Changing Diabetes Barometer is now an Adobe MAX Semifinalist
After winning two awards last year for our “MyHome – Your Intelligent Home” and the “Nasdaq Market Replay”, it was with great interest we here at Hello Group were awaiting the email from Adobe telling us if our very cool application – “Changing Diabetes Barometer” had made it to the next level in the prestigious Adobe MAX Awards.
Today the email came, informing us that it had made it to the Semifinals… a great accomplishment thinking about some of the troubles the project had been undergoing from its inception to its transition into production, and then even some after that (as it most often is the case, I suppose).
Check it out…
http://www.changingdiabetesbarometer.com/
The system was build in Adobe Flex 3 with an architecture based on PureMVC MultiCore with a backend in .NET running a MS SQL Server 2005 and a WebORB tying it all together.
2009 MAX Awards competition is now open…
Having been a part of winning two Adobe MAX awards last year and having experienced the thrill of getting this recognition from the industry as well as community peers, I would like to encourage everyone with any potential candidates to register for this years competition.
Therefor I’m delighted to announce that the 2009 MAX Awards competition is now open! The MAX Awards are a global awards program that recognizes the best uses of Adobe software for creating engaging experiences. Submissions are being accepted now through July 31, 2009.
This year Adobe will award winners in 8 categories: Advertising & Branding, Education, Enterprise Productivity, Entertainment, Mobile, Public Sector, Social Networking, and Social Responsibility. View the complete category descriptions and complete Awards information here: http://max.adobe.com/awards/
New this year, category winners will be chosen online via people’s choice voting. Online voting will open September 21st and close during MAX Los Angeles. The three finalists in each category will be invited to attend MAX North America in Los Angeles, where the category winners will be announced live. All finalists will receive complimentary admission to MAX.
All submissions must be received online at https://www.adobemaxsubmission.com/submission/ by 11:59 pm on July 31st.
Be sure to submit your project today! Good luck!
http://max.adobe.com/
No Adobe MAX 2009 Europe…
Last year in Milan, we were many that enjoyed the local attention we could give the Adobe oriented communities and professionals… however, due to the natural downturn as well as quite a number of suggestions to eliminate the Adobe MAX Europe (at least as one unified monolothic event, you all remember the last question on the questionaire last year… “would you prefer one large or several smaller more localized European MAX’es for 2009).
However, I guess the general downturn in conference attendance has made the choice to completely eliminate the European MAX that much easier…
And to be honest… for a guy who in 2008 attended both the North American and the European, I must admit there will be very few things to miss in comparison to missing out on the NA edition which was so much better that I had already decided only to attend the NA edition, if I had to choose…
Anyways, you can read more about it in a blogpost by Mr. MAX himself…
http://onflash.org/ted/2009/03/max-2009-in-los-angeles-and-online-no.php
See you in Los Angeles…
http://max.adobe.com/
Adobe MAX 2008 Schedules
Having returned from Adobe MAX NA 2008 recently, it’s apparent that the EMEA version is so much smaller than the one in the US.
First of all, the US one was attended by more than 5000 people and the one in Milan has reached 1400 registrations (ref. http://onflash.org/ted/2008/11/max-europe-prep-in-milano.php).
The much lower number of attendees obviously reflects on the number of sessions, so I have chosen to share my agenda’s. There are some sessions only found in the NA agenda, which I would really have liked to see people in Europe get access to as well. Among those are the very technically concrete sessions such as “Extending Flex Builder” and the inspirational session “Dynamic Sounds” by infamous Andre Michell.
Adobe MAX EMEA 2008
Monday, December 1, 2008
09:30am – 11:00am MAX 2008 Opening General Session Auditorium
11:30am – 12:30pm Here Be Pixels Yellow 2
02:00pm – 03:00pm Optimizing Adobe AIR for Code Execution, Memory, and Rendering Red 1
03:15pm – 04:15pm Testing Your Flex Applications Yellow 2
04:30pm – 05:30pm Community and Flash Player Yellow 2
05:30pm – 09:30pm Welcome Reception in Community Pavilion Level 1
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
09:00am – 10:00am Developer Best Practices with Flex Yellow 2
10:30am – 12:00pm General Session Auditorium
01:30pm – 02:30pm Anatomy of a Seriously Sophisticated Adobe AIR Application Blue 2
02:45pm – 03:45pm Flex Development with Cairngorm Blue 1
04:00pm – 05:00pm Wireframing Experiences and Applications Red 2
05:30pm – 07:00pm Sneak Peeks Auditorium, Level 2
08:00pm – 11:30pm Customer Appreciation Event Special Offsite Location
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
09:00am – 10:00am Flash Player Internals Yellow 3
10:15am – 11:15am Mixing Open Source and Commercial Software Yellow 1
11:30am – 12:30pm Finding Away3D Yellow 2
01:30pm – 02:30pm Looking Ahead to the Next Version of Flex Builder Red 1
02:45pm – 03:45pm Structuring Your Development Team to Get the Work Done Yellow 1
04:00pm – 05:00pm Forms Gone Wild (2008) Red 1
Adobe MAX NA 2008
Monday, November 17, 2008
09:30am – 11:00am MAX 2008 Opening General Session Moscone West, Level 3 Ballroom
11:30am – 12:30pm Flash Player Internals Moscone West 2024
02:00pm – 03:00pm The Holistic Design Process for Interactive Agencies Moscone West 2020
05:00pm – 06:00pm Introduction to Thermo and the Next Generation of Flex Moscone West 2024
06:30pm – 08:30pm Welcome Reception in Community Pavilion Level 1, Moscone West
08:30pm – 10:30pm Birds-of-a-Feather and Meet the Team Level 2, Moscone West
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
09:00am – 10:00am Best Practices for Developing with Flex in a Team Moscone West 2004
10:30am – 12:00pm General Session Moscone West, Level 3 Ballroom
01:30pm – 02:30pm Dynamic Sounds in Flash Player 10 Moscone West 2024
03:00pm – 04:00pm Flex Project Workflows Moscone West 2002
04:30pm – 05:30pm Building Applications with Thermo Moscone West 2003
06:00pm – 07:30pm Sneak Peeks Level 3, Moscone West
07:30pm – 10:30pm Customer Appreciation Event de Young Museum
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
09:30am – 10:30am Extending Flex Builder Moscone West 2022
11:00am – 12:00pm Debugging and Profiling with Flex Builder Moscone West 2011
02:00pm – 03:00pm Designing in a Developer’s World Moscone West 2022
03:30pm – 04:30pm Here Be Pixels Moscone West 2002
05:00pm – 06:00pm Inside the Adobe AIR Cook-off: The Best Show Off Their Winning Chops Moscone West 2008
DJ Mike Relm Live at Adobe MAX NA 2008 Keynote
This is the full video of Mike Relm LIVE at Adobe MAX NA in San Francisco on Monday, November 17th 2008. Hopefully Adobe will provide a more hi-res version as soon as they get all the assets from the great conference organized.
