the other day, we came across this -- check it out:
Not exactly sure how we ended up on Yahoo! Gallery, but pretty cool. Anyway, kudos to Yahoo! for providing the AS3 components, and oh – to Nigel for whipping up an ”Editors’ Pick” worthy application over a weekend in his spare time.
We’re back from the holidays and ready to kick things back into high gear. As some of you know, the Cocomo private beta kicked off late last year and we’re off to a great start with good early activity and feedback from participants.
Hats off to the brave souls who’ve already dived in and exposed our oversights!
If you’ve applied, but have not yet received access -- don’t fret! We are opening the beta in phases -- mainly to make sure we can properly support participants and work out the kinks (see above reference) -- and will be letting in more folks in the comings weeks, and throughout the beta.
Lastly, I thought the survey results from the beta application were interesting and thought I’d share the below with you all so you can see the mix of fellow beta participants. Collaborative applications takes the cake, but that’s not a surprise… ;-)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Update 10:17am PST -- The major storms here in NorCal have knocked out the power at the office. I've been sitting in the dark for the last hour and keeping it rolling... well, at least until my laptop runs out of juice.
Hopefully you’ve all had a chance to play around with the demo app that Nigel posted a few weeks back, and you are as ecstatic as we are about the opportunities that Cocomo creates for developers.
As we continue to march toward our milestones, we want your feedback and help in making sure that we provide the best kick-ass web services platform for real-time collaboration and social media.
The Cocomo team is taking private beta applications starting today -- APPLY NOW!
So, a random San Francisco rainstorm this morning soaked me to the bone on my 15 minute walk in from work. Of course, as luck would have it, I was scheduled to do a Connect Webinar on Cocomo the minute I got into the office. So, coffee clutched in hand, shivering, with soaking shoes and pants, I ended up giving a one hour, reasonably in depth lecture on the principles of what we're doing here, including a bunch of highly-coveted code samples. Since some crazy guy at Adobe made all Connect Meetings recordable (and wouldn't it be great if you could record and play back this sort of stuff inside your own apps?), the presentation is now online for all to mock me :
So, we announced our “Share” beta service and APIs, and sneaked our “Cocomo” technology at the Day 2 keynote. Both were received very well, especially when our Flash preview feature of Share was described as “FlashPaper on steroids.”
This was then followed by an awesome, jam-packed Day 2 session with 78 attendees -- standing room only. Based on some impromptu polls, it seemed that the high attendance was largely attributed to our keynote. Anyway, thank you all for those who participated and made it an awesome, interactive discussion.
Sorry for those who weren’t able to make it to MAX in Chicago or missed the session, but we promise to keep you informed via our blog. For now, I’ve embedded our presentation below (using Share) for folks to read up.
I just go back from MAX, and was blown away by the quality work going on all around, both outside and inside the company. Finally getting to sit down with the Buzzwordfolks was a huge highlight, as was seeing Fang's disembodied head on a 50 foot screen.
It was also a privilege to be allowed onstage for the day 2 keynote. Is there any doubt that Mr Ted Patrick is some kind of super-being? No? Good, there shouldn't be. Watching the keynote come together for 4 days backstage (from saturday morning to tueday night) was a very surreal experience; the crew (dozens and dozens of people, from Makeup to sound to lighting to IT to catering to security to the guys in the cherry-picker adjusting the screens) really deserve high praise for keeping everything running as well as it did.
So, it seems like people are interested in what we're up to - folks were sitting on the floor in our session later that day; thanks to everyone who came out. Now that I'm allowed to talk about the CoCoMo project (I'm really not sure at what point we started InTerCappIng the name, but.. too late now?), I think I will.
But first, a taste of what some others (with, possibly, more influence than I) are saying about the project, as well as other new Adobe initiatives :
