Thursday, August 07, 2008

LiveCycle ES courses at MAX 2008

This year the Adobe MAX event will have the most comprehensive LiveCycle ES program of any event. In case you missed the previous announcements, MAX 2008 is going to take place November 16-19 in San Francisco. You can find out more at the MAX 2008 site here. It is the single focal point for LC ES training this year on our planet! Some of the top picks for LC ES training include these courses:

Adobe Roadmap: Enterprise

Hear about Adobe’s product and solutions roadmap and discuss Adobe’s vision so that together we can create the enterprise of the future.

Speakers:Joel Heinke
Audience:Web Developer, Partner Decision Maker, IS/IT, Business Decision Maker, Architect, Application Developer
Skill:General Audience
Products:Acrobat, ActionScript, Ajax, Blaze DS, ColdFusion, Contribute, Flex, LiveCycle DS, LiveCycle ES, Open Source
When:
Monday, November 17, 11:30 am - 12:30 pm

Agile Testing of Enterprise RIAs with Flex and LiveCycle ES

Hear how Adobe Consulting delivers complex rich Internet applications built on Flex and LiveCycle ES, while still employing agile engineering methods to assure quality. Learn about testing with FlexUnit; using Code Coverage tools, designing for testing, and improving test coverage; and how to extend these capabilities to unit-test LiveCycle ES applications "behind the glass."

Speakers:Alex Uhlmann, Herve Dupriez
Audience:Architect, Application Developer
Skill:Intermediate
Products:LiveCycle ES, Flex, AIR
When:
Wednesday, November 19, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Architectural Best Practices for Flex and LiveCycle ES Applications

Hear Adobe Consulting discuss their "Blueprint Architecture" for creating applications with Flex, Adobe AIR, LiveCycle Data Services ES, and LiveCycle ES. Learn how to integrate these technologies to create complex rich Internet applications with Adobe technology.

Speakers:Tunde Turner, Steven Webster
Audience:Architect
Skill:Advanced
Products:LiveCycle ES, LiveCycle DS, Flex, AIR
When:
Wednesday, November 19, 9:30 am - 10:30 am

Building Enterprise Applications Using Flex, Adobe AIR, and LiveCycle ES

See how Adobe's client and server technologies can be leveraged together to build engaging applications. See how Flex and AIR can be used as a front end to a complex back-end process deployed on LiveCycle ES.

Speakers:Marcel Boucher
Audience:Web Developer, IS/IT, Architect, Application Developer
Skill:Intermediate
Products:LiveCycle ES, LiveCycle DS, Flex Builder, Flex, AIR
When:
Wednesday, November 19, 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Building RIAs Using Form Guides

Learn how to build and deploy rich Internet applications using form guides, part of Adobe LiveCycle Designer. Form guides are an alternative view of a form based on Adobe Flash technology that guides users through the form-filling process step by step. Form authors build on an existing form design to provide a more visually appealing and streamlined method of capturing form data. The enhanced interface can help reduce data entry errors by simplifying the amount of information presented to a form filler at a given time.

Speakers:Paul Guerette
Audience:Web Developer, Web Designer, Architect, Application Developer
Skill:Intermediate
Products:LiveCycle ES
When:
Monday, November 17, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Monday, November 17, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Wednesday, November 19, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm

Building Service Clients with Flex and Adobe AIR

Learn how to build SOA clients with Flex and Adobe AIR. In this hands-on session, you will explore how to build various service clients using the WSDL Import Wizard, hand-coded ActionScript 3.0, and simple REST-based services. Flash Remoting and performance metrics will also be covered. This session is intended for those who build front-end service clients for business applications. Attendees should come prepared to write code or partner with someone else writing code. (This session complements "Deploying Services with BlazeDS and LiveCycle Data Services ES.")

Speakers:Duane Nickull, James Ward
Audience:Architect, Application Developer
Skill:Advanced
Products:LiveCycle ES, LiveCycle DS, Flex Builder, Flex, AIR
When:
Wednesday, November 19, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Tuesday, November 18, 8:30 am - 10:00 am
Wednesday, November 19, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

Building Your First Application Using LiveCycle ES

Build an end-to-end application from scratch using Adobe LiveCycle ES. The application will utilize forms, orchestration, and many of the Adobe LiveCycle platform features. Learn how to easily integrate with external systems and how to include people in business processes for approvals, reviews, and more.

Speakers:Valerie Snider-Lynch
Audience:Web Developer, IS/IT, Architect, Application Developer
Skill:Beginner
Products:LiveCycle ES
When:
Tuesday, November 18, 8:30 am - 10:00 am
Wednesday, November 19, 9:00 am - 10:30 am
Wednesday, November 19, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Information Assurance: Rights Management and Digital Security

Explore the information assurance capabilities in Adobe LiveCycle. Learn how organizations use rights management and digital security features to protect sensitive information by enabling confidentiality, privacy, authentication, integrity, nonrepudiation, and availability.

