Like we did last year, we will be providing a UKCFUG meetup to cover stuff from Max Milan.

The session will be held at Design UK on Tuesday December the 9th at 7pm. The agenda is as follows:

7.15 - 8.15 : Max De-Brief
8.15 - 8.30 : Break
8.30 - 9.30 : Live Doc's
9.30 - Late : Pub

Max De-Brief
Will will try and cover all the Announcements from MAX and of course what we can from the sneak peak sessions. In Addition we will try and cover some of the session we go to.

Live Doc's
This session is a free form question / answer session about anything to do general web development, ColdFusion, or the Adobe stack in general. Note that questions must be taken prior to the event so please submit them to neil [at] monochrome [dot] co [dot] uk or hand them to us on the night.

Where:
Design UK, 10 Warwick Street, London, W1B 5LZ
When:
Tuesday December 9th 2008 7pm - 9.30pm
Directions:
Nearest Tube - Piccadilly Circus

If you wish to attend please email us at neil [at] monochrome [dot] co [dot] uk with name and numbers.

A couple of people have asked me where we can find the UKCFUG on groups.adobe.com.  For those who want to know, it's here:

http://groups.adobe.com/groups/4417201ddb

Note that groups is still very much a case of "wet paint" and stuff is changing all the time.  I've poked Adobe about the issues.

What is MAX?
From wikipedia "Adobe MAX is a large annual event held by Adobe in North America, Europe and Japan. The purpose of the event to provide unique opportunities for those in the computer design and development industries to connect and learn the latest cutting-edge technologies that Adobe releases." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_MAX)

This year's European event is taking place December 1st - 3rd in Milan, Italy. If you're interested in Adobe's technology roadmap, new product announcements or want to learn more about the Adobe Platform and Adobe through hands-on labs and over 50 Flex developer sessions then MAX Europe is for you. Use the session browser to explore all the sessions at MAX: http://max.adobe.com/eu/sessions/browser/

MAX highlights
This year, there are a host of speakers travelling from the UK to speak at MAX, alongside Adobe product managers, evangelists and designers & developers from all around the world. Here are some of the sessions from UK speakers:

- James Whittaker (RefreshingApps.com), "Perfecting the user experience in Adobe AIR"
- Samuel Williams (LBi), "Building Flex applications with PureMVC"
- Neil Middleton (Monochrome), "Structuring your development team and getting the work done"
- Mike Jones (FlashGen), "Debugging and profiling with Flex Builder"
- Rob Bateman (Away3D), "Finding Away3D"
- Stefan Richter (FlashComGuru), "Building collaborative applications with Flash Media Server"
- Carlos Ulloa (Papervision3D), "Advanced Papervision3D"-
- Rick Williams (AKQA), "Anatomy of a seriously sophisticated AIR application"
- Dom O'Brien (Glue London), "Interactive Video Campaigns"

More information here: http://www.ashorten.com/2008/10/07/announcing-uk-speakers-at-max-europe/

Organising Flights & Hotels
EasyJet have flights to Milan from around £50 - http://www.easyjet.com/
BA have flights to Milan from around £100 - http://www.britishairways.com/
Hotels - there are hotels on Expedia from around £45 a night staying near the Central Station. A map of recommended hotels is available here: http://max.adobe.com/eu/experience/downloads/MAX2008_MilanHotelMap.pdf

UK get together
The Flex User Group London are planning to hold a get together dinner on Sunday night in Milan for all attendees travelling from the UK - come and network with UK developers before the event starts, pick up your exclusive MAX T-Shirt and plan out your agenda for the conference. As a bonus, Adobe are sponsoring the drinks!! Meetup for it is here.

Use the discount code!!
As user group members you can use the discount code UKI816 to get a full 3 day conference pass for 599 Euros (approx £400). If you need a letter to persuade your boss that you should go to MAX you can download and print from here!