Adobe MAX awards EU… make your vote count
The voting form for Adobe MAX Awards in Milan has been published.
If you think MyHome – Your Intelligent Home is the most visionary of the three finalists… you can follow this link to the voting form…
https://www.adobemaxsubmission.com/viewer/?projectid=96&location=EMEA
You can see the finalists here and get the links for the voting forms…
http://max.adobe.com/eu/experience/#?s=5&p=3
NASDAQ Market Replay won Adobe MAX Award
NASDAQ Market Replay won the Best Enterprise Application in the Adobe MAX Awards 2008 at the Adobe MAX conference in San Francisco.
The Powerful NASDAQ Market Replay application enables investment professionals to replay the market by slowing it down to the millisecond level for moment-in-time insight into trade histories.
The creative department at Hello helped Adobe design the NASDAQ Market Replay application, which helps investors by providing a validated replay and analysis of securities listed on all major U.S. equity markets. It is an essential part of a trader’s job to keep pace with the fast changing financial markets. As market data is played out over time on the trading floor, we wanted to represent this visually. We took our inspiration from sound editors when we designed the user experience. Similar to a sound sampler, you can replay a snippet of the entire data. One of the challenges was that a whole day of trading, for example in Apple stocks, can result in a 45 MB text file (trades are recorded down to the millisecond). Due to the massive amount of data that investors have to deal with daily, we used the Adobe Air framework. This platform lets you work with data offline, and only updates when a user requests it from the server. What came out the other end was a seamless user experience, allowing for data to become tangible in a smooth zooming algorithm that constantly redraws the screen as the user moves in and ponders the finer details of a market-play.
User needs drove the feature set here, making sure that we ended up with a focused, easy-to-use application and an elegant interface. Hello produced the IA, interaction design, algorithm – as well as the visual user experience for the NASDAQ Market Replay.
Alongside Adobe and NASDAQ, Hello took the challenge of making intangible mountains of data into an innovative and useful solution that resulted in giving a very high brand value for NASDAQ.
Learn more – and try the application here…
https://data.NASDAQ.com/MR.aspx
Adobe interviews Claude Courbois of NASDAQ OMX
http://max.adobe.com/blog/2008/11/max-awards-2008-nasdaq-market-replay.html
Adobe MAX NA 2008
Adobe MAX NA 2008 is over… it’s been great to be here in Adobe’s HQ city and meeting all the people responsible for the tools that we use every day.
It’s amazing how clever Adobe is in combining both driving the development by research and innovation as well as responding to the changes to the industry that more than ever puts strains on technology companies.
Now, to recap 2 of the really big things that have been presented to the public on this year’s MAX.
Flash Catalyst
This is the kind of application that fills such a critical role in our industry, so it’s really easy to get it wrong… so to be honest, I was very concerned about how Adobe were going to go about it… but to my positive surprise, Adobe has really been good at interpreting the needs of interactive agencies and created a tool that was even better than what I thought would be a good result. The seamless integration between CS4 and Flash Catalyst through a common object model and Flex Builder through FXG is actually better than I had hoped for.
Cocomo
Almost every application being built now and in the future will include elements of collaboration. Furthermore will future applications be using the internet as a part of its native architecture and base itself on functionality it gets from services in the cloud. These factors all point to a framework such as Cocomo, I can’t wait to be able to use it in applications now that it’s made it through to the public beta state during Adobe MAX in San Francisco.
(This picture is taken with my iPhone at the Keynote speech Monday)
”MyHome – Your Intelligent Home” is in the Adobe MAX awards finals !
Now its official… “MyHome – Your Intelligent Home” is an Adobe MAX awards finalist.
This is off course a great honor considering the rather short time HelloGroup has been in business and how relatively recently we added development of RIA’s for the Adobe Flash platform to our services.
When we at HelloGroup do something – I suppose we do it so it eventually makes a difference.
Check it out…
http://www.savingtrust.dk/consumer/tools-and-calculators/my-home/about-my-home
Adobe MAX NA Awards Finalists published
The finalists for the North American Adobe MAX Awards have been published…
Check it out…
http://adobemax08.com/na/experience/#?s=5&p=3
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