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February 02, 2008
Adobe Tech Summit
Adobe Tech Summit: Next week in San Jose is "Adobe's 2008 Technology Summit" -- an unusual annual event, like SIGGRAPH, but open only to Adobe employees. Some of it is about technologies Adobe has already published, whether at the Store or at Labs... some of it is about technologies in development for eventual public release... some of it is further out, things on the horizon, technology which won't be felt for five years or more. Matt Chotin had a good description in 2006, but there's not much of a Google footprint otherwise... it's hard to describe private internal training, and technologies which may or may not become practical and widely available. One of the important things we've got to do at Adobe is map technologies into realworld workflows, so that any type of digital publishing becomes easier, standardized, more practical. Adobe doesn't publish books so much as support publishers publishing books... same with application publishing (Flex for creation, AIR for distribution), website publishing, enterprise form publishing, video publishing, many more. All these technologies have to work together, to support realworld publishers delivering through multiple channels. The Adobe Tech Summit is one of the ways that teams here learn what other teams inside Adobe are doing, how to tie in with Adobe Media Player or new doublebyte font engines or higher-density color imaging or collaborative data-sharing modules or speech-synthesis and assistive support or all the rest of the technologies that make up the Adobe publishing platform. You may hear references to the Adobe Tech Summit over the next few days, but there's not much we staffers can say about it otherwise... teases can be fun, but software needs to be shipped before it's useful.
Posted by JohnDowdell at February 2, 2008 10:01 AM
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Just a small kudos, for a company that doesn't do publishing, books with the official Adobe logo on them are very well done, as is the in-application documentation. I can't tell you how heavily I relied on the AS2 language and component references in Flash 8, so I could focus on my logic instead of syntax.
This tears down huge barriers to entry for your products.
However, pulling the component language reference in favor of digging through the package / class names in AS3 is kind of a pain.
Posted by: PaulC at February 4, 2008 11:37 AM