I have been invited to speak at BFlex at the end of October.

BFlex is a full-day of hands-on-training on all things Flex. I will be doing a session on Flash Catalyst. While there are a lot of tutorials out there on Catalyst, and conferences and user group meetings have been awash with hour-long overviews of it, this is going to be one of the first opportunities for people to really take time and go in-depth with this exciting new product.

BFlex will take place on Sunday, October 25. The day before, Saturday, is BFusion, a full day of hands-on ColdFusion sessions. Both are being sponsoring by the University of Indiana in Bloomington, and are being held on their campus. It only costs $10 per person per day - an incredible deal. If you plan to be in the Bloomington area at the end of October, come on out and join us!

Adobe has posted most, or possibly all, of the sessions from MAX, including as it turns out mine! Pretty cool. So if you would like to watch it, you can do so on the Adobe TV site.

Quite a few folks have been asking me where I'll be during MAX, so I thought I'd go ahead and post my schedule.

Saturday: I'll be arriving via Amtrak sometime Saturday evening. We have a friend's birthday party to go to that day, so I have no idea as to when I'll actually get into town.

Sunday: I'm taking one of the full-day training sessions on Sunday, and I'm really excited about it. I'll be in "Deliver Video Anywhere with Creative Suite 4 Production Premium".
I don't know if anything official is happening Sunday night, but if not, I'll most likely just track down some folks who will have arrived by then and hang out. If you're coming in sometime on Sunday, drop me a line and let me know.

Monday:

• 9:30 - 11 - Opening Session
• 11:30 - 12:30 - Ten After Effects CS4 Features for Designers Who Use Flash
• 2:00 - 3:00 - Forms Gone Wild
• 3:30 - 4:30 - Introduction to Thermo and the Next Generation of Flex
• 5:00 - 6:00 - My session :)
• 8:30 - 10:30 - Birds of a Feather sessions. I always decide which of these to attend at the last minute, but they really are the highlight of the conference.

Tuesday:

• 8:30 - 10:00 - Getting Started with After Effects CS4
• 10:30 - 12 - General Session
• 1:30 - 2:30 - Introduction to Adobe AIR: Building Your First Application
• 3:00 - 4:00 - Accessibility Basics: Making Websites More Useful for More People
• 4:30 - 5:30 - Using Apache Derby, the Open Source Database Embedded in ColdFusion 8
• Evening - Unfortunately, both the Community Reception and the Speaker's Reception are happening at the same time Tuesday night, so I'll probably go to one for a little while and then head to the other one.

Wednesday

• 9:00 - 10:30 - Fear No Audio: Intro to Audio Creating and Editing
• 11:00 - 12:30 - Creating Effects with Pixel Bender
• 2:00 - 3:00 - Be Seen and Heard: Sweetening Soundtracks for Video and Rich Media Projects
• 4:00 - 5:30 - Hands-on with Thermo: Creating Interactive Designs

So there it is. Hope to see everyone there!

Oh, one last thing: if you're traveling to San Francisco from out of town and you've never been there before, be sure to check out our MAX travel site.