360|Flex

I finished the first day of the 360Flex conference in Indianapolis today. Here are my observations from today’s sessions…

Keynote:

Matt Chotin – Adobe Flex Product Manager

His presentation included Catalyst and Flex4 demos. I am excited about these new features.

I attended 4 sessions today.

• The Great Mashup – Doug Knudsen
• A moderate level discussion on various API’s and Services available for use in Flex/AIR applications.
• Degrafa – Juan Sanchez .  Degrafa is a really neat framework that allows for some cool graphics and skins in your Flex/AIR applications. Check it out here http://degrafa.org/
• Bryce Barrand gave a presentation on large scale Flex project management. He talked about some of the processes his company uses when working on large scale projects. Some great insights with regard to client management and developer accountability.
• Last session for the day was Dynamic Audio Synthesis using the Flash Player. This was a very cool session in which generated audio was demonstrated. This included transformations like delays, filtering, pitch and sequencing. Flash Player has come a long way since the first time I worked with it.

All in all it was a great day. More sessions tomorrow.