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Where in the World Is Yahoo! Flash Platform? (Answer: Adobe Max 2008)

Well, we sneak around the world, from Kiev to Carolina, but next week, the big Adobe Max Developer Conference is coming to San Francisco, and we wanted to let you know that that’s where we’ll be! Yahoo! is a gold sponsor of the conference, and we’ll have a booth where someone will always be on hand to valiantly answer your questions and distribute schwag. We will also have two sessions in the “Develop” track. Here are the session blurbs:

Hybrid Applications: Where JavaScript and Flash Play Together
Monday, November 17th, 5—6 PM, Moscone West 2012

Although JavaScript is frequently the first choice for building RIAs, it is limited by browser capabilities. For that reason, JavaScript is missing some of the most essential features: vector drawing, improved file uploading, local storage, video playback, and so on. In this session, we’ll present a solution to this problem in the form of hybrid components. Hybrid components are applications built with Flash whose functionality is exposed to JavaScript and allows them to be used just like regular JavaScript components. We’ll go over the architecture of hybrids and showcase those developed for Yahoo!’s popular open source YUI library.

Yahoo! ASTRA and YUI: Open Source Front-End Components for Every Occasion
Wednesday, November 19th, 2—3 PM, Moscone West 2012

Yahoo! front-end platform teams have a unique approach to developing software: Although they work for a commercial enterprise, everything they do is free and open source. In this session, Yahoo! representatives will cover the work they’ve been doing for three years, from the award-winning YUI Library (preview YUI 3.0) to the Flash and Flex components in the ASTRA Library to the ActionScript 3 Maps API. The components they build solve real problems and can be leveraged by other companies. We’ll look at the source of a few components to see how they were built and provide insight into component development.

We’ll record screencasts of both of these sessions and post them on this blog, so noone will miss out.

And if you are registered for Adobe Max, then see you soon!

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