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I am not alone...
I told my wife I felt a lil’ funny coming here because I seen as an “Adobe-head” rather than a Microsoft geek. Mainly I was thinking in terms of conversation with other developers who are well-emersed in Microsoft technologies blowing my mind with common dialog since I don’t know as much about .Net, etc as I do about Adobe (Macromedia) technologies. I am completely comfortable, don’t get me wrong, but it felt a little odd.
Well, I am not alone. After the Expression session I was walking out and saw “Mike Downey”http://weblogs.macromedia.com/md/. Who’s Downey? He’s the Flash Product Manager. It was a bit of a shock but I spoke with him briefly and he said there are several Adobe folks floating around. For you conspiracy theorists let me put you at ease. YES, they are hear scouting the competition. LOL.
On my way to this Atlas session, which I somewhat missed due to bloggin’ (lol), I saw another Flash-head…”Phillip Kerman”:http://www.phillipkerman.com. He is here by invitation and has been checking out Expression as well as Atlas. He’s not an Adobe employee but well-known in the Flash industry as a sweet developer and author.
So, all-in-all…I’m not alone. Michael Hagel told me Daniel Dura is here somewhere as well which I assume he’s running with the Adobe crew. It is good to see “family” as I meet new family. :-) No that doesn’t mean I’m ditching Adobe technologies but I am DEFINITELY going to embrace Microsoft technologies way more than I have in the past.
—Updated
I’m sitting here in my next session (hasn’t started) and I look over to find Mike Chambers talking to a Expression product manager. They were discussing a couple things about what Microsoft is doing and Mike expressed a few of his feelings about some of the things they are doing as well as directions things are going. Pretty interesting conversation though.
Posted by John C. Bland II on March 20, 2006 4:47 PM | Permalink
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