Thermoing My Laptop Out

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Thermo SmallJapan is awesome and I’m really looking forward to MAX tomorrow. The price is $150 for two days (an amazing deal for this conference) so I think we’re going to see some huge numbers. Unfortunately it’s really discombobulating being in this time-zone for a news junkie like me. Everything exciting happens while I’m sleeping. But there has been some upside. I got to hang out with Mark Anders and Steven Heintz tonight and talk about Thermo. I’m going to be helping out with the evangelism side of Thermo and sitting in on the product team meetings so I’m hoping to capture as much feedback from you guys as possible. The best perk though? Getting the first run Thermo sticker for my laptop and sticking it over the Apple logo. Here it is in lighted goodness:

Thermo

Now that I’m back in the city I’ll be catching up on feeds and posting regularly. Try not to break too much news with out me today.

[tags]Thermo, Blogging[/tags]

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  • http://www.bobjim.com Ryan Campbell

    Definitely excited for Thermo. My fiancee has been learning Flex lately but she has no programming background so I’m hoping Thermo is more her style.

  • http://www.peterelst.com Peter Elst

    Thermo looks like a very promising product, the more I think about it the more I see it filling that developer / (interaction) designer gap in the Flex product range.

    cool stickers BTW, can’t wait to get my hands on one! ;)

  • http://blog.xsive.co.nz Campbell

    Yeah you find yourself staying up later and later in these timezones. Thermo icon looks kewl :)

  • Phillip Kerman

    What I’ve seen of Thermo was nice, though I’m not very clear how it’s anything more than a (much) better design view for Flex and a better PSD importer than even Flash CS3.

    Feel free to clue us in on Thermo… on the one hand, it’s so far out that you probably can’t say what it really IS exactly (both because it’s a big secret and because you all may not have decided). On the other hand, it’s sure easier to hype without having an actual product yet either. Whatever, I’m glad you have the PR momentum on your side. As for us consumers we just want to see it.

  • http://www.peterelst.com Peter Elst

    @Phillip – its more than a better design view and importer though, if thats what you’re after Flex Builder 3 comes very close.

    The whole convert artwork to component, design the user interaction and interface states and work with dummy data is what makes Thermo so powerful IMHO.

  • http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com Ryan Stewart

    Hey Phillip, I hear you. I’m going to talk a lot about what the goals/reasons behind Thermo are in the next few months. Hopefully sooner rather than later because it’s a fun topic for me. As you said, it’s also really early, so I’m also interested to hear use cases from you guys based on what you’ve already seen. What is important to you in the kind of workflow that Thermo enables and what’s not.

    On the stickers, I’m looking to get some to give away. Stay tuned. They’re really cool :)

  • http://en.flash-ripper.com/ Rostislav Siryk

    Ryan,

    Thermo looks very promising. However, I think there’s important thing to take into account regarding its work flow: the Flash Design Experience of Flash Designers.

    There’s a huge community of people who are familiar with Flash design. So they are expecting something well-known to them in Thermo. Even if they’re not expecting it now, they’ll ask for after the first Thermo Alpha Release. This would be very good to make the Thermo for them as friendly as possible, because you know: much of the designers are lazy snails when it comes to start using brand new design environment.

    Some designers even refuse using the new version of Photoshop, that’s why they make not too much noise about the Expression, for example. I’ve tried Expression for last two weeks because I saw it just after MS just bought it (~2 years ago?) and there was a lot of cool and promising features. What I see now is not so good despite the fact it looks like something cool from the first sight. Finally, when week ago I discovered that there’s no possibility to use bitmap fonts (aliased ones) in Expression, I thought: ‘Expression is really poor at the moment. MS even haven’t implemented the bitmap fonts — the feature Flash Design Community struggled for years to be implemented in Flash! And they call it Design tool for Flash Killer? Then this is the handless killer.’

    So I think Thermo shouldn’t make the mistake here. Embrace the best Flash Design practices and try to port there to the Thermo. Maybe this is a good idea to launch a mini-survey like “What is your most beloved Flash IDE feature?” I’m not talking about “Most Wanted” here because it might be easier to port existing features from Flash to Thermo.

    And, to finalize my post here: when I’ve heard about Thermo for the first time, I’ve thought this is the code name for the next version of Flash IDE! Maybe it’s not; but anyway, even if these Thermo and Flash Next ones will be the separate products, this would be very smart move to enrich them with the most power features of each other.

    Wu wei Thermo :)

  • http://www.kitershop.ch Lenkdrachen

    Thanks for very interesting article. btw. I really enjoyed reading all of your posts. It’s interesting to read ideas, and observations from someone else’s point of view… makes you think more. So please keep up the great work. Greetings.