C4, the company I work for, has just stumped up the cash for a ticket for me to go to WebDU.
It’s organised into four tracks (Flash/Flex, RIA/AIR/JS, Coldfusion and general web stuff). Apart from the Coldfusion track, which I have no interest in, I’ll be checking out stuff from all of them … I think I know the courses I’ll be going to and I wonder if my fellow Sydney Flesh (that was a typo – but how about that instead of saying Flash/Flex? … “Flesh Devigner” anyone?) will be doing the same …
AIR: Visualising the possibilites of a new platform (probably pretty basic but might have some cool examples I haven’t seen yet)
The not-so-ancient art of Mobile Flash Video (Flash Lite, something I know next to nothing about)
Don’t be anti-social! Developing RIAs for Facebook and Google OpenSocial (sod Facebook, but the OpenSocial initiative sounds interesting)
Integrating the Flex skin design extensions into your RIA workflow (something I should definitely know more about)
Building your own WebTV (intriguing)
Day two:
Hooking Flash up to stuff, just because you can (they mention Flash with Wii remote, something I would love to be able to do while developing 3D stuff)
Then three at once I would like to see – Integrating Flash Content with LMS (which stands for Learning Management Systems), Adobe’s Approach to Application Design, and Data visualisation with Flex (obviously decided at the last minute – look at the URL for that one) … I could benefit from all of them but the e-learning one probably wins out.
Then another annoyingly difficult choice: Dense and hot: an introduction to your application’s big bang (which is about the order of events from the Application tag in Flex, something that’s always confused me) or Slide Framework for Flex (could be more useful, though not quite as interesting).
Then another poser! Code, know thyself: using ActionScrip metadata or The 3rd way: handling 3D on the web. I definitely need to see both, damn it.
Thoughts?
Fear not.. you might be lucky. The agenda almost always goes through some re-arrangement and refinement about a month out from the conference.
Yeah I have similar dilemma of wanting to be at two at the same time, and I will have to miss “Hooking Flash up to stuff, just because you can” because I must go to the AS3 graphics in flash one. Sigh.
I’m doing the flash 3d engines workshop, which I am really looking forward to. Are you doing a workshop?
Cheers,
max
What annoyed me last year was that organisers said never fear if you miss a class, we’ll have all the videos/notes online to view. I went to the website for months after last years event, and nothing, so I wrote to the organisers and they never even replied. And a year down the track still nothing from the previous year. Empty promises bah!
No, but if I was doing one of the workshops that would probably be the one!
How about a notes swap on the “hooking stuff up” and “as3 graphics” sessions?