Minneapolis

Varsity Theater and Cafe des Artistes / September 27

1308 4th Street SE
Minneapolis, MN 55414
lat 44.980889, lon -93.237083
venue

Who?

Anyone interested in learning more about the Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR).

What?

A one night conference on Adobe AIR with technical sessions, showcases and discussion.

How Much?

Free and open to the public (registration required).

What to Bring

Yourself, laptop, any Flex, HTML and JavaScript apps you want to get running on Adobe AIR. We will provide the beer, Red Bull, coffee, food, XBoxes, schwag, knowledge, venue and bits.

Q & A Room

Stop by the Q & A room at any time throughout the evening to get answers to your questions and any help you may need with your AIR applications.

Agenda

[6:15] Doors Open

Registration, meet and greet, discussion and Q & A. Grab a drink and a bite to eat, and chat with speakers and other developers interested in developing with the Adobe Integrated Runtime.

[6:45] Keynote (Ryan Stewart)

Ryan Stewart, a Rich Internet Evangilist on the platform team at Adobe, provides an introduction to the Adobe Integrated Runtime and how it fits into the Flash Platform, and the larger RIA landscape.

[7:15] Building your first AIR application with Adobe Flex (Mike Chambers)

Learn how to setup your development environment and build your first AIR application using Flex 3 and Flex Builder 3 (code named Moxie).

[7:45] Building your first AIR application with HTML and JavaScript (Kevin Hoyt)

After this session you will know how to setup the Adobe AIR SDK to allow you to develop and package AIR applications from the command line. You will also be able to leverage the Adobe AIR command line tools to enable development of HTML and JavaScript based applications. Finally, the session will demonstrate built in support for AIR development from Adobe Dreamweaver and the Eclipse based Aptana.

[8:15] Break

[8:30] Leveraging HTML and JavaScript within Adobe AIR

Gain a better understanding of the HTML and JavaScript environments within the Adobe Integrated Runtime, and explore how these technologies can be leveraged in both Flash / Flex and HTML / JavaScript-based applications. JavaScript and ActionScript script bridging will be covered, as well as how to use AIR, Flash Player and ActionScript Library APIs directly from JavaScript.

[9:00] 5 Lessons Learned from Working with AIR (Adam Trachtenberg)

Join eBay as they talk about some of the lessons that they have learned as they have worked with Adobe AIR on their San Dimas project.

[9:20] Break

[9:30] AIR Born (Grant Skinner)

An exploration of the diverse projects gskinner.com has built on the AIR platform, including internet-aware desktop applications, interactive installations, web-driven widgets, and utilities / developer tools.

[9:50] Adobe AIR API Overview (Daniel Dura)

Receive an overview of the new APIs that the Adobe Integrated Runtime makes available to applications. Both ActionScript and JavaScript examples will be shown.

[10:15] Doors Close