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Max wrap-up (not really)

Posted At : November 21, 2008 10:00 PM | Posted By : name
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I went straight from MAX into two full days of meetings in the Adobe San Francisco office, so I don't quite feel like I've had a chance to unwind and reflect. But I can say that MAX 2008 North America was a great event. Our best attendance ever at the tenth conference (yes, I was there since the first Allaire DevCon in Boston), amazing sessions, a brilliant night out at the Academy of Sciences and De Young Museum, and (yes) a goofy Day 2 Keynote. The best part was getting to show of so much about what we've done so far in Gumbo, the next generation of Flex Builder. Here are a few of the highlights we demo'd:

Integration with Flash Catalyst (formerly Thermo)
New Themes support, including some great new sample themes from Effective UI
Built-in Flex Unit support
Getter/setter generation
ASDoc tooltips
Event handler generation
Conditional breakpoint debugging
New data connectivity approach (about which I'll write later)
Client side data management (also a juicy future topic)

That's just a few of the features, too. Our demo session ran an hour and we were coding right up 'til the end - literally; the AV crew was kicking us out since it was the last session on the last day, and Tom Lane was still typing code! So, I'm off for a few days and then flying to MAX Milan to do it all again. Hopefully somewhere in between I'll be able to start describing some of these features in more detail. Stay tuned...