Even though leg 1 of on AIR Europe is sold out, we still have a bunch of other cities open to registration. Also, the capacity of the Paris event has been expanded due to overwhelming demand.

If you want a deep dive on Adobe AIR and can make it to one of the cities below, make sure you sign up now while there’s still room.

• Paris, 02-Apr-08
• Stockholm, 02-Jun-08
• Berlin, 04-Jun-08
• Warsaw, 06-Jun-08
• Prague, 09-Jun-08
• Munich, 11-Jun-08
• Milano, 13-Jun-08

To learn all about the on AIR Europe tour, visit onair.adobe.com.

Want to learn more about Flex 3 and AIR - for free? Check it out:

Flex and AIR User Group Pre-release Tour

Flex 3 and AIR are getting close to launch and in preparation, the Adobe Platform Evangelist team is traveling to select cities to show off the great new features and some brand new demos.

Flex 3 is a feature-packed release, adding new UI components like the advanced datagrid and improved CSS capabilities; powerful tooling additions like refactoring; and extensive testing tools including memory and performance profiling, plus the addition of the automated testing framework to Flex Builder.

Adobe AIR is game-changing in so many ways, extending rich applications to the desktop, enabling access to the local file system, system tray, notifications and much more. Now you can write desktop applications using the same skills that you’ve been already using to create great web apps including both Flex and AJAX.

Don’t miss out on the opportunity to see and hear about this highly anticipated release of Flex 3 and AIR during this special pre-release tour. Plus, in addition to giving away some one of a kind Flex/AIR branded schwag, we will also be raffling off a copy of Flex Builder 3 Professional (pending availability) and a full commercial copy of CS3 Web Premium at this event!

Check out the comprehensive listing of dates at flex.org/tour to see if the tour is coming to your city!

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.

I just noticed that Ted Patrick has posted a code to receive a pretty hefty discount off of MAX Chicago registration. Get it here.

Also, I’ll be presenting two sessions at MAX:
- AIR Customer Panel
- Top AIR Applications: Visualizing the possibilities of a new Platform

And, I’ll be joining Adobe Corporate Evangelist Marc Eaman to host the ever-so-popular SNEAKS session on Tuesday, 10/2 at 5:30pm.

If you’re a Flash user and want to learn about Transitioning to the Desktop with Adobe AIR, you should check out the eSeminar on Wed 8/21 at 10am PST delivered by Lee Brimelow of Frog Design. In the eSeminar, Lee will demonstrate how to work with the newly released AIR extension for Flash CS3.

This is very cool. Innovative creative agency Big Spaceship’s “Minister of Technology”, Joshua Hirsch, is giving a workshop on Rich Media Content in San Francisco on February 24 - 25.

I’ve known Josh for a few years now and I know that he’s one of the best Flash developers out there. Plus, he has real world experience with leading the development effort of a large team working for very big name clients - so he can offer some insights from real-world situations. If you’re looking to hone your Flash development skills, or just learn more about architecting rich media websites, you’ll want to check this one out. Admission is US$500.

Register here.

This workshop will focus on what goes on under the hood of rich media experience websites and games deployed with Adobe Flash. We will begin with general concepts such as overall code architecture and file structure for a large scale, high functionality project and discuss the process and workflow between the various teams at Big Spaceship. The session will then move into specifics which will be largely determined by the interests and questions of the attendees, but should remain more focused on the development side of things.

The content of the session will mainly focus on Flash 8 and ActionScript 2, but attention will be given throughout to features and differences that will appear in ActionScript 3.

Topics may include:

* Object oriented architecture and best practices in ActionScript 2
* Optimization for performance
* Optimization of preloading sequences
* Rapid Prototyping
* Animating with code
* Preparing for ActionScript 3

Location: 785 Market, 2nd Floor (one block from the Powell Street BART Station) San Francisco, CA 94103

We’re very excited to be participating in a new track at Macworld Expo San Francisco this year - FlashForward! That’s right, Lynda Weinman has arranged a full FlashForward track at the Macworld conference on January 8, 2007 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA.

Mike Chambers, Justin Everett-Church and I will be delivering a keynote from 9:00am to 10:30am focusing on Flash, Flex, Creative Suite, and Apollo.

Sessions will be given by Michael Ninness, Chris Georgenes, Aral Balkan, and Robert Reinhardt.

More information here.

NOTE: Discounts end today!

I love developers. This is a great example of what makes the software market so great. A few developers were working on a Flex training day at their business (ebay) and decided to take everything a big step further and have now put together the 360Flex conference.

If you’re interested in Flex and want to deep dive with other brilliant minds, check out this conference in San Jose, CA - March 5 thru 7 in 2007.

If you’d like to learn more about streaming Flash video and building multi-user applications with Flash, attend the Flash Media Server 2 event being held at the Hyatt West Hollywood (map) on November 9 in West Hollywood, CA. The event runs from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm.

Register here.

Flash Media Server 2 (FMS2) offers the unique combination of traditional streaming media capabilities and a flexible development environment for creating and delivering innovative, interactive media applications to the broadest possible audience. This seminar will discuss how FMS2 enables organizations to create and deliver a range of basic experiences such as Video on Demand, live web-event broadcasts, and MP3 streaming as well as rich media communication applications like video blogging, video messaging, and multimedia chat environments to let you reach your audiences the way you want.

Sign up today and find out how FMS2 can help you:

Reach the widest audience with the least effort — Flash reaches over 98% of all connected desktops and consistently works across operating systems and browsers, freeing up your development staff to work on great new experiences rather than creating fixes to work across platforms.

Create and deliver consistent and highly differentiated media experiences — Seamlessly integrate media experiences in your website without additional pop up windows and easily build custom players with unique functionality to differentiate engage and retain your audiences.

Engage your audience with interactive content — Enable your viewers to jump to any part of the video through the Advance Seek feature, embed clickable hotspots to display associated content, as well as let them choose from different points of view with multiple camera angles.

Lower development costs — Bypass the need to encode into different formats and develop multiple versions of your site to reach multiple platforms. Encode and develop once and deliver everywhere with FMS2.

If you’re attending the Adobe MAX conference in Las Vegas this week, make sure you attend the Day 1 keynote address by Adobe’s Chief Software Architect, Kevin Lynch. We have a whole bunch of surprises planned. You don’t want to miss this.

Tuesday morning at the Venetian conference center in Hall D at 8:30am. Don’t be late - the cool stuff starts right away.