Adobe live: Round up

Some posts about Adobe Live yesterday:

• Overview of the posts of Niels Bruin
• Preview flex 3, Wietse Veenstra’s comments, Ruben Swierenga’s comments
• Ruben Swieringa on the whole day

Some random thoughts about yesterday:

• Liked what Aral Balkan said about the position of developers. They are seen as a necessary evil. They are only the translators of the design into the code. They don’t have have contact with clients or users better to hide them or hire them if far away cheap places.
• Good to see so many Macs. Even Waldo Smeets was using a mac (his pc broke the night before). But that gave him to opportunity to show that flex 3 runs on ancient powerbooks.
• Flash lite sucks. At least version 1 of it. We saw a presentation of it. Who wants to go back to Flash 4 programming. You can make great applications with it, but the pain is comparable with making drawings using your own blood.
• Joey Lott knows how to entertain an audience using only code. Impressive.
• Don’t know what to think about Swx. It is supposed to be the json for Flash/ Flex. But I kind of like Remoting. The client side code for swx does look a lot like the code to remoting (especially in AS 3.0). The server side of swx did look easy to install, but it looked like “just” an easy way to install amfphp. It would be nice though if all kinds of sites like Twitter, Flickr, Gmail, Delicious etc create a swx service. So there will be a lot of Flash/Flex mashups.
• Apollo is nice. A security model has been made and it looks pretty good. I think it is really important for Adobe to show of what it can do, by packaging great examples. Some of the ones that were shown are a bit weak.
• Still waiting for posts about our ideas for the BNN donor show :-). They should be implemented now!