Earlier this month, I attended Adobe Max 2011. It was a great conference and I highly recommend anybody who is considering attending to sign-up as soon as possible.

While on the cross-country flight out to Los Angeles, I saw post on Twitter that once of the pre-conference instructors was stuck in Europe and wouldn't be able to make it in time for his class. The class was "Adobe ColdFusion and Modern Web Front Ends" and a request was posted for a substitute teacher. Naturally, since I work with Adobe ColdFusion and modern web front ends everyday, I volunteered to teach the class (finding out later it was a 7 hour class :) ). I was sent the presentation and class materials on the plane and dove in.

The next morning, we explained the situation to the class and they were very understanding. We went through the course material throughout the day and, except for one ColdFusion bug in the demo code, everything went really smoothly. The class was amazing and asked great questions.

As promised, below is a list of links we reviewed in the class:

Responsive CSS Examples
http://meltmedia.com/
http://www.kayakcapers.co.uk/
http://2011.dconstruct.org/

Fluid Images
http://unstoppablerobotninja.com/entry/fluid-images/

Browser Tools
http://resizemybrowser.com/

HTML5 Resources
http://html5boilerplate.com
http://www.modernizr.com/
http://diveinto.html5doctor.com/
http://stuffandnonsense.co.uk/projects/320andup/

If anybody has an questions from the class or any of the material covered, please let me know.

If you missed my presentation on AdobeTV at AdobeMAX, you can check it out below or AdobeTV.

I am pleased to announce I will be presenting, along with other members of the Wrecking Ball team, at Adobe MAX 2010, in Los Angeles, on October 25th!

The session description is:

Adobe TV: The Business and Technology Behind a Global Enterprise Video Platform
Get an inside look at the process of designing and developing a global enterprise-class video portal. This session includes both business and tech discussions, including a high-level overview of the framework and content management system, Adobe SiteCatalyst integration, ad server integration, extending Open Source Media Framework, rapid deployment with Adobe ColdFusion, when and why to use jQuery, and the platform as a marketing and business tool.



For more information, please view the MAX site: http://bit.ly/a4q3Hx

On Wednesday night, I have the pleasure of traveling to San Francisco and attending the Tour de ColdFusion Contribution Night.

I am pleased to announce that at the Tour de ColdFusion Contribution Night, thanks to Adobe and Greg Wilson, we will be giving away a copy of Adobe CS5 Web Premium (Windows) and a copy of ColdFusion Builder!

Come out to the Adobe San Francisco Offices at 6:30 PM on Wednesday, September 15th and help contribute to the Tour de ColdFusion. I will be leaving it up to the User Group organizers on how to determine the winners but we will be giving away a copy of each piece of software.

Hope to see everyone there. Look for a large update to the Tour de ColdFusion later this week!

Download it today!

http://www.adobe.com/downloads/

Adobe now has a way you can give ideas and feedback on a select number of their products. Currently you can "Post Ideas" or "View Ideas" from the following products:

Adobe AIR
Adobe Flash Builder
Adobe Flash Catalyst
Adobe Flash Professional
Adobe Flex SDK
Adobe WorkflowLab

Personally, I think this is a great idea to get a pulse on feedback from the actual users of the product. Sometimes software companies feel they know best on what the users want, and websites like this would help confirm same. However, and more likely, it would give insight into ideas that the company may have never thought of themselves. The only criticism I have is that they only feature six products, out of more than 100 of their current products. The more noticeably missing is Photoshop and ColdFusion. Hopefully, this is just the beginning and they are gearing up to add their flagship products.

Check out the site today and leave a great idea: http://ideas.adobe.com/

Adobe has just announced the launch date of the new Creative Suite 5 (CS5). The event will take place on April 12th, 2010, at 9am PDT or 11am EDT. You can reserve your spot today for the event by visiting the URL below. The site below will also have sneak peek videos and social media updates, so check back often.

The site is located at: http://cs5launch.adobe.com

I am pleased to have been on the team, along with Wrecking Ball Media, to design and build the site. We had the pleasure of using Adobe technologies, including ColdFusion, Photoshop and the rest of the Creative Suite products.

Check the site out today!

I'm pleased to announce, while working with the great Wrecking Ball Media Team and other numerous fantastic people at Adobe, today we launched the Adobe Creative Suite Buzz Hub:

http://csbuzz.adobe.com/



The site will be a focal point for updates and videos related to Creative Suite. Check it out and let me know what you think.

The wonderful Kush Amerasinghe wrote an article that was just posted on Adobe Edge regarding building AdobeTV. The article is more technical and provides insight into the Adobe technology behind the site. Definitely worth the read:

http://bit.ly/AdobeTVEdge