Well, day 4 has come and gone and while I'm sad to see MAX over, it sure is nice to be back home. Today I had some good sessions, including: Mobile Web Development workflow, Advanced
Exporting in Fireworks (.pdf and flex files), Deep Dive in Photoshop CS4, and Video Production for the web using OnLocation, Premiere Pro and After Effects.

Today was one of the strongest days I had in terms of material I knew I could really use when I came back home - especially with the Video Production piece. I was always kind of intimidated by the interface of Premiere and now that I was finally able to get a "hands-on", it was actually an enjoyable class and I look forward to getting some video that I can play with and upload to the Web.

It was an enjoyable 4 days in San Francisco and I thought they did a heck of a job in its organization. The ability to change your itinerary "on the fly" was very liberating. Basically there were dozens of PCs in the Mascone center where a majority of the classes were being held. If you wanted to take a Flash course instead of a Flex course that you originally signed up for, for example, you would simply go online, log in, sign and update your schedule. Then you would take your badge and hold it up to a scanner for a few seconds, where it would finalize your schedule. When you arrived at your session, an attendant would scan your badge to make sure you were schedule to be in that class. It was a breeze to use, even a monkey could understand it. Hell - I did.

I'm unsure however whether or not I'll go to MAX next year (Oct 4-7 in Los Angeles) as I may forgo that to instead go to Adobe DevLearn as the latter is more applicable to my role in the training world. Heck, if I can swing it - I may try and do both. :]

See you all in January and Happy Holidays!

Kevin