AIR, Flex, General, RIA

As you know I’m at the AIR Camp in Washington DC today …. we just started once again after our first break and things are going great till now … there’s a good turn out .. about 200 people I guess and Mike Downey did a a quick show of hands earlier and looks like there is about 50-50 split of HTML/JavaScript – Flash developers out here, the excitement about AIR in the JavaScript world pleases me a lot as to me it means that the whole web world is slowly but steadily moving towards an Internet where richness is a norm and not something us UI enthusiasts have to sell to the decision makers.

We have had the following sessions till now:

• Keynote (Mike Downey): Mike Downey gave a a very nice introduction into what AIR is and the various products are coming out in the future. AIR Beta 2 will be released on MAX. AIR 1.0, Flex 3, Adobe Media Player will come out early 2008
• Building your first AIR application with Adobe Flex (Mike Chambers): Mike Chambers presented the basics of AIR for Flex developers and showed how to go about building a basic AIR app.
• Building your first AIR application with HTML and JavaScript (Kevin Hoyt): Kevin did an equivalent of the above session for JavaScript developers. I really liked Kevin’s presentation style.

Kevin is right now presenting “Leveraging HTML and JavaScript within Adobe AIR” which is very exciting … he just showed how to use Flash filters for HTML DIVs … Awesome !!

Really looking forward to the rest of the day.

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