Speakers:Steve Forrest
Audience:Partner Decision Maker, IS/IT, Business Decision Maker, Architect, Application Developer
Skill:General Audience
Products:LiveCycle ES
When:
Wednesday, November 19, 9:30 am - 10:30 am

Inside the Adobe AIR Cook-off: The Best Show Off Their Winning Chops

See some of the best work being done in AIR application development today. Get insight from the authors of the Adobe AIR Cookbook, plus a group of the top contributors to the Adobe AIR Cookbook website. For the past six months, there's been an open call to the RIA developer community to show off their top tricks and best practices; in this session, you'll see their work in action and get a chance to exchange information with the panelists. There may be a bonus interactive feature or two in this session (hint: involving prizes and all comers).

Speakers:Michael Koch, Rich Tretola , Marco Casario, Koen De Weggheleire
Audience:Web Developer, Web Designer, Partner Decision Maker, IS/IT, Business Decision Maker, Architect, Application Developer
Skill:General Audience
Products:Spry, Open Source, LiveCycle ES, LiveCycle DS, Flex Builder, Flex, FlashCast, Flash Player, Flash Media Server, Flash Lite, Flash, Fireworks, Dreamweaver, ColdFusion, Blaze DS, Ajax, AIR, Adobe Media Player, Adobe Device Central, ActionScript, Acrobat, "Thermo"
When:
Wednesday, November 19, 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

InsideRIA Outlook, 2009: What Every Developer Needs to Be Thinking About

Join top experts to hear how standards, the economy, emerging players, workflow, client expectations, and more are affecting the industry. InsideRIA regulars representing some of the top houses in the business discuss the top strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats in the industry. Panelists have five minutes to outline their top SWOT points; then the panel and audience have an open Q&A on what we can expect in the next 12 to 18 months.

Speakers:Rich Tretola , Adam Flater, RJ Owen
Audience:Web Developer, Web Designer, Partner Decision Maker, IS/IT, Business Decision Maker, Architect, Application Developer
Skill:General Audience
Products:Spry, Open Source, LiveCycle ES, LiveCycle DS, Flex Builder, Flex, FlashCast, Flash Player, Flash Media Server, Flash Lite, Flash, Fireworks, Dreamweaver, Connect, ColdFusion, Blaze DS, Ajax, AIR, Adobe XD, Adobe Media Player, Adobe Device Central, ActionScript, Acrobat 3D, Acrobat, "Thermo"
When:
Wednesday, November 19, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Introduction to LiveCycle ES

Peel back the marketing-speak and take a real look at what LiveCycle ES is all about from the platform to the tooling. Topics will include how LiveCycle ES fits into the enterprise and which types of applications are well suited for LiveCycle. This session will also include a product demo.

Speakers:Greg Wilson, Christoph Rooms
Audience:Web Developer, Partner Decision Maker, IS/IT, Business Decision Maker, Architect, Application Developer
Skill:Beginner
Products:LiveCycle ES
When:
Monday, November 17, 11:30 am - 12:30 pm

LiveCycle ES and Adobe Solution Accelerators

Learn how Adobe Solution Accelerators can help LiveCycle ES customers reduce development time and increase the quality of their applications by leveraging prebuilt deployable code and best practice methodologies.

Speakers:Valerie Snider-Lynch
Audience:Partner Decision Maker, Business Decision Maker, Architect, Application Developer
Skill:General Audience
Products:LiveCycle ES
When:
Monday, November 17, 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

LiveCycle ES Architecture Deep Dive

Deep dive into the LiveCycle ES platform architecture. Topics will include the service container, invocation layer, service orchestration, and events and techniques for extending and customizing the platform.

Speakers:Shone Sadler
Audience:Web Developer, IS/IT, Architect, Application Developer
Skill:Advanced
Products:LiveCycle ES
When:
Wednesday, November 19, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

LiveCycle ES: Building Applications

Learn how to develop and deploy applications with Adobe LiveCycle ES (Enterprise Suite). By enabling service-oriented architecture (SOA) and business process management (BPM), LiveCycle ES allows both business and IT professionals to visually assemble end-to-end processes that unify systems, people, business rules, and web services quickly and flexibly. We'll develop a LiveCycle based application using LiveCycle solution components and determine how to implement business rules in a process. We'll also cover process deployment and the LiveCycle workspace and use the record and playback feature to debug an application.

