Developers hate inefficiencies. We hate repetitive tasks. We hate having to re-type something we've not 30 seconds ago typed in on a different device, especially considering we're likely surrounded by about 10 of the damn things. This is why I love Adobe Shadow.

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A while ago, before we were nominated for an Adobe MAX award, I did an interview regarding Lightmaker's use of Adobe technologies for our work with The R&A and The Open Championship 2011. I'm pleased to say that this has been turned into a Success Story for the adobe.com site, and is now live.

You can read the full story here:
Adobe.com case study

Lightmaker news story

Adobe MAX is Adobe's annual conference, which for 2011 was held in Los Angeles, USA. Every year 5000 conference attendees gather to share Adobe's latest big reveals, attend sessions by industry leaders, and join in with community and 'unconference' events.

This was my first MAX, and was something which I have been looking forward to for a long time. Having never been to a conference outside of the UK I was unsure what to expect from a lot of things. Since there doesn't seem to be a great deal of first time information currently out there I thought I'd cover some of the basics...

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I'm very pleased to announce that I will be a speaker on the Adobe ColdFusion User Groups tour at events in Paris on the 30th of May and Brussels on the 31st of May.

The presentation I'll be giving will be:

Building dynamic mobile applications with ColdFusion

The world of device development is one where rules and approaches can shift rapidly, but also one where excitement is high and there is huge potential for innovation.

In this session we'll be covering why, as a ColdFusion developer, you may want to build mobile applications, and how ColdFusion is a great platform to power them. Using a real world project as an example we will explore the development process from brief to completion, examining the challenges you may face along the way.

Sally Jenkinson is Solutions Architect at Lightmaker UK, an Adobe Partner Agency. With 6 years of ColdFusion experience, Sally has worked with clients including Electronic Arts, Innocent Drinks, The David Beckham Academy, Sony Entertainment and Disney, and is an Adobe Community Professional for 2011. Primarily responsible for technical strategy and partnership management, Sally works closely with Lightmaker's development team in order to produce award-winning websites and apps. Outside of work Sally can usually be found on Xbox LIVE, in a restaurant, or planning her next holiday.

Sally's blog can be found at sallyjenkinson.co.uk, and she can also be found on twitter at @sjenkinson

Slides and supporting information will of course be posted online closer to the event.

I'm really excited to be a part of these events, and I look forward to hopefully meeting lots of you there!

Today brought the announcement of Adobe's first mid-cycle release for Creative Suite 5.5. Instead of continuing with uninterrupted milestone releases, these will be moved to a two-year cycle, with mid-cycle releases keeping the product relevant and at the cutting edge of technology.

There were two main sides to the announcement - functionality and licensing.

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