Developer's view of the DW/Flash presentations
I'm a little surprised by this. Why don't employers encourage staff to use the tools that increase productivity. Am I to believe that using a tool like Eclipse doesn't make a coder's job more efficient? (versus using say, Notepad)
To each his own.
I'm reminded of this by hearing the almost audible grins on my peer's faces as they watch Scott Fegette show a few new features that are in the works for the next version of Dreamweaver. Scott is filling in this morning for the Dreamweaver 'Next' presentation (next just meaning the next version, it is not the code name).
John Nack, 'the Ben Forta of Photoshop' (Evangelist). While showing some cool masking techniques, John made a rather comical change to his original photo, eliciting the comment, 'The first rule of demo club, don't deviate from the demo'. The builds we were shown (he flipped between 3 I believe) had varying levels of stability and completeness of certain features. I didn't see any real problems, but I'm weak with Photoshop. By the rather loud applause a large percentage of the audience were enamored with the upgrades and tweaks.
Terry, Brenda & Lydia - group product manager for emerging markets talked about Illustrator and a few other features having to do with fonts. Frankly, I'm lost by their presentation since I don't use Illustrator and a cell phone call was the perfect reason to excuse myself. The highlights for me were the start screen when Illustrator opened and the bright colors they used in their demos :-)
What does the inside of Adobe look like?
Ed, one of our community relations people at Adobe informed us that thanks to significant requests (mine!) they have acquisced and we will be getting small tours of the buildings this afternoon. No word yet on the scope of the tours, but rumor has it that there is a basketball court with the Adobe logo embedded in the floor on the 7th floor of one of the buildings. I'm hoping for a few good camera shots of the sky bridges between the towers and maybe a couple senior developer's offices.
Ryan Hartwich
Good!!