Adobe MAX 2007 Blog

Every year the Adobe MAX conference presents the editors of the Adobe Developer Connection with a great opportunity to meet new people, gather story ideas, interact with peers, and get a sneak peek at technology in the works. This year at MAX 2007 North America in Chicago, Edge managing editor Julie Campagna met dozens of web designers and developers who were eager to tell her about their latest projects. We captured a bunch of these conversations and demos on camera. See them now.

Troy Hahn is a web developer for Auburn University's Department of Fisheries. Comprising 1,000 pages built with Dreamweaver CS3 and the Spry framework, this academic website allows faculty to use Contribute to add their own content, making Troy's web dev life so much easier than before. The Spry data set helps pull down even large PDFs without a hitch.



Troy talks with Julie Campagna about the website, and demos some of its features.

Travel may still be a headache at the airport but booking a trip just got a lot easier for Disney Travel agents who plan visits for their clients to Disney properties. Josh Bloom and Cary Gibaldi of Frog Design talk with Julie Campagna about the Disney Travel Planner, an innovative app that streamlines the Disney travel agent's job by connecting them to special fares and events that can be stored locally using Adobe AIR for browsing with clients offline.



After you see the video demo, check out the Frog Design case studies. Dattoos, anyone?

The Discovery Channel documentary, "Living with Cancer," takes an honest look at the reality of living with cancer from the perspective of patients, survivors, family, caretakers, and doctors. This website is an online companion to that television show.



Anthony Franco of Effective UI talks to Julie Campagna about the Discovery Channel's Cancer Collage site. It's not often that users can get emotional about a website, but Anthony says that when it happens, it makes the developer's job totally worth it.

Buzzword is a pretty cool online word processor that enables individuals or teams to create documents offline, online, or whatever. It was built with Flex and runs inside Flash Player. Considering that you interact with it via a boring web browser, Buzzword sports some great looking typography and page layout controls.



Rick Treitman of Virtual Ubiquity shows Julie Campagna what Buzzword looks like. To sign up for a beta account to preview the service, go to getbuzzword.com. You'll receive an e-mail with further sign-in instructions.

Julie Campagna talks with Rachel Roth from DHAP Digital, who describes the rich interactive website that DHAP built for ILM. A MAX Award finalist, "The Show" provides visitors with a behind-the-scenes look at the artistry and technology used to bring characters and environments to life in the movie, Pirates of the Caribbean II.



This site is really cool -- and seemingly of interest to both fans of the movie and industry professionals who always like to see how others create their special effects. For more information check out the site at ilm.com/theshow.

Developed by NASA, the Interactive Reference Guide to the International Space Station was a winner of a 2007 MAX Award in the Best Public Sector category.



Julie Campagna talks with Michael Carbajal, who demos the online Interactive Reference Guide, which shows how the on-board crew lives, how the station was built, and what its purpose is.

It's a pretty neat intro to the orbiting station. To visit the website, go to nasa.gov/externalflash/ISSRG/.