It’s been over three years since I earned my six-week sabbatical from Macromedia and I finally decided to take it (with a little vacation time added on). So if you’re trying to get a hold of me for any Adobe-related stuff you won’t hear back until January 7 at the earliest. In the mean time you can contact Ben Forta (bforta -at- adobe -dot- com) for anything that you need.

Also, I had to disable comments until I figure out why I’m getting insane amounts of comment spam. If you really need to get a hold of me for NON-ADOBE stuff you can email me at my personal address: madowney -at- gmail -dot- com. If you ask me anything about Adobe I will probably not respond.

See you in January!

I was just reminded that we are holding a RIA Developer Camp at Adobe’s San Francisco office from 4pm to 8:30pm tonight.  It looks like registration is still open so if you’re in San Francisco be sure to stop by.

Learn from other developer community leaders on how they use Adobe® Flex™ 2, Flash® CS3, and AIR™ (Adobe Integrated Runtime) to help them improve their business applications.  Join this seminar and hear speakers from Yahoo!®, PayPal™, ActionScript.com, and Adobe discuss how business owners, web developers, and end users are using these technologies to build their cool applications in a snap.

• Adobe AIR lets developers use their existing web development skills in HTML, AJAX, Flash, and Flex to build and deploy rich Internet applications to the desktop.
• Design rich Internet applications that help businesses communicate more effectively, inside and outside the enterprise, with Flex 2.