Sessions by track
The MAX 2006 sessions are grouped into eight tracks, designed to help you locate the sessions most applicable to your job. The eight tracks are:
Adobe Collaboration Solutions
Adobe® Acrobat® and Adobe® Acrobat Connect® help ensure that knowledge workers can communicate and collaborate with confidence. This track focuses on Acrobat, with its extensive APIs, and Acrobat Connect, with its open APIs and powerful "SyncSWF" development environment to allow the creation of complex real-time collaborative applications with nothing more than existing development skills using Flash® technology.
Adobe LiveCycle Technologies
The Adobe® LiveCycle® family of J2EE-based enterprise software is an integral part of the overall engagement platform. LiveCycle enables organizations to create and deploy solutions to capture, process, and archive information. The LiveCycle track will provide an in depth overview of the platform and deep dives into specific components for process management, electronic forms, document security, and document generation. Several SDK's and interfaces will be examined in detail.
eLearning
Explore the eLearning track, with the latest e-learning trends and solutions from the leaders in the field. Industry experts representing key customers, partners, top developers, and Adobe product experts will share their knowledge of e-learning and help you choose and support the right path for success.
Mobile and Devices
Flash mobile solutions are creating a revolution in the development and delivery of rich content for mobile phones and consumer electronics devices. The Mobile and Devices track will help you understand the go-to-market opportunities and market dynamics for Flash Lite™ development. Sessions focus on technical and design challenges, tips and tricks, mobile authoring, and business opportunities.
Rich Internet Applications
This track focuses on techniques and technical challenges in building rich Internet applications with the Adobe Engagement Platform. Sessions cover products such as Adobe Flex™, Flash, and Flash Media Server and address application architecture, rich interface design, and cross-product integration as well as basic and advanced development techniques.
Vertical Market Solutions
Benefit from great success stories about customers who are currently using the Adobe Engagement Platform. This track focuses on some of the most innovative solutions for key business challenges within various industries, including government, education, financial services, manufacturing, telecommunications, life sciences, and media and publishing. Come learn how the cutting-edge work of others can help you create more powerful solutions yourself.
Web Design
The Web Design track offers a range of sessions for those interested in web, user interface, and game design and rich interactive content creation. There is a session for everyone, ranging from an introductory overview to advanced topics on Flash, Macromedia Dreamweaver® and Fireworks®, Adobe After Effects®, and web standards like CSS. Specialty sessions such as video encoding, large-scale streaming, web prototyping, and customer case studies make the "Web Design" track ideal for the MAX designer and developer attendee.
Web Development
Designing and publishing diverse content to the web—Internet or intranet—is a central development problem for many organizations. Adobe is working toward evolving a complete and fully integrated set of tools to make the job easier than ever before. This track focuses on using Dreamweaver and Macromedia ColdFusion® MX 7, along with ActionScript, to build powerful web information systems, from blogs and rich forms to print-ready documents.
Adobe Collaboration Solutions
- Acrobat 3D: Scripting Your 3D Objects
- Acrobat 8: 5 Cool Things You Can Do!
- Acrobat: It's More Than Just the Reader (or, "I didn't know you could that!")
- Acrobat Connect Enterprise Roll-out Architecture and Best Practices
- Building Real-time Collaborative Applications in Acrobat Connect Professional
- Enterprise Integration of Real-time Collaboration and Training I
- Enterprise Integration of Real-time Collaboration and Training II
- Extending Acrobat Connect Functionality with Collaboration Builder SDK
- Extending Functionality of Adobe Reader
- Future of Collaborative Solutions at Adobe
- Mars: A First Look at XML Friendly PDF
- Not All PDFs are Created Equal or PDF Manipulation: Using Different Methodologies
- PDF 101: Anatomy of a PDF File
Adobe LiveCycle Technologies
- Adobe Core Security Architecture
- Adobe LiveCycle Forms: Everything You Want to Know
- Adobe's Core LiveCycle Architecture and Hands-On Deployment
- LiveCycle 8: What's Coming
- LiveCycle Core Products, SDKs, and APIs
- LiveCycle Designer: Becoming Fluent
- LiveCycle Workflow: Aggregating Resources and Services into Workflows
- XMP: The Extensible Metadata Platform
eLearning
- Acrobat Connect for the Academic Enterprise
- Creating Engaging eLearning with Acrobat, Acrobat 3D and Flash
- Creating Engaging eLearning with Adobe's ABC eLearning Solutions
- Creating Engaging eLearning with Captivate and Acrobat Connect
- Creating Engaging Training Solutions for Palm, Inc.
