I was very much looking forward to attending Scotch on the Rocks this year, and participating in the keynote...I believe from the organisers this would have made me the longest running presenter at Scotch on the Rocks! "Unfortunately" however, I have to attend meetings in Rome, so the Adobe Consulting team will be attending without me...however, we've got a great line up of presenters and presentations, so if you're attending the event, I'd highly recommend you checking out their presentations and introducing yourself to the team:
Borre Wessel has been presenting at several conferences this year across Europe, including Norway and Flex 360 in Milan. Borre will be presenting on "Modularising your Flex Application with Cairngorm and Modules" as well as giving another talk on "Flex UI Patterns and Best Practices". I know these are 2 topics we keep being asked upon, and yes, we'll try and share these presentations after the event!
Nicolas Yuen and Vianney Baron will be co-presenting on 2 talks. Both guys have been really going deep on the integration of Flex, AIR and LiveCycle ES, and have been doing some incredibly innovative work around the platform. They will be presenting an "Introduction to LiveCycle ES" and really helping developers better understand the value that LiveCycle ES can bring to their projects in the enterprise. Their second talk, "Rights Management and Real-time Notifications with AIR and LiveCycle ES" is an awesome talk as well -- the guys have created an AIR application that sits upon LiveCycle ES to allow you to rights manage any document type from your desktop and email it to someone; as the recipients engage with the document, you receive real-time notifications that the document has been opened, closed, how long it has been read for, etc, which gives tremendous control over the information assurance and security of sensitive documents. It was an application we developed as a blueprint for how Flex, AIR, Cairngorm, Java and LiveCycle ES with a little bit of JMS and Data Management services thrown in would work together. This presentation was first delivered internally as part of our "Adobe Consulting Worldwide Brownbag Series" and I'm really pleased that we'll be delivering it externally at Scotch on the Rocks!
Finally, Peter Martin is going to be giving another information-packed talk on "Introduction to Data Management Services with Flex". I still think that not enough developers truly appreciate the value of Data Management Services, and the labor-saving, heavy-lifting and features that leveraging DMS correclty can add to your projects. Peter really knows this subject, and will be discussing Data Management Services in the context of a number of solutions that Adobe Consulting have been delivering for some exciting projects, that Peter has worked on, as well as working with a simple "Hello World" application to articulate the concepts more clearly.
I've had the luxury of seeing these presentations already, but still wish I could be there for this event, especially one in my hometown, and especially one that has gone from strength to strength every year since the first time I presented Rich Internet Applications with Flex to a room full of bemused developers at what was then a Cold Fusion conference !
