Sessions by Track
The MAX 2005 sessions are grouped into five tracks, designed to help you locate the sessions most applicable to your job. The five tracks are:
Designing Rich Content
It isn't enough just to be different — learn techniques and practices that enable you to create media with real impact and the power to communicate in new ways. These sessions teach you the latest tools for creating more expressive Flash content, how to use new video features effectively, and how to create powerful, standards-compliant eLearning content rapidly with Captivate, Flash, and Breeze.
Developing Web Sites & Applications
Designing and publishing diverse content to the Web — Internet or intranet — is a central development problem for many organizations. Macromedia has been working toward evolving a complete and fully integrated set of tools to make the job easier than it has ever been. This track focuses on new features in Dreamweaver and ColdFusion MX 7 along with Contribute to build powerful Web information systems -- from blogs and rich forms to print-ready documents.
Developing Rich Internet Applications
This track focuses on techniques and technical challenges in building rich Internet applications using the powerful array of tools Macromedia provides: Flex, Flash, Flash Communication Server, and Breeze. Sessions address application architecture and rich interface design as well as basic and advanced development techniques, addressing problems like data access, creating components, and optimizing application performance.
Mobile and Devices
Flash Lite is creating a revolution in the development of rich content for mobile phones and devices. This track will help you get into the fastest growing field in Flash development. Sessions focus on both technical and design challenges for devices, as well as understanding the business side of selling applications for devices.
Vertical Market Solutions
Learn from some the greatest success stories with Macromedia products. This track focuses on some of the most innovative sites and applications in different sectors, including government, education, telecommunications, and the financial world. Come learn how the cutting edge work of others can help you create more powerful solutions yourself.
Designing Rich Content
- Fast Track to Captivate
- Getting Started with Flash
- ActionScript for Designers
- Rapid eLearning: From Concept to Course in 1 Hour
- Integrating Video into Your Flash Content
- Optimizing Web Graphics with Fireworks
- Introduction to Captivate
- What's New in Flash 8
- Web and Downloadable Game Development Using Macromedia Tools
- Drawing and Illustrating in Flash
- New Installation, Detection, and Autoupdate Features in Flash Player 8
- Flash Game Development
- Object Oriented ActionScript
- Mastering the 3D Experience
- Using Flash and Director Together to Produce Rich Applications
- Character Animation
- Art of Encoding Video
- Using Next Generation Flash Communication Server
- Robust SCORM-Compliant eLearning Content with Flash and Captivate
- Building Expressive Content with Flash 8
- Photoshop & Flash: Optimizing Pixels and Workflow
Developing Web Sites and Applications
- ColdFusion Printing and Reporting
- Using the Power of XML with Dreamweaver
- ColdFusion MX 7 Application Framework (Hands-On)
- Building Database-Powered Applications using Dreamweaver and ColdFusion
- Leveraging ColdFusion Components in ColdFusion MX 7
- Administering Contribute with the Contribute Publishing Server
- Advanced Flash Forms
- Using the CSS Box Model for Page Layout
- ColdFusion Forms
- Introduction to Contribute and the Contribute Publishing Server
- Creating Richer and More Maintainable Sites with CSS
- Talking to Databases: SQL for Designers
- Advanced ColdFusion MX 7 Printing and Reporting
- ColdFusion MX 7 Application Framework (Lecture)
- Securing ColdFusion MX 7
- Designing and Maintaining Sites Using Dreamweaver and Contribute
- Creating BLOGs Using Dreamweaver
- Dreamweaver Killer Tips
- Developing Hybrid Applications with ColdFusion and Java
- ColdFusion Components as Objects
- Building CPS Extensions in ColdFusion
- Advanced ColdFusion MX 7 Features Exposed
- Studio 8 : Soup to Nuts
- Leveraging Frameworks and Development Methodologies
- Advanced CSS
- ColdFusion Enterprise Integration
- Dreamweaver and Flash Video
- Extending Dreamweaver
Developing Rich Internet Applications
- Creating Better Performing Flex Applications
- Building Your First Rich Forms Application with Flex and ColdFusion
- Building Your First Dashboard Application with Flex
- Next Generation Flash and Flex: A Deeper Look
- Next Generation Flex: Data Services
- RIA Design Best Practices: Implementation with Flex
- Integrating ColdFusion with Flex
- Customizing Flex Applications: Styling, Skinning, and Beyond
- Optimizing Flex Applications for Performance and Scalability
- RIA Design Best Practices: Theory for Developers
- Extending Breeze Meeting Using Synchronized Flash and Flex Applications
- Integrating Rich Flash Content into Flex Applications
- Flex Frameworks: Cairngorm and More
- Integrating Flex and Flash Content with AJAX
- Debugging Flex Applications
- Extending the DataGrid and List Components in Flex
- Architecting Flex Applications
- Understanding the Flash Player Run Time Security Model
- Understanding Flex Server Security
- Building Your First Next Generation Flex Application with Zorn
- Zorn: A Guided Tour
- Next Generation ActionScript
- Next Generation Flex: UI and Layout
- Migrating Flex Applications from AS2 to Next Generation ActionScript
- Next Generation Flex: Infrastructure and Logic
- Next Generation Flash Player
Mobile and Devices
- Game Development for Flash Lite
- Advanced Flash Lite Development
- Flash Lite: How You Can Make Money
- Flash on Every Screen
- Flash Lite 2.0 Evolution
- Flash Professional 8 Authoring for Mobile Developers
- XD: The Structural Design of World-Class Mobile Experiences
- Developing a Cross-Platform Flash Game
- Next Generation Flash-based Mobile Applications
Vertical Market Solutions
- ACCESSIBILITY: Developing Accessible Rich Content with Flash
- COMMUNICATIONS: Enhancing Development Team Collaboration with Breeze Meeting
- COMMUNICATIONS: Rapid eLearning Best Practices with Captivate and Breeze
- ECOMMERCE XD Best Practices: Guided Selling Experiences
- EDUCATION: Enabling Mobile Learning
- ENTERPRISE XD Best Practices: Data Visualization Experiences
- ENTERPRISE: Flex in SAP's Visual Composer and Netweaver
- FINANCIAL XD Best Practices: Financial Services Experiences
- FINANCIAL: Using Flex to Develop an RIA for a UK Retail Bank
- GOVERNMENT: Integrating Government Legacy Data in a Rich Presentation Layer
- GOVERNMENT: Using Rich Internet Applications to Monitor Federal Enterprise Programs
- COMMUNICATIONS: HGTVPro.com’s interactive VoD Player—From Ingest to Ad Tracking
- XD: Design Techniques and Best Practices for Building World-Class RIAs
