Max wrap-up (not really)

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)