Apollo: The unofficial WTF
You’d have to be coming out from under a pretty big rock to have not heard anything of Apollo the new “cross platfrom runtime from Adobe”. However, you would be forgiven for not having had the chance to piece all of the press releases and blog posts together. This session will be a blaggers guide to understanding what Apollo is, where it fits into the Flash Platform and why you should give a damn. There has also been a lot of FUD over the release of Apollo and what it is going to be/not be which Dan aims to address during this presentation.
Exclusion Clause: Dan is in no way affiliated with Adobe but has done his homework and has given Apollo alot of attention over the past few months. If you’ve been too busy doing real work to find out what is going on this should get you up to speed.
Presentation: PDF, Powerpoint
February 23rd, 2007 at 6:38 pm
[…] Last night I presented my “Apollo: The Unofficial WTF” at the LFPUG in London. I presented after Alias who did a presentation on procedural bitmap effects. Alias was relaxed and gave a great and interesting presentation with some stunning examples and work he’s been doing. […]
April 17th, 2007 at 9:25 am
[…] Why? Well, I met Andrew Shorten, a former Macromedia/Adobe now Microsoft UX guy after my presentation on Apollo at the LFPUG in February. We got to talking about what he’s up to at MS and a few days later he came down to see us in sunny Bournemouth and we got into discussing the latest industry goings ons and where the Microsoft Expression suite, WPF and SilverLight (then WPF/e) fits in. Turns out he’s a pretty cool guy and has a pretty cool job of liaising with the developer community and trying to push and gather feedback on the whole Expression outfit. He offered me a place on this early adopters course and me, being one for expanding my (and my businesses) horizons rather than spouting off uneducated, ill-researched rants about my love/hatred/bandwagoning-opinion on various technology companies, accepted. […]
November 18th, 2007 at 8:32 pm
[…] If you read my blog regularly, you’ll know I was quick to jump on the AIR trip. I do still very much like AIR, have seen some good AIR apps and believe it has some good potential. I’ve played with a couple of AIR apps, have seen several AIR presentations (even presented one) and made numerous blog posts about it. So I feel I’m justified in my opinion that I’m not completely convinced that this is the best next step for RIAs, or at least not the best place we can end up. […]