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November 03, 2006

MAX2006 Cairngorm Talk - Slides Available for Download

I've just created a PDF of my MAX2006 talk, "Developing Next Generation Rich Internet Applications with Cairngorm 2". It's my full intention to Breeze record this presentation, as it makes much more sense with code walkthroughs and the demo applications - there are a couple of good reasons why I've not breeze recorded this yet though.

First and foremost - I'm on vacation, this week and next. However, the prime reason - and if you caught the second of my talks on the last day of MAX2006 you're probably laid up in bed by now with the same (along with half of flight BA248 from Los Angeles to London ... sorry 'bout that) chest/throat infection that robbed me of my voice the weekend before MAX and the last day of MAX for another 2 or 3 days. Tom Jones was spotted wandering around the Venetian during MAX2006 - rumour has it that he stole my voice. It's not unusual. (I don't think I ever thought I'd link to Tom Jones from my blog). If you were at that second talk, I hope that the impromptu support from Alistair McLeod and Peter Martin were sufficient to get the talk across with what scraps of voice I had left ! Matt Chotin has no idea how close he was to being asked by the conference organisers to present my talk...

I'll be blogging a great deal more on my return on my thoughts from MAX - not a report of talks as such, but more my sense of the growth and maturity of the Flex community, the way that Flex is drawing in a tremendous amount of leadership in design as well as a tremendous amount of enterprise software expertise, helped in a large part by the emergence of a LiveCycle community at MAX.

My talk had to appeal to both the growing number of newcomers to Flex, RIA and Cairngorm - providing a reinforcement of the fundamental patterns and principles, problems and solutions that Cairngorm advocates, as well as offering some insight into how we are using Cairngorm in enterprise applications, how we are encouraging correct usage of application container security models, how we are embracing Flex Data Services and Message Services in our Cairngorm architectures, and how we are fulfilling the platform play that Adobe offers with the Flash Player, by targetting Cairngorm applications not only at the browser, but at the desktop via Apollo, and at the mobile via Flash Lite. There was a tremendous buzz at MAX2006 around Apollo and Flash Lite, so I'm pleased that so many of you are excited about Cairngorm helping you migrate your expertise to other areas of our platform development.

My talk was a broad one, with one goal being to give everyone a glimpse behind the curtain at Adobe Consulting, and give you insight into the kind of challenges we're facing in our day to day engagements, and the practices that are emerging from these challenges. Furthermore, the maturity of the Flex community over the last few years means that many of you are wrestling these challenges also - it really felt this year that for the majority rather than a minority, Cairngorm was a solution for many of your problems, rather than a solution for which you hadn't yet experienced problems.

As we move towards the goal of a Cairngorm 3 release, I look forward to us being able to share further insight on building Apollo applications, leveraging Flex Data Services both in the browser world as well as the desktop/Apollo world, in understanding how Flex, Cairngorm and LiveCycle can work together, and leveraging some of the forthcoming Flex features that solve challenges such as how to modularise your applications as they become ever more ambitious in the scale of solution you are delivering.

It was great to meet with so many of the community at what I think was the best MAX yet.

If you have had a chest or throat infection, no voice, have been sleeping 20 hours a day and shared a flight or a presentation with me, then once again my apologies.

Who'd have thought, that I'd be able to give people a lump in their throat with Cairngorm ?

And then help them cough it out at such high velocities.

Posted by swebster at November 3, 2006 05:04 PM

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