Nate on Tech

Day 3. General Session. Adobe brings out all their development teams to discuss features on the horizon. I’ve got tons of photos for you today, though they’re not that great, as the room was dark. I’ll post the photos later tonight.

ColdFusion “Scorpio” – new features include very detailed server monitoring in real-time using a Flex app, and image manipulation built-in.

Flex-Ajax – Adobe labs has come out with some Javascript functions/classes that make it quite easy to utilize FDS services from Ajax. Of course it still uses flash for the real-time push of FDS.

Flash – the IDE, not the player. Flash 9 will include much anticipated debugging tools based on the new Flash Player 9. You can step into, out, jump, etc just like in the Flex Builder app.

Dreamweaver – is incorporating CSS help tools that emphasize the community’s efforts in solving all the strange, esoteric bugs that crop up in *ahem* some browsers.

Fireworks – can design and prototype directly to HTML pages, and also generate MXML code.

Soundbooth – wow. I’ve been waiting for software like this for maybe 5 years now. To describe in 5 words – edit audio like an image. Think Photoshop for MP3 files. Very cool looking new app.

Acrobat 3D – they now have very strong 3D features in acrobat, can be manipulated using javascript, and can map flash files onto any 3D surface inside your 3D PDF. Ok – re-read that and just think about it. 3D features, each “face” can be interactive. Again, wow.

Apollo Sneak Peak – Apollo is looking very very interesting. You will be able to build completely OS-independent desktop applications using the Flex API. File access, offline mode, windowing (transparency!), drag & drop, clipboard access, network API, and local storage. Cool.

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