We've had a small party yesterday with our team - to show them pictures from the conferences and to "baptise" the new office.

However, moving to our new offices was not as easy as we were expecting. There are a lot of unsolved issues, and we've decided to get a helping hand to finalize the move - so we've re-hired one of original InterAKT employees - Ema - as the company administrator. This will leave us more time for software design and blogging :)

On the other hand, my MAX interview went out (video interview from the Sys-con people).

http://www.sys-con.tv/read/144217.htm

And people are blogging about us - and our achievements lately - I hope this trend will continue and that our work will be rewarded by testimonials like this one :)

http://www.abdulqabiz.com/blog/archives/general/000141.php

I will return with our MAX coverage in pictures soon.

Alexandru

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Macromedia took us yesterday to this cool place - the Mardi Gras World - to see floats, have drinks and eat some local food.

While beer and wine were pretty good, the food was just ok - I'm not very into this Southern food. It's not tasty, and does not compare with what we have back home.

Anyway - we've enjoyed it really well, dancing, sharing beads with other people, and finally got in a bar in Bourbon street with some of the coolest guys around.

To sum up - MAX lived up to its name - technology, people, solutions and lots of fun.

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What could I say about this conference that I didn't like .... The only thing would be that I am not a team of 10, and that I wasn't able to meet everybody, see all the sessions and other stuff...

On the other side, this MAX conference was a huge success for InterAKT. Not only that we got lots of people understanding our products, but we've also find out more on what our clients want... We are on the good path with our products, this is what our clients told us - still, we need more CSS support, more Flash support and more exposure in the states.

The numbers are:

• 400 folders distributed (they include flyers and trial CDs)
• 200 more CDs with trials
• 50 boxes with the full version of the MX Kollection to all the MM/CF usergroup managers
• 156 designers and developers registered for the free MX Looper license
• 15 Macromedia employees chatted with us
• 100 beers
• 20 hurricanes
• Many beads!

We have to go the Special event now. I'll catch up later with a more detailed overview on the conference.

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The first day at MAX was very hard as expected. We've woked up very early and left for the conference center, only to find out that it is like a 1 hour walk through the Riverwalk mall.

Considering that last time Macromedia has proposed a hotel closer to the conference center - it's amazing that such a spot was not available in here.

Anyway - after reaching the conference center, we've started to work at our booth, which became quickly a nice piece of art (you can see it in the nice looking images attached  to this blog entry).

Waldo Smeets met us at registration and we've had the time to catch up a little bit (last time we saw Waldo at the MAX 2003 event :). He also got an MX Kommerce license for a presentation that he's gonna do in the Netherlands. We wish him luck - but with a software package as good as MX Kommerce - he can't miss :)

Then, at 4PM, the hell unleashed, as somme of the 3000 attendees rushed into the conference center. We've hard managed to speak with some of them - and still they were impressed of the new version of KTML, about the ease of use of the MX Kollection and the features from the MX Kommerce.

Still - one thing went perfect - we've been discussing with various Macromedia User Group Managers to come to our booth and pick their copy of MX Kollection - and they DID. I mean - we've depleted almost 50 boxs from the first day - and gosh - this is all that we've got :)

At the end of the day - we've met Philippe Bossut - he's working with the Macromedia DRK project and he had a very long and fruitful discussion with us regarding new features in the extensibility layer that we'll like to see... It seems that we have a good starting point and that the future version of Dreamweaver will integrate some very cool features - still - we have to wait for this to happen :)

I've still got to finish my presentation now - it's 1 AM and unfortunately I've still gots loads of things to improve - and tomorrow we are waking up early - it's gonna be a looooong and busy day - that's for sure :)

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Even if we've missed the start (wake up late, forgot our directions for CFUN and got to this OTHER conference center), we've finally arrived at the right Pan American building.

Michal from Teratech welcomed us with a warm smile and a magnificent outfit (yes, this IS Michael - Haloween outfit)

Several interesting sessions followed, demonstrating Extreme programming techniques, Project Management issues and Personnas for web development.

Shlomy Gantz (that's a Romanian dude) shared with us some of his insights of software projects that went havoc. He's doing business consulting for project recovery, and his experience with bad projects helped him create a strong sense on what you have to do to finalize one :)

Bogdan scared away the people bu exposing some security problems that are to be meet in most of the nowadays web applications.

Finally, the panel had Michael Smith, Simon and Michael Dinowitz answering our ColdFusion questions.

It was a conference to remember, and the most nice part of it was the casual atmosphere - people talking, sharing thoughts and concerns (Michael decided NOT to use a projector to force people interact with each other :)

More about CF Underground VI here.

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