Speakers:Bob Bailey
Audience:Application Developer
Skill:General Audience
Products:LiveCycle ES
When:
Sunday, November 16, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm

Rapid Enterprise RIA Development with Solution Accelerators

Find out how Adobe Solution Accelerators enable the rapid development of recurring industry solutions with Flex, Adobe AIR, and LiveCycle ES. In this presentation, Adobe Consulting will look at two problem spaces — customer enrollment and correspondence management — and show how to create innovative experiences with Flex, AIR, and LiveCycle ES by leveraging freely available Solution Accelerators.

Speakers:Danny Saikaly, Steven Webster
Audience:Architect, Application Developer
Skill:Intermediate
Products:LiveCycle ES, Flex, AIR
When:
Wednesday, November 19, 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Service Component Architecture (SCA)

This session explores the SCA work at OASIS, including bindings to Java and similarities with LiveCycle ES in methodology. Those involved with enterprise architecture will find this session of particular interest.

Speakers:Mike Edwards, Martin Chapman
Audience:Application Developer
Skill:Intermediate
Products:LiveCycle ES, LiveCycle DS
When:
Tuesday, November 18, 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm

Service-Oriented Architecture for the Enterprise

Attend this session to hear an examination of the OASIS Reference Model for SOA and a discussion of concrete service architecture work. We will relate the concepts of the model to concrete implementations. LiveCycle ES will be used as a case study for implementing a full-blown services platform for facilitating automated business processes and working with human-centric business processes.

Speakers:Matt Butler
Audience:Architect, Application Developer
Skill:Intermediate
Products:LiveCycle ES
When:
Monday, November 17, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Using LiveCycle Content Services ES

Explore LiveCycle Content Services ES, a fully integrated set of content services ranging from an enterprise content repository to social collaboration tools such as enterprise forums. LiveCycle Content Services ES is now part of the base LiveCycle ES platform, providing features such as check-in/checkout, version control, auditing, archiving/retention, and access rights management.

Speakers:Paul Guerette
Audience:IS/IT, Architect, Application Developer
Skill:Beginner
Products:LiveCycle ES
When:
Monday, November 17, 11:30 am - 1:00 pm
Tuesday, November 18, 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Wednesday, November 19, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

What's New in LiveCycle ES Update 1

See the new features of LiveCycle ES Update 1. New features include content services, PDF Generator 3D, an improved development environment, improved deployment, expanded platform support, and much more.

Speakers:Marcel Boucher
Audience:Partner Decision Maker, IS/IT, Business Decision Maker, Architect, Application Developer
Skill:General Audience
Products:LiveCycle ES, Acrobat 3D
When:
Tuesday, November 18, 9:00 am - 10:00 am

Doug and Ben rock it with SpatialKey

I came across what might be the most efficient Flex mapping application on the web, launched by the Universal Mind geniuses and others like Ben Stucki, Andy Powell and Doug McCune. It's called SpatialKey and the technology preview release just came out. This is a product doing fully client-side heatmap renderings of thousands of data points and can do up to about 100k completely client-side. The architecture uses a hybrid approach and when client side loads exceed the 100K, processing moves to a server to do aggregation.



SpatialKey loads a ton of data into a Flex app and produces sweet visuals that tell a much better story about the data than looking at points on a map. They're only launching the client-side stuff as a "technology preview" while working on an enterprise offering that includes a database product. Potential use cases include deploying to police departments to handle their entire crime databases.

Doug wrote a much more detailed blog article about it here.

Wednesday, August 06, 2008

VMWare joins Linux Foundation alongside Adobe, others!

As reported in the Washington Post,

"Virtualization giant VMware has joined the Linux Foundation, lining up alongside existing members like Adobe, Google and IBM, the organization announced Wednesday.

Virtualization, the ability to run software in virtualized containers so multiple OSes or versions can run on one physical machine, is becoming more prevalent in IT environments. At its core, virtualization is enabled by software called a hypervisor, and can help drive down data-center costs, among other benefits."

To me, this is an awesome development. I am about to add Debian to my VMWare list and am glad to see they are seeing the light. For those of you who have not tried Linux lately, it has come a long way. Awesome day today!!

Tuesday, August 05, 2008

O'Reilly Open Source 2008 Slides available

James Ward and I jointly presented a session at this year's OSCON conference in Portland. The session was titled Flex: the Open Source SDK for RIAs and it includes step by step instructions on how to download the source trunk via svn and use Apache Ant to build.
Abstract: Adobe has released the Flex SDK open source under Mozilla Public License (MPL). This includes the source to the ActionScript components from the Flex SDK, the Java source code for the compilers, the debugger, and the core libraries. Flex can run in any browser—on Mac OS X, Windows, Linux, and AIR. This session will introduce people to Flex, provide code samples, use cases and a roadmap.