- eLearning at Adobe: Product and Solution Ecosystems
- eLearning for eLearning Professionals with Acrobat Connect
- How Adobe and Standards are Redefining eLearning and Technical Communications
- Learning Technology Standards and Specifications: Making Sense of Alphabet Soup
- mLearning: Learning and Performance Improvement in the Palm of Your Hand
Mobile and Devices
- Connecting to External Data Services using Flash Lite
- Cool and Compelling Use Cases with Video in Flash Lite 2
- Creating Flash Content for Consumer Electronics
- Creating Flash Lite Content for Verizon Wireless
- Custom Collaboration Building SDK
- Developing Flash Lite Applications for BREW Handsets
- Developing Flash Lite Games
- Developing Rich Mobile Content for Flash Lite
- Flash Lite Case Studies: Breakdesign
- Flash Lite Development for Nokia Series 40 Devices
- Flash Lite Game Development for Nokia S60 Devices
- Future of Mobile Authoring: Preview of New Tools
- How to Make Money with Flash Lite
Rich Internet Applications
- Advanced Apollo Application Development
- Building a Rich Internet Application with Flex 2 and ColdFusion
- Building a Rich Internet Application with Flex 2 and Java
- Building Applications with Flex Data Services
- Building Custom Components
- Building Dashboards and Rich Data Visualization Apps with Flex
- Building Rich Internet Applications with Flex Builder
- Building Your First Rich Internet Application with Flex 2
- Combining Flex with PHP and Open Source
- Delivering RIA Solutions with Cairngorm 2
- Designing More Usable Applications with Flex UI Capabilities
- End-to-End Debugging of Flex Applications
- Flex and .NET Interoperability
- Flex Best Practices: Applying Design Patterns and Architecture
- Flex Data Services Overview
- Flex Under the Hood: A Tour Through the Flex Architecture
- Getting Started with Apollo
- Getting Started with Flex Development
- Increasing Efficiency and Quality with Flex Automation
- Integrating Flex Applications with Browsers and AJAX
- Leveraging Flex 2 and Flash Player 9 for Truly Cinematic Experiences
- Leveraging HTML/JavaScript and AJAX in Apollo Applications
- Real-time and Collaborative Apps with Flex Data Services and Flash Media Server
- Techniques for Delivering Modular Flex Applications
- Tips and Tricks for Delivering More Responsive Flex Applications
- Understanding Security in Flex and Flash
- Using the File API in Apollo (File, Preferences, Storage)
Vertical Market Solutions
- Accessible Rich Internet Application Development with Adobe Flex
- Building an Enterprise Reporting Framework Using Adobe Flex
- Connecting the Physical and Financial Supply Chains
- Developing Business Applications in Flex
- Engaging Field Services Delivery with the Adobe Engagement Platform
- Extending Acrobat Connect: Authentication and Reporting
- Form Submission, Routing, and Retrieval Using Adobe Flex and LiveCycle
- LiveCycle and Flex: Creating Flexible Promotions
- Mixing Web Video with Live Broadcast TV: Flex and Flash Media Server Teamed up for the Ultimate Engaging Experience
- Solutions for Intelligent Dynamic Document Generation and Presentation
- Unleashing Digital Assets: Automating Worldwide Franchise Marketing Collateral with ID Server, Flex, and LiveCycle
Web Design
- A Customer's Perspective: Michael Lebowitz, Big Spaceship
- A Customer's Perspective: Ken Martin and Ivan Todorov, BLITZ
- After Effects for Flash Designers
- Character Animation in Flash
- CSS Part 1: Introduction to Designing with CSS in Dreamweaver
- CSS Part 2: Designing Multi-column Layouts and More
- CSS Part 3: Advanced CSS Concepts and Theories
- Designers' Introduction to ActionScript
- Fireworks Tips and Tricks
- Flex for Flash Designers: How Flex and Flash Work Together
- Game Development with Flash
- Getting Started with Dreamweaver
- Getting Started with Flash
- Going from Comp to Code using CSS and Dreamweaver
- Integrating Flash Video into Your Website
- Interactive Design with Flash and After Effects
- Manipulating Flash Video: Cue Points, Filter, Effects, and More
- Preparing Fireworks Layouts for CSS
- Rapid Prototyping with Fireworks
- Streaming to the Masses: Introduction to Flash Media Server
- Tips and Tricks for Video Encoding
- User Interface Design with Flash
- Using the CSS Box Model for Page Layout
- Video and Web: The Simple Guide to Shooting, Editing, and Publishing Web Video
Web Development
- Accessible Video with Flash
- Advanced ColdFusion Printing and Reporting
- Advanced XML Concepts
- AJAX/Spry Framework Overview
- An Introduction to ColdFusion Powered Flex
- Architecting ColdFusion Applications for Performance, Scalability, and Maintainability
- Best Practices for Developing Flash Applications
- Building ColdFusion Powered Flex Applications
- Building Your First ColdFusion Application
- Building Your First Dynamic Web Application
- ColdFusion 7 Application Framework
- ColdFusion.NET Integration
- Component Development in ColdFusion MX 7
- Creating Learnable Applications
- Design Patterns in ActionScript 3
- Developing Hybrid Applications with ColdFusion and Java
- Image Manipulation in ColdFusion
- Improving ActionScript 3 Performance
- Introducing CFEclipse
- Leveraging ColdFusion Components in ColdFusion
- Leveraging the ColdFusion Application Framework
- Moving from ActionScript 2 to ActionScript 3
- Search Engine Optimization
- Securing ColdFusion
- Tactical XML Development
- The Big Framework and Methodology Debate
- Unlocking the ColdFusion Server Black Box
- Using ColdFusion Components as Objects
- Using ColdFusion with Flex Data Services
- Using the AJAX/Spry Framework
- XML101
