Back from Max! (and vacation)
October 29, 2010
I arrived back in Sacramento, late Wednesday night after spending the last 4 days at the Adobe Max conference in LA. (I actually traveled there by boat, arriving in Long Beach, via a cruise ship from Mexico...I'd spent the previous week with my dad and various other relatives celebrating his 60th birthday).
From my perspective, Max was a huge success! Adobe really went out of their way to get some great partnerships and announcements lined up for the conference. Each attendee walked away with a free Droid 2, not to mention several other goodies. On top of that, I ended up doing very well in the ColdFusion Unconference raffle...winning so much stuff that I actually had to give some prizes back! A small side effect of there not being a "only 1 win per person" rule, which I'm sure they will change next year! :) I gave back the license for Flash Builder / ColdFusion Builder, and kept the ColdFusion 9 Enterprise license I'd also won. :) (Though now that I think about it, I've only got 1 client that might have a use for it -- if they don't need it, I'm not sure what I'll end up doing with the license.)
I'd like to thank Ray Camden, Charlie Griefer, and Ezra Parker for running the CF Unconference -- the presenters were all top-notch. We had a variety of intermediate / advanced talks, all of which were very informative. I especially enjoyed the "Why Use a Framework" discussion we had on Wednesday afternoon (a last-minute addition) -- thanks again to Charlie for spear-heading that and filling in at the last minute.
...And they didn't get upset when I ended up winning multiple prizes...I wasn't cheating, I swear! :)
I've got various notes from the presentations that I'll post as time permits. Being gone for 2 weeks (vacation + max + travel time), several clients are vying for my time now, which of course takes priority.
As is typical with me, I left Max feeling very inspired, and am looking forward to working on some new project ideas now. Now if only I can find time to actually DO them...
-nolan
From my perspective, Max was a huge success! Adobe really went out of their way to get some great partnerships and announcements lined up for the conference. Each attendee walked away with a free Droid 2, not to mention several other goodies. On top of that, I ended up doing very well in the ColdFusion Unconference raffle...winning so much stuff that I actually had to give some prizes back! A small side effect of there not being a "only 1 win per person" rule, which I'm sure they will change next year! :) I gave back the license for Flash Builder / ColdFusion Builder, and kept the ColdFusion 9 Enterprise license I'd also won. :) (Though now that I think about it, I've only got 1 client that might have a use for it -- if they don't need it, I'm not sure what I'll end up doing with the license.)
I'd like to thank Ray Camden, Charlie Griefer, and Ezra Parker for running the CF Unconference -- the presenters were all top-notch. We had a variety of intermediate / advanced talks, all of which were very informative. I especially enjoyed the "Why Use a Framework" discussion we had on Wednesday afternoon (a last-minute addition) -- thanks again to Charlie for spear-heading that and filling in at the last minute.
...And they didn't get upset when I ended up winning multiple prizes...I wasn't cheating, I swear! :)
I've got various notes from the presentations that I'll post as time permits. Being gone for 2 weeks (vacation + max + travel time), several clients are vying for my time now, which of course takes priority.
As is typical with me, I left Max feeling very inspired, and am looking forward to working on some new project ideas now. Now if only I can find time to actually DO them...
-nolan