I’ve just uploaded the FLA and PPT files for my “Advanced Flash Lite Development” session at Macromedia MAX. Thanks to everyone that attended. If you were at the conference but couldn’t make it to the class, I’ll be doing a breeze version for the MAX presentation library soon.

This zip file has the FLA for Flickr Flash Lite tag search, a Yahoo! Word of the day lookup, and a simple battery check application. I’ve included the PowerPoint file and word doc of instructions for using the FLAs.

MAX was really great this year. First it was enormous!! I think they said that it was over 3000 people. That doesn’t sound like much until you see the sea of chairs at the keynote. Even with the room full of seats, there was still standing room only.

I was really pleased to see that two of my Flash Lite applications were demoed in the keynote. NYC traffic was shown as B-roll in a video about the Macromedia Nokia partnership. Bill Perry also showed the Flickr tag search as his demo of the Flash 8 Mobile Emulator.

When not teaching my sessions, my time was split between being at the Yahoo! booth, and attending sessions. My favorites were the mobile track sessions. I was particularly impressed with Robert Hall’s Flash on every screen, a tour of Flash off the PC, and Macromedia XD team’s 3-hour session on mobile experience. I can’t say I completely agree with every point from the XD session, but it did give me a lot to think about. Who could ask for more from a session.

Last year I got home and immediately started working on Flash Lite. This year, I’m re-energized on Flash Lite, but I also left the conference with the device bug. I can’t wait to play with the iriver U10, the media player with one of the most interesting input styles I’ve seen (which also runs Flash Lite for its UI!). I’m also really impressed with the new Kodak easy Share One which also runs Flash, and was engineered by Greg Burch.