I’m on my way to 360|Flex in Atlanta and I wanted to quickly talk a bit about my session on Wednesday morning. It’s officially listed in the program as CS3 and Flex 3 from 10:00 – 11:20 on Wednesday morning. The reason for that is that there isn’t enough stuff I can talk about with regards to Thermo to fill the entire hour and a half slot. In fact, the team is really busy nailing a lot of the user interface stuff and tackling a lot of the more interesting designer/developer problems for an alpha/beta later this year. But there are some things I can share and most of it revolves around how the CS3 products fit into Thermo. I’ll be talking about CS3 and Flex 3 skinning in the context of how Thermo will handle some of those problems, then I’ll talk about what our current plans for importing artwork into Thermo are and how to prepare your CS3 files for Thermo. I’ll talk about some of our “roud trip” feature between Thermo and CS3 as well. In some ways it’s going to be kind of an odd session because I won’t be showing a lot of code or a lot of concrete information (the things that make 360|Flex such a great conference). One thing I do want to do is spend a big chunk of time answering your questions and getting feedback about Thermo. I wanted to run a BoF but didn’t have time so this will be a combined session/BoF in some ways.

Here’s what you shouldn’t expect:

• A new demo
• An in-depth feature list
• Any kind of Thermo bits

Here’s what you should expect:

• Information about CS and Thermo
• How to start thinking about getting your artwork in Thermo for the beta down the road
• CS3/Flex 3 Workflows that you can use today
• A chance to ask a lot of questions and get most of them answered.

It’s a nontraditional session, but I really wanted to give you guys a chance to talk about Thermo. 360|Flex is a collection of the best our community has to offer so I felt like it was important to have some Thermo representation there.

[tags]Thermo, 360FlexAtlanta, CS3[/tags]